Towards Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models: Insights from Design Choices and Prompt Formatting Techniques

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Autores principales: Bhagwatkar, Rishika, Nayak, Shravan, Bayat, Reza, Roger, Alexis, Kaplan, Daniel Z, Bashivan, Pouya, Rish, Irina
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Publicado: 2024
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author Bhagwatkar, Rishika
Nayak, Shravan
Bayat, Reza
Roger, Alexis
Kaplan, Daniel Z
Bashivan, Pouya
Rish, Irina
author_facet Bhagwatkar, Rishika
Nayak, Shravan
Bayat, Reza
Roger, Alexis
Kaplan, Daniel Z
Bashivan, Pouya
Rish, Irina
contents Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have witnessed a surge in both research and real-world applications. However, as they are becoming increasingly prevalent, ensuring their robustness against adversarial attacks is paramount. This work systematically investigates the impact of model design choices on the adversarial robustness of VLMs against image-based attacks. Additionally, we introduce novel, cost-effective approaches to enhance robustness through prompt formatting. By rephrasing questions and suggesting potential adversarial perturbations, we demonstrate substantial improvements in model robustness against strong image-based attacks such as Auto-PGD. Our findings provide important guidelines for developing more robust VLMs, particularly for deployment in safety-critical environments.
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spellingShingle Towards Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models: Insights from Design Choices and Prompt Formatting Techniques
Bhagwatkar, Rishika
Nayak, Shravan
Bayat, Reza
Roger, Alexis
Kaplan, Daniel Z
Bashivan, Pouya
Rish, Irina
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have witnessed a surge in both research and real-world applications. However, as they are becoming increasingly prevalent, ensuring their robustness against adversarial attacks is paramount. This work systematically investigates the impact of model design choices on the adversarial robustness of VLMs against image-based attacks. Additionally, we introduce novel, cost-effective approaches to enhance robustness through prompt formatting. By rephrasing questions and suggesting potential adversarial perturbations, we demonstrate substantial improvements in model robustness against strong image-based attacks such as Auto-PGD. Our findings provide important guidelines for developing more robust VLMs, particularly for deployment in safety-critical environments.
title Towards Adversarially Robust Vision-Language Models: Insights from Design Choices and Prompt Formatting Techniques
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11121