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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) unlock powerful multimodal reasoning but also expand the attack surface, particularly through adversarial inputs that conceal harmful goals in benign prompts. We propose SHIELD, a lightweight,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Juan Ren , Mark Dras , Usman Naseem

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has increased the need for guardrail models to ensure responsible use, particularly in detecting unsafe and illegal content. While substantial safety data exist in English, multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yihe Deng , Yu Yang , Junkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Bo Li

With the integration of an additional modality, large vision-language models (LVLMs) exhibit greater vulnerability to safety risks (e.g., jailbreaking) compared to their language-only predecessors. Although recent studies have devoted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ziwei Zheng , Junyao Zhao , Le Yang , Lijun He , Fan Li

This paper introduces LlavaGuard, a suite of VLM-based vision safeguards that address the critical need for reliable guardrails in the era of large-scale data and models. To this end, we establish a novel open framework, describing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Lukas Helff , Felix Friedrich , Manuel Brack , Kristian Kersting , Patrick Schramowski

To enhance the safety of VLMs, this paper introduces a novel reasoning-based VLM guard model dubbed GuardReasoner-VL. The core idea is to incentivize the guard model to deliberatively reason before making moderation decisions via online RL.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yue Liu , Shengfang Zhai , Mingzhe Du , Yulin Chen , Tri Cao , Hongcheng Gao , Cheng Wang , Xinfeng Li , Kun Wang , Junfeng Fang , Jiaheng Zhang , Bryan Hooi

Ensuring the safety of large language models (LLMs) is critical as they are deployed in real-world applications. Existing guardrails rely on rule-based filtering or single-pass classification, limiting their ability to handle nuanced safety…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Xiaofei Wen , Wenxuan Zhou , Wenjie Jacky Mo , Muhao Chen

This paper introduces v0.5 of the AI Safety Benchmark, which has been created by the MLCommons AI Safety Working Group. The AI Safety Benchmark has been designed to assess the safety risks of AI systems that use chat-tuned language models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Bertie Vidgen , Adarsh Agrawal , Ahmed M. Ahmed , Victor Akinwande , Namir Al-Nuaimi , Najla Alfaraj , Elie Alhajjar , Lora Aroyo , Trupti Bavalatti , Max Bartolo , Borhane Blili-Hamelin , Kurt Bollacker , Rishi Bomassani , Marisa Ferrara Boston , Siméon Campos , Kal Chakra , Canyu Chen , Cody Coleman , Zacharie Delpierre Coudert , Leon Derczynski , Debojyoti Dutta , Ian Eisenberg , James Ezick , Heather Frase , Brian Fuller , Ram Gandikota , Agasthya Gangavarapu , Ananya Gangavarapu , James Gealy , Rajat Ghosh , James Goel , Usman Gohar , Sujata Goswami , Scott A. Hale , Wiebke Hutiri , Joseph Marvin Imperial , Surgan Jandial , Nick Judd , Felix Juefei-Xu , Foutse Khomh , Bhavya Kailkhura , Hannah Rose Kirk , Kevin Klyman , Chris Knotz , Michael Kuchnik , Shachi H. Kumar , Srijan Kumar , Chris Lengerich , Bo Li , Zeyi Liao , Eileen Peters Long , Victor Lu , Sarah Luger , Yifan Mai , Priyanka Mary Mammen , Kelvin Manyeki , Sean McGregor , Virendra Mehta , Shafee Mohammed , Emanuel Moss , Lama Nachman , Dinesh Jinenhally Naganna , Amin Nikanjam , Besmira Nushi , Luis Oala , Iftach Orr , Alicia Parrish , Cigdem Patlak , William Pietri , Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh , Eleonora Presani , Fabrizio Puletti , Paul Röttger , Saurav Sahay , Tim Santos , Nino Scherrer , Alice Schoenauer Sebag , Patrick Schramowski , Abolfazl Shahbazi , Vin Sharma , Xudong Shen , Vamsi Sistla , Leonard Tang , Davide Testuggine , Vithursan Thangarasa , Elizabeth Anne Watkins , Rebecca Weiss , Chris Welty , Tyler Wilbers , Adina Williams , Carole-Jean Wu , Poonam Yadav , Xianjun Yang , Yi Zeng , Wenhui Zhang , Fedor Zhdanov , Jiacheng Zhu , Percy Liang , Peter Mattson , Joaquin Vanschoren

