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Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information, enabling a wide range of applications such as image captioning and visual question answering, making them crucial for modern AI systems. However, their high…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on vision encoders and Large Language Models (LLMs) to exhibit remarkable capabilities on various multi-modal tasks in the joint space of vision and language. However, typographic attacks, which…

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Recent advances in Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various vision-language tasks by leveraging large-scale image-text pretraining and instruction tuning. However, the security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zihan Wang , Guansong Pang , Wenjun Miao , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are powerful yet computationally intensive for widespread practical deployments. To address such challenge without costly re-training, post-training acceleration techniques like quantization and token reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yizheng Sun , Hao Li , Chang Xu , Hongpeng Zhou , Chenghua Lin , Riza Batista-Navarro , Jingyuan Sun

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a variety of tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that compromise safety and reliability. In this paper, we provide an information-theoretic framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ching-Chia Kao , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Shien Lu , Chu-Song Chen

Despite the strong multimodal performance, large vision-language models (LVLMs) are vulnerable during fine-tuning to backdoor attacks, where adversaries insert trigger-embedded samples into the training data to implant behaviors that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhifang Zhang , Bojun Yang , Shuo He , Weitong Chen , Wei Emma Zhang , Olaf Maennel , Lei Feng , Miao Xu

Visual token compression is widely used to accelerate large vision-language models (LVLMs) by pruning or merging visual tokens, yet its adversarial robustness remains unexplored. We show that existing encoder-based attacks cannot fully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinwei Zhang , Hangcheng Liu , Li Bai , Hao Wang , Qingqing Ye , Tianwei Zhang , Haibo Hu

Text-rich images, where text serves as the central visual element guiding the overall understanding, are prevalent in real-world applications, such as presentation slides, scanned documents, and webpage snapshots. Tasks involving multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mengzhao Jia , Wenhao Yu , Kaixin Ma , Tianqing Fang , Zhihan Zhang , Siru Ouyang , Hongming Zhang , Dong Yu , Meng Jiang

Generalizing an object detector trained on a single domain to multiple unseen domains is a challenging task. Existing methods typically introduce image or feature augmentation to diversify the source domain to raise the robustness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongda Qin , Xiao Lu , Zhiyong Wei , Yihong Cao , Kailun Yang , Ningjiang Chen

LLMs trained on massive datasets may inadvertently acquire sensitive information such as personal details and potentially harmful content. This risk is further heightened in multimodal LLMs as they integrate information from multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Vaidehi Patil , Yi-Lin Sung , Peter Hase , Jie Peng , Tianlong Chen , Mohit Bansal

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being enhanced with the ability to use tools and to process multiple modalities. These new capabilities bring new benefits and also new security risks. In this work, we show that an attacker can use visual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Xiaohan Fu , Zihan Wang , Shuheng Li , Rajesh K. Gupta , Niloofar Mireshghallah , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Earlence Fernandes

Achieving robust safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) while preserving their utility remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches often struggle to balance comprehensive safety with fine-grained controllability at the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Huizhen Shu , Xuying Li , Zhuo Li

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) generate contextually relevant responses by jointly interpreting visual and textual inputs. However, our finding reveals they often mistakenly perceive text inputs lacking visual evidence as being part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sohee Kim , Soohyun Ryu , Joonhyung Park , Eunho Yang

The advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has driven significant progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), evolving from Single to Multi Image VQA (MVQA). However, the increased number of images in MVQA inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Kang Zeng , Guojin Zhong , Jintao Cheng , Jin Yuan , Zhiyong Li

Although the remarkable performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains a critical challenge. Most existing detection methods rely on complex and poorly interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhigang Yang , Yuan Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Puning Zhang , Xinqiang Ma

In recent years, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance improvements in Vision-Language tasks. However, their large size poses challenges for real-world applications where inference latency is a concern. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In particular, gradient-based attacks have demonstrated high success rates recently. The gradient measures how each image pixel affects the model output, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hanbin Hong , Yuan Hong , Yu Kong

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in 2D medical image analysis, but extending them to 3D remains challenging due to the high computational demands of volumetric data and the difficulty of aligning 3D spatial features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yu Xin , Gorkem Can Ates , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

The explosive growth of multimodal data has driven the rapid development of multimodal entity linking (MEL) models. However, existing studies have not systematically investigated the impact of visual adversarial attacks on MEL models. We…

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Change detection is a fundamental task in computer vision that processes a bi-temporal image pair to differentiate between semantically altered and unaltered regions. Large language models (LLMs) have been utilized in various domains for…

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