Generative Adversarial Perturbations
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In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for transforming images to adversarial perturbations. Our proposed models can produce image-agnostic and image-dependent perturbations for both targeted and non-targeted attacks. We also demonstrate that similar architectures can achieve impressive results in fooling classification and semantic segmentation models, obviating the need for hand-crafting attack methods for each task. Using extensive experiments on challenging high-resolution datasets such as ImageNet and Cityscapes, we show that our perturbations achieve high fooling rates with small perturbation norms. Moreover, our attacks are considerably faster than current iterative methods at inference time.
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- 2023Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Modelscited by 260
- 2023Diffusion Models for Imperceptible and Transferable Adversarial Attackcited by 93
- 2021On Improving Adversarial Transferability of Vision Transformerscited by 70
- 2022Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attacks with Reverse Adversarial Perturbationcited by 67
- 2021On Generating Transferable Targeted Perturbationscited by 65
- 2021A Survey On Universal Adversarial Attackcited by 59
- 2023FedFed: Feature Distillation against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learningcited by 54
- 2023Adversarial Counterfactual Visual Explanationscited by 47
- 2023AdvDiff: Generating Unrestricted Adversarial Examples using Diffusion Modelscited by 46
- 2023A Survey on Transferability of Adversarial Examples across Deep Neural Networkscited by 43
- 2022Beyond ImageNet Attack: Towards Crafting Adversarial Examples for Black-box Domainscited by 42
- 2024One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Vision-Language Pre-training Modelscited by 39
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- 2021Inspect, Understand, Overcome: A Survey of Practical Methods for AI Safetycited by 35
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- 2024Revisiting Adversarial Training at Scalecited by 33
- 2021Boosting Transferability of Targeted Adversarial Examples via Hierarchical Generative Networkscited by 31
- 2024Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Vision-Language Pre-trained Modelscited by 31
- 2021Deep Learning-Based Autonomous Driving Systems: A Survey of Attacks and Defensescited by 29
- 2021Adversarial Attacks on Black Box Video Classifiers: Leveraging the Power of Geometric Transformationscited by 28
- 2021Robust Feature-Level Adversaries are Interpretability Toolscited by 27
- 2021TAFIM: Targeted Adversarial Attacks against Facial Image Manipulationscited by 25
- 2021Removing Undesirable Feature Contributions Using Out-of-Distribution Datacited by 23
- 2022OPOM: Customized Invisible Cloak towards Face Privacy Protectioncited by 22
- 2023Enhancing Generalization of Universal Adversarial Perturbation through Gradient Aggregationcited by 22
- 2024Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Surveycited by 22
- 2021Generative Dynamic Patch Attackcited by 19
- 2023Attacks in Adversarial Machine Learning: A Systematic Survey from the Life-cycle Perspectivecited by 19
- 2023A Survey of Robustness and Safety of 2D and 3D Deep Learning Models Against Adversarial Attackscited by 19
- 2024CLIP-Guided Generative Networks for Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attackscited by 19
- 2021Universal Adversarial Perturbations Through the Lens of Deep Steganography: Towards A Fourier Perspectivecited by 18
- 2023Logit Margin Matters: Improving Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attack by Logit Calibrationcited by 18
- 2021Attack to Fool and Explain Deep Networkscited by 17
- 2021Stereoscopic Universal Perturbations across Different Architectures and Datasetscited by 17
- 2023Survey on Adversarial Attack and Defense for Medical Image Analysis: Methods and Challengescited by 16
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- 2021Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Deep Diagnostic Models by Adversarial Attackcited by 15
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- 2022Minimizing Maximum Model Discrepancy for Transferable Black-box Targeted Attackscited by 14
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- 2021Universal Adversarial Training with Class-Wise Perturbationscited by 13
- 2022GAMA: Generative Adversarial Multi-Object Scene Attackscited by 13
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- 2022Local Intensity Order Transformation for Robust Curvilinear Object Segmentationcited by 12
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- 2024Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensicscited by 12
- 2024As Firm As Their Foundations: Can open-sourced foundation models be used to create adversarial examples for downstream tasks?cited by 11
