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.
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.
arXiv:2606. 02443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Between the first visible sign of danger and the moment an accident occurs, there is often a window where intervention remains possible.
arXiv:2606. 11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used for scene understanding in autonomous driving, but robustness analysis often relies on task-agnostic embedding stability alone.
arXiv:2607. 08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and visual question answering.
BD-HazardVLM is a diagnostic benchmark of 500 Bangladesh road-scene images designed to probe vision‑language models’ defensive‑driving reasoning in weakly structured Global South traffic. The benchmark includes annotations for hazard presence, category, risk timing, severity, defensive actions, visible evidence, and bias traps, and evaluates models such as Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, InternVL3‑8B, and MiniCPM‑V‑4.6. Results show high binary hazard‑presence accuracy but poor fine‑grained reasoning, with category accuracy below 40 %, risk‑timing accuracy under 13 %, and defensive‑action matching under 2 %. whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates that coarse hazard recognition does not guarantee reliable fine‑grained defensive‑driving reasoning, highlighting the need for geographically diverse safety evaluation of vision‑language models."
arXiv:2603. 29759v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have accelerated their application to indoor safety hazards assessment.
arXiv:2607. 18325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern safety-critical systems increasingly rely on human-robot interaction to reduce disaster risk and support decision-making during emergencies.
The paper introduces Counterfactual Neighborhood Risk Fields (CNRF), an evidence‑grounded framework that improves safety for vision‑language models (VLMs). CNRF builds context‑matched benign‑harmful counterfactual pairs, uses their representation differences to define risk directions, and separates neighborhood support from risk estimation. This approach allows selective intervention rather than blanket rejection, achieving high macro defense success rates across multiple VLMs while preserving benign‑task utility.
arXiv:2607. 00218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are now proposed as runtime safety guards for embodied agents in homes and factories.
arXiv:2606. 24759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision.
arXiv:2606. 03954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems increasingly assist humans in physical tasks, ensuring safety becomes paramount -- physical actions carry immediate and irreversible consequences that digital errors do not.