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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…

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Hallucinations remain a persistent challenge for vision-language models (VLMs), which often describe nonexistent objects or fabricate facts. Existing detection methods typically operate after text generation, making intervention both costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Akhil Kogilathota , Sripadha Vallabha E G , Luzhe Sun , Jiawei Zhou

Vision Language Models (VLMs) hold great promise for streamlining labour-intensive medical imaging workflows, yet systematic security evaluations in clinical settings remain scarce. We introduce VSF--Med, an end-to-end vulnerability-scoring…

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Traditional Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems employ multi-stage pipelines consisting of object detection networks followed by separate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) modules, introducing compounding errors, increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Karthik Sivakoti

Large vision-language models (LVLMs), which integrate a vision encoder (VE) with a large language model, have achieved remarkable success across various tasks. However, there are still crucial challenges in LVLMs such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hoigi Seo , Dong Un Kang , Hyunjin Cho , Joohoon Lee , Se Young Chun

The advent of "OCR 2.0" and large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) has set new benchmarks in text recognition. However, these unified architectures often come with significant computational demands, challenges in precise text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Cheng Cui , Yubo Zhang , Ting Sun , Xueqing Wang , Hongen Liu , Manhui Lin , Yue Zhang , Tingquan Gao , Changda Zhou , Jiaxuan Liu , Zelun Zhang , Jing Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yi Liu

Real-world applications are stretching context windows to hundreds of thousand of tokens while Large Language Models (LLMs) swell from billions to trillions of parameters. This dual expansion send compute and memory costs skyrocketing,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ling Xing , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Rui Yan , Xiangbo Shu , Jinhui Tang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), built on pre-trained vision encoders and large language models (LLMs), have shown exceptional multi-modal understanding and dialog capabilities, positioning them as catalysts for the next technological…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yuke Hu , Zheng Li , Zhihao Liu , Yang Zhang , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing but also pose significant privacy risks by memorizing and leaking Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Existing mitigation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ahmed Frikha , Muhammad Reza Ar Razi , Krishna Kanth Nakka , Ricardo Mendes , Xue Jiang , Xuebing Zhou

Leveraging large-scale Text-to-Image (TTI) models have become a common technique for generating exemplar or training dataset in the fields of image synthesis, video editing, 3D reconstruction. However, semantic structural visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bumsoo Kim , Wonseop Shin , Kyuchul Lee , Yonghoon Jung , Sanghyun Seo

Automated Code Review (ACR) systems integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in software development workflows, ranging from interactive assistants to autonomous agents in CI/CD pipelines. In this paper, we study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Dimitris Mitropoulos , Nikolaos Alexopoulos , Georgios Alexopoulos , Diomidis Spinellis

The large-scale adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) forces a trade-off between operational cost (OpEx) and data privacy. Current routing frameworks reduce costs but ignore prompt sensitivity, exposing users and institutions to leakage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alessio Langiu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance on single-image tasks, but their performance declines when multiple images are provided as input. One major reason is the cross-image information leakage, where the model…

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We present a transparent, reproducible measurement of research trends across 26,104 accepted papers from CVPR, ICLR, and NeurIPS spanning 2023-2025. Titles and abstracts are normalized, phrase-protected, and matched against a hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Fengming Lin

Academic research tends to focus on new models for document understanding creating a wide gap in the literature between model definition and running models at production scale. To close that gap, we present a microservice architecture that…

Multi-tenant LLM serving frameworks widely adopt shared Key-Value caches to enhance efficiency. However, this creates side-channel vulnerabilities enabling prompt leakage attacks. Prior studies identified these attack surfaces yet focused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Longxiang Wang , Xiang Zheng , Xuhao Zhang , Yao Zhang , Ye Wu , Cong Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit impressive potential across various tasks but also face significant privacy risks, limiting their practical applications. Current researches on privacy assessment for LVLMs is limited in scope,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jie Zhang , Xiangkui Cao , Zhouyu Han , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Real-world clinical decision-making requires integrating heterogeneous data, including medical text, 2D images, 3D volumes, and videos, while existing AI systems fail to unify all these signals, limiting their utility. In this paper, we…

De-identification is the task of detecting protected health information (PHI) in medical text. It is a critical step in sanitizing electronic health records (EHRs) to be shared for research. Automatic de-identification classifierscan…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Max Friedrich , Arne Köhn , Gregor Wiedemann , Chris Biemann

Despite the growing adoption of electronic health records, many processes still rely on paper documents, reflecting the heterogeneous real-world conditions in which healthcare is delivered. The manual transcription process is time-consuming…