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Medical Multimodal Large Language Models (Medical MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in specialized medical tasks; however, research into their safety has lagged, posing potential risks for real-world deployment. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jiale Zhao , Xing Mou , Jinlin Wu , Hongyuan Yu , Mingrui Sun , Yang Shi , Xuanwu Yin , Zhen Chen , Zhen Lei , Yaohua Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remain highly vulnerable to textual and visual jailbreaks, as well as prompt injections (arXiv:2307.15043, Greshake et al., 2023, arXiv:2306.13213). Existing defenses often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Guy Azov , Ofer Rivlin , Guy Shtar

Multimodal foundation models can process several modalities. However, since the space of possible modalities is large and evolving over time, training a model from scratch to encompass all modalities is unfeasible. Moreover, integrating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Osman Batur İnce , André F. T. Martins , Oisin Mac Aodha , Edoardo M. Ponti

We introduce MIA-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their ability to strictly adhere to complex instructions. Our benchmark comprises a diverse set of 400 image-prompt pairs, each crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yusu Qian , Hanrong Ye , Jean-Philippe Fauconnier , Peter Grasch , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs are typically safety-aligned before release to prevent harmful content generation. However, recent studies show that safety behaviors are concentrated in a small subset of parameters, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhaoxin Wang , Jiaming Liang , Fengbin Zhu , Weixiang Zhao , Junfeng Fang , Jiayi Ji , Handing Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, we introduce a novel and simple method for obtaining high-quality text embeddings using only synthetic data and less than 1k training steps. Unlike existing methods that often depend on multi-stage intermediate pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Liang Wang , Nan Yang , Xiaolong Huang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Furu Wei

Augmented Reality (AR) and Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving, providing unprecedented capabilities for human-computer interaction. However, their integration introduces a new attack surface for social engineering.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ting Bi , Chenghang Ye , Zheyu Yang , Ziyi Zhou , Cui Tang , Jun Zhang , Zui Tao , Kailong Wang , Liting Zhou , Yang Yang , Tianlong Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been adopted and deployed worldwide for a broad variety of applications. However, ensuring their safe use remains a significant challenge. Preference training and safety measures often overfit to harms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Aakanksha , Arash Ahmadian , Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Beyza Ermis , Marzieh Fadaee , Sara Hooker

The detection and grounding of multimedia manipulation has emerged as a critical challenge in combating AI-generated disinformation. While existing methods have made progress in recent years, we identify two fundamental limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yuchen Zhang , Yaxiong Wang , Yujiao Wu , Lianwei Wu , Li Zhu , Zhedong Zheng

Role-playing enables large language models (LLMs) to engage users in immersive and personalized interactions, but it also introduces significant safety risks. Existing role-play fine-tuning techniques improve role adaptability but may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Weixiang Zhao , Yulin Hu , Yang Deng , Jiahe Guo , Xingyu Sui , Xinyang Han , An Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin , Tat-Seng Chua , Ting Liu

Low-resource languages (LRLs) often lack high-quality, large-scale datasets for training effective text embedding models, hindering their application in tasks like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zaruhi Navasardyan , Spartak Bughdaryan , Bagrat Minasyan , Hrant Davtyan

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit undesirable behaviours, such as generating untruthful or biased content. Editing their internal representations has been shown to be effective in mitigating such behaviours on top of the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yifu Qiu , Zheng Zhao , Yftah Ziser , Anna Korhonen , Edoardo M. Ponti , Shay B. Cohen

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), the safety concerns of their outputs have earned significant attention. Although numerous datasets have been proposed, they may become outdated with MLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hanqing Wang , Yuan Tian , Mingyu Liu , Zhenhao Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities, yet ensuring their safety against harmful prompts remains a critical challenge. Recent work has revealed that the latent representations (embeddings) of harmful and safe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xu Zhao , Xiting Wang , Weiran Shen

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in diverse tasks across different domains, with an increasing focus on improving their zero-shot generalization capabilities for unseen multimodal tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ying Shen , Zhiyang Xu , Qifan Wang , Yu Cheng , Wenpeng Yin , Lifu Huang

Current research in adversarial robustness of LLMs focuses on discrete input manipulations in the natural language space, which can be directly transferred to closed-source models. However, this approach neglects the steady progression of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Leo Schwinn , David Dobre , Sophie Xhonneux , Gauthier Gidel , Stephan Gunnemann

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet aligning them efficiently and effectively with human expectations remains a critical challenge. This thesis advances LLM alignment by introducing novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuxin Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for decision making in embodied agents, yet existing safety evaluations often rely on coarse success rates and domain-specific setups, making it difficult to diagnose why and where these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yejin Son , Minseo Kim , Sungwoong Kim , Seungju Han , Jian Kim , Dongju Jang , Youngjae Yu , Chanyoung Park

Recommending long-form video content demands joint modeling of visual, audio, and textual modalities, yet most benchmarks address only raw features or narrow fusion. We present ViLLA-MMBench, a reproducible, extensible benchmark for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fatemeh Nazary , Ali Tourani , Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia

Large language models (LLMs) have made remarkable strides in complex reasoning tasks, but their safety and robustness in reasoning processes remain underexplored. Existing attacks on LLM reasoning are constrained by specific settings or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyu Peng , Maolin Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Kai Zhang , Wanyu Wang , Pengyue Jia , Qidong Liu , Ruocheng Guo , Qi Liu