arXiv:2609.06991v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent text-to-audio-video (T2AV) models jointly generate video, speech, sound effects, and ambience from a single text prompt. This capability poses...
By Suah Choi, Tae-Young Lee, Gyeong-Moon Park
arXiv:2609.20850v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show remarkable advancements, their cross-modal capabilities introduce complex vulnerabilities that easi...
By Yueming Lyu, Yilian Shi, Haoxiang Tan, Linzhuang Zou, Qihao Wang, Guihua Yu, Jie Qin, Xin Gao, Chenyang Si, Jing Dong, Caifeng Shan
Omni‑SafetyBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate the safety of Omni‑Modal Large Language Models (OLLMs) that process visual, auditory, and textual data. It contains 23,328 test instances across 24 modality variations derived from 972 seed samples, and introduces metrics such as Safety‑score (based on Conditional Attack Success Rate and Conditional Refusal Rate) and Cross‑Modal Safety Consistency score. Evaluation of 11 state‑of‑the‑art OLLMs shows severe vulnerabilities, with only three models achieving a Safety‑score above 0.6 and safety degrading sharply for audio‑visual inputs, underscoring the need for improved safety alignment methods.
By Leyi Pan, Zheyu Fu, Yunpeng Zhai, Shuchang Tao, Sheng Guan, Shiyu Huang, Lingzhe Zhang, Zhaoyang Liu, Bolin Ding, Felix Henry, Aiwei Liu, Lijie Wen
arXiv:2603.02482v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Safety evaluation of multimodal large language models requires tracking not only whether an attack succeeds, but also how the interaction unfolds a...
By Zhongxi Wang, Yueqian Lin, Jingyang Zhang, Zinuo Cheng, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen
The paper examines how the tight integration of multimodal understanding and image generation in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) can create new safety vulnerabilities. It introduces RICE, an attack framework that exploits bidirectional interactions between generation and understanding to propagate unsafe signals across modalities. Experiments demonstrate high attack success rates in both Generation‑to‑Understanding and Understanding‑to‑Generation pathways, revealing previously overlooked safety weaknesses in UMMs.
By Kaishen Wang, Heng Huang
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:2609.00206v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Despite their growing use in video moderation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit a compositional safety blind spot: videos composed of...
By Ruotong Wang, Zihao Zhu, Siwei Lyu, Xin Tao, Baoyuan Wu
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
The paper introduces MPS-Bench, a benchmark of 5,181 scenarios from 584 real-world images across 12 high-risk domains, each paired with a hidden user profile, to evaluate personalized safety in vision‑language models (VLMs). Eight leading VLMs were tested and found to almost always respond directly (86‑99%) without seeking missing context, scoring no higher than 2.6/5 on personalized safety. The authors identify a phenomenon called visual dominance, where visual information enters text representations early and suppresses textual risk signals, and propose PRISM, a lightweight input monitor that predicts when a query should be deferred, achieving 0.978 AUC and outperforming all tested models on the safety‑utility Pareto frontier.
By Edward Sun, Yuchen Wu, Zixian Ma, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Yijia Xiao, Xiaoyuan Yi, Ranjay Krishna, Wei Wang, Jindong Wang, Aylin Caliskan
arXiv:2604. 00310v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) often experience degraded safety alignment when harmful queries exploit cross-modal interactions.
By Anurag Kumar, Raghuveer Peri, Jon Burnsky, Alexandru Nelus, Rohit Paturi, Srikanth Vishnubhotla, Yanjun Qi
The paper introduces Multi-Modal Typography, a systematic investigation into how perturbations applied to speech and on-screen text can compromise audio‑visual reasoning in large language models. Experiments on the WorldSense benchmark show that such attacks can raise the attack success rate against Gemini 3.7 Flash from 9.53% to 43.41%, and fine‑tuning can reduce the success rate for Qwen2.5‑Omni‑7B from 60.6% to 52.0%. The study highlights that cross‑modal typography attacks are a significant, yet underexplored, vulnerability in multi‑modal reasoning systems.
By Tianle Chen, Deepti Ghadiyaram
The paper identifies a flaw in current text-to-video safety filters that rely on keyword prompts and per-frame checks, showing that these systems miss harms that arise solely from the ordering of frames. Experiments reveal that a significant portion of generated videos contain harmful content that is undetected because each individual frame appears safe, and prompt engineering does not mitigate this issue. The authors propose an order-aware detector that can distinguish harmful videos from benign shuffles, achieving an AUC of 0.74 compared to chance for per-frame checking.
By Yuxin Cao, Fusen Guo, Yuezhong Wu, Huadong Mo, Wei Song