The paper introduces Learning to Detect (LoD), a framework for identifying unseen jailbreak attacks in Large Vision‑Language Models without relying on attack data or hand‑crafted heuristics. LoD extracts layer‑wise safety representations via Multi‑modal Safety Concept Activation Vectors and compresses them into a one‑dimensional anomaly score using a Safety Pattern Auto‑Encoder. Experiments show that LoD achieves state‑of‑the‑art AUROC across diverse unseen attacks on multiple LVLMs while improving efficiency.
By Shuang Liang, Zhihao Xu, Jiaqi Weng, Jialing Tao, Hui Xue, Xiting Wang
arXiv:2606. 07706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across multimodal tasks, yet their safety robustness remains an open challenge.
By Rishabh Makwana, Mamta, Deeksha Varshney, Oana Cocarascu
arXiv:2602.08136v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are now a core part of modern AI. Recent work proposed several visual jailbreak attacks using single/ holistic...
By Md Rafi Ur Rashid, MD Sadik Hossain Shanto, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Shagufta Mehnaz
arXiv:2606. 02111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced to process video inputs, concerns have emerged about their potential for malicious misuse.
By Choongwon Kang, Seungjong Sun, Hyunmin Jun, Jang Hyun Kim
arXiv:2511.18921v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Backdoor attacks undermine the reliability and trustworthiness of machine learning systems by injecting hidden behaviors that can be maliciously ac...
By Juncheng Li, Yige Li, Hanxun Huang, Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang
The paper introduces TA-SPA, a black‑box jailbreak method for multimodal large language models that generates transferable perturbations in a text‑anchored semantic space. It combines Text‑Anchored Semantic Factorization (TASF) to separate cross‑modal semantic factors from modality‑specific residuals with Semantic‑Preserving Augmentation (SPA) to diversify harmful target anchors while maintaining semantic consistency. Experiments demonstrate strong attack effectiveness and transferability to commercial MLLMs, with competitive performance against representative defenses.
By Wenyun Li, Guiping Cao, Xiangyuan Lan, Zheng Zhang
arXiv:2608. 19737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding and reasoning.
By Ling Zhou, Yihao Huang, Jingling Sun, Zhiwen Tian, Yi Zeng, Qihe Liu, Shijie Zhou
The paper introduces MemJack, a memory‑augmented multi‑agent framework that automatically generates jailbreak attacks on Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) using benign natural images as visual anchors. MemJack discovers visual anchors, camouflages them semantically, evaluates responses, repairs via reflection, and replans dynamically, forming a closed‑loop attack pipeline. The authors also create MemJack‑Bench, a dataset of over 113,000 interactive multimodal jailbreak trajectories, and show that MemJack achieves a 71.48% attack success rate against Qwen3‑VL‑Plus, reaching 90% under extended budgets, outperforming other baselines on natural‑image evaluation.
By Jianhao Chen, Haoyang Chen, Hanjie Zhao, Haozhe Liang, Zheng Wang, Tieyun Qian
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding and reasoning. Despite extensive studies on text- and image-based jailbreaks, video jailbreaks against LVL...
arXiv:2503.06989v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated their superior ability in understanding multimodal content. However, the...
By Wenzhuo Xu, Zhipeng Wei, Xiongtao Sun, Zonghao Ying, Deyue Zhang, Dongdong Yang, Xiangzheng Zhang, Quanchen Zou
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:2609.38899v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Video Multimodal Large Language Models (Video-MLLMs) support reasoning over video inputs, yet remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that elicit poli...
By Wenyu Chen, Li Wang, Chuanchao Zang, Xiangtao Meng, Xinyu Gao, Jianing Wang, Zheng Li, Shanqing Guo