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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities on Visual-Question-Answering (VQA) benchmarks. However, their robustness against textual misinformation remains under-explored. While existing research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chi Zhang , Wenxuan Ding , Jiale Liu , Mingrui Wu , Qingyun Wu , Ray Mooney

Generative models are increasingly integrated into creative workflows. While text-to-image generation excels in visual quality and diversity, color accessibility for users with Color Vision Deficiencies (CVD) remains largely unexplored. Our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xinyao Zhuang , Jose Echevarria , Kaan Akşit

Text-to-visualization (text-to-vis) models for tabular data have become essential tools in the era of big data, enabling users to generate visualizations and make data-driven decisions through natural language queries (NLQs). Despite their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shuaimin Li , Chen Jason Zhang , Xuanang Chen , Anni Peng , Zhuoyue Wan , Yuanfeng Song , Shiwen Ni , Min Yang , Fei Hao , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Backdoor attack introduces artificial vulnerabilities into the model by poisoning a subset of the training data via injecting triggers and modifying labels. Various trigger design strategies have been explored to attack text classifiers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zichao Li , Dheeraj Mekala , Chengyu Dong , Jingbo Shang

Backdoor attack against image classification task has been widely studied and proven to be successful, while there exist little research on the backdoor attack against vision-language models. In this paper, we explore backdoor attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Meiling Li , Nan Zhong , Xinpeng Zhang , Zhenxing Qian , Sheng Li

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map multimodal perception and language instructions to executable robot actions, making them particularly vulnerable to behavioral backdoor manipulation: a hidden trigger introduced during training can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zonghuan Xu , Jiayu Li , Yunhan Zhao , Xiang Zheng , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this work, we introduce LLaDA-V, a purely diffusion-based Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that integrates visual instruction tuning with masked diffusion models, representing a departure from the autoregressive paradigms dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zebin You , Shen Nie , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Jun Zhou , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Chongxuan Li

The open-endedness of large language models (LLMs) combined with their impressive capabilities may lead to new safety issues when being exploited for malicious use. While recent studies primarily focus on probing toxic outputs that can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiaxin Wen , Pei Ke , Hao Sun , Zhexin Zhang , Chengfei Li , Jinfeng Bai , Minlie Huang

Backdoor attacks in the traditional graph neural networks (GNNs) field are easily detectable due to the dilemma of confusing labels. To explore the backdoor vulnerability of GNNs and create a more stealthy backdoor attack method, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xiaogang Xing , Ming Xu , Yujing Bai , Dongdong Yang

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has been found to be vulnerable to poisoning backdoor attacks where the adversary can achieve an almost perfect attack success rate on CLIP models by poisoning only 0.01\% of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hanxun Huang , Sarah Erfani , Yige Li , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey

We introduce the Adversarial Confusion Attack, a new class of threats against multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Unlike jailbreaks or targeted misclassification, the goal is to induce systematic disruption that makes the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jakub Hoscilowicz , Artur Janicki

Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to its exceptional data generation capabilities in fields such as image synthesis. However, recent studies have shown that diffusion models are vulnerable to copyright infringement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhixiang Guo , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Dacheng Tao

Large language models have become increasingly prominent, also signaling a shift towards multimodality as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, where their embeddings are harnessed as prompts to generate textual content.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jiachen Sun , Changsheng Wang , Jiongxiao Wang , Yiwei Zhang , Chaowei Xiao

The visual modality of vision-language models (VLMs) is an underexplored attack surface for bypassing safety alignment. We introduce four jailbreak attacks exploiting the vision component: (1) encoding harmful instructions as visual symbol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Aharon Azulay , Jan Dubiński , Zhuoyun Li , Atharv Mittal , Yossi Gandelsman

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to the secure deployment of large language models (LLMs), enabling adversaries to implant hidden behaviors triggered by specific inputs. However, existing methods often rely on manually crafted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yige Li , Zhe Li , Wei Zhao , Nay Myat Min , Hanxun Huang , Xingjun Ma , Jun Sun

Autoregressive (AR) vision-language models (VLMs) have long dominated multimodal understanding, reasoning, and graphical user interface (GUI) grounding. Recently, discrete diffusion vision-language models (DVLMs) have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shrinidhi Kumbhar , Haofu Liao , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh

Backdoor attacks pose severe security threats to large language models (LLMs), where a model behaves normally under benign inputs but produces malicious outputs when a hidden trigger appears. Existing backdoor removal methods typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jianwei Li , Jung-Eun Kim

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 essential for contextual understanding of both visual and textual information. However, their vulnerability to adversarially manipulated inputs presents significant risks, leading to compromised outputs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Xuefeng Du , Reshmi Ghosh , Robert Sim , Ahmed Salem , Vitor Carvalho , Emily Lawton , Yixuan Li , Jack W. Stokes

Gathering enough images to train a deep computer vision model is a constant challenge. Unfortunately, collecting images from unknown sources can leave your model s behavior at risk of being manipulated by a dirty-label or clean-label attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 John W. Smutny
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