arXiv Machine Learning By Dongpeng Zhang, Ke Ma, Yangbangyan Jiang, Gaozheng Pei, Longtao Huang, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang

Localization then Neutralization: Gradient-guided Token Suppression against Visual Prompt Injection Attack

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arXiv:2605. 25194v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adversarial images pose a severe security threat to multimodal large language models through prompt injection.

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