Vision-LLMs Can Fool Themselves with Self-Generated Typographic Attacks

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Auteurs principaux: Qraitem, Maan, Tasnim, Nazia, Teterwak, Piotr, Saenko, Kate, Plummer, Bryan A.
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author Qraitem, Maan
Tasnim, Nazia
Teterwak, Piotr
Saenko, Kate
Plummer, Bryan A.
author_facet Qraitem, Maan
Tasnim, Nazia
Teterwak, Piotr
Saenko, Kate
Plummer, Bryan A.
contents Typographic attacks, adding misleading text to images, can deceive vision-language models (LVLMs). The susceptibility of recent large LVLMs like GPT4-V to such attacks is understudied, raising concerns about amplified misinformation in personal assistant applications. Previous attacks use simple strategies, such as random misleading words, which don't fully exploit LVLMs' language reasoning abilities. We introduce an experimental setup for testing typographic attacks on LVLMs and propose two novel self-generated attacks: (1) Class-based attacks, where the model identifies a similar class to deceive itself, and (2) Reasoned attacks, where an advanced LVLM suggests an attack combining a deceiving class and description. Our experiments show these attacks significantly reduce classification performance by up to 60\% and are effective across different models, including InstructBLIP and MiniGPT4. Code: https://github.com/mqraitem/Self-Gen-Typo-Attack
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spellingShingle Vision-LLMs Can Fool Themselves with Self-Generated Typographic Attacks
Qraitem, Maan
Tasnim, Nazia
Teterwak, Piotr
Saenko, Kate
Plummer, Bryan A.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
Typographic attacks, adding misleading text to images, can deceive vision-language models (LVLMs). The susceptibility of recent large LVLMs like GPT4-V to such attacks is understudied, raising concerns about amplified misinformation in personal assistant applications. Previous attacks use simple strategies, such as random misleading words, which don't fully exploit LVLMs' language reasoning abilities. We introduce an experimental setup for testing typographic attacks on LVLMs and propose two novel self-generated attacks: (1) Class-based attacks, where the model identifies a similar class to deceive itself, and (2) Reasoned attacks, where an advanced LVLM suggests an attack combining a deceiving class and description. Our experiments show these attacks significantly reduce classification performance by up to 60\% and are effective across different models, including InstructBLIP and MiniGPT4. Code: https://github.com/mqraitem/Self-Gen-Typo-Attack
title Vision-LLMs Can Fool Themselves with Self-Generated Typographic Attacks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00626