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The advent of Large Language Models LLMs marks a milestone in Artificial Intelligence, altering how machines comprehend and generate human language. However, LLMs are vulnerable to malicious prompt injection attacks, where crafted inputs…

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Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have not only showcased impressive creative capabilities but also revealed emerging agentic behaviors that exploit linguistic ambiguity in adversarial settings. In this study, we…

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Adversarial examples are small and often imperceptible perturbations crafted to fool machine learning models. These attacks seriously threaten the reliability of deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive domains. Evasion…

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Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Tim Genewein , Volker Fischer , Bastian Bischoff

In recent years, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in embodied intelligence have developed rapidly. However, existing adversarial attack methods require costly end-to-end training and often generate noticeable perturbation patches. To…

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Defending against physical adversarial attacks is a rapidly growing topic in deep learning and computer vision. Prominent forms of physical adversarial attacks, such as overlaid adversarial patches and objects, share similarities with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Perry Deng , Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Matthew Wright

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in interactive and retrieval-augmented systems, but they remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where injected secondary prompts force the model to deviate from the user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Md Jahedur Rahman , Ihsen Alouani

It has been demonstrated that very simple attacks can fool highly-sophisticated neural network architectures. In particular, so-called adversarial examples, constructed from perturbations of input data that are small or imperceptible to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-09 N. Benjamin Erichson , Zhewei Yao , Michael W. Mahoney

Evaluations of large language model (LLM) risks and capabilities are increasingly being incorporated into AI risk management and governance frameworks. Currently, most risk evaluations are conducted by designing inputs that elicit harmful…

Automated vulnerability patching is crucial for software security, and recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising capabilities for automating this task. However, existing research has primarily assessed LLMs using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Aayush Garg , Zanis Ali Khan , Renzo Degiovanni , Qiang Tang

Adversarial prompts generated using gradient-based methods exhibit outstanding performance in performing automatic jailbreak attacks against safety-aligned LLMs. Nevertheless, due to the discrete nature of texts, the input gradient of LLMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks -- slight but carefully constructed perturbations of the inputs which can drastically impair the network's performance. Many defense methods have been proposed for improving…

With the development of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, both their vast applications and potential vulnerabilities have come to the forefront. While developers have integrated multiple safety mechanisms to mitigate their misuse,…

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Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

Adversarial patches, often used to provide physical stealth protection for critical assets and assess perception algorithm robustness, usually neglect the need for visual harmony with the background environment, making them easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chaoqun Li , Zhuodong Liu , Huanqian Yan , Hang Su

With the rise of large language models (LLMs), ensuring they embody the principles of being helpful, honest, and harmless (3H), known as Human Alignment, becomes crucial. While existing alignment methods like RLHF, DPO, etc., effectively…

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Are frontier AI systems becoming more capable? Certainly. Yet such progress is not an unalloyed blessing but rather a Trojan horse: behind their performance leaps lie more insidious and destructive safety risks, namely deception. Unlike…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sitong Fang , Shiyi Hou , Kaile Wang , Boyuan Chen , Donghai Hong , Jiayi Zhou , Josef Dai , Yaodong Yang , Jiaming Ji

This work uses adversarial perturbations to enhance deepfake images and fool common deepfake detectors. We created adversarial perturbations using the Fast Gradient Sign Method and the Carlini and Wagner L2 norm attack in both blackbox and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Apurva Gandhi , Shomik Jain

Recently, some research show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to the adversarial attacks, the well-trainned samples or patches could be used to trick the neural network detector or human visual perception. However, these adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xianyi Chen , Fazhan Liu , Dong Jiang , Kai Yan

Despite recent efforts in Large Language Model (LLM) safety and alignment, current adversarial attacks on frontier LLMs can still consistently force harmful generations. Although adversarial training has been widely studied and shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Csaba Dékány , Stefan Balauca , Robin Staab , Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Martin Vechev