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Evasion Attacks

AI Risk

"Evasion attacks [145] target to cause significant shifts in model’s prediction via adding perturbations in the test samples to build adversarial examples. In specific, the perturbations can be implemented based on word changes, gradients, etc."

Overview

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Techniques8Attack methods connected to this risk.
Mitigations15Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Records2Source records unified into this concept.

Risk profile

How the MIT AI Risk Repository categorizes this risk.

Domain2. Privacy & Security
Subdomain2.2 > AI system security vulnerabilities and attacks
Entity1 - Human
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing1 - Pre-deployment; 2 - Post-deployment
CategoryModel Attacks; Inference risks (Robustness)
SubcategoryEvasion Attacks

Merged risk records

Source records unified into this canonical risk concept.

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MITRISK-Cui2024-02.10.06 - Evasion Attacks

"Evasion attacks [145] target to cause significant shifts in model’s prediction via adding perturbations in the test samples to build adversarial examples. In specific, the perturbations can be implemented based on word changes, gradients, etc."

Domain2. Privacy & SecuritySubdomain2.2 > AI system security vulnerabilities and attacksSourceRisk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model SystemsYear2024

MITRISK-IBM2025-65.09.03 - Evasion attack

"Evasion attacks attempt to make a model output incorrect results by slightly perturbing the input data that is sent to the trained model."

Domain2. Privacy & SecuritySubdomain2.2 > AI system security vulnerabilities and attacksSourceAI Risk AtlasYear2025

Mitigations

Defenses that may help with related attacks.

LifecycleData Preparation + 1 moreCategoryTechnical - ML
Data PreparationML Model Engineering
LifecycleBusiness and Data Understanding + 2 moreCategoryTechnical - Cyber
B&D UnderstandingData Preparation+1 more
LifecycleData Preparation + 3 moreCategoryTechnical - ML
Data PreparationML Model Evaluation+2 more

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Source evidence

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