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New Cross-Modal Prompt Injection Attack Targets Large Vision-Language Models

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Researchers have developed a new cross-modal prompt injection attack called CrossMPI that can manipulate the interpretation of both text and image inputs in large vision-language models (LVLMs) through image-only perturbations. This attack optimizes perturbations within the model's hidden state space, which has a larger parameter count than typical visual embedding spaces. CrossMPI employs strategies like layer selection to identify critical layers for multimodal integration and a distance-decremental budget assignment for image perturbations to enhance its effectiveness. AI

IMPACT This research highlights a new vulnerability in LVLMs, potentially impacting the security and reliability of multimodal AI systems.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a novel attack method against AI models. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Cross-Modal Prompt Injection Attack Targets Large Vision-Language Models

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Yang, Zhuo Ma, Yang Liu, Yilong Yang, Guancheng Wang, JianFeng Ma ·

    A Cross-Modal Prompt Injection Attack against Large Vision-Language Models with Image-Only Perturbation

    arXiv:2605.16090v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for multimodal intelligence, but their growing deployment also expands the attack surface of prompt injection. Despite this growing concern, existing…

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