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Vision-language models (VLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial image perturbations. Existing works based on adversarial training against task-specific adversarial examples are computationally expensive and often fail to generalize to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jingning Xu , Haochen Luo , Chen Liu

On-device Vision-Language Models (VLMs) promise data privacy via local execution. However, we show that the architectural shift toward Dynamic High-Resolution preprocessing (e.g., AnyRes) introduces an inherent algorithmic side-channel.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Eyal Hadad , Mordechai Guri

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as trusted authorities -- fact-checking images on social media, comparing products, and moderating content. Users implicitly trust that these systems perceive the same visual content…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jie Zhang , Pura Peetathawatchai , Florian Tramèr , Avital Shafran

The integration of visual and textual data in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models is crucial for enhancing vision-language understanding. However, the adversarial robustness of these models, especially in the alignment of image-text…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Youze Wang , Wenbo Hu , Yinpeng Dong , Hanwang Zhang , Hang Su , Richang Hong

Multi-modal foundation models like OpenFlamingo, LLaVA, and GPT-4 are increasingly used for various real-world tasks. Prior work has shown that these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the vision modality. These attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Christian Schlarmann , Naman Deep Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

In the context of medical artificial intelligence, this study explores the vulnerabilities of the Pathology Language-Image Pretraining (PLIP) model, a Vision Language Foundation model, under targeted attacks. Leveraging the Kather Colon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-09 Poojitha Thota , Jai Prakash Veerla , Partha Sai Guttikonda , Mohammad S. Nasr , Shirin Nilizadeh , Jacob M. Luber

Vision-language pre-training (VLP) models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, particularly in black-box scenarios. Existing multimodal attacks often suffer from limited perturbation diversity and unstable multi-stage pipelines. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wutao Chen , Huaqin Zou , Chen Wan , Lifeng Huang

Vision-language pretraining (VLP) with transformers has demonstrated exceptional performance across numerous multimodal tasks. However, the adversarial robustness of these models has not been thoroughly investigated. Existing multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiwei Guan , Tianyu Ding , Longbing Cao , Lei Pan , Chen Wang , Xi Zheng

Adversarial prompts generated using gradient-based methods exhibit outstanding performance in performing automatic jailbreak attacks against safety-aligned LLMs. Nevertheless, due to the discrete nature of texts, the input gradient of LLMs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qizhang Li , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo , Hao Chen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering (VQA). However, as their applications become increasingly widespread, recent studies have revealed that VLMs are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ji Guo , Xiaolong Qin , Cencen Liu , Jielei Wang , Jierun Chen , Wenbo Jiang

We present Adversarial Object Fusion (AdvOF), a novel attack framework targeting vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents in service-oriented environments by generating adversarial 3D objects. While foundational models like Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chunlong Xie , Jialing He , Shangwei Guo , Jiacheng Wang , Shudong Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Tao Xiang

The emergence of vision-language-action models (VLAs) for end-to-end control is reshaping the field of robotics by enabling the fusion of multimodal sensory inputs at the billion-parameter scale. The capabilities of VLAs stem primarily from…

Recently in robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a transformative approach, enabling robots to execute complex tasks by integrating visual and linguistic inputs within an end-to-end learning framework. Despite their…

Over the past two years, the use of large language models (LLMs) has advanced rapidly. While these LLMs offer considerable convenience, they also raise security concerns, as LLMs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks by some well-designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Guang Lin , Toshihisa Tanaka , Qibin Zhao

Large Language Model (LLM) agents exhibit remarkable performance across diverse applications by using external tools to interact with environments. However, integrating external tools introduces security risks, such as indirect prompt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qiusi Zhan , Richard Fang , Henil Shalin Panchal , Daniel Kang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on attention-based retrieval of safety instructions to maintain alignment during generation. Existing attacks typically optimize image perturbations to maximize harmful output likelihood, but suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingru Li , Wei Ren , Tianqing Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents have been widely deployed in a wide range of applications in the real world, including healthcare diagnostics, financial analysis, customer support, robotics, and autonomous driving,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wenrui Xu , Keshab K. Parhi

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), such as GPT-4o and LLaVA, have recently witnessed remarkable advancements and are increasingly being deployed in real-world applications. However, inheriting the sensitivity of visual neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Chaohu Liu , Tianyi Gui , Yu Liu , Linli Xu

In this paper we compare traditional machine learning and deep learning models trained on a malware dataset when subjected to adversarial attack based on label-flipping. Specifically, we investigate the robustness of Support Vector Machines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sarvagya Bhargava , Mark Stamp

Visual language pre-training (VLP) models have demonstrated significant success across various domains, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Addressing these adversarial vulnerabilities is crucial for enhancing security in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dehong Kong , Siyuan Liang , Xiaopeng Zhu , Yuansheng Zhong , Wenqi Ren