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Abstract
Many machine learning models can be attacked with adversarial examples, i.e.
inputs close to correctly classified examples that are classified incorrectly.
However, most research on adversarial attacks to date is limited to vectorial
data, in particular image data. In this contribution, we extend the field by
introducing adversarial edit attacks for tree-structured data with potential
applications in medicine and automated program analysis. Our approach solely
relies on the tree edit distance and a logarithmic number of black-box queries
to the attacked classifier without any need for gradient information. We
evaluate our approach on two programming and two biomedical data sets and show
that many established tree classifiers, like tree-kernel-SVMs and recursive
neural networks, can be attacked effectively.