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Vision models are increasingly deployed in critical applications such as autonomous driving and CCTV monitoring, yet they remain susceptible to resource-consuming attacks. In this paper, we introduce a novel energy-overloading attack that…

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Currently, natural language processing (NLP) models are wildly used in various scenarios. However, NLP models, like all deep models, are vulnerable to adversarially generated text. Numerous works have been working on mitigating the…

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Vision language models (VLMs) excel in multimodal understanding but are prone to adversarial attacks. Existing defenses often demand costly retraining or significant architecture changes. We introduce a lightweight defense using tensor…

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