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Adversarial robustness evaluates the worst-case performance scenario of a machine learning model to ensure its safety and reliability. This study is the first to investigate the robustness of visually grounded dialog models towards textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Lu Yu , Verena Rieser

The study of adversarial robustness has so far largely focused on perturbations bound in p-norms. However, state-of-the-art models turn out to be also vulnerable to other, more natural classes of perturbations such as translations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Logan Engstrom , Brandon Tran , Dimitris Tsipras , Ludwig Schmidt , Aleksander Madry

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in artificial intelligence by facilitating integrated understanding across diverse modalities, including text, images, video, audio, and speech. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Chengze Jiang , Zhuangzhuang Wang , Minjing Dong , Jie Gui

Non-adversarial robustness, also known as natural robustness, is a property of deep learning models that enables them to maintain performance even when faced with distribution shifts caused by natural variations in data. However, achieving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Gorana Gojić , Vladimir Vincan , Ognjen Kundačina , Dragiša Mišković , Dinu Dragan

Ensuring the robustness of deep learning models requires comprehensive and diverse testing. Existing approaches, often based on simple data augmentation techniques or generative adversarial networks, are limited in producing realistic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Muhammad Irfan Mas'udi , Giovanni Quattrocchi

The robustness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) is commonly assessed through output-level invariance, implicitly assuming that stable predictions reflect stable multimodal processing. In this work, we argue that this assumption is…

The integration of visual and textual data in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models is crucial for enhancing vision-language understanding. However, the adversarial robustness of these models, especially in the alignment of image-text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Youze Wang , Wenbo Hu , Yinpeng Dong , Hanwang Zhang , Hang Su , Richang Hong

Our goal is to improve reliability of Machine Learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild. ML models perform exceedingly well when test examples are similar to train examples. However, real-world applications are required to perform on any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Vihari Piratla

Existing works have made great progress in improving adversarial robustness, but typically test their method only on data from the same distribution as the training data, i.e. in-distribution (ID) testing. As a result, it is unclear how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lin Li , Yifei Wang , Chawin Sitawarin , Michael Spratling

Recently, the text-to-image diffusion model has gained considerable attention from the community due to its exceptional image generation capability. A representative model, Stable Diffusion, amassed more than 10 million users within just…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Chenyu Zhang , Mingwang Hu , Wenhui Li , Lanjun Wang

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have gained impressive performance due to their outstanding capability in various understanding tasks. However, these models still suffer from some fundamental limitations related to robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Thanh-Dat Truong , Huu-Thien Tran , Tran Thai Son , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

Although existing machine reading comprehension models are making rapid progress on many datasets, they are far from robust. In this paper, we propose an understanding-oriented machine reading comprehension model to address three kinds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Feiliang Ren , Yongkang Liu , Bochao Li , Shilei Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jiaqi Wang , Chunchao Liu , Qi Ma

Semantic communications for multi-modal data can transmit task-relevant information efficiently over noisy and bandwidth-limited channels. However, a key challenge is to simultaneously compress inter-modal redundancy and improve semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Zhonghao Lyu , Mikael Skoglund , Celimuge Wu

Deep neural network-based image compression has been extensively studied. However, the model robustness which is crucial to practical application is largely overlooked. We propose to examine the robustness of prevailing learned image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tong Chen , Zhan Ma

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha

With the increasing use of machine-learning driven algorithmic judgements, it is critical to develop models that are robust to evolving or manipulated inputs. We propose an extensive analysis of model robustness against linguistic variation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Maria Glenski , Ellyn Ayton , Robin Cosbey , Dustin Arendt , Svitlana Volkova

The use of multimodal large language models has become widespread, and as such the study of these models and their failure points has become of utmost importance. We study a novel mode of failure that causes degradation in performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Wai Tuck Wong , Jun Sun , Arunesh Sinha

Despite advances in deep learning, robustness under domain shift remains a major bottleneck in medical imaging settings. Findings on natural images suggest that deep neural models can show a strong textural bias when carrying out image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Seoin Chai , Daniel Rueckert , Ahmed E. Fetit

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) such as OFASys show the potential to unlock analysis of complex data such as images, videos, and audio data via text prompts alone. However, their performance may suffer in the face of text input that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ian Stewart , Sameera Horawalavithana , Brendan Kennedy , Sai Munikoti , Karl Pazdernik

While recent audio-visual models have demonstrated impressive performance, their robustness to distributional shifts at test-time remains not fully understood. Existing robustness benchmarks mainly focus on single modalities, making them…