Large language models (LLMs) remain susceptible to jailbreak and direct prompt-injection attacks, yet the strongest defensive filters frequently over-refuse benign queries and degrade user experience. Previous work on jailbreak and prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Purva Chiniya , Kevin Scaria , Sagar Chaturvedi

As LLMs increasingly impact safety-critical applications, ensuring their safety using guardrails remains a key challenge. This paper proposes GuardReasoner, a new safeguard for LLMs, by guiding the guard model to learn to reason.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yue Liu , Hongcheng Gao , Shengfang Zhai , Yufei He , Jun Xia , Zhengyu Hu , Yulin Chen , Xihong Yang , Jiaheng Zhang , Stan Z. Li , Hui Xiong , Bryan Hooi

Aligning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with safety standards is essential to mitigate risks arising from their multimodal complexity, where integrating vision and language unveils subtle threats beyond the reach of conventional safeguards.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Menglan Chen , Xianghe Pang , Jingjing Dong , WenHao Wang , Yaxin Du , Siheng Chen

With the widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs), their associated security issues have become increasingly prominent, severely constraining their trustworthy deployment in critical domains. This paper proposes a novel safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qi Li , Jianjun Xu , Pingtao Wei , Jiu Li , Peiqiang Zhao , Jiwei Shi , Xuan Zhang , Yanhui Yang , Xiaodong Hui , Peng Xu , Wenqin Shao

Powered by remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities in manifold tasks. However, the practical application scenarios of MLLMs are intricate,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tianle Gu , Zeyang Zhou , Kexin Huang , Dandan Liang , Yixu Wang , Haiquan Zhao , Yuanqi Yao , Xingge Qiao , Keqing Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yan Teng , Yu Qiao , Yingchun Wang

The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) agents has raised new concerns regarding their safety and security. In this paper, we propose GuardAgent, the first guardrail agent to protect target agents by dynamically checking whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhen Xiang , Linzhi Zheng , Yanjie Li , Junyuan Hong , Qinbin Li , Han Xie , Jiawei Zhang , Zidi Xiong , Chulin Xie , Carl Yang , Dawn Song , Bo Li

Multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) are increasingly deployed for vision-language tasks that produce explicit intermediate rationales. However, reasoning traces can contain unsafe content even when the final answer is non-harmful,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxiao Xiang , Junchi Chen , Zhenchao Jin , Changtao Miao , Haojie Yuan , Qi Chu , Tao Gong , Nenghai Yu

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in real-world applications poses unprecedented risks of generating harmful, biased, or misleading information to vulnerable populations including LGBTQ+ individuals, single parents, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tung Vu , Lam Nguyen , Quynh Dao

The rapid development of autonomous web agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), while greatly elevating efficiency, exposes the frontier risk of taking unintended or harmful actions. This situation underscores an urgent need for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Boyuan Zheng , Zeyi Liao , Scott Salisbury , Zeyuan Liu , Michael Lin , Qinyuan Zheng , Zifan Wang , Xiang Deng , Dawn Song , Huan Sun , Yu Su

Although the integration of large language models (LLMs) into robotics has unlocked transformative capabilities, it has also introduced significant safety concerns, ranging from average-case LLM errors (e.g., hallucinations) to adversarial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zachary Ravichandran , Alexander Robey , Vijay Kumar , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

Large language models (LLMs) excel in text understanding and generation but raise significant safety and ethical concerns in high-stakes applications. To mitigate these risks, we present Libra-Guard, a cutting-edge safeguard system designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Ziyang Chen , Huimu Yu , Xing Wu , Dongqin Liu , Songlin Hu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to increasingly sophisticated safety protocols and features designed to prevent harmful, unethical, or unauthorized outputs. However, these guardrails remain susceptible to novel and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Annika M Schoene , Cansu Canca

The past year has seen rapid acceleration in the development of large language models (LLMs). However, without proper steering and safeguards, LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions, provide unsafe advice, and generate toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Bertie Vidgen , Nino Scherrer , Hannah Rose Kirk , Rebecca Qian , Anand Kannappan , Scott A. Hale , Paul Röttger