Fit the Distribution: Cross-Image/Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Hai Yan
Haijian Ma
Xiaowen Cai
Daizong Liu
Zenghui Yuan
Xiaoye Qu
Jianfeng Dong
Runwei Guan
Xiang Fang
Hongyang He
Yulai Xie
Pan Zhou
Venue: NeurIPS 2025 poster ()
Keywords: Multimodal Large Language Models; Adversarial attack; Evaluation
Primary area: evaluation

Abstract: Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable achievements in recent years, they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that result in harmful responses. Existing attacks typically focus on optimizing adversarial perturbations for a certain multimodal image-prompt pair or fixed training dataset, which often leads to overfitting. Consequently, these perturbations fail to remain malicious once transferred to attack unseen image-prompt pairs, suffering from significant resource costs to cover the diverse multimodal inputs in complicated real-world scenarios. To alleviate this issue, this paper proposes a novel adversarial attack on MLLMs based on distribution approximation theory, which models the potential image-prompt input distribution and adds the same distribution-fitting adversarial perturbation on multimodal input pairs to achieve effective cross-image/prompt transfer attacks. Specifically, we exploit the Laplace approximation to model the Gaussian distribution of the image and prompt inputs for the MLLM, deriving an estimate of the mean and covariance parameters. By sampling from this approximated distribution with Monte Carlo mechanism, we efficiently optimize and fit a single input‑agnostic perturbation over diverse image‑prompt pairs, yielding strong universality and transferability. Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the strong adversarial capabilities of our proposed attack against prevalent MLLMs spanning a spectrum of images/prompts.

Fit the Distribution: Cross-Image/Prompt Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models
Hai Yan'; Haijian Ma Xiaowen C Daizong Liu Zenghui Yuan', Xiaoye Qu', Jianfeng Dong", Runwei Guan', Xiang Fang", Hongyang He,, Yulai Xie Pan Zhou'
"Huazhong University of Science and Technology "Wuhan University
$7hejiang Gongshang University "The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology NNanyang Technological University *University of Warwick
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daizongliu@whu. edu. en, runwei. peaa@liveerpon
Abstract
Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated re- markable achievements in recent years, they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that result in harmful responses. Existing attacks typically focus on optimizing adversarial perturbations for certain multimodal image-prompt pair fixed training dataset, which often leads to overfitting. Consequently, these pertur- bations fail to remain malicious once transferred attack unseen image-prompt pairs, suffering from significant resource costs to cover the diverse multimodal inputs in complicated real-world scenarios. To alleviate this issue, this paper proposes a novel adversarial attack on MLLMs based on distribution approxima- tion theory. which models the potential image-prompt input distribution and adds the same distribution fitting adversarial perturbation on multimodal input pairs to achieve effective posssimmage/pompt transfer attacks. Specifically, we exploit the Laplace approximation to model the Gaussian distribution of the image and prompt inputs for the MILLM, deriving an estimate of the mean and covariance parameters. By sampling from this approximated distribution with Monte Carlo mechanism, we efficiently optimize and fit a single input-agnostic perturbation over diverse image-promp pairs, yielding strong universality and transferability. Exten- sive experiments are conducted verify the strong adversarial capabilities our proposed attack against prevalent MLLMs spanning spectrum of images/prompts.
Introduction
Multimodal Large Language Models (MI.LMs) have demonstrated promising versatile capabilities in range of applications, such as image classification, image captioning, visual question answering (VQA) and text-to-image generation D 2
3 4 [). Despite their significant success, the increased complexity and widespread deployment of MLLMs have also exposed them to various security threats and vulnerabilities. Recent studies 7 & g 10 have proven that MLLMs are susceptible to adversarial examples, which involve adding subtle yet invisible perturbations image inputs. These perturbations can guide the MLLMs to generate harmful responses, posing critical safety issues.
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optimize adversarial image perturbations against MILMss reasoning abilities with benign prompts to produce erroneous or jailbreak responses. Although these attacks achieve significant performance and present noticeable security risks, their optimized perturbations are specific to certain image- prompt input pair, limiting their transferability unseen image-prompt pairs. This issue becomes
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Corresponding author: Daizong Liu (daizongliu @ww.iiu.chh......
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more prominent when facing the practical demands for handling diverse multimodal input pairs in real-world scenarios, where they must generate distinct adversarial perturbations for each pair, incurring significant time and resource expenditure. Although few recent works E8 I0 try to develop cross-prompt or cross-image attack approaches, they need to enumerate the possible prompts or images in training, and require the test prompts/images to be identical to the training ones. Once processing with an unseen test sample, their perturbations are inevitably futile. Therefore, how to develop an effective and efficient joint cross- cros-image/proopp attack remains valuable issue.
To solve the issue, we pro- pose a generalizable cross- image/prompt attack from a novel distribution approxi- mation perspective. In par- ticular, as shown in Fig- ure |] unlike previous at- tacks that often overfit to the specific training set of enumerated images or prompts, our approach ex- plicitly models the potential
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distributions Figure I: The motivation of our efficient cross-image/prompt attack. of the realistic data and generate image/promppt-anoosiie perturbations by sampling possible input pairs from the modeled distributions for optimization. Our motivation is: adversarial perturbations optimized to fit the real-world image-prompt distribution will remain adversarial effective- ness when transferred to unseen image-prompt pairs used by the user from the distribution. Therefore, the remaining question how to effectively estimate and obtain such distributions for diverse images and prompts. Luckily, the Laplace approximation [27 (28) provides an effective solution as distribution estimator. yields Gaussian distribution for large amounts of observed data and problems applicable to the central limit theorem [29] (which aligns with in in-domain images or semantic- aware prompts of MILM applications), providing an efficient and asymptotically accurate approximation of the underlying probability density function.
Motivated by these insights, we introduce distribution-drived adversarial attack method to gen- erate mnage/prompt-agnostt adversarial perturbations. Specifically, we first model the image and prompt input distributions of the MILM conforming the Gaussian distribution using Laplace approximation. Then, we adopt the cumpling-based approach to calculate the mean parameter for the image distribution, and exploit the momentum method to obtain the central representative semantics as the mean parameter for the prompt distribution. Subsequently, we adopt the Hessian matrix to perform a quadratic Taylor expansion on the probability distribution of the image/prompt and then compare it with the probability density of the Gaussian distribution, so that we can calculate the covariance parameter based on the Gaussian distribution it follows. Finally, we employ the Monte Carlo mechanism to optimize and fit the adversarial perturbation on the approximated input distributions, enabling the perturbations to effectively transfer across diverse combinations of unseen images and prompts, ultimately inducing harmful outputs from MLLMs.
Our contributions can be summarized as follows: (1) We propose a novel cross-image/prompt adversarial attack against MLLMs from the distribution approximation perspective, which models the potential image/prompt distribution and fits the adversarial perturbation on it to achieve generalization- ability and transferability. (2) To align well with the image/prompt distribution, we model the Gaussian distribution of multimodal inputs through Laplace approximation, to simulate various combinations of sample inputs to MLLM. (3) We follow the Monte Carlo mechanism to utilize possible Image-promp (4) Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness and transferability of our proposed attack.
pairs to optimize the perturbation fit the distribution.
2 Related Work
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on MLLMs are inspired by the adversarial vulnerability observed in vision-based tasks, typically generating adversarial examples by adding subtle, imperceptible perturbations to benign image inputs through gradient- -hased optimization methods. Although such approaches can achieve significant attack performance, their adversarial perturbations are generally optimized for specific image-promph combinations. Consequently, to compromise different images and prompts, they must generate distinct adversarial perturbations, leading to significant computational overhead and resource expenditure. Some recent works [8] [0]] have explored cross-prompt or cross-image attack approaches, however, they need complicated multi-prommp joint training, and require the test prompts to be identical to the training ones. To address these limitations, this paper introduces novel distribution-drive MLLM attack to optimize perturbations fitting on the possible multimodal input distribution, enabling robust and efficient attacks across diverse multimodal inputs within unified optimization process.
Laplace approximation. By locally approximating complex probability distributions with simpler, tractable ones- thpesaly Gaussian distributions, Laplace approximation enables computationally feasible inference in scenarios where exact solutions are intractable. Recent advancements have extended its applicability to deep learning, especially in Bayesian frameworks. In Bayesian deep learning, Laplace approximation has been employed to estimate uncertainty in neural networks, offer- ing a favorable trade-off between computational efficiency and predictive performance [68 [69] It has proven to be a powerful and flexible tool for addressing the challenges of high high-dimensional machine learning tasks, especially in producing calibrated uncertainty estimates through efficient Bayesian inference [1, 73 74.. While prior applications primarily apply Laplace approximation at the model level, i.e., improving predictive capabilities via uncertainty estimation, work introduces a novel, data-centric perspective by leveraging Laplace approximation to estimate the underlying distributions of images and prompts fed into MILM models, enabling sampling from regions of the data space not observed during training. This leads to the generation of more generalizable perturbations across different images and prompts.
3 Method
3.1 Preliminary
MLLMs. An MILM is designed to generate reasonable textual answers y given the multimodal input consisting of an image u and a text prompt t as y MLLM (v, t).
Threat model. In this paper, we investigate adversarial attacks on MLLMs, focusing on the white-box setting where target model architectures and their parameter settings are known to attackers. We propose cross-image/prompt adversarial attack method that compromises MLLMs even under complex scenarios with unknown user inputs, while maintaining strong applicability to various MLLMs and downstream tasks like VQA, image captioning, and image classification.
Attacker's goal. The attacker attempts to utilize a common adversarial perturbation 5 that is constrained by small norm bound (e.g., ||5||| S 11) to ensure that the noisy modifications remain imperceptible to human observers while achieving the adversarial condition. The attack objective is to quantify the error in the answer generated with the perturbed inputs, which can be represented by:
arg max|11ss D (MLLM(( + 8,t), Vet)
Untargeted Attack,
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arg minj D D (MLLM(( + +,t), Yuar if Targeted Attack,
where D(-) is the cross-entropy loss function that describes the difference between the two inputs of the function, yee and Ytar are the ground-truth answer and attacker's 's target answer, respectively. In this section, utilize the challenging targeted adversarial attacks example for illustration.
3.2 Overview of Our Attack
Our motivation. Existing adversarial attacks on MLLMs primarily optimize perturbations based on fixed image-prompt pairs, resulting in significant overfitting to certain image/prompt and lim- ited cross- sample transferability. This inherently limits their effectiveness in real-world scenarios, where models encounter diverse and previously unseen multimodal inputs. Instead of laboriously enumerating image-prompl pairs, we model the image and prompt spaces as probabilistic distribu- conss-speiifical]) leveraging the Laplace approximation to construct Gaussian latent spaces (see the
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theoretical justification in Appendix A.I). By using Monte Carlo sampling from these distributions and minimizing the adversarial loss between the model response and the attacker's target answer over the entire distribution (rather than individual samples), our method explicitly optimizes the perturbation to fit on such distributions and implicitly disrupts the shared semantic patterns of all pos- sible seen and unseen images and prompts, achieving strong generalization-abiiiy and transferability. Our approach tackles the limitations of prior works, providing principled and scalable solution for generating universal attacks for MILMS.
Overall pipeline. As shown in Figure 2 our attack pipeline is mainly divided into three steps. 1. Image distribution approximation: We first utilize the Laplace approximation to model the diverse images as a Gaussian distribution. To estimate the distribution parameters, compute the mean parameter by averaging the sampled images and calculate its covariance by applying the Hessian matrix. 2. Prompt distribution approximation: Similarly, we approximate the distribution over prompts as a Gaussian using the Laplace approximation. We identify a representative prompt-such that best describes a given image specifies relevant task the mean parameter. Starting from a randomly initialized prompt. we calculate the variance of the Gaussian distribution with the Hessian matrix. 3. Distribution-driver perturbation optimization: To obtain the image/prompt- agnostic perturbation, we employ the Monte Carlo mechanism to sample over the image and prompt distributions obtained in the previous steps, and then optimize the perturbation them achieve the adversarial effects. Ultimately, we can obtain a universal perturbation for both seen and unseen images and prompts fitting the distribution.
3.3 Modeling Multimodal Input Distribution using Laplace Approximation
Investigating the modalities' characteristics is crucial for determining their potential distributions. Specifically, as for prompt inputs, they are usually classified into two categories based their semantic contents: image-irrelevant prompts for captioning or classification tasks, and image-relevant prompts for VQA tasks. The prompts of captioning and classification are usually applicable to most images, while the prompts of VQA are usually questions for specific image. Therefore, we model the prompt distribution either on task-aware semantic prior for captioning/Classiicaatiii an image-related semantic guidance for VQA tasks, to effectively cover all prompt types and thus be more universal. As for image inputs, they are usually independent of the prompts, thus we can directly model their distribution from datasets. Based on the above observations, since the Laplacian approximation typically yields a Gaussian distribution suitable for large sample sizes and aligns well with our ideal distribution concentrated around the extreme prior, we intend to model the distributions of prompts and images through Laplacian approximation.
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3.3.1 How to Represent Image-Prompt Distribution of the MILMs' Input?
Given an image and prompt input to the MILMM, we first describe how we model their separate distributions. Since the real-world distributions of images and prompts are highly complex and
intractable for direct computation, we employ the Laplace approximation 22] to provide a promising

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solution to approximate them as Gaussian distributions, which is especially effective for large amounts of observed data and problems applicable to the central limit theorem 29). In particular. both image-irrelevant and image-relevant prompts are centered around the extreme points aligned with task-specific semantic prior and image-guided semantic content, respectively. Meanwhile, images' pixel intensities also often exhibit central tendency around a mean value with symmetric deviations, especially after normalization or transformation. This assumption enables efficient probabilistic modeling for images and prompts, yielding Gaussian distribution. Therefore, for the prompt distribution, large number of different prompts t approaches a Gaussian distribution as:
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where fe represents the mean parameter of the prompt distribution, N is the number of samples, E = Cov(t) represents the covariance matrix, p(t) is probability density function t. Similarly, for the image distribution, the image sample v converges to Gaussian distribution v ~ (N N with the mean parameter My and covariance matrix Σ, Cov(v). Here, both parameters μ4s Meg and E, Eg need to be calculated for distribution approximation.
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3.3.2 Approximating Image-Prompt Distribution of the MLLMs' Input
Next, we detail the approximation of the Gaussian distribution's 's mean parameter and covariance by estimating the mode and Hessian matrix for both the image and prompt distributions. Specifically, we obtain the mode through the probability estimation and compute the Hessian matrix via second-order differentiation of the log-posterior at the mode.
Prompt distribution approximation. As for mage--rrrelevan and -relevant prompt distribution approximation, we can separately model their individual distribution and then exploit Gaussian distribution merging mechanism (75 to combine them into a joint distribution (as in Appendix A.3) Here, we take the complicated image-relevant prompt distribution approximation as illustration (other illustrations are in Appendix A.2) According to Bayes' theorem (76), the posterior distribution
about prompts given input v and an initial prompt prior to is p(t|u, to) = p(ult.to) p(tlfo) We define plu]fa]
the most probable prompt as by which can be derived via Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) [77] estimation: by = arg max, p((ju,4)) where is considered
mode-i.e. the point which the posterior probability density function reaches its maximum value according to the MAP. According to (78), for symmetrical unimodal distribution, the mean, mode and median coincide. Since the Gaussian distribution satisfies this condition, therefore, we adopt = tu as the mean parameter of approximated prompt distribution. Then, we can approximate the log probability log p(t)er u, to) via second-order Taylor expansion as:
log ((lu((), (o) zo logp(lo/v,,a 10) 1 (1) Ln),
where the first-order term vanishes because the gradient V, log p(tuu to) -=t,, equals zero at the extremum point by The second-order term is governed by the Hessian matrix H,, defined as:
H. Vv [(]r(() (o)
Therefore, we can neglect higher-order terms and yield the Gaussian approximation:
p(t|u, to) x exp (-) (t- He He -..))
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Comparing Equation and 5 this aligns the asymptotic covariance with the inverse Hessian of the log- rog-posterior H thereby embedding both statistical convergence and local curvature properties into the prompt distribution. When the dataset large, we can approximate that the valid prompt follows Gaussian distribution:
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Image distribution approximation. Based on the same principle as the above prompt distribution, we can also approximate the distribution of the image input into the MLLM as:
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where è is the mean value of the image distribution in the dataset (The proof is the same as in Appendix A.2 ) The image generation process characterized by the log-posterior probability: (og)(u) ( (
-) CONST. The Hessian matrix is obtained through second-order differentiation: H, - V. p(p)p()))))))))))()))))) == where V. denotes the gradient operator. For Gaussian probability models, this yields H, N Dا with Mn being the covariance matrix of image features. The constant property of H, in Gaussian models significantly simplifies subsequent computations.
3.3.3 Parameter Calculation of Image/Prompt Distribution in MILM
As for prompt distribution calculation, also take the complicated mmage-relevant prompt distribu- tion as illustration (other illustrations are in Appendix A.44). Specifically, the most probable prompt ty is the input prompt that maximizes the probability of MILM outputting expected response Yeap that contains the main information the input image x (explanations are in Appendix (A.5). Since directly maximizing the posterior probability is untrackable, we convert the posterior probability maximization problem into an expectation minimization problem with a proper approximation (more details in Appendix A.6). which be written as:
Luu, = | (v, () 1-rzpplly t arg min L(u,t).
To calculate the bu in Equation 8 we compute the loss T.tt, v) on the MILM model and perform backpropagation to calculate the gradients. Subsequently, we update the parameter t, using the Momentum Gradient Descent method [79] to avoid being trapped in local minima. This momentum- based iterative update can be formulated as:
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t, f.1-1 m,,
where m; represents the momentum term at iteration i, V,L(v, t) denotes the gradient of the loss function. B, r are the momentum coefficient and learning rate, respectively. The inverse Hessian H then computed by simplified covariance estimate (details in Appendix A.7
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Algorithm 1 Cross- Cross-Image/Prompt Adversarial Attack against MLLMs
Require: images v. prompt t, epoch numbers M, N, hyperparameters a. 3. budget 17, perturbation 8, loss function [(v,t) for Eq. loss function D(u, 1) for in Eq.
Ensure: Perturbation 8.
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Table 1: Attack performances (1) across images/prompts on MS-COCO and DALLE-3 datasets.
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denotes the best performance, "Value" denotes the second- performance.
