VLATTACK: Multimodal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Tasks via Pre-trained Models

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Hauptverfasser: Yin, Ziyi, Ye, Muchao, Zhang, Tianrong, Du, Tianyu, Zhu, Jinguo, Liu, Han, Chen, Jinghui, Wang, Ting, Ma, Fenglong
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author Yin, Ziyi
Ye, Muchao
Zhang, Tianrong
Du, Tianyu
Zhu, Jinguo
Liu, Han
Chen, Jinghui
Wang, Ting
Ma, Fenglong
author_facet Yin, Ziyi
Ye, Muchao
Zhang, Tianrong
Du, Tianyu
Zhu, Jinguo
Liu, Han
Chen, Jinghui
Wang, Ting
Ma, Fenglong
contents Vision-Language (VL) pre-trained models have shown their superiority on many multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of such models has not been fully explored. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploring the adversarial robustness under the white-box setting, which is unrealistic. In this paper, we aim to investigate a new yet practical task to craft image and text perturbations using pre-trained VL models to attack black-box fine-tuned models on different downstream tasks. Towards this end, we propose VLATTACK to generate adversarial samples by fusing perturbations of images and texts from both single-modal and multimodal levels. At the single-modal level, we propose a new block-wise similarity attack (BSA) strategy to learn image perturbations for disrupting universal representations. Besides, we adopt an existing text attack strategy to generate text perturbations independent of the image-modal attack. At the multimodal level, we design a novel iterative cross-search attack (ICSA) method to update adversarial image-text pairs periodically, starting with the outputs from the single-modal level. We conduct extensive experiments to attack five widely-used VL pre-trained models for six tasks. Experimental results show that VLATTACK achieves the highest attack success rates on all tasks compared with state-of-the-art baselines, which reveals a blind spot in the deployment of pre-trained VL models. Source codes can be found at https://github.com/ericyinyzy/VLAttack.
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spellingShingle VLATTACK: Multimodal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Tasks via Pre-trained Models
Yin, Ziyi
Ye, Muchao
Zhang, Tianrong
Du, Tianyu
Zhu, Jinguo
Liu, Han
Chen, Jinghui
Wang, Ting
Ma, Fenglong
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Vision-Language (VL) pre-trained models have shown their superiority on many multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of such models has not been fully explored. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploring the adversarial robustness under the white-box setting, which is unrealistic. In this paper, we aim to investigate a new yet practical task to craft image and text perturbations using pre-trained VL models to attack black-box fine-tuned models on different downstream tasks. Towards this end, we propose VLATTACK to generate adversarial samples by fusing perturbations of images and texts from both single-modal and multimodal levels. At the single-modal level, we propose a new block-wise similarity attack (BSA) strategy to learn image perturbations for disrupting universal representations. Besides, we adopt an existing text attack strategy to generate text perturbations independent of the image-modal attack. At the multimodal level, we design a novel iterative cross-search attack (ICSA) method to update adversarial image-text pairs periodically, starting with the outputs from the single-modal level. We conduct extensive experiments to attack five widely-used VL pre-trained models for six tasks. Experimental results show that VLATTACK achieves the highest attack success rates on all tasks compared with state-of-the-art baselines, which reveals a blind spot in the deployment of pre-trained VL models. Source codes can be found at https://github.com/ericyinyzy/VLAttack.
title VLATTACK: Multimodal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Tasks via Pre-trained Models
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04655