arXiv:2506. 03933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their susceptibility to adversarial perturbations poses a significant threat to their reliability in real-world applications.
By Jia Fu, Yongtao Wu, Yihang Chen, Kunyu Peng, Xiao Zhang, Volkan Cevher, Sepideh Pashami, Anders Holst
arXiv:2606. 16847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer a promising avenue for parallel generation but face a trade-off between decoding speed and quality.
By Yizhen Yao, Qinglin Zhu, Runcong Zhao, Xiangxiang Dai, Yanzheng Xiang, Yulan He, Lin Gui
arXiv:2608. 14594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) is widely used to evaluate adversarial robustness, typically via final adversarial accuracy, which does not capture model behaviour throughout the attack.
By Dhairysheel Durgule
arXiv:2607. 13565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate which language model evasion attacks survive state-of-the-art adversarial fine-tuning, developing strategies that sweep the top 5 positions on the ELOQUENT 2026 Voight-Kampff leaderboard.
By Dima Galat, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
arXiv:2512. 21815v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable performance but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
By Mengqi He, Xinyu Tian, Xin Shen, Jinhong Ni, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang, Jing Zhang
arXiv:2607. 08883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral alignment in large language models often masks fragile internal safety representations.
By Ege \c{C}akar, Hannah Guan, Kayden Kehe
arXiv:2606. 07696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering has become a popular training-free method to control LLM behavior by injecting precomputed direction vectors into the model's residual stream at inference time.
By Kien Le, Thai Le
arXiv:2608. 07430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) replace autoregressive next-token prediction with iterative parallel denoising, yet their internal safety mechanisms remain poorly understood.
By Elena Dumitrescu, Gert Lek, Lydia Y. Chen, J\'er\'emie Decouchant
arXiv:2608. 04286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are often used in conjunction with external knowledge sources to improve their factual accuracy and decrease hallucinations, through methods such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
By Atri Vivek Sharma, Brian Formento, Alessio Lomuscio
arXiv:2609.00051v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Despite extensive alignment efforts, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to generating unsafe content under adversarial prompting, yet the...
By Kuan-Lin Chu, Chung-En Sun, Tsui-Wei Weng
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on vision-language tasks, but incorporating visual inputs through a vision encoder (e. g.
arXiv:2606. 27474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How should we evaluate generation systems that combine autoregressive (AR) and diffusion decoding?
By Aditi Gupta, Neel Mishra, Kushagra Trivedi, Pawan Kumar