Model
Method
No Cross
Cross Images
Cross Prompes
Cross Images/Prompts
EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity EMR CM-ASR Similarity EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity EMR-SS CM-ASR Similarity
Dataset: MS-COCO 81
LLAVA1
PGD 14
96.7%
96. 1%
0.968
0.0%
0.0%
0.045
32.1%
38.4%
0.388
0.0%
0.0%
0.062
CroPA
65.2%
65.2%
0.797
0.3%
0.3%
0.048
57.3%
58.0%
0.683
0.0%
0.0%:
0.049
UniAA
10
78.7%
85.7%
0.824
20.6%
20.8%
0.225
61.9%
66,718
0.704
19.2%
19.2%
0,209
Ours
96.7%
97.7%
58.7%
59.6%
93.4%
94.6%
0.948
49.8%
51.4%
0.532
BLIP-2
PGD [4
61.4%
70 6%
0.649
0.0%
0.0%
0.112
21.2%
21.6%
0.275
0.0%
0,0%
0.104
CroPA
1%
0.619
28.0%
57.4%
0.523
0.0%
0.0%
0.103
UniiAu
10
75.6%
77.9%
0.802
17.9%
20.7%
0.252
49.4%
54.8%
0.620
17.6%
20.3%
0.195
49.3%
0%%
55.5%
56.6%
62.9%
86.7%
0.735
50.0%
57.3%
0.531
MinGPP14
PGD 14
85.0%
85, 0%%
0
0.0%
0.0%
0.040
16.4%
18.2%
0,278
0.0%
0.0%
0.036
CroPA
98.0%
78%
0,987
0.0%
0.2%
73.6%
74.1%
0.759
0.0%
0.0%
0.044
UniAn
Im
81.5%
84. 7%
0.858
25.2%
25.2%
2.209
76.4%
79.5%
0.807
20, 3%
22.1%
0.216
Ours
97.7%
98..0%
0,977
63.1%
71.9%
0.655
96.6%
97.9%
0.971
47.2%
57.9%
0.513
Dataset: DALLE-3 2
PGD [4]
96.1%
96. 1%
0,964
0.0%
0.0%
0.038
29.1% 1%
33.8%
0.351
0.0%
0.0%
0.076
CroPA
79.7%
79%
0.819
0.0%
0.0%
0.038
68.0%
68.33%
0.682
0.0%
0.0%
0.051
UniAA
10
79.0%
81.8% 8%
0,837
21.7%
22.55%
0.246
68.4%
20.35%
0.738
20.9%
21.15
0.229
Ours
95.33%
96.0%
0,958
66.3%
66.3%
0.688
93.7% %
94.1%
0.945
60.9%
61.3%
0.644
Min0PP44 BLIP-2
PGD 14
58.2%
14.7%
0.508
0.0%
0.0%
0,082
22.6%
31.5%
0.385
0.0%
0.0%
0.082
CroPA
28.8%
93.
0.610
0.1%
0.1%
0.087
28.7%
69.0%
0.531
0.0%
0.0%
0.091
UniiAn
77.2%
40.44%
0.816
20.5%
20.5%
0. 238
54.3%
57.1%
0.560
18.2%
18.9%
0.194
Ours
35.7%%
94.7%
0.631
54.2%
63.5%
47.9%
90.0%
0.671
45.5%
59.4%
0.522
PGD [4]
79.7%
79. 7%%
0,823
0.0%
0.0%
0.033
20. 9%
22.4%
0.227
0.0%
0.0%
0.059
CroPA
94.8%
96.11%
72.7%
74.1%
0.732
0.0%
0.0%
0.045
UniAn
10
80.7%
80. 7%
0.829
23.7%
25.9%
0.274
68. 3.%
70.2%
0.699
19.8%
19.8%
0.206
96.7%
99.
0.972
63.8%
69.8%
0.661
97.1%
97.8%
0.973
30.8% %
52.4%
0.355
3.4 Distribution-Drinn Perturbation Optimization via Monte Carlo Sampling
After obtaining the approximate image-prompt distribution, we utilize Monte Carlo mechanism (80
to sample possible image-prompt pairs to optimize Equation [ for generating perturbation 6 fitting
the distribution with strong generalization capabilities. To be specific, at each iteration i, image
samples i. (ê, " are drawn, then we randomly sampled prompts from the distribution
4 ~ NN(c Hr))). The perturbation is then updated using a sign gradient update as:
8041 = clip,, (8 - a sign VigV.singgV (VDL(M + 5z, 11), (tr)))))))
(12)
where (+) bounds the perturbation by n. Our whole attack process is detailed in Algorithm
4 Experiments
4.1
Implementation Details
MLLM models and datasets. The experiments utilize a combination of images and prompts across multiple vision-language tasks. The image data are sourced from the MS-COCO dataset [8] and the DALLE-3 dataset [2]. To construct the prompt sets, we consider three distinct task types: VQA, image classification, and image captioning. For each task, we incorporate prompts curated from prior studies 8 to ensure consistency with existing evaluations. The complete list of prompts is provided in Appendix D The MILMs used are LLaVA- 1.5---1.-77-h- (6. BLIP-2 OPT-2.7B [ and MiniGPT-4 82 chosen to represent a diverse range of architectures and model scales among current ML.MMs.
Experimental setups. For the parameter calculation of image/prompt distribution, the coefficient 3, r are set to 0.9 and 0.001. The target answer is uniformly specified as "I am sorry." in all experimental conditions. To assess adversarial generalization, three pross-sample settings are considered: (1) 30 distinct prompts sampled per image Prompt. (2) 50 different images sampled per prompt (Cross-Image), and (3) simultaneous sampling of 30 images and 30 prompts (Cross- Ccross-mmage/Prompp The perturbations are optimized for 300 steps under = 16/255 and step size = 1 1/255. Evaluation metrics include the Exact Match ASR (EM-ASR), Contain Match ASR (CM-ASR), and Semantic Similarity (Similarity). The EM-ASR and CM-ASR assess the word-level overlap between adversarial output and target text, while similarity computed by cosine similarity between embeddings of adversarial output and target text obtained from the all-MiniLM--6-1 model [83]
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4.2
Main Results
Adversarial performance across images/prompts. We conduct comprehensive evaluation with four baseline attacks on three MI.LM models across two datasets in Table All baselines are re-implemented with the same hyperparameters as to keep a fair comparison. From this table, we can conclude that: (1) As for the general setting (No Cross), existing attacks can achieve great adversarial performance. Although our method optimizes perturbations not on specific multimodal samples like them, we can still achieve competitive performance. (2) Since previous attacks fail to fit unseen images and prompts, they all result in limited cross-image, cross-prompt, and cross- image/prompt attack performance. Instead, our sample-agnostic attack can achieve much better cross-sample performance by fitting the perturbation the potential image/prompt distributions.
RR claims to support coos-imnag//prompt attack, its perturbations still overfit the given data rather than the data distri- bution. Moreover, it is limited to the untargeted attack setting since solely optimizes the noise by modifying the feature space of the visual en- coder. For fair comparison, we re-implement attack under the same setting and hyperparameters. As Table 2 our method still achieves better caoss attack performance, demonstrating the effectiveness of our distribution-awer aware designs.
Although Doubly-UAP
Table 2: Attack performance under untargeted set- ting on ImageNet with ASR (1) and similarity (J).
Classification
Captioning ASR(F=0.8)
Method
ASR(r=0.8)
Sim.
Sim.
DUAP
92.5%
0.72
83.3%
0.48
Ours
98.6%
0.42
89.7%
0.28
Efficiency analysis. We also provide the ef- ficiency analysis. To make fair and practi- cal comparison, we investigate the time and re- source costs for generating all adversarial sam- ples, not for a single one. As in Table since UniAtt and ours only need to optimize cross- sample perturbations in one single process, we are more efficient than sample-specific attack CroPA.
Table 3: Efficiency analysis for generating all ad-
versarial samples.
Method
Avg. GPU Hours (4)
Avg. GPU Memory (1)
CroPA
16.2h
23.9GB
UniAtt
4,9h
57.5GB
Ours
5.5h
48.3GB
Visualizations. We present the visualizations of cross-image/prompl attacks in Figure which demonstrate consistent target effects across diverse inputs. More visualizations are in Appendix B.6
4.3 Further Studies
Sensitive to different target text.
To verify that the effectiveness of our attack is not limited to specific target text, we evaluate on a variety of target texts with different lengths and usage frequencies in Table The results consistently show strong performance across diverse texts.
Table 4: Performance (1) across images/prompts with different target texts on DALLE-3 dataset.
Cross Images
Cross Prompts
Cross Images/Pronpts
Target Answer
Model
EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity
EM-ASR
CM-ASR Similarity
EM-ASR
CM-ASR Similarity
ILAVAL55
63.0%
63.0%
0.680
97.7%
97.7%
0.980
50.8%
52.6%
0,580
"unknown." "
BLIP-2
65.5%
65.5%
0.664
73.8%
99.0%
0.830
59.6%
61.0%
0.619
MiniGPT-4
61.5%
62.5%
0.603
98.7%
98.7%
0.990
27.7%
28.6%
0.360
LLaVALL5
72.5%
72.5%
0.766
99.8%
99.8%
0.998
46.0%
54.1%
0.539
"It is very good."
BLIP-2
66.0%
66.0%
0.783
55.5%
76.5%
0.686
60.1%
61.1%
0.701
MiniGPT
70.0%
70.7%
0.747
100%
100%
1.000
54.8%
57.3%
0.608
LLaVAI.5
69.5%
69.5%
0.754
99.8%
99.8%
0.998
62/3%
63.7%
0.676
"It late."
BLIP-2
59.5%
60.0%
0.642
51.5%
96.3%
0.760
46.6%
50.1%
0.651
MiniGPT-4
55.0%
56.0%
0.578
100%
100%
1,000
41.1%
42.6%%
0.469
Evaluation on the sampled prompts. To inves- tigate whether our modeled distribution aligns well with the real-world scenarios, we evaluate the similarity statistics of the prompts sampled from the approximated distributions across tasks. As shown in Table 5 the sampled prompts share similar similarities with the semantic-aware tasks (high mean value and low variance), demonstrating the effecttveness of the distribution approximation.
Table 5: Similarity statistics across tasks based on Laplace-sample embeddings.
Metric
Clustifiation
VQA
Captioning
Top-1 Mean Similarity (t) Variance of Similarity (L)
0.704
0.722
0.0016
0.0017
0.0019
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Table 6: Ablation study of the approximated distributions on DALLE-3 dataset.
Cross Images
Cross Prompts
Cross Images/Prompts
Model
Variant
EM-ASR
CM-ASR Similarity
EM-ASR
CM-ASR Similarity
EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity
LLaVA-1.5
Gaussian 66.3%
66.3%
0.688
93.7%
94.1%
0.945
60.9%
61.3%
0.644
Fixed
10.0%
10.0%
0.136
92.8%
92.8%
0.949
0.0%
0.0%
0.030
Gaussian 54.2%
63.5%
0.582
47.9%
90.0%
0.671
45.5%
59.4%
0,522
BLIP-2
Fixed
29.8%
31.3%
0.382
26.3%
80.1%
0.515
0.0%
0.1%
0.100
MiniGPT-4
Gaussian Fixed
63.8%
69.8%
0.661
97.1%
97.8%
0.973
30.8%
52.4%
0.355
34.2%
46.0%
0.380
99.5%
99.5%
0.995
25.6%
34.2%
0.291
Cross
Cross Prompt
Cross Image
Cross Image/Promp! New Prompt: W hat is in the toilet?
New Prompt: What is in the toilet?
Raw Prompt: Descrbbe the main body of the picture.
Raw Prompt: Describe main body of the picture.
Adv: imagee
Adv. Image
Adtr imagy
Raw
Adc
This toilet.
sorry.
sorry.
sorry.
aa
Figure 3: Visualizations of our attack. All adversarial (adv.) images use the same perturbation.
Cross Prompt
Image/Prompt
1.50
0.99
cMlo
CMIc)
596.3
$91-1
0.70
AdRiDciimal
3.80
0.63
0.99
6.75
0.35
9.70
0.55
105
=6.00
PQ33
P350
19:0
1030
12:0
#033-1930
PQ000-00
5030+1030
P0304 1000
Figure 4: Ablations different numbers of sampled images/prompts during Monte Carlo mechanism ("EM" denotes "Exaet Match", "CM" denotes "Contain Match", "SS" denotes "Semantic Similarity").
Evaluation on the approximating distribution. To investigate the effectiveness of our modeled image/prompt distributions, we implement two variants for comparison: (1) We utilize Laplacian approximation to model the distribution as Gaussian distribution; (2) We directly utilize the seen image/prompt data fixed distribution. As shown in Table [ proposed method, using the Laplacian approximation, achieves the best performance across all metrics. These findings underscore the necessity of approximating Gaussian distribution to generate more aligned distributions for optimizing effective adversarial perturbations.
Sensitive to sampling quantity. To examine the effect of sampling quantity, evaluate cross- image/prompt attacks in Figure Results indicate prompt sampling is effective even with few samples, while additional image samples notably enhance performance, underscoring image sampling's 's importance for adversarial transferability. Further results are in Appendix B.4
Experiments on Different Perturbation Budget 17 We conduct further experiments on the VLa model under the cross- image/prompt attack setting to investigate the impact of different perturbation budgets by vary- ing the value of 17. As shown in Table 7 increas- ing 77 consistently enhances the effectiveness of our attack. And more importantly, a larger perturbation budget also significantly improves the transferability of adversarial examples across different images and prompts.
Table 7: Attack performance under different per- turbation budget 7) values.
EM-ASR
CM-ASR
Similarity
8/255
13.4%
15.8%
0.221
16/255
73.9%
74.7%
0.785
32/255
85.8%
86.2%
0.870
Ablation on the Step Size in Perturbation Update effective adversarial examples. To investigate this, we conduct an ablation study a using the LLa model under the pross-image/prompt attack setting. Specifically, during the iterative generation of adversarial perturbations, we sampled the perturbation every 40 steps for transfer testing. As shown in Figure 5 when the step size set to 1 /2555, all three evaluation metries gradually reach optimal transfer performance as the number of iterations increases.
The choice of step size a critical for generating

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EM-ASR
CM-ASR
Simila rity
Skep sioe
Slep
40%
0:232235
7.855
52202355
0.C
20%
5235
13285
$296
51235
2,21225
25555
40%
40%
LeS5
70%
50
100
100
32%
102
1.5
200
0.3
160
150
Iberation
Reration
Ieeraion
Figure 5: Ablation study on step size a in perturbation update on LLaVA-1.5.
Table 8: Transfer-attack performance across MILMS on DALLE-3 dataset and MS-COCO dataset.
DALLE-3
MS-COCO
From
Transfer to
EM-ASR CM-ASR
Similarity
EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity
BLIP-2 MiniGPT-4
45.5%
59.4%
0.522
50.0%
57.3%
0.531
BLIP-2
0%
13.1%
0.103
0%
19.4%
0.129
BLIP-2 MiniGPT-
25.9%
27.8%
0.312
28 98.9%
32.3%
0,351
MiniGPT-4
30.8%
52.4%
0.355
47.2%
57.9%
0.513
Experiments on Transferability across MILM Models Although we mainly focus on cross- image/prompt attacks, we also evaluate the transferability across different MLLM models to verify the generalization ability of our method. Specifically, generate adversarial samples on the BLIP-2 model and transfer them to MiniGPT-4 model for testing, and vice versa. As shown in Table our method maintains certain degree of transferability in cross-model settings. For instance, even though the attack success rate decreases when transferring between models, the results indicate that the perturbations not entirely model-specific and can partially generalize across architectures. This further demonstrates the strong and robust attack capability our approach.
Robustness to potential defenses. To further evaluate the robustness of our proposed attack, we employ Ran-
1.0
2.91
mnni Randeriatton
Sumaadd Sqetaitis
2.8-
domization 85
86 and JPEG Com- 87 defenses to investigate Ce
0.6
pression
1.14
whether our attack remains effective and transferable. As shown in Fig- ure [6 our attack not only achieves the lowest performance degeneration compared to other methods, but also demonstrates the best transferability across images and prompts under different defenses, validating the effectiveness of our attack.
022
0.1
6M
6.0
0.0
Cross Images/ ompis
Figure 6: Investigation on the adversarial robustness against
defenses on LLaVA-115 model with DALLE-3 dataset.
We also provide additional experiments in Appendix B.2 B.5 including results on different datasets, various target texts, and other experimental settings.
5 Conclusion
In this paper, we propose novel cross-image/prompt adversarial attack against MLLMS based on distribution approximation theory to target unseen
pairs in complicated real- world scenarios. To model the potential distribution of mmage-prompp inputs, we utilize Laplace approximation to represent them as Gaussian distributions. We then optimize the perturbation by sampling from the approximate distribution via the Monte Carlo mechanism, thereby fitting a single input-agnostic perturbation with strong universality and transferability across diverse image-prompt pairs. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and strong transferability of our proposed attack method.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant No. 62476107.
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A More Detailed of Our Proposed Attack
A.1 Laplace Approximation: Justification and Derivation
In this section, we provide rigorous mathematical justification of the Laplace approximation, which supports our core assumption that the complex, intractable distributions of images and prompts can be reasonably approximated by Gaussian distributions for probabilistic modeling.
Let p(z) be unnormalized probability density function over R. defined as:
p = Z exp(-f(x)),
(13)
where f()) is smooth, eiicediifferentiable real-valued function, and Z = exp(-f(x))dz is the normalizing constant (partition function). Our goal approximate p(x) by multivariate Gaussian distribution centered at the mode of p(z).
Let 2o denote the mode of p(z), which satisfies:
Fo arg max p(x) arg (xx), [(())) = 0.
To approximate f(x) near the mode we perform a second-order Taylor expansion:
f(x) ~ f(xo) + ) (o--2o)"H(ol(e -r0);
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where (xx) = f(x) is the Hessian matrix evaluated at Ty, assumed to positive definite so that 2a is strict local minimum.
Substituting the approximation into the density:
p(x)= 7 exp
(f(xx)
( (xx))
20)) -x))
(15)
(xp(-f(zo))
exp
- --(2 mo) " (z))) - 20)
(16)
Z
This expression has the form of Gaussian up to constant. To formalize the approximation, we define the Gaussian distribution:
1 exp (-2(2 xo) H)))) 200
(xx) (a To, H (xoo)
(17)
which has mean zo and covariance matrix 11 (zro. Then p(z) can be approximated as:
p(x) C. g(x),
where C= exp( (op(-f((mm)) (22 is constant independent
The Laplace approximation thus replaces an intractable distribution p(x) with a tractable Gaussian centered at its mode, using the curvature information encoded in the Hessian define the covariance structure. The approximation is asymptotically accurate when:
The function f fxx is sharply peaked around xo. i.e., p(x) is strongly unimodal.
