arXiv AI
Jul 10
Adversarial Decoys: Misdirecting Attention-Based Defenses in ViT
arXiv:2607. 07922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) remain vulnerable to localized adversarial attacks, e.
Corrupting Attention: Evasion-Based Adversarial Attacks on Encoder Attention in Detection Transformers
arXiv:2608. 06674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial vulnerabilities remain a major concern for the safe deployment of neural networks, particularly in object detection, a core task embedded in many safety-critical systems.
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arXiv AI
Aug 5
Structure-Aware Robust Fine-Tuning: Defending Vision-Language-Action Robots Against Physical Attention Hijacking
arXiv:2608. 03231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physical-world attacks remains fragile.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
A Mechanistic Analysis of Adversarial Fine-tuning of Vision Transformers
arXiv:2606. 07593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread use of image classification models in high-risk, real-world situations necessitates making these models robust to slight disturbances or perturbations, such as blurring or sharpening, in the input images.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26
Eyes-on-Me: Scalable RAG Poisoning through Transferable Attention-Steering Attractors
arXiv:2510. 00586v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing data poisoning attacks on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems scale poorly because they require costly optimization of poisoned documents for each target phrase.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
Improving Adversarial Transferability on Vision-Language Pre-training Models via Surrogate-Specific Bias Correction
arXiv:2606. 10571v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial examples reveal vulnerabilities in Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models and provide insights for improving robustness.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30
High-Entropy Tokens as Multimodal Failure Points in Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2512. 21815v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable performance but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
Forced Deferral: Manipulating Routing Decisions in Multimodal LLM Cascades
arXiv:2606. 15308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong visual reasoning abilities, serving a large model for every query is computationally expensive.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607. 11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite progress in Embodied AI, Vision-and-Language Navigation systems remain vulnerable to adversarial visual disturbances.
arXiv AI
Jun 24
PHANTOM: A Large-Scale Dataset of Multimodal Adversarial Attacks for Vision-Language Models
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).
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
A combination of noise and bilateral filters achieve supralinear and scalable adversarial robustness in CNNs
arXiv:2606. 02267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples poses a significant challenge for real-world deployment.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 6
One Surrogate to Fool Them All: Universal, Transferable, and Targeted Adversarial Attacks with CLIP
arXiv:2505. 19840v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved widespread success yet remain prone to adversarial attacks.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
Binary Iterative Method for Non-targeted Adversarial Attack
arXiv:2607. 04145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks guide and provide additional training and test data for both adversarial training and adversarial robustness validation, and expose the 'piecewise linearity' of deep learning based models.