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Due to the high cost of training, large model (LM) practitioners commonly use pretrained models downloaded from untrusted sources, which could lead to owning compromised models. In-context learning is the ability of LMs to perform multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Aitor Urbieta

Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time. In this work, we show that these training-time vulnerabilities extend to deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Panagiota Kiourti , Kacper Wardega , Susmit Jha , Wenchao Li

While effective backdoor detection and inversion schemes have been developed for AIs used e.g. for images, there are challenges in "porting" these methods to LLMs. First, the LLM input space is discrete, which precludes gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhengxing Li , Guangmingmei Yang , Jayaram Raghuram , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have propelled embodied agents by enabling direct perception, reasoning, and planning task-oriented actions from visual inputs. However, such vision-driven embodied agents open a new attack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qiusi Zhan , Hyeonjeong Ha , Rui Yang , Sirui Xu , Hanyang Chen , Liang-Yan Gui , Yu-Xiong Wang , Huan Zhang , Heng Ji , Daniel Kang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in consumer applications where users seek recommendations about products, dining, and services. We introduce Hidden Ads, a new class of backdoor attacks that exploit this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Duanyi Yao , Changyue Li , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Songze Li

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated their incredible capability in image understanding and response generation. However, this rich visual interaction also makes LVLMs vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Xunguang Wang , Zhenlan Ji , Pingchuan Ma , Zongjie Li , Shuai Wang

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to the secure deployment of large language models (LLMs), enabling adversaries to implant hidden behaviors triggered by specific inputs. However, existing methods often rely on manually crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yige Li , Zhe Li , Wei Zhao , Nay Myat Min , Hanxun Huang , Xingjun Ma , Jun Sun

Multi-Modal Language Models (MLLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence by combining visual and text data, making applications like image captioning, visual question answering, and multi-modal content creation possible. This ability to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pete Janowczyk , Linda Laurier , Ave Giulietta , Arlo Octavia , Meade Cleti

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, their integration of visual inputs introduces expanded attack surfaces, thereby exposing them to novel security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Juan Ren , Mark Dras , Usman Naseem

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) integrate visual data processing, expanding their real-world applications, but also increasing the risk of generating unsafe responses. In response, leading companies have implemented Multi-Layered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yijun Yang , Lichao Wang , Xiao Yang , Lanqing Hong , Jun Zhu

Today's text-to-image generative models are trained on millions of images sourced from the Internet, each paired with a detailed caption produced by Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This part of the training pipeline is critical for supplying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Stanley Wu , Ronik Bhaskar , Anna Yoo Jeong Ha , Shawn Shan , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Video-based multimodal large language models (V-MLLMs) have shown vulnerability to adversarial examples in video-text multimodal tasks. However, the transferability of adversarial videos to unseen models - a common and practical real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Linhao Huang , Xue Jiang , Zhiqiang Wang , Wentao Mo , Xi Xiao , Yong-Jie Yin , Bo Han , Feng Zheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) are progressively being utilized as machine learning services and interface tools for various applications. However, the security implications of LLMs, particularly in relation to adversarial and Trojan attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Ting Hua , Yilin Shen , Yepeng Liu , Ladislau Boloni , Qian Lou

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a wide range of vision-language tasks, while they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks on LVLMs aim to force the victim model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhifang Zhang , Qiqi Tao , Jiaqi Lv , Na Zhao , Lei Feng , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a fundamental task in computer vision and natural language process fields. Although the ``pre-training & finetuning'' learning paradigm significantly improves the VQA performance, the adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ziyi Yin , Muchao Ye , Tianrong Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Han Liu , Jinghui Chen , Ting Wang , Fenglong Ma

Vision-language models (VLMs) have revolutionized multimodal AI applications but introduce novel security vulnerabilities that remain largely unexplored. We present the first comprehensive study of steganographic prompt injection attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chetan Pathade

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) are increasingly deployed to offer advanced capabilities on inputs comprising both text and images. While prior research has shown that adversarial attacks can transfer from open-source to proprietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Kai Hu , Weichen Yu , Li Zhang , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Chengming Xu , Haoqi Hu , Matt Fredrikson

Recently, it has been shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to Trojan attacks, where an attacker can install a backdoor during training time to make the resultant model misidentify samples contaminated with a small trigger patch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Haripriya Harikumar , Vuong Le , Santu Rana , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Trojan (backdoor) attack is a form of adversarial attack on deep neural networks where the attacker provides victims with a model trained/retrained on malicious data. The backdoor can be activated when a normal input is stamped with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Siyuan Cheng , Yingqi Liu , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Typographic attacks, adding misleading text to images, can deceive vision-language models (LVLMs). The susceptibility of recent large LVLMs like GPT4-V to such attacks is understudied, raising concerns about amplified misinformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Maan Qraitem , Nazia Tasnim , Piotr Teterwak , Kate Saenko , Bryan A. Plummer