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- 2026Perspective-Invariant Attack with Enhanced Transferability of Adversarial Examples15 Aug 2026
- 2026Rendering-Aware Bayesian 3D Gaussian Splatting with Native Uncertainty and Adaptive Complexity Control6 Jul 2026
- 2026Personalized Face Privacy Protection From a Single Image18 May 2026
- 2026Generative Adversarial Perturbations with Cross-paradigm Transferability on Localized Crowd Counting25 Mar 2026
- 2026Latent Transfer Attack: Adversarial Examples via Generative Latent Spaces6 Mar 2026
- 2026Universal Image Immunization against Diffusion-based Image Editing via Semantic Injection16 Feb 2026
- 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defense27 Jan 2026
- 2025A Generative Adversarial Approach to Adversarial Attacks Guided by Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained Model3 Nov 2025
- 2025Sequence-Preserving Dual-FoV Defense for Traffic Sign and Light Recognition in Autonomous Vehicles3 Oct 2025
- 2025Latent Danger Zone: Distilling Unified Attention for Cross-Architecture Black-box Attacks23 Sep 2025
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- 2025Improving Black-Box Generative Attacks via Generator Semantic Consistency23 Jun 2025
- 2025Towards Cross-Domain Multi-Targeted Adversarial Attacks27 May 2025
- 2025GenoArmory: A Unified Evaluation Framework for Adversarial Attacks on Genomic Foundation Models16 May 2025
- 2025Rethinking Target Label Conditioning in Adversarial Attacks: A 2D Tensor-Guided Generative Approach19 Apr 2025
- 2025On Transfer-based Universal Attacks in Pure Black-box Setting11 Apr 2025
- 2025Data-Free Universal Attack by Exploiting the Intrinsic Vulnerability of Deep Models28 Mar 2025
- 2025Improving Generalization of Universal Adversarial Perturbation via Dynamic Maximin Optimization17 Mar 2025
- 2025Data-free Universal Adversarial Perturbation with Pseudo-semantic Prior28 Feb 2025
- 2025Prompt-driven Transferable Adversarial Attack on Person Re-Identification with Attribute-aware Textual Inversion27 Feb 2025
- 2025CAE-Net: Generalized Deepfake Image Detection using Convolution and Attention Mechanisms with Spatial and Frequency Domain Features15 Feb 2025
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- 2025Democratic Training Against Universal Adversarial Perturbations8 Feb 2025
- 2025Dual-Flow: Transferable Multi-Target, Instance-Agnostic Attacks via In-the-wild Cascading Flow Optimization4 Feb 2025
- 2025With Great Backbones Comes Great Adversarial Transferability21 Jan 2025
- 2025AIM: Additional Image Guided Generation of Transferable Adversarial Attacks2 Jan 2025
- 2024Targeted View-Invariant Adversarial Perturbations for 3D Object Recognition17 Dec 2024
- 2024Locally-Focused Face Representation for Sketch-to-Image Generation Using Noise-Induced Refinement28 Nov 2024
- 2024DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing27 Nov 2024
- 2024Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Survey31 Oct 2024
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- 2024Efficient and Effective Universal Adversarial Attack against Vision-Language Pre-training Models15 Oct 2024
- 2024ID-Guard: A Universal Framework for Combating Facial Manipulation via Breaking Identification20 Sep 2024
- 2024Learning to Learn Transferable Generative Attack for Person Re-Identification6 Sep 2024
- 2024Multimodal Large Language Models for Phishing Webpage Detection and Identification12 Aug 2024
- 2024Sample-agnostic Adversarial Perturbation for Vision-Language Pre-training Models6 Aug 2024
- 2024Joint Universal Adversarial Perturbations with Interpretations3 Aug 2024
- 2024Certifying Robustness of Learning-Based Keypoint Detection and Pose Estimation Methods31 Jul 2024
- 2024Prompt-Driven Contrastive Learning for Transferable Adversarial Attacks30 Jul 2024
- 2024FACL-Attack: Frequency-Aware Contrastive Learning for Transferable Adversarial Attacks30 Jul 2024
- 2024Any Target Can be Offense: Adversarial Example Generation via Generalized Latent Infection17 Jul 2024
- 2024CLIP-Guided Generative Networks for Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attacks14 Jul 2024
- 2024CAPM: Fast and Robust Verification on Maxpool-based CNN via Dual Network27 Jun 2024
- 2024Texture Re-scalable Universal Adversarial Perturbation10 Jun 2024
- 2024Perturbation Towards Easy Samples Improves Targeted Adversarial Transferability8 Jun 2024
- 2024One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Vision-Language Pre-training Models8 Jun 2024
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- 2023Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Modelscited by 260
- 2024One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Vision-Language Pre-training Modelscited by 39
- 2024Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Vision-Language Pre-trained Modelscited by 31
- 2024Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Surveycited by 22
- 2024Prompt-Driven Contrastive Learning for Transferable Adversarial Attackscited by 9
- 2024Efficient and Effective Universal Adversarial Attack against Vision-Language Pre-training Modelscited by 4