The sample size is large, allowing higher-order deviations to be negligible due to the central limit effect.
The density p(x) decays rapidly away from æo. making the local quadratic approximation dominant.

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This theoretical result justifies our modeling assumption that the empirical distributions of prompts t and images v, which are inherently high-dimensional and complex, can be reasonably approximated as Gaussians:
t~ t~ (wr, Ei/N), 0~ (M, M,/N),
where ft,/A, My are the empirical means, and E,, En are the corresponding sample covariance matrices computed from N observed samples. The factor 1/N emerges from the Central Limit Theorem (CLT), which further supports the Gaussian approximation when averaging independent and identically distributed observations.
Therefore, the Laplace approximation offers principled and mathematically sound foundation for Gaussian- based modeling in our framework.
A.2 Image-irrelevant Prompt Distribution Approximation
As for image-irrelvvatt prompts, we also define i, as the mode of the Gaussian distribution. According to the literature [88]. in Bayesian statistics, it is manifested
the asymptotic normality of the posterior distribution, that is, when the sample size tends to infinity, the posterior distribution of the parameters will approach the Gaussian distribution. And according to [78), for symmetrical unimodal distribution, the mean, mode and median coincide. Thus, employing the sample mean a proxy for the mode of the posterior distribution is justified, particularly under the conditions where the posterior is the Gaussian distribution which is approximately symmetric and unimodal. We use the mean method calculate the mode due to the the inrelevance between the image and the
prompt which satisfies the following formula: 4, اn where the 4 is the prompt from dataset of prompts about caption and classification. N is the number of t; in the calculation. To further approximate the distribution of prompts,
the same way apply Laplace approximation to model the local behavior of the prompt distribution around the mode ty. Formally, given a density function pt), we expand log pt)) around t, using a second-order Taylor expansion as:
p() = logp(t.) )(t
H. tw);
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where H, is the negative Hessian matrix of p(t) evaluated at t = tyi
H.. = Log p(t)
(19)
The probability density formula of p(t) is:
1 -1 (1- (o) H.(L ((]( (m))
p(() x exp
(20)
Therefore, comparing the Equation 2 and 20 the prompt distribution is approximated as
multivariate Gaussian which is same as Equation covariance matrix under this condition.
6 where fy is the mean (mode) and H is the
A.3 Merging for Image-irrelevant and -relevant Prompt Distribution
As for prompt inputs, they are generally divided into two mutually exclusive categories based on their semantic function: image-irelevant prompts for captioning or classification tasks, and image-relevant prompts for visual question answering (VQA) tasks. Image-irrelevant prompts typically carry generic semantic intent and can apply to wide range of images, while mage-releevat prompts encode specific questions targeting the content of particular image. Accordingly, we assume that prompts drawn from one of two distinct probabilistic sources.
We model the distribution of prompts under each category as Gaussian. Specifically, for image- irrelevant prompts, compute semantic prior distribution with mean firelvvant and covariance tanskoose For image-relevant prompts, we apply MAP estimation to obtain the mean felevant and covariance H reflecting prompt semanties conditioned on the image content.
Since each prompt is assumed to belong to one of these categories exclusively, we represent the overall prompt distribution as a two-component Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) [89]
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p(() = m1 N(t birelevant: Hi /N) + n2 Nt frelevant H (oiisnnNN)) /N),
(21)
where TI, #2 E [0, 1] are the mixing weights for the two types prompts, satistying T + π2 1. While this mixture model faithfully reflects the mutually exclusive nature of prompt types, its multimodal form complicates subsequent inference and optimization.
To obtain tractable unified representation, approximate the above mixture with a single Gaussian distribution by matching its first and second moments. The resulting approximate mean and covariance are given by:
Mmergee
Virrelevant Telrelevant
Emerge
TT
H fudeoa + (Fatrelevant
Mmergee ) (Irretevant
Mmerree )z
N
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+ 72
H,
(Irelevant
Mmmrree (erelevant
Mmergee
N
This moment-matched Gaussian provides universal approximation for the prompt distribution:
~ (pmerge: Emerge)
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which enables downstream modeling without explicit conditioning on task type. For notational consistency, we denote t == Mmerge and H, Emerge leading to:
1~ ( H
(24)
A.4 Parameters Calculation of Image-irrelevant Prompt Distribution
For prompts that are irrelevant to images, our calculation methods are different. Under the approxi- mation that the prompt distribution symmetric and unimodal (implying that the mean, mode, and median coincide; see (78)), the most probable prompt ty can be obtained in closed form as:
N
b. = arg max
logg(() ~
4
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where (4)) are sampled prompts.
To quantify the uncertainty around te, approximate the (negative) log-posterior locally by second-order Taylor expansion:
1 (t--t)) T,,( t.),
- log (t+)) log (t+) /
(26)
where the Hessian matrix H, V? (olgop(t) {t+)))
be approximated using the empirical
t=t
covariance matrix of the prompts:
H, N where Σ= Σ
-t) To
(27)
Consequently, the inverse of the Hessian, which represents the local covariance around 4,, can be expressed as:
1
H
E
(28)
N
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A.5 Explanations of Deep
In this work, Yesp denotes the expected response generated by the Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) given an input image v. Specifically, Deap is defined as the ideal output that accurately captures the essential, task-relevant information present in the input image. serves as a target semantic representation that we expect the MILM to produce when conditioned on an appropriately informative prompt. Formally, given an image e and prompt I, the MILMM produces an output y MLLM t). The expected response Vexp is characterized by the following properties:
Relevance: Bexp must contain the key semantic content of the image v, such as object descriptions, actions, or relationships among entities.
Completeness: Meep should fully represent the main information required for the downstream task, ensuring critical details from omitted.
Conciseness: Yeepp should avoid redundant or irrelevant information not directly supported by
In practice, Yeep can be approximated by using numan-annotuan captions, classification labels, or other supervised signals that reliably describe the ground-trus -ouund semantics of the image. Alternatively, Dexp can also be obtained by prompting the MI.MM with a standardized caption prompt (e.g., "Describe the main content of the image.") ") and using the model's generated response the expected output. This method reduces the reliance on human annotations while maintaining relevance and completeness in describing the input image. Thus, in the optimization of tv seek the prompt that maximizes the likelihood in Equation g
A.6 Convert Maximum Posterior to Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Given the input image and prompts we can get the most representative prompt 4, con- forming to the expression t, = arg ming L(v, t) in MLLM. Starting from Bayes' theorem p(t)u, tu) p(vlt.fo) p(t]fo), where p(ult, to) is the generative likelihood, p(t(to) is the prior p(e(ta)
distribution over prompts, p(vlto) is the marginal likelihood (normalization constant). The Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) [77] estimation is obtained by f. = arg max, p(tje, tn) = arg max; [log p(r]t, ta) + log p(t tt]] If the prior distribution p(t)f)) of the parameter is uni- form (i.e., all possible values of t have equal probabilities), then p(t)fu) = constant. Under this condition, the logarithmic prior term log p(c)ca) also becomes a constant, which does not affect the extremum position during optimization. Consequently, the MAP optimization objective can be simplified as:
b. = arg max [log 1o)l, 4o) + logr(114))
= arg max log t(t)t,ta)
= arg min L(v, t).
(29)
which is precisely the definition of Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) that can be calculated and characterized through the differences output by the MILM using the Equation X
A.7 Parameter Calculation Details
Direct minimization is performed through Momentum Gradient Descent 79 to achieve faster convergence and better avoidance of shallow local minima.
The iterative update rules are Equation 9
where:
m; is the momentum term at iteration i,
V,L(v, (o is the gradient of the loss with respect to the prompt at iteration i 1,
0 E (0, 1) is the momentum coefficient controlling the contribution of past gradients,
0 is the learning rate.
The initialization is:
mo
tv to
(30)
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where to is the initial prompt sampled from the dataset. The iterations continue until convergence, i.e, until the preset iterative discussion.
After obtaining the optimal prompt (., we approximate the local distribution around by by a Gaussian distribution using Laplace approximation.
The Laplace approximation requires the Hessian matrix of the loss function at the mode ty with the distribution in Equation Since both equations in Equation Bobaain their maximum and minimum values at E.. It is valid to use the loss function L(v, t) to compute the inverse Hessian H, of the Laplace approximation because of the following equivalence: From Equation D the log-posterior log p(|)u 4o) around the mode b. is approximated by a second-order Taylor expansion:
1 log p(t to) logp(t./u, to) ( t.) TT)TH(( Ht ty).
On the other hand, from Equation 29 finding the maximum of the posterior p(t|u, to) is equivalent to minimizing the loss function L 2). Thus, L(u, t) acts as the negative log- log-posterior up to an additive constant:
L(v, 1) x log p(4]; to) + const.
Because additive constants disappear when taking gradients and Hessians, the second-order derivatives of L(v t) and log p(t|u, to) around by are identical:
V (- p(1p(( (o))
= H
Therefore, we can estimate the curvature H, using the second-order behavior of L(u, t), and subse- quently use it for Laplace approximation. We can have the second-order Taylor expansion of L(u, t) in the same way as Equation 29
L(v, 1) L(v, + (1- L.))
L.).
(31)
Given an initial prompt close to lu the difference in loss values can be expressed as:
1 ((),to) L(v, tw) ] too t.) He ty).
(32)
Rearranging Equation 32 can express the quadratic form as:
(to (fo-t,) (to fo) 2 (L(u, to) L(u,tt)).
(33)
Specifically, when / sufficiently close to f,, the loss surface L(v, t) can be well approximated by quadratic form whose curvature is nearly uniform in all directions. This is particularly reasonable under the following conditions 73
The loss function L(v, t) is locally smooth and strongly convex around fe, implying the eigenvalues of H; are approximately equal.
The distribution of prompts is high- ligh-dimensional with no significant directional bias, leading to an approximately isotropic local structure.
Empirically, using isotropic approximation greatly simplifies computations and has been widely adopted Laplace approximation literature for scalability and tractability.
Under these conditions, the Hessian matrix H; can be reasonably approximated by scaled identity matrix, capturing the average curvature around f, without requiring full second-order information, which would be computationally expensive to obtain in high-dimensional spaces. Motivated by the local isotropy property near a mode in high-dimensioonl optimization landscapes, can assume He is locally proportional to the identity matrix, i.e., H, Rs A/ for some positive scalar X, the left-hand side simplifies to:
(to TT t.)) Allto to 12.
(34)
Thus, we can solve for À as:
A (L(,, 1o) - -(v,
(35)
1oo 11
Consequently, the inverse Hessian H approximated as:
H - 2 (L(e, - L(u,t.)) 2 (L(u,to) L(e, t.)))
1/4 1..13
Uo 1.111
(36)
where I is the identity matrix with dimensionality matching t.
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B More Experiments
B.1 More Implementation Details
MLLM models and datasets. The experiments utilize a combination of images and prompts across multiple vision-language tasks. In addition to the MS-COCO dataset [81] and DALLE-3 dataset We also conduct experiments on the SVIT 190], Flickr30K [91] and NoCaps 99 datasets. To construct the prompt sets, consider three distinct task types: VQA, image classification, and image captioning. For each task, we incorporate prompts curated from prior studies [8] to ensure consistency with existing evaluations. The complete list of prompts provided Appendix D The MLLMs used are -.-...----1--- [6]. BLIP-2 OPT-2.7B [5), and MiniGPT-4 [2). chosen to represent a diverse
2].
range of architectures and model scales among current MILMS.
Experimental setups. For the parameter calculation of image/prompt distribution, following previous work [93], the coefficient& 3, are set to 0.9 and 0.001. The target answer is uniformly specified "Z am sorry." in all experimental conditions. To assess adversarial generalization, three cross- settings are considered: (1) 30 distinct prompts sampled per image (Cross-Prompt), (2) 50 different images sampled per prompt (Cross-
prompts (Cross- Actos--Imag//Promppe Ccooss-Image), and (3) simultaneous sampling of 30 images and 30 The perturbations
optimized for 300 steps under 16/255
and step size = 1/255. Evaluation metrics include the Exact Match ASR (EM-ASR), Contain Match ASR (CM-ASR), and Semantic Similarity (Similarity). The EM-ASR and CM-ASR assess the word-level overlap between advensarial output and target text, while similarity is computed by cosine similarity between embeddings of adversarial output and target text obtained from the MLl-MiniLMM-L-v2 model 883] All experiments are conducted on the NVIDIA A800 GPUs with 80GB of memory.
B.2 More Experiments Dateset
We further conduct more experiments of our method on the SVIT, Flickr30K and NoCaps dataset using three MLLM models. As shown in Table we can conclude that: (1) As for the general setting (No Cross), our method maintains competitive performance. (2) In the cross-sample setting, our sample-agnostic attack can achieve strong cross-sample performance by fitting the perturbation the potential image/prompt distributions. We observe that MiniGPT-4 model exhibits higher tendency to generate repetitive responses under input perturbations, which partially explains its relatively lower EM-ASR performance compared to other models.
B.3
Experiments on Transferability across Different Datasets
To further evaluate the effectiveness of our attack method in complex real-world scenarios, we design cross-dataset transfer attack experiments under two settings: (1) generating the adversarial perturbation on one image dataset and transferring it to another image dataset with a different domain for testing, while keeping the prompt unchanged; (2) on the same cross-dataset basis as (1), changing the prompt to further increase the difficulty of testing. Table [0 and Table 1T report the results of cross-dataset and cross- pooss-daasse/prommp transfer attacks, respectively. y. The results demonstrate that our method maintains strong transferability, even unseen prompts image datasets from different data domains. We assume the reason is that each MLLM image dataset and the mnsk-specific prompts sufficient enough to model the realistic distributions of real-world scenarios.
B.4 More Experiments on Sensitive to Sampling Quantity
To examine the effect of sampling quantity, also evaluate attack performance under cross-prompt, cross-image, and combined settings on the DALLE-3 dataset using the MiniGPT-4 and BLIP-2 models. As shown in Figure 8 sampling 30 prompts, 50 images, and 30+30 combination for training consistently achieve strong attack performance, validating the effectiveness of sampling quantity.
B.5 More Experiments Complex Target Texts
We also conduct experiments under the cross-prompt attack setting on the DALLE-3 dataset using more complex and sophisticated target texts, such as "A beautiful bird with black and white color in
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Table 9: Attack performances (1) across images/prompts on SVIT, Flickr30K and NoCaps datasets.
"Value" denotes the best performance, "Value" denotes the second-best performance.
Model
Method
No Cross
Cross Images
Cross Prompes
Cross Images/Prompts
EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity EM ESR CM-ASR Similarity|MM EM-ASR CM-ASR Similarity EMRASR CM-ASR Similarity
Dataset: SVIT [0]
LLAVA15
PGD 14
94.5%
95.5%
0.941
0.0%
0.0%
0.046
29.7%
31.2%
0.357
0.0%
0.0%
0.056
CroPA
72.6%
73.1%
0.767
0.1%
0.1%
0.053
52.1%
57.4%
0.619
0.0%
0.0%
0.045
UniAA
10
80.5%
81.3%
0,824
19.7%
22.1%
0.23%
59.3%
60,21
0.645
19.7%
19.9%
0.225
Ours
96.7%%
96.7%
0.968
52.5%
53.0%
84.7%
0.871
50.4%
51.1%
0.551
BLIP-2
PGD [4
62.7%
64. 1%
0.68/
0.1%
0.1%
0.046
22.7%
47.2%
0.397
0.0%
0,0%
0.097
CroPA
26.2%
92. 1%
0.675
0.071
29.7%
59, 8%
0.522
0.0%
0.0%
0.087
UniiAu
10
79.1%
80.2%
0.806
20.7%
21.1%
0.215
52.7%
54,915
0.519
18.7%
19.5%
0.202
68.3%%
96.7%%
0.687
51.8%
51.8%
0.715
37.4%
42.3%
0.440
MinGPP14
PGD 14
68.2%%
69.7%
0.722
0.0%
0.0%
0.066
24.5%
27.8%
0,314
0.0%
0.0%
0.078
CroPA
31.5%
39.
0.0%
0.0%
0.101
70.
71.8%
0.722
0.0%
0.0%
0.047
UniAn
Im
76.7%
84. 9%
0.856
11.7%
25.7%
0.217
61.3%
9%
0.598
6.4%
22.7%
0.232
Ours
93.77%
93.7%
0.947
6.3%
52.5%
0.226
93.5%
93.5%
0.941
2.9%
50.8%
0.268
Dataset: Flickr30K
[1]
LL
PGD [4
95,
95,
0.956
0.0%
0.0%
0.057
21.4%
22.66
0.228
0.0%
0.0%
0.051
CroPA
82.7%
82. 79k
0.836
0.25%
0.3%%
0.066
70.2%
72.5%
0.727
0.0%
0.0%
0.053
UniAu
10
80.7%
82.
