AI RESEARCH

Robust-LLaVA: On the Effectiveness of Large-Scale Robust Image Encoders for Multi-modal Large Language Models

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2502.01576v2 Announce Type: replace Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks but remain vulnerable to visual adversarial perturbations that can induce hallucinations, manipulate responses, or bypass safety mechanisms. Existing methods seek to mitigate these risks by applying constrained adversarial fine-tuning to CLIP vision encoders on ImageNet-scale data, ensuring their generalization ability is preserved. However, this limited adversarial