- 2024Sample-agnostic Adversarial Perturbation for Vision-Language Pre-training Modelscited by 2
- 2025MAA: Meticulous Adversarial Attack against Vision-Language Pre-trained Modelscited by 2
- 2025MAA: Meticulous Adversarial Attack against Vision-Language Pre-trained Models12 Feb 2025
- 2024Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Survey31 Oct 2024
- 2024Efficient and Effective Universal Adversarial Attack against Vision-Language Pre-training Models15 Oct 2024
- 2024Sample-agnostic Adversarial Perturbation for Vision-Language Pre-training Models6 Aug 2024
- 2024Prompt-Driven Contrastive Learning for Transferable Adversarial Attacks30 Jul 2024
- 2024One Perturbation is Enough: On Generating Universal Adversarial Perturbations against Vision-Language Pre-training Models8 Jun 2024
- 2024Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Vision-Language Pre-trained Models9 May 2024
- 2023Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models26 Jul 2023
- 2023Diffusion Models for Imperceptible and Transferable Adversarial Attackcited by 93
- 2023Adversarial Counterfactual Visual Explanationscited by 47
- 2023AdvDiff: Generating Unrestricted Adversarial Examples using Diffusion Modelscited by 46
- 2026Universal Image Immunization against Diffusion-based Image Editing via Semantic Injectioncited by 7
- 2025Latent Danger Zone: Distilling Unified Attention for Cross-Architecture Black-box Attackscited by 0
- 2026Universal Image Immunization against Diffusion-based Image Editing via Semantic Injection16 Feb 2026
- 2025Latent Danger Zone: Distilling Unified Attention for Cross-Architecture Black-box Attacks23 Sep 2025
- 2023AdvDiff: Generating Unrestricted Adversarial Examples using Diffusion Models24 Jul 2023
- 2023Diffusion Models for Imperceptible and Transferable Adversarial Attack14 May 2023
- 2023Adversarial Counterfactual Visual Explanations17 Mar 2023
- 2024Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensicscited by 12
- 2023Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey of Transferable Attacks on AI Systemscited by 6
- 2022Generative Poisoning Using Random Discriminatorscited by 3
- 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defensecited by 3
- 2026From Internal Diagnosis to External Auditing: A VLM-Driven Paradigm for Data-Free Online Backdoor Defense27 Jan 2026
- 2024Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensics27 Apr 2024
- 2023Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey of Transferable Attacks on AI Systems20 Nov 2023
- 2022Generative Poisoning Using Random Discriminators2 Nov 2022
- 2021On Improving Adversarial Transferability of Vision Transformerscited by 70
- 2022Boosting the Transferability of Adversarial Attacks with Reverse Adversarial Perturbationcited by 67
- 2021On Generating Transferable Targeted Perturbationscited by 65
- 2021A Survey On Universal Adversarial Attackcited by 59
- 2023FedFed: Feature Distillation against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learningcited by 54
- 2023A Survey on Transferability of Adversarial Examples across Deep Neural Networkscited by 43
- 2022Beyond ImageNet Attack: Towards Crafting Adversarial Examples for Black-box Domainscited by 42
- 2022Towards Understanding and Boosting Adversarial Transferability from a Distribution Perspectivecited by 36
- 2021Inspect, Understand, Overcome: A Survey of Practical Methods for AI Safetycited by 35
- 2022Unlearnable Clusters: Towards Label-agnostic Unlearnable Examplescited by 35
- 2024Revisiting Adversarial Training at Scalecited by 33
- 2021Boosting Transferability of Targeted Adversarial Examples via Hierarchical Generative Networkscited by 31
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- 2026Anchoring Adversarial Trajectories to Data Manifolds: A Bilevel Transfer Optimization Framework30 Sep 2026
- 2026Generating Multi-view Adversarial Examples for Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer21 Aug 2026
- 2026Perspective-Invariant Attack with Enhanced Transferability of Adversarial Examples15 Aug 2026
- 2026Rendering-Aware Bayesian 3D Gaussian Splatting with Native Uncertainty and Adaptive Complexity Control6 Jul 2026
- 2026Personalized Face Privacy Protection From a Single Image18 May 2026
- 2026Generative Adversarial Perturbations with Cross-paradigm Transferability on Localized Crowd Counting25 Mar 2026
- 2026Latent Transfer Attack: Adversarial Examples via Generative Latent Spaces6 Mar 2026
- 2025A Generative Adversarial Approach to Adversarial Attacks Guided by Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained Model3 Nov 2025
- 2025Sequence-Preserving Dual-FoV Defense for Traffic Sign and Light Recognition in Autonomous Vehicles3 Oct 2025
- 2025NAT: Learning to Attack Neurons for Enhanced Adversarial Transferability23 Aug 2025
- 2025ETA: Energy-based Test-time Adaptation for Depth Completion8 Aug 2025
- 2025Boosting Generative Adversarial Transferability with Self-supervised Vision Transformer Features26 Jun 2025
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