0,822
22.19%
23.6%
0.237
66.3%
69.2%%
0.708
20.31%
22.0%
0.217
Ours
95..0%
905.0%
0,981
56.0%
56.5%
0.589
82.1%
86.3
0.865
27.6 %
35.2%
0.399
BLIP-2
PGD 14
60.9%
62.3%
0.621
0.0%
0.0%
0.076
24.6%
26.5%
0.276
0.0%
0.0%
0.046
CroPA
30.4%
92.1% 1%
0.025
0,2%
0.3%
0.116
29. 1%
67 6%6
0,493
0.0%
0.0%
0.054
UniiAn
I0
76.7%%
79.2%
0.786
21.5%
23.7%
0.233
56. 1%
58.1%
0.577
19.4%
19.6%
0.20S
68.4%
96..1% 1%
0.709
52.7%
52.7%
84.1%
0.723
44.8%
0.460
Mmn0PP44
PGD [4
75.6%
75. 6%
0,769
0.0%
0.0%
0.067
17.3%
17. 6.66
0.175
0.0%
0,0%
0.023
CroPA
94.1%
71.6%
72.1%
0.720
0.0%
0.0%
0.038
UniAn
10
82.4 42.4%
53%
0,843
24.7%
26.5%
0.266
68. 2%6
69.45%
0.701
19. 1%
20.3%
0.199
Ours
96.7%
96. 7%
0, 999666
34.5%
$3.6%
0.357
91.0%
91.5%
0.932
35.6%
38.3%
0.362
Dataset: NoCaps [92
LLAVAI.5
PGD [4]
95.8%
0.961
0.0%
0.085
37.7%
38.4%
0.396
0.0%
0.0%
0.045
CroPA
76.4%
76.4%
0,781
0.0%
0.0%
0.086
65. 3%
66.7%
0.669
0.0%
0.0%
0.036
UniAn
[0
81.7%
81.7%
0.836
22.3%
24.1%
0.238
69.2%
70.9%
0.713
19.8%
22.1%
0.217
Ours
96.1%
96.7%
0,960
64.3%
65.0%
0.694
91.6%%
93.0% %
0.936
42.6%
44.3%
0.488
B
PGD [4
71.5%
22.0%
0.723
0.0%
0.0%
0.079
20.3%
20. 20.9%
0.221
0.0%
0.0%
0,41
CroPA
29.6%
91.6%
0.630
0.0%
0.0%
0.086
27.5%
71.1%
0,551
0.0%
0.0%
0.075
UniAmt
10
78.1%
80, 6%
0,803
19.6%
21.3%
0. 20204
56.9%
58.6%
0.573
17.9%
18.3%
0.181
Qurs
68.2%
98.00
0.820
55.8%
57.4%
0.588
57.8%
81.9%
0.684
35.5%
42.4%
0.452
MinOPF44
PGD [4
92.7%
92.7%
0,935
0.0%
0.0%
0.075
31.6%
32.3%
0.328
0.0%
0.0%
0.064
CroPA
93.1%
0.942
0.0%
0.0%
0.063
71.9%
72.655 6%%
0.731
0.0%
0.0%
0.034
UniAul
10
81.6%
82,9%
0.820
19.2%
19.7%
0.199
69.2%
70.6%
0.713
17.6%
17.9%
0.183
95.0%
100.0%
0.984
59.6%
0.366
96.1%
97.1%
0.966
26.7 %
44.7%
0.357
snow". "The view from the top of a hill overlooking the mountains". As shown in Table 12 despite the increase in the difficulty and complexity of these target texts, our attack method still shows significant effectiveness and maintains high performance in transfer attacks.
B.6 More Visualizations
We provide additional visualization examples to investigate the effectiveness of our attack from three aspects: (1) across different prompts and across different images (Figure 9 (2) across both images and prompts (Figure 10) and (3) across different datasets (Figure TI). As shown in these figures, the perturbed images remain nearly indistinguishable from the original ones, and our attack demonstrates strong transferability across various scenarios, validating the effectiveness of our proposed distribution approximation- based cross-sample attack approach.
C Limitations and Broader Impacts
Limitations. To improve the universality and transferability of adversarial perturbations, we adopt a Monte Carlo mechanism to sample a large number of image-prompt pairs from the approximated distribution. This enables optimization of single input-agnostic perturbation. Although training can be performed offline, it involves repeated model queries and perturbation aggregation, resulting in significant time and computational costs. This limitation becomes more pronounced when scaling to diverse tasks, modalities, and real-world scenarios.
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Table 10: Transfer-attack performance across different datasets with the same prompts.
From
Transfer
Model
EM-ASR
CM-ASR
Similarity
LLaVA-1.5
66.3%
66.3%
0.688
DALLE-3
BLIP-2
54.2%
63.5%
0.582
MiniGPT-4
63.8%
69.8%
0.661
DALLE-3
LLa
53.8%
54.4%
0.560
MS-COCO
BLIP-2
52.5%
52.7%
0.537
MiniGPT-4
54.6%
64.2%
0.583
1.55
63.8%
64.2%
0.660
DALLE-3
BLIP-2
48.2%
49.3%
0.689
MiniGPT-4
53.8%
65.8%
0.570
MS-COCO
LLaVA-1.5
58.7%
59.6%
0.611
MS-COCO
BLIP-2
55.5%
56.6%
0.584
MiniGPT-4
63.1% %
71.9%
0.655
Table 11: Transfer-attact performance across both datasets and prompts.
From
Transfer to
Model
CM-ASR EM-ASR
Similarity
LLaVA-1.5
60.9%
61.3%
0.644
DALLE-3
BLIP-2
45.5%
59.4%
0.522
MiniGPT-4
30.8%
52.4%
0.355
DALLE-3
LLaVA-1.5
46.2%
46.5%
0.507
MS-COCO
BLIP-2
44.7%
54.5%
0.510
MiniGPT-4
23.1%
42.9%
0.282
LLaVA-1.5
49.3%
50.3%
0.526
DALLE-3
BLIP-2
29.8%
40.1 1%
0.363
MiniGPT-4
26.8%
34.0%
0.307
MS-COCO
LLaVA-1.5
49.8%
51.4%
0.532
MS-COCO
BLIP-2
50.0%
57.3%
0.531
MiniGPT-4
47.2%
57.9%
0.513
Table 12: Performance with different target texts on DALLE-3 dataset.
Target Answer
Model
EM-ASR
CM-ASR Similarity
LLaVAI.5
97.5%
97.8%
0.994
"A beautiful bird with a black and white color snow." "
BLIP-2
83.8%
83.8%
0.852
MiniGPT-4
96.3%
96.5%
0.990
LLaVA1.5
95.5%
96.3%
0,972
"The view from the top of a hill overlooking the mountains."
BI.I-2
82.0%
89.1%
0.939
MiniGPT-4
100%
100%
1.000
Additionally, threat model assumes access to static input images. However, real-world MLLMs are often embedded in interactive environments (e.g., robotics or autonomous driving), where inputs captured dynamically. The application of universal attacks in such physical settings remains technically challenging. Extending universal attacks to such physically grounded settings remains an open and technically demanding problem, which warrants further exploration of robustness under real-world dynamics.
Broader impacts. From a broader perspective, this work reveals the vulnerability of MLLMs to adversarial interactions agnostic input and underscores the value of studying more generalizable and practical attack strategies. However, the proposed methods also carry potential risks of misuse. For
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Cross Prompt
Cross Image
Cross image/Prompt
1.00
1.50
BMicI CMILO BBC
CMICO $94
0.05
0.85
0.90
0.80
0.75
0.85
0.2
Number
Number
Combination
Figure 7: Ablations on different numbers of sampled images/prompts during Monte Carlo mechanism on MiniGPT-4 ("EM" denotes "Exact Match", "CM" denotes "Contain Match", "SS" denotes "Semantic Similarity").
Cross Prompt
Cross Image
Cross Image/Prompt
BME
BMITT CMECI
CMEC)
0.90
ASRiDecimal
0.8
BMITO
0.53
2.50
0.5
0.4
0.63
0.50
09:30
P353
1913
1050
1250
P920
Number
Prompts
Number of Images
Combination
Figure Ablations on different numbers of sampled images/prompts during Monte Carlo mechanism on BLIP-2 2 ("EM" denotes "Exact Match", "CM" denotes "Contain Match", "SS" denotes "Semantic Similarity").
Cross
Cross
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
Rane Image
Adv. Image
Row Immege
Portubation
Adv, Image
on motorcycle.
sorry.
There a cat many pigcons.
sorry.
Cross Prompt
Cross Image
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
Raw Imuge
New Prompt 1: What animal is on the motorcycle? Correct answer It is cat.
Now Image
Adv. linage
Adv. Imuge
Correct answer: It's truck.
Adv answer: am sorty.
New Prompt What amimal the motoreycle? Adv answer am sorry.
New Image:
Adv. Imuge
Raw Imssgo
New Prompt 2: What is the color cat? Correct answer : It's
Correct answer A man is playing baseball.
Adv answer: am sorry.
brownish yellow and black.
New Image
Adv. Image
Adv. Image
New Prompt 2: color of cat! Adv answer am sorry.
Correct answer: A woman is me mon.............................
Adv am sorry.
alcohol.
Figure 9: Visualizations of cross poospp and cross-image attack. All adversarial (ady.) images use the same perturbation.
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No Cross
Raw Prompt: Describe main body of the picture.
Ruw Image
Image
Pertin Serrrtaa
A cat is the motorcycle.
am sorry.
Cross Image/Prompa
New Prompt 1: What is the person in the picture doing?
New Prompt_2 2:
What unimal is in the picture?
Adv. Image
Adv. Image
New Image!
New Imagel
Correct
Hc going surfing.
Correct answer: it dog.
Adv answer: am sorry.
Adv amswer: am sorry.
Adr. Image
New Image2
New Imnage2
Adh:
Correct Ile is looking his phone.
Correct answer: is a cat.
Adv answer: am sorry.
Adv answer: am sorry.
Adv. Imsage
Adv. Image
New Image3
New Imagee
Correct answer: He playing frisbee.
Correct amswer: is
Adv
sorry.
Adv 1 sorry.
a cow.
Figure 10: Visualizations of cross-imageprrompt attack. All adversarial (adv.) images the same perturbation.
instance, adversaries may exploit universal perturbations to manipulate publicly deployed multimodal inference APIs (e.g., Fireworks AI, Together AI), potentially undermining content integrity, model trustworthiness. or public safety. Therefore, we advocate for the joint development of adversarial research and defense mechanisms, including robust detection, adaptive defenses, and usage- noge-boundarry awareness, to ensure the safe and responsible deployment of MILMs in real-world applications.
D Prompts for Different Tasks
Prompts for Image Captioning. Describe the components featured in this picture. Discuss the aspects depicted this photograph. Explain the details visible in this visual. Outline the parts contained within this image. Clarify the features shown in this illustration. In single sentence, describe what is happening in the picture. Briefly explain the scene depicted in this image. Capture the essence of the activity shown in this image in one sentence. Provide one-sentence summary of the action in this picture. Summarize the event this image using a single sentence. Describe the primary elements of this image using words. Express the key features of the photograph verbally. Summarize the essential parts of this illustration in text form. Articulate the central aspects of the visual using language. Convey the principal components of the scene in descriptive terms. What story is portrayed in this picture? What tale is being depicted in this image? What account does this photo illustrate? What plot conveyed this photograph? What saga is presented this picture? Analyze the primary elements present in this image. Identify the key components featured in this picture. Examine the central themes depicted this photograph. Outline the core subjects captured in this snapshot. Deconstruct the significant aspects of this visual. Describe the central focus of this picture. Provide summary of the key elements this photograph. Explain the primary subject depicted in this image. Outline the main features shown in this photo. Detail the principal aspect of this visual. Briefly describe the contents this picture. Summarize what depicted in this image. In short sentence, explain the subject of this photo. Provide concise explanation of what this image
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Cross DALLE-3
No Cross MS-COCO
Raw Prompt: Deseribe the main body of the picture.
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
Raw Imaggo
Adv. Image
Raw Imagge
Adv. Image
Perturbs
molorcycle.
I am sorry.
There many pigeuns.
sorry.
Cross Image on MS-COCO
Cross Image on DALLE-3
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
Raw Prompt: Describe the main body of the picture.
New Image
Ade. Image
New Image
Ade. Inage
Correct answer:
Correct answer: man is cooking.
People are having pizza.
Adv sorry.
Adv
sorry.
New Image
Image
New Image
Adv. Imagee
Correct answer It
Correct answer hamburger.
Adv answer: am sorry.
Adv answer: I am sorry.
swan.
New Image
Adv. Image
New Image
Adv. Image
Correct answer A girl is playing tennis.
Correct answer A girl
answer: sorry.
is playing tennis.
answer: sorry.
Figure 11: Visualizations of our cross-dataset attack. Left column: the perturbation crafted in the DALLE-3 domain and transferred to MS-COCO domain. Right column: the same process is applied.
shows. Describe succinctly what can be seen in this picture. Explain the environment or backdrop featured in this image. Provide details about the scene location shown in the picture. Outine the surroundings or context depicted in this photograph. Elaborate on the place or scenery visible in this image. Discuss the area landscape portrayed in this photo. Summarize the elements depicted in this photograph. Describe the items themes present in this image. Outline the features topics visible in this photo. Give a summary of the components shown in this picture. Detail the objects or subjects captured in this snapshot. Determine the central theme attraction in this picture. Pinpoint the main subject or highlight within this photograph. Locate the key element or centerpiece this image. Recognize the dominant feature focal point in this snapshot. Discern the primary object or standout aspect in this visual. How should this picture be ideally titled? What is the best caption for this photo? What title would suit this image best? How would you ideally label this picture? What's 'ss the most fitting title for this image? How might you present this image during talk? What approach would you take to describe this image in slideshow? How would you explain this image while giving presentation? In what way could you showcase this image in a discussion? How would you frame this image as part of your presentation? Provide a concise summary of the image's 's focal point. Offer a brief overview of the image's key subject matter. Deliver a short description of the image's central theme. Share snappy explanation of the image's primary focus. Give swift outline of the image's is core subject. What the main theme or highlight depicted in this image? Can you identify the central focus topic illustrated in this picture? What's the primary scene or element showcased in this photograph? What significant activity or object is featured in this photo? What is the core message or subject conveyed by this image? Describe the activities occurrences happening within this picture. Explain the events movements visible in this photograph. Discuss the actions or scenes depicted in this image. Illustrate the events actions captured in this photo. Interpret the occurrences or actions shown in this visual. Summarize the essence of this image in one sentence. Capture the meaning of this picture one phrase. Express the theme of this photograph in concise sentence. Articulate the message of this image in a quick summary. Provide a brief summary of this image. Give concise review of this photograph. Deliver a short explanation of this visual. Present quick overview of this snapshot.
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Furmish a narrow depiction of this artwork. Provide a brief summary of this picture. Offer a short description of this image. Present quick analysis of this photograph. Deliver a succinct explanation of this visual. Outline the key points of this graphic. Convert the details of this image into a written sentence. Turn the visual elements of this picture into a textual statement. Express the contents of this photo as a single sentence. Render the information in this image into coherent sentence. Describe the scene in this picture with one sentence. Outline the figures or elements present in this picture. Detail the individuals objects depicted in this photo. Characterize the people items shown in this illustration. Explain the personas or features visible in this snapshot. Identify the actors or components portrayed in this visual. Describe the events taking place in this picture using words. Use words to convey the actions seen in this image. Put into words what is occurring in this photograph. Narrate the scene depieted in this picture with written deseriptions. Articulate the happenings within this image through a verbal depiction. What approach would you take to present this image to a group? How might you convey the essence of this image viewers? In what way would you descrihe this image to an audience? How could you effectively narrate the details of this image to people? What strategy would you use to showease this image to spectators? Describe the main occurrences or topics depicted in this image. Identify the key happenings or themes shown in this photo. Outline the central incidents or subjects present in this illustration. Highlight the prominent events or concepts illustrated in this picture. Summarize the principal actions or focuses featured in this visual. Can you identify the key components of this image? Which features stand out most in this picture? What are the prominent aspects captured in this photo? 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Can you identify the location or scenario captured in this photograph? What event or atmosphere is portrayed in this visual? Briefly describe the primary events taking place in the image. Summarize the key activities happening in this picture. Identify the main actions depicted in this photo. Provide a short description of the central occurrences shown in this image. Give a concise account of the significant actions in the photograph. Provide a brief overview of what this image depicts. Summarize the main elements visible in this picture. Give a concise description of the scene shown in this photo. Describe the key aspects featured in this photograph. Outline the primary details captured in this image. What labels would you use to tag this picture in a collection? How might you describe this photo for an album entry? In what way would you catalogue this image within gallery? What notes would you add to this photograph in an archive? How could you document this image for an album? How would you narrate the details of this image to someone who can't t see it? Imagine you'te re on podcast; how would you paint a picture of this image? If you were to explain this image verbally, what words would you choose? How would you articulate the content of this image over the airwaves? Suppose you had to provide radio commentary on this image, what would you say? Describe the key scene depicted in this picture using your own expressions. Convey the central occurrence shown in this photograph in your own language. Explain the primary happening in this image using your own phrasing. Articulate the main incident illustrated in this photo in your own terms. Summarize the focal event in this picture with your own wording. Can you identify the key elements in this picture? What standout characteristics does this photo have? What are the main highlights visible in this image? Could you point out the prominent aspects of this picture? What distinctive details can you observe in this image? Analyze the narrative depicted in this picture. Interpret the tale conveyed by this illustration. Examine the message this visual is presenting. Decipher the plot expressed in this photograph. Uncover the theme behind this artwork. Illustrate the setting or context captured in this picture. Detail the scenery or background depicted in this image. Explain the surroundings or backdrop presented in this photo. Outline the landscape or background shown in this snapshot. Interpret the scene or setting featured in this photograph. What tag would you assign to this picture in a database? How would you classify this photograph for the archive? What designation would you give to this image in an album? How would you identify this photo in collection? What title would you use for this image in a gallery? Briefly describe the central message of the image. Summarize the core idea of this photo concisely. Capture the primary concept of the
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picture in few words. Explain the key theme of this visual succinetly. Distill the essence of the image in a concise manner. Describe the main activity or occurrence depicted in this image. Identify the central action or event taking place in this image. Explain the key event or movement shown in this image. Outline the prineipal action or incident illustrated in this image. Detail the primary scene or activity captured in this image. Offer brief summary of what this image portrays. Give a short description of the elements in this picture. Summarize the scene depicted in this photograph. Deliver a quick overview of the subject matter in this photo. Furnish a succinct account of what is shown in this image. Compose a short summary of the scene depicted in this picture. Provide concise description of the events shown in this photo. Summarize the action occurring in this illustration. Offer a quick overview of what's happening in this visual. Draft a compact explanation of the situation presented in this image. Describe the core message conveyed by this image using words. Use words to express the central theme depicted in this image. Articulate the primary idea of this image in a verbal format. Convey the fundamental concept of this image through language. Capture the essence of this image's theme with a written description. How might you interpret this artwork at museum showcase? What would you say to convey the essence of this piece at an exhibit? How would you articulate your thoughts about this image in an art gallery? What description would you provide for this image in a curated display? How could you explain the significance of this artwork in an exhibition setting? Emphasize the key elements or activities within this picture. Identify the primary topies or motions shown in this image. Focus on the main themes or happenings depicted in this photo. Pinpoint the dominant objects or movements present in this visual. 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material, what caption would it have? How would a textbook describe this image in its caption? What would the textual description read beneath this image if placed in an educational manual? Describe the main theme depicted in this picture. Identify the central element featured in this photograph. Summarize the key subject showcased in this image. Outline the principal motif present in this visual. Explain the dominant focus illustrated in this artwork. Describe the tale or account depicted in this image. Explain the storyline or plot shown in this photograph. Outline the scenario or saga illustrated in this picture. Convey the account or legend presented in this photo. Detail the story or theme represented in this image. What approach would you use to present this image in a documentary setting? How might you go about featuring this image in a documentary film? In what manner would you showcase this image for a documentary audience? How could you effectively incorporate this image into a documentary narrative? What narrative technique would you employ to unveil this image in a documentary? Describe the themes or occurrences depicted in this photo. Outline the topics moments showcased in this picture. Explain the elements activities illustrated in this image. Identify the scenes or incidents represented in this photograph. Specify the subjects or happenings featured in this visual. Provide concise description of the scene captured in this image. Summarize the situation shown in this picture. Give a short overview of the events illustrated in this photo. Offer a succinct narrative of the subject displayed in this photograph. Deliver quick synopsis of the context presented in this image. Briefly describe the key components in this picture. Summarize the primary features visible in this photograph. Identify the principal elements shown in this image clearly. Highlight the fundamental aspects depicted in this photo succinetly, Outline the main items evident in this visual concisely. Explain what's occurring in this image. Detail the activities taking place in this photograph. Illustrate the events unfolding in this picture. Clarify the happenings depicted in this image. Narrate the scene portrayed in this photograph. Offer brief overview of the visual elements in this image. Summarize the key details depicted in this picture. Deliver a concise narration of what's 's shown in this photo. Present short account of the scene captured in the image. Give a quick rundown of the subject matter in this photograph. Can you give short summary of the primary focus or occurrence depicted in this image? What concise description would you provide for the central theme or happening in this picture? How might you succinctly explain the key topic or incident captured in this photo? Could you offer a quick overview of the main element or activity shown in this image? What brief insight would you share about the dominant feature or moment in this visual? Explain what is depicted in this picture. Detail what can be seen in this photo. Outline the elements present in this image. Illustrate what this image portrays. Interpret the subject matter of this picture. Can you describe what is occurring in this picture? What events are taking place in this photo? What action is depicted in this image? Could you explain what is going on in this photograph? What scene is being portrayed in this image? Create a short description for this picture. Write a concise caption for this photo. Compose a quick summary for this image. Formulate a simple caption for this visual. Generate a brief tagline for this illustration. Describe this image using single sentence. Narrate a brief story based on this picture. Craft a one-sentence tale from this photo. Summarize this image with a concise narrative sentence. Create a short story inspired by this image in one sentence. What would this image say if it could talk? Imagine this image had voice. what words would it utter? If this picture had the ability to speak, what message would it convey? Should this visual have the power of speech, what story would it tell? If this photograph were able to vocalize, what would be its spoken narrative? Provide an overview of the scene shown in this picture. Outline the situation illustrated in this photo. Describe the cireumstances presented in this visual. Recap the events portrayed in this image. Explain the context displayed in this graphic. What core idea or happening is featured in the image? Identify the main subject or occurrence depicted in the photograph. Determine the key motif or incident illustrated by the picture. What primary concept or activity does the image convey? Highlight the principal focus or episode captured in the photo. Craft title for this photograph. Generate caption for this picture. Compose a tagline for this visual. Write a heading for this snapshot. Develop a header for this illustration. Describe what's happening in this picture. Discuss the events shown in this photo. Illustrate the situation depicted in this image. Elaborate on the scenario presented in this picture. Interpret the action occurring in this photograph. How would this image communicate message if it were postcard? What story would this picture tell if it were printed on a postcard? Imagine this scene as a postcard; what would it say? If you turned this into a postcard, what feelings would it express? What sentiment would a postcard capture from this photograph? Describe the details visible in this picture. Explain the components depicted in this scene. Highlight the features shown in this photograph. Outline the visuals showcased in this illustration. Summarize the imagery captured in this frame. Assign a brief title to this picture. Provide a concise name for this photo. Suggest a short caption for this image. Create a succinet
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title for this photograph. Offer a quick label for this visual. How might you explain this picture to a person who is visually impaired? What words would you use to narrate this image to someone unable to see it? How can you verbally illustrate this image for a person with no sight? What description would you provide to convey this image to someone who is blind? How would you paint a mental picture of this image for someone who cannot view it? Describe the main focus or element of the image. Explain the central theme or topic depicted in the picture. Identify the key action or feature captured in the photograph. Outline the dominant subject or event shown in the snapshot. Highlight the principal aspect or activity visible in the photo. What title would you give this image if it were to be on book cover? Imagine this picture as book cover; what would the book's title be? If this photo were used as a book cover, what would the title of the book be? Consider this image being on book cover; what title do you think it should have? What do you think the title should be if this image served as the cover of a book?
