arXiv:2607. 02819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-edge Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) inference enables efficient deployment by splitting computation between edge devices and cloud servers.
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The paper investigates privacy risks in Vision Transformer (ViT) split‑inference systems that use token reduction and token shuffling to lower computation and communication costs. It shows that even after token shuffling, transmitted token embeddings still contain enough positional information for a new attack, the Spatially Aligned Reconstruction Attack (SARA), which predicts token positions, restores spatial layout, fills missing embeddings with a masked autoencoder, and reconstructs the input image. While token reduction offers stronger protection, significant leakage remains when retained tokens preserve semantic and positional cues, and the authors propose a lightweight edge‑side defense that removes positional embeddings and adapts transformer blocks via knowledge distillation to reduce SARA’s effectiveness without harming downstream accuracy.
arXiv:2607. 00174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a black-box model-stealing attack that recovers private vision-tokenizer configurations of deployed vision-language models (VLMs), including the visual patch size and input preprocessing pipeline.
Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly used in split-inference systems, where edge devices transmit intermediate token representations to a remote cloud. In this setting, token reduction lowers c...
arXiv:2512. 21815v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable performance but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
arXiv:2607. 25479v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision--Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed through a model supply chain in which pretrained checkpoints, architecture definitions, text encoders, and exported computation graphs are distributed by third parties and reused across downstream services.
arXiv:2602.08136v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are now a core part of modern AI. Recent work proposed several visual jailbreak attacks using single/ holistic...