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This investigation reveals a novel exploit derived from PNG image file formats, specifically their alpha transparency layer, and its potential to fool multiple AI vision systems. Our method uses this alpha layer as a clandestine channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 David Noever , Forrest McKee

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as an effective paradigm for expanding the knowledge capacity of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by incorporating external knowledge sources into the generation process, and has been…

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Gradient leakage has been identified as a potential source of privacy breaches in modern image processing systems, where the adversary can completely reconstruct the training images from leaked gradients. However, existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiayang Meng , Tao Huang , Hong Chen , Cuiping Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as the dominant paradigm for grounding large language model outputs in verifiable evidence. However, as modern AI agents transition from static knowledge bases to continuous multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Rohan Wandre , Yash Gajewar , Namrata Patel , Vivek Dhalkari

Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of natural language understanding and generation. But they face challenges such as hallucination and outdated knowledge. Fine-tuning is one possible solution, but it is resource-intensive and must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shadman Sobhan , Mohammad Ariful Haque

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal LLMs have been remarkable. However, these models still rely solely on their parametric knowledge, which limits their ability to generate up-to-date information and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zihan Ling , Zhiyao Guo , Yixuan Huang , Yi An , Shuai Xiao , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Bo Zheng

Text-to-3D generation approaches have advanced significantly by leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion priors, producing high-quality and 3D-consistent outputs. However, they often fail to produce out-of-domain (OOD) or rare concepts, yielding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yosef Dayani , Omer Benishu , Sagie Benaim

Large multimodal language models have proven transformative in numerous applications. However, these models have been shown to memorize and leak pre-training data, raising serious user privacy and information security concerns. While data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yang Chen , Ethan Mendes , Sauvik Das , Wei Xu , Alan Ritter

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a promising solution for enhancing the accuracy and credibility of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in Question & Answer tasks. This is achieved by incorporating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Qianren Mao , Qili Zhang , Hanwen Hao , Zhentao Han , Runhua Xu , Weifeng Jiang , Qi Hu , Zhijun Chen , Tyler Zhou , Bo Li , Yangqiu Song , Jin Dong , Jianxin Li , Philip S. Yu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced AI-assisted medical diagnosis, but they often generate factually inconsistent responses that deviate from established medical knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinhong Wang , Tajamul Ashraf , Zongyan Han , Jorma Laaksonen , Rao Mohammad Anwer

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) compensates for the static knowledge limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge, producing responses with enhanced factual correctness and query-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ruobing Yao , Yifei Zhang , Shuang Song , Neng Gao , Chenyang Tu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models to use external knowledge, but outsourcing the RAG service raises privacy concerns for both data owners and users. Privacy-preserving RAG systems address these concerns by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yulong Ming , Mingyue Wang , Jijia Yang , Jie Xu , Zihan Wu , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Doubtlessly, the immersive technologies have potential to ease people's life and uplift economy, however the obvious data privacy risks cannot be ignored. For example, a participant wears a 3D headset device which detects participant's head…

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Generative machine learning models are being increasingly viewed as a way to share sensitive data between institutions. While there has been work on developing differentially private generative modeling approaches, these approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yixi Xu , Sumit Mukherjee , Xiyang Liu , Shruti Tople , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) systems enable language models to answer knowledge-intensive queries with citation-supported responses across languages. While such systems have been proposed, an open questions is whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Dayeon Ki , Marine Carpuat , Paul McNamee , Daniel Khashabi , Eugene Yang , Dawn Lawrie , Kevin Duh

The increasing availability of online and mobile information platforms is facilitating the development of peer-to-peer collaboration strategies in large-scale networks. These technologies are being leveraged by networked robotic systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amanda Prorok , Vijay Kumar

This paper addresses the challenge of building multimodal recommender systems for the movie domain, where sparse item metadata (e.g., title and genres) can limit retrieval quality and downstream recommendations. We introduce RAG-VisualRec,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ali Tourani , Fatemeh Nazary , Yashar Deldjoo

Recently, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has achieved remarkable success in addressing the challenges of Large Language Models (LLMs) without necessitating retraining. By referencing an external knowledge base, RAG refines LLM…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Boci Peng , Yun Zhu , Yongchao Liu , Xiaohe Bo , Haizhou Shi , Chuntao Hong , Yan Zhang , Siliang Tang

Mixed reality (MR) technology development is now gaining momentum due to advances in computer vision, sensor fusion, and realistic display technologies. With most of the research and development focused on delivering the promise of MR,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jaybie A. de Guzman , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Aruna Seneviratne

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and its Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) significantly improve the knowledge coverage and contextual understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) by introducing external knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shixuan Sun , Siyuan Liang , Ruoyu Chen , Jianjie Huang , Jingzhi Li , Xiaochun Cao