Prompts for Image Classification. Determine the main subject of this picture in single term. Pinpoint the central motif of this photo using one word. Specify the key focus of this image with a solitary word. Discern the dominant theme of this picture in just one term. Establish the core concept of this photo in one word. What single word best describes this picture? Can you tag this photo using one term? How might you categorize this image with one descriptor? What one label would you assign to this photograph? How would you title this image using only one word? Identify the primary classification for this picture. Ascertain the overarching category of this image. Pinpoint the core type of this visual. Establish the fundamental grouping for this photo. Define the principal class of this image. Provide single-term label for this image. Assign one-word title to this photograph. Designate a concise name for this picture. Apply a solitary descriptor to this image. Select a lone tag for this photo. If this picture were saved on your device, what would its filename be? What name would you give this image if it were stored as a file? If you were to save this photo on your computer, how would you name it? Imagine this image as a file, what would you call it? If this image were saved file, what title would it have? Label this photo with the most appropriate keyword. Assign the best-fitting keyword to this picture. Annotate this image using the most pertinent keyword. Attach the most suitable keyword to this visual. Identify this image with the most applicable keyword. Identify the main category for this image. Determine the principal classification for this picture. Assign the primary label to this photo. Designate the main type for this visual. Specify the chief category for this snapshot. Can you briefly label this image? How might you concisely describe this image? Could you quickly classify this picture? How would you swiftly identify this image? Can you offer short summary of this image? Provide the main description for the content of this image. Give the key label for the content of this image. State the central descriptor for the content of this image. Identify the principal description for the content of this image. Specify the primary label for the content of this image. If this image were an item, what tag would you attach to its packaging? Imagine this image as merchandise; what label would you affix to its container? If this picture represented a product, what descriptor would you use on its box? Suppose this image is commodity; what sticker would you apply to its wrapping? If this visual were a good, which label would you place on its package? Select one word that summarizes the essence of the picture. Identify solitary term that conveys the image's 's theme. Pick a single word that captures the core of the photograph. Find one word that represents the image's 's main idea. Decide on a singular term that reflects the image's s substance. What category would you assign to this image for database entry? How should this image be labeled within the database? Into which classification does this image fall for database purposes? What classification would you use for this image when organizing the database? How can this image be categorized in the database system? In a single term, capture the soul of this picture. Using one word, convey the spirit of this photograph. Summarize the core of this image with a lone word. With one word, express the heart of this visual. Condense the nature of this photo into a single word. Determine the most appropriate classification for this picture. Assign the best-suited label to this image. Identify the most relevant category for this photograph. Select the most suitable grouping for this image. Choose the most accurate category for this visual. Can you identify the main theme of this picture? What is the central focus of this photograph? Could you tell me the primary subject in this image? What stands out as the key element in this photo? What is the dominant feature of this visual? In which section of the store would this image be placed? Where in shop would you expect to find this image? This picture would be located in which part of the store? If you were shopping, in which aisle would you find this image? what store location would this image be categorized? Supply a single word that encapsulates this image. Offer one term that describes this photograph. Present a lone descriptor for this picture. Name a solitary word that defines this image. Identify one term that characterizes this
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photo. What caption would you write for this picture in a photography competition? How might you describe this photo in a caption for a contest? you were entering this photo in a contest, what caption would you use? What would be your creative caption for this image if it were in photo competition? Imagine this image in contest; how would you caption it? Choose a tag that best captures the central idea of this picture. Pick a title that reflects the core subject of this image. Assign a label that represents the primary theme of this photo. Identify a category that aligns with the main motif of this image. Determine caption that encapsulates the essence of this picture. Suggest the best-fitting tag for this picture. Provide the most suitable label for this photograph. Assign the most relevant tag to this image. Recommend the most accurate tag for this visual. Select the most fitting descriptor for this image. What keyword most accurately captures the essence of this image? Can you identify a single keyword that encapsulates the main theme of this image? Which keyword would you choose to represent the core idea of this image? What keyword serves as the best descriptor for this image? Identify the keyword that best defines the central concept of this image. What caption would you give this artwork for a gallery display? How might you label this photograph in a museum setting? What name would you assign to this piece for art show? How would you deseribe this painting on an exhibition placard? What inscription would you use for this image in a curated collection? Generate a concise label for the image's subject. Create a brief description for what the image depicts. Formulate a short title summarizing the image's theme. Assign a clear tag that encapsulates the image's 's essence. Devise an informative caption for the image's 's main focus. Select a term that best categorizes this image with similar ones. Pick a word that most effectively groups this image with others of its kind. Identify label that best associates this image with comparable images. Find word that most suitably links this image with others like it. Determine a term that best connects this image to those that resemble it. How might a museum plaque describe this artwork? What description would accompany this image in an art exhibit? If displayed in a gallery, what would the caption say about this image? How would a curator title this piece for museum show? What label would this image receive if placed in an art collection? Describe this picture with a single theme word. Identify a one-word theme for this image. Summarize this photo using just one central word. Select single word to encapsulate the theme of this image. Tag this image with one-word thematic label. Label this image with its main identifier. Assign a key tag to this picture. Attach the primary description to this photo. Mark this photograph with its core feature. Designate principal tag for this image. What is the central message conveyed by this image? What is the predominant feeling expressed in this photo? What is the primary idea depicted in this artwork? What is the main concept illustrated by this picture? What is the key narrative presented in this photograph? Identify a descriptive category for this image. Assign label to this image. Determine fitting class for this image. Designate an appropriate tag for this image. Select a suitable classification for this image. In which category would you place this image in the collection? What method would you use to organize this image within gallery? How do you intend to categorize this image among the other artworks? Under what criteria would you file this image in the archive? How should this image be classified in your photo library? Briefly determine the central focus of this picture. Clearly specify the primary element in this photograph. Succinetly point out the key subject in this image. Precisely highlight the main feature in this visual. Identify the core component of this image briefly. Imagine this picture as the front of a magazine; what headline would it have? Suppose this photo were featured on a magazine's 's cover, what title might it hold? If you consider this image as magazine cover, what would its main headline say? Picture this image as the front page of magazine; what title would display? Visualize this photograph as the cover of magazine; what caption would it carry? How would you label this picture in a database? What descriptor fits this photograph? What title would you assign to this visual? How would you categorize this graphic? What name would you give to this image file? Label this image using a single word. Assign a one-word category to this photo. Use a singular noun to describe this picture. Identify this picture with a single designation. Choose single term to characterize this image. If you could name this picture as a book chapter, what title would you choose? What title would you assign to this image if it were a chapter in a novel? Suppose this photograph were a chapter in a story; what would its heading be? How would you label this image if it served as a title for book chapter? Imagine this picture as chapter in book; what name would you give it? Choose the most appropriate category for this picture. Determine the best label for this photograph. Identify the most suitable classification for this image. Pick the most accurate classification for this photo. Assign the most relevant category to this image. Summarize the core theme of this picture using single term. Capture the spirit of this photo in one word. Describe the central element of this image with one word. Express the main idea of this photograph in a single word. Identify the fundamental concept of this image in one word. What tag would you assign to this
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image to simplify finding it later? How might you categorize this picture for straightforward access? Which description would you use to ensure easy retrieval of this photo? What annotation would you choose to efficiently locate this image? How could you classify this image to aid in simple retrieval? Identify the central subject captured in this image. Ascertain the primary focus depicted in this picture. Pinpoint the main topic highlighted in this photo. Discern the fundamental motif portrayed in this snapshot. Establish the principal element illustrated in this photograph. Summarize the core theme of this picture in single term. Capture the essence of this photo with one word. Distill the central focus of this image into a single word. Express the primary topic of this photograph in just one word. Convey the key idea of this image using one word. If this photograph were displayed in an exhibition, what title might it bear? Were this picture presented in a museum, how would it be described on placard? If this visual were part of art collection, what name might it be given? Suppose this image were showcased in a gallery, what label would suit it best? If this artwork were featured in a curated display, how might it be titled? Offer the briefest label for this image. Present the shortest description for this photo. Deliver the most succinct caption for this snapshot. Supply the minimal title for this visual. Give the shortest summary for this illustration. What title would you assign to this photo in collection? How would you label this picture for a digital gallery? What name would you give this image for storage in an album? How would you catalog this photograph in an archive? What designation would you use for this image in a photo library? Select a term that best describes the primary subject of the image. Identify a word that captures the essence of the image's 's core element. Pick descriptor that summarizes the focal point of the picture. Find a word that conveys the central theme of the photograph. Choose a word that encapsulates the image's 's key feature. How should this image be titled in the catalog? What label best suits this image for the catalog entry? What caption would you assign to this image a catalog? How would you describe this image in a catalog header? What heading would you use for this image in the catalog? Identify the main theme of this image. Determine the core concept of this photo. Pinpoint the central idea of this picture. Ascertain the fundamental element of this image. Recognize the key aspect of this photo. Which title would suit this image in the presentation best? What caption should this slide's s picture ideally have? How should this image be labeled for the slideshow? What heading would this photo in the deck benefit from most? Which tag should accompany this image in the slideshow? Identify the primary theme of this image. Ascertain the main subject of this picture. Establish the leading classification for this photo. Pinpoint the chief element in this photograph. Recognize the central focus of this image. Provide the central characterization of the image. Elaborate on the primary details of this visual. Describe the main elements depicted in the picture. Highlight the essential features of this photograph. Summarize the key aspects of the image. How might this illustration be referenced in the textbook glossary? In what way would this picture appear in the textbook's 's table of contents? What label would be used for this diagram in the book's reference section? How should this photograph be listed in the index of the textbook? Under what heading would this image be categorized in the textbook's 's appendix? Choose the term that most accurately captures the essence of this image. Identify the phrase that best encapsulates the theme of this picture. Determine the keyword that most effectively represents the concept of this image. Pick the word that best summarizes the main idea of this visual. Find the expression that most closely aligns with the subject of this photograph. Assign a category tag to this picture. Identify the classification label for this photograph. Determine the class label for this image. Specify a category for this image. Categorize this image using an appropriate label. What song title does this image remind you of? Imagine this image as a song title, what would you call it? If you could name a song after this image, what would its title be? Consider this image as inspiration for a song, what name would it have? How would you title a song based on this image? Determine the primary genre depicted in this image. Recognize the chief genre showcased in the photograph. Ascertain the dominant genre represented in this visual. Detect the principal genre illustrated in the reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
picture. Establish the leading genre captured in this photo. Select the most fitting label for this picture. Choose the most appropriate classification for this photograph. Identify the most suitable tag for this image. Determine the best category for this visual. Allocate the most relevant group for this snapshot. Summarize the primary concept of this picture in a single word. Identify the main idea of this image using just one word. Convey the essence of this photograph with one word. Capture the core theme of this visual in a solitary word. Express the central motif of this illustration in one word. How would you describe this image for inclusion in portfolio? What term would best characterize this image for a portfolio? What label would you assign to this image in a portfolio? How would you title this image for a portfolio presentation? What caption would you give this image for portfolio? Provide label that encapsulates the essence of the image. Create a one-word word descriptor for the image's 's theme. Identify the image using a concise keyword. Assign a brief tag that reflects the image's main idea.
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Generate single term that describes the image's 's subject. Picture yourself describing this image to a friend on a call. What single word would you use? Pretend you're 're telling someone about this image without them seeing it. How would you sum it up in one word? Visualize explaining this image to someone who can't see it. What one word would you choose to describe it? Envision you're narrating this image to someone over the phone. What is the one word you'd 'd use? Imagine you' 're conveying the essence Execute the photo categorization process on this picture. Provide the category in a single term. Conduct the visual recognition task on this image. State the result with one word. Carry out the image labeling operation on this photo. Deliver the label using only one term. Undertake the picture classification task for this image. Offer the label in one word. Implement the image sorting procedure on this picture. Present the label suceinctly in one word. Picture a child examining the photo. What might they eagerly point out and call by name? Visualize a youngster looking at the picture. What might they enthusiastically identify and name? Envision a kid studying the image. What might they excitedly recognize and name? Think of child observing the photo. What might they joyfully point to and name? Imagine a young one inspecting the picture. What might they happily identify and name? If this photograph were made into a jigsaw puzzle, how would the box describe the scene? What description would be on the cover if this image were transformed into a jigsaw puzzle? How would the puzzle box label describe this picture if it were used for a jigsaw set? If this picture became a jigsaw puzzle, what would the box caption say to depict the image? What would the box description read if this image were crafted into j Categorize the elements in this picture. Determine the subject matter of this photo. Identify the themes present in this image. Analyze the contents of this photograph. Assess the components within this image. How would you categorize this image if you were to assign label? What label might you choose if you were tasked with labeling this image? If labeling this image were your responsibility, which label would you select? Suppose you needed to label this image, what would your chosen label be? What label would you apply to this image if you were asked to label it? Which category most accurately represents this image? How would you classify this image? What type of category fits this image best? Under which category does this image fall? What is the most suitable category for this image? Summarize the main theme of this picture in one word. Identify the core element of this photo using just one word. Capture the essence of this image with a single word. Convey the primary focus of this scene in one word. Define the key feature of this photograph in one word. Determine the category of the object shown in this picture. Identify the class to which the item in this image belongs. Assign a classification to the object featured in this photograph. Classify the item presented in this visual representation. Establish the type of object illustrated in this image. If this picture were part of a photo collection, what caption would it have? If this photograph were included in album, how would it be labeled? If this snapshot were in a photo book, what title would it carry? If this image were placed in scrapbook, what would its description be? If this photo were in gallery, what would its tag say? Classify the elements within the picture. Sort the details present in the photograph. Organize the components of the visual. Group the features found in the image. Arrange the aspects of the photo. If you had to classify this image, which category would you choose? If you needed to place this image into category, which one would it fall under? If you were to assign this image to a category, which would it be? If you had to categorize this image, which category would it belong to? If you were to group this image into a category, which one would you select? What term best describes this picture? Which word comes to mind when you view this image? What label would you give to this photo? How would you tag this image with single keyword? What descriptor fits this image the most? Categorize this photo with an appropriate label. Determine an accurate category for this picture. Assign an appropriate label to this photograph. Choose a fitting classification for this image. Identify suitable category for this visual. If this painting were displayed in museum, which category would it fall under? If this photograph were exhibited, in which section would be placed? If this artwork were showcased, under what classification would it be listed? If this piece were part of an art show, which segment would it be included in? If this illustration were featured in an exhibition, where would it be categorized? Identify the predominant emotion conveyed by this picture using a single term. Summarize the central concept of this artwork in one word. Capture the primary subject of this photo with one descriptive word. Express the key idea of this illustration using just one word. Define the principal focus of this graphic with a single word. Which section should this image be filed under in the library? In what category does this image belong in library catalog? Where should this image be classified within the library system? What library category is appropriate for cataloging this image? Into which library classification should this image be sorted? Which label best describes this picture? What category is most appropriate for this photo? Which classification title suits this image the most? What tag should be applied to this image for optimum description?
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Which descriptive label would be most fitting for this picture? Offer single term that summarizes the content of this picture. Give one-word depiction of what this image portrays. State a solitary word that captures the essence of this photo. Present single word that describes the subject of this image. Supply a one-word characterization of this image's theme. How would you label this photo if you were to store it? What title would you assign to this picture for archiving purposes? If you were to categorize this image, what tag would you choose? Imagine saving this photograph; what descriptor would you apply? Which identifier would you select for this image during archiving? What would be the best category to assign to this image? How should this image be classified in terms of category? Which category label fits this image the best? What is the appropriate category for this image? Under which category should this image be labeled? What one word best encapsulates the essence of this picture? What single term most accurately describes the subject of this photo? What is the best single word to summarize the content of this image? What one term best defines the theme of this photograph? What single word best captures the main idea of this image?
Some Prompts for Image VQA. Are there chairs visible in the image? Are any vehicles visible in the image? Any clocks discernible in the image? Are there keyboards present in the image? Are phones visible in the image? Can you spot any cameras in the image? Are there televisions in the image? Are computers visible in the image? Any books noticeable in the image? Are there pencils in the image? Are there any bags visible? Any lamps visible in the image? Any mirrors discernible in the image? Are there beds present in the image? Any umbrellas visible in this image? Are any hats discernible in the image? Any candles present in the image? Are there musical instruments visible? Any paintings or artworks in the image? Any papers documents visible? Are there any cups visible in the image? Are vegetables visible in the image? Is any bread discernible in the image? Any meat visible in the image? Can you see any cakes desserts? Are eggs present in the image? Any beverages visible in this image? Can you identify any cheese in the image? Any candies visible in the image? Is ice cream noticeable in the image? Are trees present in the image? Is the sky visible in the image? Can you see any animals in the image? Are mountains visible in the image? Is water visible in the image? Are clouds discernible in the image? Can you spot any sand in the image? Any grass visible in the image? Are there rocks visible in the image? Any snow discernible in the image? there sunlight visible in the image? Any pathways visible the image? Are leaves discernible in the image? Is there fog noticeable in the image? Any rain visible in the image? Are beaches visible in the image? Any animals present in this image? Are bushes noticeable in the image? Any streams or rivers visible? Are there birds visible in this image? Are jackets visible in the image? Are pants visible in the image? Can you spot any scarves? Any gloves visible in the image? Are socks visible in this image? Any dresses discernible in the image? Are belts visible in the image? Any jewelry noticeable in the image? Are ties discernible in the image? Any backpacks present in the image? Are there windows visible in the image? Any doors noticeable in the image? Can you spot any roofs? Are stairs visible in the image? Any fences visible in the image? Are there arches visible in the image? Any railings discernible in the image? Are pillars visible in the image? Any bridges visible in this image? Are walls discernible in the image? Are cars present in this image? Any buses visible in the image? Can you any airplanes? Any motorcycles visible in the image? Are trains visible in this image? Any trucks noticeable in the image? Are boats or ships discernible? Are helicopters visible in the image? Any scooters noticeable in this image? Can you spot any skateboards? Are people visible in the image? Are there any children in the image? Is someone reading in the image? Are people eating in this image? Are people playing sports? Is anyone swimming visible? Are people walking noticeable? Are there cyclists visible? Are people wearing sunglasses? Is anyone using a computer visible? Are advertisements visible? Any traffic lights visible? Can you see any warnings or caution signs? Any logos visible in the image? Are there road markings visible? Any numbers or digits visible? Are there arrows visible in the image? Any letters discernible in the image? Can you see any maps? Any directional signs visible? Can you see any clouds in the image? Can you see a lake in the image? Can you see any rocks in the image? Can you see a waterfall in the image? Can you see grass in the image? Can you see a river in the image? Can you see snow in the image? Can you see any plants in the image? Can you see trees the image? Can you see sand in the image? Can you see any islands in the image? Can you see fog in the image? Can you see any fields in the image? Can you see a desert in the image? Can you see a forest in the image? Can you see ice in the image? Can you see hills in the image? Can you see a cave in the image? Can you see any birds in the image? Can you see any dogs in the image? Can you see any cats in the image? Can you see any horses in the image? Can you see fish in the image? Can you see butterflies in the image? Can you see bees in the image? Can you see cows in the image? Can you see any elephants in the image? Can
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you see a bear in the image? Can you see monkeys in the image? Can you see sheep in the image? Can you see any ducks in the image? Can you see any insects in the image? Can you see a car in the image? Can you see a bicycle in the image? Can you see motorcycle in the image? Can you see train in the image? Can you see an airplane in the image? Can you see a helicopter in the image? Can you see a boat in the image? Can you see a truck in the image? Can you see a scooter in the image? Can you see a skateboard in the image? Can you see a ship in the image? Can you see a taxi in the image? Can you see any chairs in the image? Can you see sofa in the image? Can you see a television in the image? Can you see a computer in the image? Can you see a refrigerator in the image? Can you you see a lamp in the image? Can you see any pillows in the image? Can you see shelves in the image? Can you see sink in the image? Can you see mirrors in the image? Can you see any beds in the image? Can you see any doors in the image? Can you see any fruits in the image? Can you see vegetables in the image? Can you bread in the image? Can you see ice cream in the image? Can you see pizza in the image? Can you see any cakes in the image? Can you see meat in the image? Can you see eggs in the image? Can you see any candy in the image? Can you see bottles in the image? Can you see hats in the image? Can you see shoes in the image? Can you see gloves in the image? Can you see sunglasses in the image? Can you see jackets in the image? Can you see ties in the image? Can you see scarves in the image? Can you see socks in the image? Can you see belts in the image? Can you see dresses in the image? Can you see coats in the image? Can you see any bags in the image? Can you see bridge in the image? Can you see fences in the image? Can you see walls in the image? Can you see chimney in the image? Can you see any towers the image? Can you see rooftop in the image? Can you see arches in the image? Can you see a balcony in the image? Can you see street lamps in the image? Can you see any tunnels in the image? Can you see a street sign in the image? Can you see sidewalks in the image? Can you see traffic lights in the image? Can you see crosswalks in the image? Can you see benches in the image? Can you see statues in the image? Can you see parking meters in the image? Can you see trash cans in the image? Can you see graffiti in the image? Can you see any advertisements in the image? Does the image show mountains? Does the image include trees? Does the image depict a forest? Does the image contain beach? Does the image show clouds? Does the image depict snow? Does the image display rain? Does the image feature flowers? Does the image include grass? Does the image show a sunset or sunrise? Does the image contain rocks? Does the image show waterfalls? Does the image depict sand dunes? Does the image feature ice formations? Does the image include foggy weather? Does the image display a desert? Does the image contain hills? Does the image show an island? Does the image feature wildlife? Does the image depict underwater scenes? Does the image contain birds? Does the image feature mammals? Does the image depict domestic pets? Does the image include insects? Does the image show marine animals? Does the image contain reptiles? Does the image feature farm animals? Does the image depict endangered species? Does the image display a zoo environment? Does the image contain butterflies? Does the image depict airplanes? Does the image contain bicycles? Does the image display motorcycles? Does the image feature boats or ships? Does the image depict trains? Does the image include buses? Does the image contain cars? Does the image show emergency vehicles? Does the image include trucks? Does the image feature construction vehicles? Does the image show skyscrapers? Does the image contain bridges? Does the image depict historical buildings? Does the image show street signs? Does the image include sidewalks? Does the image feature tunnels? Does the image depict balconies? Does the image contain windows? Does the image show doors? Does the image feature fences? Does the image contain kitchen utensils? Does the image feature appliances? Does the image depict beds? Does the image have carpets or rugs? Does the image contain curtains? Does the image feature bathrooms? Does the image have mirrors? Does the image display tables? Does the image include sofas? Does the image have chairs? Does the image feature computers? Does the image depict cell phones? Does the image contain televisions? Does the image include audio equipment? Does the image feature cameras? Does the image depict video game consoles? Does the image have headphones? Does the image contain printers? Does the image include chargers or cables? Does the image feature tablets? Does the image depict fruits? Does the image contain vegetables? Does the image include bakery items? Does the image show beverages? Does the image feature dairy products? Does the image contain candy or sweets? Does the image depict seafood? Does the image display a restaurant environment? Does the image feature cooked meals? Does the image contain a dining setup? Does the image contain shoes? Does the image depict hats or caps? Does the image feature dresses? Does the image include jewelry? Does the image display gloves? Does the image show jackets? Does the image contain scarves? Does the image feature sunglasses? Does the image include watches? Does the image depict ties? Does the
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image depict a sports event? Does the image feature athletic equipment? Does the image contain a playground? Does the image show a swimming pool? Does the image depict a stadium? Does the image contain camping equipment? Does the image show skiing activities? Does the image feature hiking trails? Does the image include yoga or fitness gear? Does the image depict eycling activities? Does the image contain street signs? Does the image show traffic lights? Does the image depict any logos? Does the image feature directional signs? Does the image include advertisements? Does the image contain graffiti? Does the image depict warnings or caution signs? Does the image display maps or directions? Does the image have identifiable words? Does the image include road markings? Does the image show people smiling? Does the image depict people running? Does the image contain children playing? Does the image depict people working? Does the image show people cooking? Does the image feature social gatherings? Does the image depict people shopping? Does the image show someone reading? Does the image contain people using devices? Does the image feature dancing activities? Does the image depict stormy weather? Does the image contain lightning? Does the image show clear skies? Does the image feature windy conditions? Does the image depict snowy landscapes? Does the image show sunny weather? Does the image display cloudy conditions? Does the image include a rainbow? Does the image depict icy conditions? Does the image contain rain puddles? Can you see rain in the image? Can you see a rainbow in the image? Can you see lightning in the image? Can you see wind effects in the image? Can you see snow falling in the image? Can you see sunshine clearly in the image? Can you see pencils or pens in the image? Can you see scissors in the image? Can you see a clock in the image? Can you see books in the image? Can you see a calculator in the image? Can you see musical instruments in the image? Can you see any cameras in the image? Can you see a microphone in the image? Can you see headphones in the image? Can you see umbrellas in the image? Can you see barrels in the image? Can you see forklifts in the image? Can you see pallets in the image? Can you see safety helmets in the image? Can you see toolboxes in the image? Can you see tent in the image? Can you see balloons in the image? Can you see candles in the image? Can you see rope in the image? Can you a picnic table in the image? Can you see camping gear in the image? Can you see ladders in the image? Can you see kites in the image? Can you see mailbox clearly in the image? Can you see fountain in the image? Can you see a hammock in the image? Can you see graffiti art in the image? Can you see construction equipment in the image? Can you see playground in the image? Can you see solar panels in the image? Can you see reflections in the image? Can you see smoke in the image? Can you see flames in the image? Can you see shadows clearly in the image? Can you see footprints in the image? Can you see anyone running in the image? Can you see people walking in the image? Can you see someone reading in the image? Can you see anyone cooking in the image? Can you people shopping in the image? Can you see any warning signs in the image? Can you see any directional arrows in the image? Can you see logos in the image? Can you see road markings in the image? Can you see flags in the image? Are video game consoles visible? Any board games noticeable? Can you spot puzzles? Are playing cards visible? Any dice noticeable? Are CDs or DVDs discernible? Can you spot radios? Are musical speakers noticeable? Any movie posters visible? Are headphones discernible? Are dogs visible in the image? Are cats visible in the image? Can you see any horses in the image? Are cows visible in the image? Any sheep discernible in the image? Are there any giraffes visible? Can you spot any monkeys in the image? Any fish visible in the image?
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[{"review_id": "UrPwqUp1p7", "reviewer": "Reviewer_8ePi", "summary": "This paper introduces a new approach to generate cross-image/prompt transferable adversarial examples by approximating the distribution of both image and text input. This method achieves a significant improvement compared to the previous methods.", "questions": "1. I notice the optimization step number is set to 300, while CroPA uses 2000. Will a larger step number lead to better performance?\n2. The author can also show the cross-model transferability of the proposed method, and compare the result with methods like [1].\n3. Can you provide more details on the efficiency analysis? It generates **all** adversarial examples. But the proposed method generates the cross-image perturbation for all data but CroPA generates adversarial examples for each data sample. Do I understand correctly? And what’s the size of the dataset used?\n\n[1] Gu, Chenhe, et al. \"Improving Adversarial Transferability in MLLMs via Dynamic Vision-Language Alignment Attack.\" arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.19672 (2025).", "limitations": "1. This approach approximates the distribution of a given prompt/image set, which might be ineffective under a prompt or an image from a different distribution. So it is crucial to sample a good prompt/image set.", "rating": 5, "confidence": 4, "soundness": null, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": 3, "clarity": 3, "significance": 4, "originality": 3, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "## Strength\n\n1. The proposed method achieves a significant improvement compared to the previous methods.\n2. Based on the simple intuition of approximating the distribution to improve the generalization/transferability of adversarial attacks.\n\n## Weakness\n\n1. Lack of results on state-of-the-art MLLMs, like Qwen2-VL, InternVL, as well as closed-source models.\n2. This method introduces a new computation to fit both the image and text distribution, as well as a sampling computation.", "was_revised": true, "final_justification": "I believe this is a good paper on the transferable adversarial attack on MLLMs and should be accepted.", "rebuttal": "**Q1: Lack of results on state-of-the-art MLLMs, like Qwen2-VL, InternVL, as well as closed-source models.**\n\n**A1:** Thanks for your suggestion. We provide experimental results on more state-of-the-art MLLMs, Qwen2-VL, InternVL, DeepSeekVL, on No Cross (N), Cross Images (I), Cross Prompts (P), and Cross Images/Prompts (IP) settings, as shown in the table below. It demonstrates that our attack can also achieve better performance against these MLLMs compared to other attacks. \n\n|Model|Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(I) EM-ASR|(I) CM-ASR|(I) Similarity|(P) EM-ASR|(P) CM-ASR|(P) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Qwen2-VL|PGD|63.3%|69.1%|0.676|0.0%|0.0%|0.046|28.4%|31.5%|0.334|0.0%|0.0%|0.059|\n|Qwen2-VL|CroPA|73.8%|76.6%|0.771|0.0%|0.2%|0.044|65.9%|67.5%|0.675|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|\n|Qwen2-VL|UniAtt|76.2%|79.7%|0.792|23.1%|25.6%|0.265|68.3%|69.6%|0.699|20.1%|21.5%|0.231|\n|Qwen2-VL|**Ours**|**81.2%**|**85.2%**|**0.838**|**44.6%**|**60.6%**|**0.487**|**77.2%**|**78.6%**|**0.775**|**42.7%**|**43.6%**|**0.457**|\n|InternVL|PGD|61.0%|67.4%|0.661|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|25.3%|26.8%|0.271|0.0%|0.0%|0.047|\n|InternVL|CroPA|73.1%|75.4%|0.742|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|64.6%|66.2%|0.668|0.0%|0.0%|0.081|\n|InternVL|UniAtt|75.4%|78.2%|**0.779**|22.7%|24.6%|0.248|64.8%|67.1%|0.692|21.6%|23.7%|0.245|\n|InternVL|**Ours**|**75.8%**|**79.0%**|0.745|**43.2%**|**44.7%**|**0.459**|**68.3%**|**70.9%**|**0.713**|**33.6%**|**37.2%**|**0.323**|\n|DeepSeekVL|PGD|72.8%|77.0%|0.715|0.0%|0.0%|0.037|21.2%|26.4%|0.247|0.0%|0.0%|0.101|\n|DeepSeekVL|CroPA|87.8%|88.6%|0.846|0.0%|0.3%|0.047|57.3%|59.3%|0.521|0.0%|0.0%|0.108|\n|DeepSeekVL|UniAtt|86.3%|88.2%|0.889|1.7%|33.7%|0.265|47.3%|48.9%|0.421|2.2%|27.3%|0.215|\n|DeepSeekVL|**Ours**|**89.1%**|**91.4%**|**0.908**|**44.1%**|**68.9%**|**0.507**|**79.7%**|**80.3%**|**0.798**|**43.2%**|**52.5%**|**0.427**|\n\nSince existing methods fail to attack closed-sourced MLLMs while these MLLMs are somewhat expensive, we try to re-implement our attack by replacing our white-box gradient backpropagation in Eq.