Prada: Practical black-box adversarial attacks against neural ranking models

C Wu, R Zhang, J Guo, M De Rijke, Y Fan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neural ranking models (NRMs) have shown remarkable success in recent years, especially
with pre-trained language models. However, deep neural models are notorious for their …

Order-disorder: Imitation adversarial attacks for black-box neural ranking models

J Liu, Y Kang, D Tang, K Song, C Sun, X Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Neural text ranking models have witnessed significant advancement and are increasingly
being deployed in practice. Unfortunately, they also inherit adversarial vulnerabilities of …

Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: a game theoretic perspective

M Tennenholtz, O Kurland - Communications of the ACM, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Rethinking search engines and recommendation systems: a game theoretic perspective
Page 1 66 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | DECEMBER 2019 | VOL. 62 | NO. 12 review …

The king is naked: On the notion of robustness for natural language processing

E La Malfa, M Kwiatkowska - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
There is growing evidence that the classical notion of adversarial robustness originally
introduced for images has been adopted as a de facto standard by a large part of the NLP …

Are neural ranking models robust?

C Wu, R Zhang, J Guo, Y Fan, X Cheng - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, we have witnessed the bloom of neural ranking models in the information retrieval
(IR) field. So far, much effort has been devoted to developing effective neural ranking …

BERT rankers are brittle: a study using adversarial document perturbations

Y Wang, L Lyu, A Anand - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGIR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Contextual ranking models based on BERT are now well established for a wide range of
passage and document ranking tasks. However, the robustness of BERT-based ranking …

Competitive search

O Kurland, M Tennenholtz - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The Web is a canonical example of a competitive search setting that includes document
authors with ranking incentives: their goal is to promote their documents in rankings induced …

Adversarial ranking attack and defense

M Zhou, Z Niu, L Wang, Q Zhang, G Hua - Computer Vision–ECCV 2020 …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attack, where
an imperceptible perturbation could result in misclassification. However, the vulnerability of …

Robust neural information retrieval: An adversarial and out-of-distribution perspective

YA Liu, R Zhang, J Guo, M de Rijke, Y Fan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent advances in neural information retrieval (IR) models have significantly enhanced
their effectiveness over various IR tasks. The robustness of these models, essential for …

Towards Imperceptible Document Manipulations against Neural Ranking Models

X Chen, B He, Z Ye, L Sun, Y Sun - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01860, 2023 - arxiv.org
Adversarial attacks have gained traction in order to identify potential vulnerabilities in neural
ranking models (NRMs), but current attack methods often introduce grammatical errors …