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. 07445v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often require fine-tuning (FT) to perform well on downstream tasks, but FT can induce safety-alignment drift even when the training dataset contains only benign data.
By Guoli Wang, Haonan Shi, Tu Ouyang, An Wang
arXiv:2606. 06519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-weight LLMs are increasingly fine-tuned into customized assistants, but downstream fine-tuning can weaken safety alignment and make models more vulnerable to malicious prompts, even when the training data is not intentionally harmful.
By Yanghan Wang, Zhiqiang Kou, Fu Feng, Jing Wang, Xin Geng
arXiv:2606. 17257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight video diffusion models can generate photorealistic unsafe content, from violence to misinformation, yet existing defenses either require expensive safety fine-tuning that degrades general capability, or apply external filters that are trivially bypassed by adversarial prompts.
By Rohit Kundu, Arindam Dutta, Sarosij Bose, Athula Balachandran, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
arXiv:2606. 19168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To achieve deeper safety alignment for large language models (LLMs), recent efforts have studied how to push safety interventions earlier into the pretraining stage, primarily by filtering unsafe data or rewriting it into safer forms.
By Jinhan Li, Kexian Tang, Yihan Xu, Zhuorui Ye, Kaifeng Lyu
arXiv:2607. 09697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing safety mechanisms for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) face a fundamental trade-off between safety and utility.
By Jiayi Li, Kun Zhan
arXiv:2606. 25034v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose models often struggle to reliably identify and understand real-world multimodal risks, largely due to the inherent multimodal adversarial nature of content and AI safety.
By Shikai Qiu, Xiaowen Xu, Benlei Cui, Ting Ma, Xiufeng Huang, Wenjing Jiang, Shaoxuan He, Haolei Xu, Chunyang Chai, Yujian Li, Yiliang Zhang, Guanghui Wang, Ziheng Wang, Ziwen Xu, Zhaoyu Fan, Jinhao Chen, Ruijie Jian, Hongxing Li, Chuxi Xiao, Xinyue Chen, Wenxuan Liu, Libin Dong, Yupeng Cao, Xiaoqian Xia, Jing Wang, Zhe Jiang, Zhenan Ye, Guang Yang, Bin Liu, Wei Peng, Ziqiang Zhu, Meihui Lian, Kaiwen Lv Kacuila, Haidong Ding, Dongjie Zhang, Yangfan Zhou, Bingyu Zhu, Yan Wang, Hai Zhao, Xuan Jin, Wei Zhao, Pengfei Sun, Huiming Zhang, Wei Wang, Xipeng Cao, Jialun Chen, Xiao Chen, Shaola Ren, Yunqing Hu, Bin Li, Chengwen Yao, Meng Huang, Xianfeng Li, Bin Tang, Chao Liu, Hui Xue, Longtao Huang, Haiwen Hong
arXiv:2606. 00686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The prevailing paradigm in large language model (LLM) alignment operates via erasure, filtering unsafe data or training models to strictly refuse harmful prompts.
By Maryam Hashemzadeh, Jerry Huang, Minseon Kim, Marc-Alexandre C\^ot\'e, Sarath Chandar
arXiv:2606. 05177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing multimodal safety benchmarks focus solely on visual inputs and cannot assess Omni Large Language Models (LLMs) that process vision, audio, and text.
By Manh Luong, Tamas Abraham, Junae Kim, Amar Kaur, Rollin Omari, Gholamreza Haffari, Trang Vu, Lizhen Qu, Dinh Phung
arXiv:2608. 10513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that exploit visual inputs to bypass safety alignment inherited from their language backbones.
By Caoyuan Ma, Wenpu Liu, Weichu Xie, Tian Gu, Shilei Zhao, Lingxi Min, Shuai Dong, Yuqi Xu, Ji Zhao, Ziyue Wang, Wenzheng Chang, Taiqiang Wu, Yongfu Zhu, Wenqi Shao, Yinqiang Zheng
arXiv:2506. 08473v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) improves performance but introduces critical safety vulnerabilities: even minimal harmful data can severely compromise safety measures.
By Shuo Yang, Qihui Zhang, Yuyang Liu, Xiaojun Jia, Kunpeng Ning, Jiayu Yao, Jigang Wang, Hailiang Dai, Yibing Song, Li Yuan
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that exploit visual inputs to bypass safety alignment inherited from their language backbones. We propose SafeCap, a reinforcement-learning framework that aligns LVLMs through learned self-captioning.