(12) with the general black-box gradient estimation mechanism to attack closed-sourced MLLMs GPT-4o and Gemini-2.0 in the table below, where our attack is still effective.\n\n|Model|Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|GPT-4o|Ours|36.8%|52.6%|0.597|25.9%|39.1%|0.304|\u000b\n|Gemini-2.0|Ours|38.3%|50.4%|0.562|22.8%|38.5%|0.316|\n\nWe will add these experiments in the revision.\n\n**Q2: This method introduces a new computation to fit both the image and text distribution, as well as a sampling computation.**\n\n**A2:** Thanks for your concerns. Although our method introduces new distribution modeling and sampling computations, our attack is still competitively efficient compared to existing works as shown in the table below. (1) These two components are lightweight and their costs can be ignored compared with the overall costs, as the main cost of our attack is the latter gradient optimization process. (2) Our proposed attack is able to generate the universal adversarial example across images/prompts for the whole dataset in a single process, while existing attacks need to generate individual perturbation for each sample of the dataset. \n\n|Method|Component|Runtime|GPU Memory|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Cropa|-|16.2h|23.9GB|\n|UniAtt|-|4.9h|57.5GB|\n|Ours|Modeling Distribution|0.8h|26.5GB|\n|Ours|Sampling|0.1h|2.8GB|\n|Ours|whole process|5.5h|48.3GB|\n\n**Q3: I notice the optimization step number is set to 300, while CroPA uses 2000. Will a larger step number lead to better performance?**\n\n**A3:** As shown in the table below, a larger step number will introduce slightly better performance of our proposed attack. However, to take the balance between the complexity and performance, we set the step number to 300 as it is enough to achieve good performance.\n\n|Epoch Number|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|300|49.3%|98.0%|0.970|50.0%|57.3%|0.531|\n|2000|50.2%|98.1%|0.969|50.7%|57.9%|0.529|\n\n**Q4: The author can also show the cross-model transferability of the proposed method, and compare the result with methods like [1].**\n\n**A4:** Thanks for your comment. We have provided our cross-model transfer-attack experiments in Table 10 of the Appendix. To provide a detailed comparison, we re-implement your mentioned paper [1] (code is not released) in the table below. Results show that our attack achieves competitive cross-model attack performance, even our method is not specifically designed for cross-model attack.\n\n|Transfer|Method|EM-ASR|CM-ASR|Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|BLIP-2 to MiniGPT-4|[1]|**10.3%** (re-implemented)|**31.0%** (reported)|0.122 (re-implemented)|\n|BLIP-2 to MiniGPT-4|Ours|0.0%|19.4%|**0.129**|\n|MiniGPT-4 to BLIP-2|[1]|14.4% (reported)|18.1% (re-implemented)|0.127 (re-implemented)|\n|MiniGPT-4 to BLIP-2|Ours|**28.9%**|**32.3%**|**0.351**|\n\n\n**Q5: Can you provide more details on the efficiency analysis? It generates all adversarial examples. But the proposed method generates the cross-image perturbation for all data but CroPA generates adversarial examples for each data sample. Do I understand correctly? And what’s the size of the dataset used?**\n\n**A5:** Your understanding is correct. In Table 3 of the paper, we evaluate the costs of generating 200 adversarial examples from the dataset. For previous work CroPA, it generates adversarial examples for each sample individually, requiring redundant costs of 200 samples. Instead, our method only generates a universal adversarial perturbation in one single process, and this perturbation can be directly added to all samples for attacks without additional costs. Therefore, under the same realistic whole-dataset attack setting, our method achieves better efficiency. We will provide the detailed analysis in the revision.\n\n**Q6: This approach approximates the distribution of a given prompt/image set, which might be ineffective under a prompt or an image from a different distribution. So it is crucial to sample a good prompt/image set.**\n\n**A6:** This is a good question. Indeed, our attack performance is correlated to the sampling image/prompt set. Intuitively, a larger number of diverse samples can guarantee the generalization-ability of the modeled distribution, providing more reliable guidance similar to the real-world cases. Although we do not sample a large amount of data for distribution modeling due to resource costs, our work is proven to be robust enough to potential domain shift by the cross-dataset attack performance in Table 8 and Table 9 of the appendix. This is because we model the image distribution with sufficient natural images and model the text distribution with comprehensive task-relevant/-irrelevant prompts, leading to learn general distributions. The table below further indicates the scalability of our proposed attack where more diverse data helps the distribution modelling for improving the attack performance. \n\n|Transfer|Model|EM-ASR|CM-ASR|Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|LLaVA-1.5|49.8%|51.4%|0.532|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|BLIP-2|50.0%|57.3%|0.531|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|MiniGPT-4|47.2%|57.9%|0.513|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|LLaVA-1.5|49.3%|50.3%|0.526|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|BLIP-2|29.8%|40.1%|0.363|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|MiniGPT-4|26.8%|34.0%|0.307|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|LLaVA-1.5|51.7%|53.6%|0.557|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|BLIP-2|35.6%|48.1%|0.435|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|MiniGPT-4|34.5%|40.8%|0.329|"}, {"review_id": "Vb1Umye4XJ", "reviewer": "Reviewer_sgCL", "summary": "This paper proposes a novel cross-image/prompt adversarial attack method against multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The key idea is to model the distribution of image and prompt inputs using Laplace approximation, approximating them as Gaussian distributions. The authors then apply Monte Carlo sampling from these distributions to optimize a universal, input-agnostic adversarial perturbation that generalizes across unseen image-prompt pairs. Extensive experiments on LLaVA, BLIP-2, and MiniGPT-4, across MS-COCO and DALLE-3 datasets, show the proposed method achieves superior cross-image/prompt attack performance compared to existing baselines (e.g., PGD, CroPA, UniAtt).", "questions": "See weaknesses.", "limitations": "1. The method assumes that the modeled input distributions align well with unseen real-world inputs. In practice, distribution shift may degrade attack transferability.\n2. The study focuses on simple input-level defenses; it does not explore more advanced defenses (e.g., adversarial training, multimodal attention masking).", "rating": 4, "confidence": 3, "soundness": null, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": 3, "clarity": 3, "significance": 3, "originality": 3, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "## Strengths:\n1. Innovative distribution-based attack framework.\n2. Strong cross-sample results across multiple datasets and models.\n3. Efficiency: generates universal perturbations with reduced computational cost.\n\n## Weaknesses:\n1. The entire method and experiments assume full access to model internals, including gradients and architecture. The paper does not explore black-box, gray-box, or query-limited scenarios, which are far more relevant in real-world adversarial contexts where model parameters are typically inaccessible.\n2. Experiments only cover MS-COCO and DALLE-3; evaluation on more varied datasets (e.g., Flickr30k) would strengthen generalization claims.", "was_revised": false, "final_justification": "", "rebuttal": "**Q1: The entire method and experiments assume full access to model internals, including gradients and architecture. The paper does not explore black-box, gray-box, or query-limited scenarios, which are far more relevant in real-world adversarial contexts where model parameters are typically inaccessible.** \n\n**A1:** Thanks for your concern. We first want to claim that our work proposes to address an important issue of white-box cross-sample transferability, revealing the critical universality of attacks when facing redundant data scenarios in reality. Second, following your suggestion, we can extend our work to the practical scenario without using model gradients and architecture. Since gray-box setting still requires the knowledge of the MLLMs' visual encoder, we implement our attack in the most challenging real-world query-based black-box setting without using any prior knowledge of model parameters. \n\nSpecifically, since our distribution modelling and optimization components are independent to the adversarial learning, we can easily replace our white-box gradient backpropagation in Eq.(12) with the general black-box gradient estimation mechanism to estimate the gradient via iterative querying for optimization. As shown in the table below, we evaluate our attack performances on No Cross (N) and Cross Images/Prompts (IP) in the black-box setting with different query numbers. We can find that: (1) Our attack achieves good performance with sufficient query numbers in the black-box setting. (2) Our attack can also achieve competitive performance with limited queries. The above findings indicate that our attack can also handle the real-world black-box cases well, demonstrating the effectiveness and practicality of our proposed method. \n\n|Model|Attack|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|LLaVA1.5|Ours (White-box)|95.3%|96.0%|0.958|60.9%|61.3%|0.644|\n|LLaVA1.5|Ours (Black-box, 1000 query)|65.5%|70.1%|0.804|30.2%|32.0%|0.412|\n|LLaVA1.5|Ours (Black-box, 2000 query)|75.8%|80.9%|0.861|    38.4%|42.7%|0.489|\n|LLaVA1.5|Ours (Black-box, 4000 query)|83.6%|88.0%|0.905|47.1%|51.6%|0.566|\n|MiniGPT-4|Ours (White-box)|96.7%|99.3%|0.972|30.8%|52.4%|0.355|\n|MiniGPT-4|Ours (Black-box, 1000 query)|55.4%|69.8%|0.731|12.0%|30.3%|0.217|\n|MiniGPT-4|Ours (Black-box, 2000 query)|70.5%|83.1%|0.827|18.6%|41.7%|0.284|\n|MiniGPT-4|Ours (Black-box, 4000 query)|81.3%|91.4%|0.889|25.0%|48.9%|0.332|\n\n**Q2: Experiments only cover MS-COCO and DALLE-3; evaluation on more varied datasets (e.g., Flickr30k) would strengthen generalization claims.** \n\n**A2:** Thanks for your suggestion. First, we have provided experiments on more dataset SVIT in Appendix B.2. Second, we implement our attacks with more diverse datasets Flickr30k and NoCaps, on No Cross (N), Cross Images (I), Cross Prompts (P) and Cross Images/Prompts (IP) settings. In particular, we conduct visual commonsense reasoning tasks on Flickr30k and intent understanding tasks on NoCaps. As shown in the table below, our attack is still effective on diverse datasets and achieves better cross-image/prompt attack performance compared to other attacks. \n\n|DataSet & Model|Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(I) EM-ASR|(I) CM-ASR|(I) Similarity|(P) EM-ASR|(P) CM-ASR|(P) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|PGD|95.3%|95.3%|0.956|0.0%|0.0%|0.057|21.4%|22.6%|0.228|0.0%|0.0%|0.051|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|CroPA|82.3%|82.3%|0.836|0.2%|0.3%|0.066|70.2%|72.5%|0.727|0.0%|0.0%|0.053|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|UniAtt|80.3%|82.9%|0.822|22.1%|23.6%|0.237|66.3%|69.2%|0.708|20.3%|22.0%|0.217|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|**Ours**|**98.0%**|**98.0%**|**0.981**|**56.0%**|**56.5%**|**0.589**|**82.1%**|**86.3%**|**0.865**|**27.6%**|**35.2%**|**0.399**|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|PGD|60.9%|62.3%|0.621|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|24.6%|26.5%|0.276|0.0%|0.0%|0.046|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|CroPA|30.4%|92.1%|0.625|0.2%|0.3%|0.116|29.1%|67.6%|0.493|0.0%|0.0%|0.054|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|UniAtt|**76.3%**|79.2%|**0.786**|21.5%|23.7%|0.233|56.1%|58.3%|0.577|19.4%|19.6%|0.205|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|**Ours**|68.4%|**96.1%**|0.709|**52.7%**|**52.7%**|**0.565**|**57.2%**|**84.1%**|**0.723**|**36.7%**|**44.8%**|**0.460**|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|PGD|75.6%|75.6%|0.769|0.0%|0.0%|0.067|17.3%|17.6%|0.175|0.0%|0.0%|0.023|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|CroPA|94.1%|94.6%|0.948|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|71.6%|72.1%|0.720|0.0%|0.0%|0.038|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|UniAtt|82.4%|83.5%|0.843|24.7%|26.5%|0.266|68.2%|69.4%|0.701|19.1%|20.3%|0.199|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|**Ours**|**96.1%**|**96.1%**|**0.966**|**34.5%**|**53.6%**|**0.357**|**91.0%**|**91.5%**|**0.932**|**35.6%**|**38.3%**|**0.362**|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|PGD|95.8%|95.8%|**0.961**|0.0%|0.0%|0.085|37.7%|38.4%|0.396|0.0%|0.0%|0.045|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|CroPA|76.4%|76.4%|0.781|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|65.3%|66.7%|0.669|0.0%|0.0%|0.036|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|UniAtt|81.7%|81.7%|0.836|22.3%|24.1%|0.238|69.2%|70.9%|0.713|19.8%|22.1%|0.217|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|**Ours**|**96.1%**|**96.1%**|0.960|**64.3%**|**65.0%**|**0.694**|**91.6%**|**93.0%**|**0.936**|**42.6%**|**44.3%**|**0.488**|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|PGD|71.5%|72.0%|0.723|0.0%|0.0%|0.079|20.3%|20.9%|0.221|0.0%|0.0%|0.41|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|CroPA|29.6%|91.6%|0.630|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|27.5%|71.1%|0.551|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|UniAtt|**78.1%**|80.6%|0.803|19.6%|21.3%|0.204|56.9%|58.6%|0.573|17.9%|18.3%|0.181|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|**Ours**|68.2%|**98.0%**|**0.820**|**55.8%**|**57.4%**|**0.588**|**57.8%**|**81.9%**|**0.684**|**35.5%**|**42.4%**|**0.452**|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|PGD|92.7%|92.7%|0.935|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|31.6%|32.3%|0.328|0.0%|0.0%|0.064|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|CroPA|93.1%|93.5%|0.942|0.0%|0.0%|0.063|71.9%|72.6%|0.731|0.0%|0.0%|0.034|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|UniAtt|81.6%|82.9%|0.820|19.2%|19.7%|0.199|69.2%|70.6%|0.713|17.6%|17.9%|0.183|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|**Ours**|**98.0%**|**100.0%**|**0.984**|**20.2%**|**59.6%**|**0.366**|**96.1%**|**97.1%**|**0.966**|**26.7%**|**44.7%**|**0.357**|\n\n**Q3: The method assumes that the modeled input distributions align well with unseen real-world inputs. In practice, distribution shift may degrade attack transferability.** \n\n**A3:** Thanks for your concern. In fact, since we model the image distribution with sufficient natural images and model the text distribution with comprehensive task-relevant/-irrelevant prompts, our approximated Gaussian distribution is generalizable enough to handle the general image-prompt inputs in real-world cases. As proved in Table 8 and Table 9 of the appendix, our method can still achieve effective transfer-attack performance when transferring our generated perturbations across distribution-different datasets. The results shown in the table below also demonstrate that our attack is robust to distribution shift and is scalable to be further improved with more diverse data usage. \n\n|Transfer|Model|EM-ASR|CM-ASR|Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|LLaVA-1.5|49.8%|51.4%|0.532|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|BLIP-2|50.0%|57.3%|0.531|\n|MS-COCO to MS-COCO|MiniGPT-4|47.2%|57.9%|0.513|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|LLaVA-1.5|49.3%|50.3%|0.526|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|BLIP-2|29.8%|40.1%|0.363|\n|MS-COCO to DALLE-3|MiniGPT-4|26.8%|34.0%|0.307|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|LLaVA-1.5|51.7%|53.6%|0.557|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|BLIP-2|35.6%|48.1%|0.435|\n|MS-COCO+SVIT to DALLE-3|MiniGPT-4|34.5%|40.8%|0.329|\n\n**Q4: The study focuses on simple input-level defenses; it does not explore more advanced defenses (e.g., adversarial training, multimodal attention masking).** \n\n**A4:** Thanks for your comment. We implement more advanced defenses to provide convincing robustness evaluation, including adversarial training, multimodal attention masking, and MLLM defense FARE (ICML2024) of paper \"Robust CLIP: Unsupervised Adversarial Fine-Tuning of Vision Embeddings for Robust Large Vision-Language Models\", DPS (ICML2025) of paper \"Defending LVLMs Against Vision Attacks through Partial-Perception Supervision\". We follow the same setting in Figure 5 of our paper for comparison. As shown in the table below, the experimental results demonstrate that our proposed attack still achieves better transferability across images and prompts under various defenses, demonstrating our effectiveness and robustness. We will provide these defense experiments in the revision.\n\n|Defense|Attack| No Cross (similarity)|Cross Images/Prompts (similarity)|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Adversarial Training|PGD|0.258|0.021|\n|Adversarial Training|CroPA|0.264|0.013|\n|Adversarial Training|UniAtt|0.445|0.161|\n|Adversarial Training|**Ours**|**0.593**|**0.512**|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|PGD|0.377|0.023|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|CroPA|0.394|0.036|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|UniAtt|0.547|0.193|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|**Ours**|**0.669**|**0.587**|\n|FARE|PGD|0.299|0.047|\n|FARE|CroPA|0.306|0.036|\n|FARE|UniAtt|0.436|0.157|\n|FARE|**Ours**|**0.575**|**0.506**|\n|DPS|PGD|0.274|0.044|\n|DPS|CroPA|0.281|0.036|\n|DPS|UniAtt|0.429|0.146|\n|DPS|**Ours**|**0.567**|**0.512**|"}, {"review_id": "pUCfgcA34J", "reviewer": "Reviewer_kztc", "summary": "This paper proposes a novel adversarial attack against MLLMs under the cross-image/prompt scenario. Specifically, it models the potential image-prompt input distribution using Laplace approximation and optimizes a universal adversarial perturbation via Monte Carlo sampling from the distribution. Extensive experiments on prevalent MLLMs across multiple datasets demonstrate the strong generalizability and transferability across unseen image-prompt pairs.", "questions": "Please refer to the Weaknesses.", "limitations": "Yes.", "rating": 4, "confidence": 4, "soundness": null, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": 3, "clarity": 2, "significance": 3, "originality": 3, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "## Strengths \n\n- **Innovation**: The distribution-driven perspective is innovative, addressing the overfitting issue of existing attacks.