arXiv:2607. 22745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid advances in image generation are eroding the evidentiary value of visual content in settings where authenticity can affect public safety and personal reputation.
By Yi-Zhi Wang, Yichen Xiao, Linan Yue, Weibo Gao, Yichao Du, Pengfei Fang, Shimin Di, Min-Ling Zhang
arXiv:2601. 04946v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic metrics are widely used to evaluate text-to-image models, often replacing human judgment in benchmarking, model selection, and large-scale data filtering.
By Subhadeep Roy, Gagan Bhatia, Steffen Eger
arXiv:2503. 11832v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision language models (VLMs) have made remarkable strides in generative modeling with multimodal inputs, particularly text and images.
By Yiwei Chen, Yuguang Yao, Yihua Zhang, Bingquan Shen, Gaowen Liu, Sijia Liu
arXiv:2603. 29759v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have accelerated their application to indoor safety hazards assessment.
By Qiucheng Yu, Ruijie Xu, Mingang Chen Jianfeng Dong, Xin Tan
arXiv:2608. 04052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Backdoor attacks in multimodal contrastive learning (MCL) have garnered growing attention in recent years, as many downstream tasks critically depend on pre-trained MCL models.
By Yiming Chen, Kemou Li, Haiwei Wu, Jiantao Zhou
arXiv:2606. 25375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid adoption of generative AI, synthetic medical images pose growing risks, including diagnostic deception and insurance fraud.
By Ching-Hao Chiu, Hao-Wei Chung, Gelei Xu, Xueyang Li, Pin-Yu Chen, John Kheir, Meysam Ghaffari, Carlos Morato, Ahmed Abbasi, Yiyu Shi
arXiv:2604. 05809v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents Text-Guided Backdoor (TGB), an adjustable backdoor attack against multimodal pretrained models that uses natural-word triggers, namely words that can naturally occur in ordinary textual inputs.
By Yiyang Zhang, Chaojian Yu, Ziming Hong, Yuanjie Shao, Qinmu Peng, Tongliang Liu, Xinge You
arXiv:2606. 31876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve safety in Large Language Models (LLMs) we can either perform post-training alignment or exploit refusal directions in the activation space.
By Moreno D'Inc\`a, Massimiliano Mancini, Nicu Sebe
arXiv:2608. 17234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interact with screenshots, scanned documents, diagrams, and other visually grounded inputs.
By Md Abdullahil Oaphy, Anhao Xiang, Zongxing Xie, Huayue Gu, Chenyu Wang, Honghui Xu
arXiv:2606. 24388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a large-scale, open-source dataset of pre-generated adversarial attacks for vision-language models (VLMs).
By Simone Gallivanone, Hossein Khodadadi, Mauro Dore, Mauro Medda, Nicola Franco
arXiv:2608. 17067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As text-to-image generative models advance, they raise critical safety concerns, particularly the generation of Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content such as violence and nudity, further exacerbated by red-teaming adversarial attacks.
By Tong Zhang, Motasem Alfarra, Carlos Hinojosa, Christos Louizos, Bernard Ghanem
arXiv:2606. 09700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered content moderation systems have become a critical defense against harmful online content.
By Qin Yang, Lu Malloy, Joshua Lee, Xiaohan Chang, Meisam Mohammady, Doowon Kim, Yuan Hong