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Training robust deep learning models for down-stream tasks is a critical challenge. Research has shown that down-stream models can be easily fooled with adversarial inputs that look like the training data, but slightly perturbed, in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Mahmoud Hossam , Trung Le , He Zhao , Dinh Phung

Using risky text prompts, such as pornography and violent prompts, to test the safety of text-to-image (T2I) models is a critical task. However, existing risky prompt datasets are limited in three key areas: 1) limited risky categories, 2)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chenyu Zhang , Tairen Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Ruidong Chen , Wenhui Li , Anan Liu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models are widely adopted for their strong generative capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing attacks typically rely on fixed textual triggers and single-entity backdoor targets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tianxin Chen , Wenbo Jiang , Hongqiao Chen , Zhirun Zheng , Cheng Huang

Large Language Models face security threats from jailbreak attacks. Existing research has predominantly focused on prompt-level attacks while largely ignoring the underexplored attack surface of user-controlled response prefilling. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yakai Li , Jiekang Hu , Weiduan Sang , Luping Ma , Dongsheng Nie , Weijuan Zhang , Aimin Yu , Yi Su , Qingjia Huang , Qihang Zhou

Understanding the vulnerabilities of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) to jailbreak attacks is essential for their responsible real-world deployment. Most previous work requires access to model gradients, or is based on human knowledge…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ruoxi Cheng , Yizhong Ding , Shuirong Cao , Ranjie Duan , Xiaoshuang Jia , Shaowei Yuan , Simeng Qin , Zhiqiang Wang , Xiaojun Jia

Augmenting language models with image inputs may enable more effective jailbreak attacks through continuous optimization, unlike text inputs that require discrete optimization. However, new multimodal fusion models tokenize all input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Javier Rando , Hannah Korevaar , Erik Brinkman , Ivan Evtimov , Florian Tramèr

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated strong generation ability, but their potential to generate unsafe content raises significant safety concerns. Existing inference-time defense methods typically perform category-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Binhong Tan , Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang

Despite recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their alignment, they can still be jailbroken, i.e., harmful and toxic content can be elicited from them. While existing red-teaming methods have shown promise in uncovering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Vasudev Gohil

While deep learning based image retrieval is reported to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, existing works are mainly on image-to-image retrieval with their attacks performed at the front end via query modification. By contrast, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Fan Hu , Aozhu Chen , Xirong Li

Despite significant advancements in alignment and content moderation, large language models (LLMs) and text-to-image (T2I) systems remain vulnerable to prompt-based attacks known as jailbreaks. Unlike traditional adversarial examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ahmed B Mustafa , Zihan Ye , Yang Lu , Michael P Pound , Shreyank N Gowda

Jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs) involve inducing these models to generate harmful content that violates ethics or laws, posing a significant threat to LLM security. Current jailbreak attacks face two main challenges: low…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuqi Zhou , Lin Lu , Hanchi Sun , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

In this work, we study the problem of Text-to-Image In-Context Learning (T2I-ICL). While Unified Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, they struggle with contextual reasoning in T2I-ICL scenarios. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jiaqi Liao , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Dianqi Li , Kevin Lin , Yu Cheng , Lijuan Wang

Text-to-Image models may generate harmful content, such as pornographic images, particularly when unsafe prompts are submitted. To address this issue, safety filters are often added on top of text-to-image models, or the models themselves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhengyuan Jiang , Yuepeng Hu , Yuchen Yang , Yinzhi Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive inference capabilities, but remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that can induce harmful or unethical responses. Existing defence methods are predominantly white-box approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiangyu Yin , Yi Qi , Jinwei Hu , Zhen Chen , Yi Dong , Xingyu Zhao , Xiaowei Huang , Wenjie Ruan

Jailbreak attacks can circumvent model safety guardrails and reveal critical blind spots. Prior attacks on text-to-video (T2V) models typically add adversarial perturbations to obviously unsafe prompts, which are often easy to detect and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zonghao Ying , Moyang Chen , Nizhang Li , Zhiqiang Wang , Wenxin Zhang , Quanchen Zou , Zonglei Jing , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu

In recent years, Text-to-Image (T2I) models have garnered significant attention due to their remarkable advancements. However, security concerns have emerged due to their potential to generate inappropriate or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yihao Huang , Le Liang , Tianlin Li , Xiaojun Jia , Run Wang , Weikai Miao , Geguang Pu , Yang Liu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image synthesis, but their reliance on large-scale data and open ecosystems introduces serious backdoor security risks. Existing defenses, particularly input-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zida Li , Jun Li , Yuzhe Sha , Ziqiang Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu

Text-to-image generative models are widely deployed in creative tools and online platforms. To mitigate misuse, these systems rely on safety filters and moderation pipelines that aim to block harmful or policy violating content. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ahmed B Mustafa , Zihan Ye , Yang Lu , Michael P Pound , Shreyank N Gowda

Jailbreak attacks on multimodal AI systems remain underexplored, even though unsafe image generation can have more severe consequences than unsafe text and current defenses are relatively immature. We introduce PAST2HARM, a simple yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Snehasis Mukhopadhyay

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models (DMs) have shown promise in generating high-quality images from textual descriptions. The real-world applications of these models require particular attention to their safety and fidelity, but this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Hongcheng Gao , Hao Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng