VLMShield: Efficient and Robust Defense of Vision-Language Models against Malicious Prompts

arXiv:2604.06502 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-04-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-04-07

Updated: 2026-10-23

Terminology

• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Multimodal Aggregated Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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