\n- **Performance**: The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms previous attacks.\n- **Writing**: The paper is well-structured and easy to follow.\n\n## Weaknesses\n\n- Comparisons with more related adversarial attacks could make it more thorough to validate the superiority. \n- The robustness evaluation only contains two defenses. Analyses on more defenses (e.g. defenses against traditional adversarial attacks) are expected.\n\n**Minor Weakness**:\n- The placement of Figure 1 and Tables 2, 3, and 5 is inappropriate, affecting the visual flow of the text.\n- Table 4 should be positioned after Table 2 and 3.\n- The pipeline in Figure 2 is relatively cluttered. It is recommended to redraw it to clarify the connections between different steps.", "was_revised": true, "final_justification": "Most comments have been adequately addressed; the paper is now acceptable.", "rebuttal": "**Q1: Comparisons with more related adversarial attacks could make it more thorough to validate the superiority.**\n\n**A1:** Thanks for your suggestion. We re-implement more related adversarial attacks on No Cross (N) and Cross Images/Prompts (IP) settings to provide a comprehensive experimental comparison, including baselines MFAttack (\"On evaluating adversarial robustness of large vision-language models\"), Anydoor (\"Test-Time Backdoor Attacks on Multimodal Large Language Models\"), and XTransfer (\"X-Transfer Attacks: Towards Super Transferable Adversarial Attacks on CLIP\"). As shown in the table below, our attack still achieves better cross-image/prompt attack performance than these latest attacks, demonstrating our effectiveness. We will add these comparisons in the revision.\n\n|Model|Attack Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|LLaVA1.5|MFAttack|77.2%|83.0%|0.794|19.7%|21.1%|0.207|\n|LLaVA1.5|Anydoor|71.4%|74.3%|0.734|13.9%|15.3%|0.164|\n|LLaVA1.5|XTransfer|82.6%|87.5%|0.847|27.0%|33.2%|0.325|\n|LLaVA1.5|**Ours**|**96.7%**|**97.3%**|**0.970**|**49.8%**|**51.4%**|**0.532**|\n|BLIP-2|MFAttack|72.4%|76.6%|0.775|13.7%|17.2%|0.179|\n|BLIP-2|Anydoor|73.4%|75.3% |0.749|14.5%|15.1%|0.156|\n|BLIP-2|XTransfer|**79.3%**|82.9%|0.802|18.1%|23.8%|0.203|\n|BLIP-2|**Ours**|49.3%|**98.0%**|**0.970**|**50.0%**|**57.3%**|**0.531**|\n|MiniGPT-4|MFAttack|78.6%|84.2%|0.827|11.0%|22.7%|0.189|\n|MiniGPT-4|Anydoor|72.7%|75.8%|0.768|11.8%|13.3%|0.139|\n|MiniGPT-4|XTransfer|84.8%|88.6%|0.854|28.4%|33.9%|0.310|\n|MiniGPT-4|**Ours**|**97.3%**|**98.0%**|**0.977**|**47.2%**|**57.9%**|**0.513**|\n\n**Q2: The robustness evaluation only contains two defenses. Analyses on more defenses (e.g. defenses against traditional adversarial attacks) are expected.**\n\n**A2:** Thanks for your comment. We implement more defenses, including traditional defense strategies adversarial training, multimodal attention masking, and the latest MLLM defense FARE (ICML2024) of paper \"Robust CLIP: Unsupervised Adversarial Fine-Tuning of Vision Embeddings for Robust Large Vision-Language Models\", DPS (ICML2025) of paper \"Defending LVLMs Against Vision Attacks through Partial-Perception Supervision\", to provide more convincing robustness evaluation. We follow the same setting in Figure 5 of our paper for comparison. As shown in the table below, experimental results demonstrate that our proposed cross-image/prompt attack still achieves better transferability under various defenses, demonstrating our effectiveness and robustness. We will provide these defense experiments in the revision.\n\n|Defense|Attack| No Cross (similarity)|Cross Images/Prompts (similarity)|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Adversarial Training|PGD|0.258|0.021|\n|Adversarial Training|CroPA|0.264|0.013|\n|Adversarial Training|UniAtt|0.445|0.161|\n|Adversarial Training|**Ours**|**0.593**|**0.512**|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|PGD|0.377|0.023|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|CroPA|0.394|0.036|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|UniAtt|0.547|0.193|\n|Multimodal Attention Masking|**Ours**|**0.669**|**0.587**|\n|FARE|PGD|0.299|0.047|\n|FARE|CroPA|0.306|0.036|\n|FARE|UniAtt|0.436|0.157|\n|FARE|**Ours**|**0.575**|**0.506**|\n|DPS|PGD|0.274|0.044|\n|DPS|CroPA|0.281|0.036|\n|DPS|UniAtt|0.429|0.146|\n|DPS|**Ours**|**0.567**|**0.512**|\n\n**Q3: Minor Weakness: (1)The placement of Figure 1 and Tables 2, 3, and 5 is inappropriate, affecting the visual flow of the text. (2)Table 4 should be positioned after Tables 2 and 3. (3)The pipeline in Figure 2 is relatively cluttered. It is recommended to redraw it to clarify the connections between different steps.**\n\n**A3:** Thanks for your comments. (1) We will adjust the positions of Figure 1 and Tables 2, 3, and 5 to enhance the visual flow of the text in the revision.  (2) We will move the position of Table 4 after Tables 2 and 3 in the revision. (3) We will redraw and reorganize Figure 2 to display each step more clearly in the revision. We guarantee that all these modifications will be completed in the revision."}, {"review_id": "epqO7rpIWj", "reviewer": "Reviewer_RVog", "summary": "This paper proposes a generalizable cross-image/prompt adversarial attack method   from a novel distribution approximation perspective against Multimodal Large Language Models. This attack method first utilizes the Laplace approximation to model the distribution over prompts and images as two Gaussian distributions. It then employs the Monte Carlo mechanism to sample over the image and prompt distributions to optimize the image/prompt agnostic perturbation. Extensive experiments on different MLLMs and datasets validate its superior effectiveness and transferability compared with other attack methods.", "questions": "1.\tThe compared MLLMs are relatively old. Is the proposed attack method still effective against more latest models such as DeepSeekVL or DeepSeekVL-2? \n2.\tThe paper claims that it uses all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model to compute the cosine similarity between embeddings of adversarial output and target text. Why choose all-MiniLM-L6-v2 instead of other models? Do other different models can get the same results as mentioned in the paper? \n3.\tThe datasets used in experiments are limited. Is the proposed attack method still effective on other different datasets and other vision-language tasks?\n4.\tThe paper uses Gaussian distributions to approximate the prompt and image distributions. Do other different data distributions have similar results?", "limitations": "I suggest authors to add discussions on limitations in the paper instead of appendix.", "rating": 4, "confidence": 4, "soundness": null, "presentation": null, "contribution": null, "strengths": "", "weaknesses": "", "quality": 3, "clarity": 3, "significance": 3, "originality": 3, "strengths_and_weaknesses": "Strengths:\n1.\tThe paper is well-organized and easy to follow and the findings of this paper is interesting.\n2.\tThe paper provides very detailed mathematical explanation of the procedures of the proposed attack method, thus has good mathematical theoretical support. It offers a novel method for generating effective and transferable adversarial examples against different MLLMs.\n3.\tThe paper provides extensive and detailed experiments results to verify the effectiveness and transferability of the proposed attack method. On different MLLMs and datasets, this attack method can achieve much better cross-sample performance compared with other adversarial attack methods.\nWeakness:\n1.\tThe compared MLLMs are relatively old. The authors should test the effectiveness of the proposed attack method against more latest models such as DeepSeekVL or DeepSeekVL-2. Besides, the number of the tested MLLMs is too small, the authors should increase the number of the tested MLLMs.\n2.\tThe paper mentions that it uses all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model to compute the cosine similarity between embeddings of adversarial output and target text. However, it does not explain the reason for using all-MiniLM-L6-v2. Does the cosine similarity computed by other models is consistent with all-MiniLM-L6-v2?\n3.\tThe datasets used in experiments are limited. More different types of datasets are needed to further make the experiment results more convincing.\n4.\tThe paper only compare Gaussian distribution and fixed distribution to prove the superior performance of Gaussian distribution. More different types of distributions should be considered and discussed.", "was_revised": true, "final_justification": "After carefully reading all the responses from the authors, I have decided to keep my original score.", "rebuttal": "**Q1: The compared MLLMs are relatively old. The authors should test the effectiveness of the proposed attack method against more latest models such as DeepSeekVL or DeepSeekVL-2. Besides, the number of the tested MLLMs is too small, the authors should increase the number of the tested MLLMs.**\n\n**A1:** Thanks for your comment. We first want to claim that we follow the existing attacks PGD (CVPR2024), CroPA (ICLR2024), UniAtt (Neurips2024) to utilize the same MLLMs for fair comparison. Then, following your suggestion, we implement DeepSeekVL for comparison. We also implement the latest models Qwen2-VL and InternVL to provide a more comprehensive evaluation. All experiments are conducted on No Cross (N), Cross Images (I), Cross Prompts (P), and Cross Images/Prompts (IP) settings. As shown in the table below, our attack still achieves better cross-image/prompt performance than other attacks against these latest MLLM models, demonstrating our effectiveness. \n\n|Model|Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(I) EM-ASR|(I) CM-ASR|(I) Similarity|(P) EM-ASR|(P) CM-ASR|(P) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Qwen2-VL|PGD|63.3%|69.1%|0.676|0.0%|0.0%|0.046|28.4%|31.5%|0.334|0.0%|0.0%|0.059|\n|Qwen2-VL|CroPA|73.8%|76.6%|0.771|0.0%|0.2%|0.044|65.9%|67.5%|0.675|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|\n|Qwen2-VL|UniAtt|76.2%|79.7%|0.792|23.1%|25.6%|0.265|68.3%|69.6%|0.699|20.1%|21.5%|0.231|\n|Qwen2-VL|**Ours**|**81.2%**|**85.2%**|**0.838**|**44.6%**|**60.6%**|**0.487**|**77.2%**|**78.6%**|**0.775**|**42.7%**|**43.6%**|**0.457**|\n|InternVL|PGD|61.0%|67.4%|0.661|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|25.3%|26.8%|0.271|0.0%|0.0%|0.047|\n|InternVL|CroPA|73.1%|75.4%|0.742|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|64.6%|66.2%|0.668|0.0%|0.0%|0.081|\n|InternVL|UniAtt|75.4%|78.2%|**0.779**|22.7%|24.6%|0.248|64.8%|67.1%|0.692|21.6%|23.7%|0.245|\n|InternVL|**Ours**|**75.8%**|**79.0%**|0.745|**43.2%**|**44.7%**|**0.459**|**68.3%**|**70.9%**|**0.713**|**33.6%**|**37.2%**|**0.323**|\n|DeepSeekVL|PGD|72.8%|77.0%|0.715|0.0%|0.0%|0.037|21.2%|26.4%|0.247|0.0%|0.0%|0.101|\n|DeepSeekVL|CroPA|87.8%|88.6%|0.846|0.0%|0.3%|0.047|57.3%|59.3%|0.521|0.0%|0.0%|0.108|\n|DeepSeekVL|UniAtt|86.3%|88.2%|0.889|1.7%|33.7%|0.265|47.3%|48.9%|0.421|2.2%|27.3%|0.215|\n|DeepSeekVL|**Ours**|**89.1%**|**91.4%**|**0.908**|**44.1%**|**68.9%**|**0.507**|**79.7%**|**80.3%**|**0.798**|**43.2%**|**52.5%**|**0.427**|\n\n**Q2: The paper mentions that it uses all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model to compute the cosine similarity between embeddings of adversarial output and target text. However, it does not explain the reason for using all-MiniLM-L6-v2. Does the cosine similarity computed by other models is consistent with all-MiniLM-L6-v2?**\n\n**A2:** Thanks for your concern. We utilize all-MiniLM-L6-v2 as it is a well-known effective SentenceTransformer model for text embedding. In fact, our attack performance is not sensitive to this embedding encoder. Any latest text encoder can be utilized for the similarity calculation here. Specifically, we implement different text encoders for comparison, including clip-ViT-B-32, all-mpnet-base-v2. As shown in the table below, the results show that our attack can achieve similar performance with different embedding encoders.\n\n\n|Model|Text Encoder|(No Cross) Similarity|(Cross Images/Prompts) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|LLaVA1.5|all-MiniLM-L6-v2|0.970|0.532|\n|LLaVA1.5|clip-ViT-B-32|0.985|0.541|\n|LLaVA1.5|all-mpnet-base-v2|0.970|0.525|\n|BLIP-2|all-MiniLM-L6-v2|0.970|0.531|\n|BLIP-2|clip-ViT-B-32|0.984|0.563|\n|BLIP-2|all-mpnet-base-v2|0.969|0.530|\n|MiniGPT-4|all-MiniLM-L6-v2|0.977|0.513|\n|MiniGPT-4|clip-ViT-B-32|0.996|0.533|\n|MiniGPT-4|all-mpnet-base-v2|0.977|0.514|\n\n**Q3: The datasets used in experiments are limited. More different types of datasets are needed to further make the experiment results more convincing. Is the proposed attack method still effective on other different datasets and other vision-language tasks?**\n\n**A3:** Thanks for your comment. We conduct more experiments on diverse datasets Flickr30k and NoCaps, where Flickr30k is used for visual commonsense reasoning tasks and NoCaps is used for intent understanding tasks. As shown in the table below, our attack still achieves better performance than baseline attacks on different types of datasets, demonstrating our effectiveness and scalability. We will add these experiments in the revision.\n\n|DataSet & Model|Method|(N) EM-ASR|(N) CM-ASR|(N) Similarity|(I) EM-ASR|(I) CM-ASR|(I) Similarity|(P) EM-ASR|(P) CM-ASR|(P) Similarity|(IP) EM-ASR|(IP) CM-ASR|(IP) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|PGD|95.3%|95.3%|0.956|0.0%|0.0%|0.057|21.4%|22.6%|0.228|0.0%|0.0%|0.051|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|CroPA|82.3%|82.3%|0.836|0.2%|0.3%|0.066|70.2%|72.5%|0.727|0.0%|0.0%|0.053|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|UniAtt|80.3%|82.9%|0.822|22.1%|23.6%|0.237|66.3%|69.2%|0.708|20.3%|22.0%|0.217|\n|Flickr30k&LLaVA1.5|**Ours**|**98.0%**|**98.0%**|**0.981**|**56.0%**|**56.5%**|**0.589**|**82.1%**|**86.3%**|**0.865**|**27.6%**|**35.2%**|**0.399**|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|PGD|60.9%|62.3%|0.621|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|24.6%|26.5%|0.276|0.0%|0.0%|0.046|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|CroPA|30.4%|92.1%|0.625|0.2%|0.3%|0.116|29.1%|67.6%|0.493|0.0%|0.0%|0.054|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|UniAtt|**76.3%**|79.2%|**0.786**|21.5%|23.7%|0.233|56.1%|58.3%|0.577|19.4%|19.6%|0.205|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|**Ours**|68.4%|**96.1%**|0.709|**52.7%**|**52.7%**|**0.565**|**57.2%**|**84.1%**|**0.723**|**36.7%**|**44.8%**|**0.460**|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|PGD|75.6%|75.6%|0.769|0.0%|0.0%|0.067|17.3%|17.6%|0.175|0.0%|0.0%|0.023|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|CroPA|94.1%|94.6%|0.948|0.0%|0.0%|0.076|71.6%|72.1%|0.720|0.0%|0.0%|0.038|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|UniAtt|82.4%|83.5%|0.843|24.7%|26.5%|0.266|68.2%|69.4%|0.701|19.1%|20.3%|0.199|\n|Flickr30k&MiniGPT-4|**Ours**|**96.1%**|**96.1%**|**0.966**|**34.5%**|**53.6%**|**0.357**|**91.0%**|**91.5%**|**0.932**|**35.6%**|**38.3%**|**0.362**|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|PGD|95.8%|95.8%|**0.961**|0.0%|0.0%|0.085|37.7%|38.4%|0.396|0.0%|0.0%|0.045|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|CroPA|76.4%|76.4%|0.781|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|65.3%|66.7%|0.669|0.0%|0.0%|0.036|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|UniAtt|81.7%|81.7%|0.836|22.3%|24.1%|0.238|69.2%|70.9%|0.713|19.8%|22.1%|0.217|\n|NoCaps&LLaVA1.5|**Ours**|**96.1%**|**96.1%**|0.960|**64.3%**|**65.0%**|**0.694**|**91.6%**|**93.0%**|**0.936**|**42.6%**|**44.3%**|**0.488**|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|PGD|71.5%|72.0%|0.723|0.0%|0.0%|0.079|20.3%|20.9%|0.221|0.0%|0.0%|0.41|\n|Flickr30k&BLIP-2|CroPA|29.6%|91.6%|0.630|0.0%|0.0%|0.086|27.5%|71.1%|0.551|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|UniAtt|**78.1%**|80.6%|0.803|19.6%|21.3%|0.204|56.9%|58.6%|0.573|17.9%|18.3%|0.181|\n|NoCaps&BLIP-2|**Ours**|68.2%|**98.0%**|**0.820**|**55.8%**|**57.4%**|**0.588**|**57.8%**|**81.9%**|**0.684**|**35.5%**|**42.4%**|**0.452**|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|PGD|92.7%|92.7%|0.935|0.0%|0.0%|0.075|31.6%|32.3%|0.328|0.0%|0.0%|0.064|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|CroPA|93.1%|93.5%|0.942|0.0%|0.0%|0.063|71.9%|72.6%|0.731|0.0%|0.0%|0.034|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|UniAtt|81.6%|82.9%|0.820|19.2%|19.7%|0.199|69.2%|70.6%|0.713|17.6%|17.9%|0.183|\n|NoCaps&MiniGPT-4|**Ours**|**98.0%**|**100.0%**|**0.984**|**20.2%**|**59.6%**|**0.366**|**96.1%**|**97.1%**|**0.966**|**26.7%**|**44.7%**|**0.357**|\n\n**Q4: The paper only compare Gaussian distribution and fixed distribution to prove the superior performance of Gaussian distribution. More different types of distributions should be considered and discussed.**\n\n**A4:** Thanks for your comment. We provide more different types of distributions for comparison, including Uniform distribution and Gamma distribution, as shown in the table below. Since the Gaussian distribution is more suitable for large-size sample of great diversity, our modeled distributions through Laplacian approximation achieve the best performance. \n\n|Model|Distribution|(Cross Images) Similarity|(Cross Prompts) Similarity|(Cross Images/Prompts) Similarity|\n|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|:----:|\n|LLaVA-1.5|Uniform|0.353|0.927|0.245|\n|LLaVA-1.5|Gamma|0.132|0.828|0.085|\n|LLaVA-1.5|**Gaussian**|**0.688**|**0.945**|**0.644**|\n|BLIP-2|Uniform|0.437|0.562|0.239|\n|BLIP-2|Gamma|0.221|0.427|0.046|\n|BLIP-2|**Gaussian**|**0.582**|**0.671**|**0.522**|\n|MiniGPT-4|Uniform|0.403|0.961|0.314|\n|MiniGPT-4|Gamma|0.297|0.916|0.128|\n|MiniGPT-4|**Gaussian**|**0.661**|**0.973**|**0.355**|\n\n**Q5: I suggest authors to add discussions on limitations in the paper instead of appendix.**\n\n**A5:** Thanks for your suggestion. We will move the limitation discussion section from the appendix to the main paper in the revision."}]

Author rebuttal:

Meta-review: This paper proposes a novel adversarial attack on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that enhances transferability and universality across diverse image–prompt pairs. Unlike prior methods that overfit to specific inputs or datasets, the authors leverage distribution approximation theory—using a Laplace approximation to estimate mean and covariance of multimodal inputs—and Monte Carlo sampling to optimize a single, input-agnostic perturbation. This results in adversarial perturbations with strong generalization, enabling effective cross-image/prompt transfer attacks at lower resource cost. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves robust adversarial capabilities against a range of state-of-the-art MLLMs. During the rebuttal, the authors successfully addressed all reviewer concerns, and we have decided to accept this work. We encourage the authors to incorporate the promised changes and refinements in the camera-ready version.
Decision: Accept (poster)