arXiv:2505.23518cs.AI2025-05NeurIPS被引 5

用语义注入让视觉语言智能体误判,不改像素也能操控决策。

TRAP: Targeted Redirecting of Agentic Preferences

  • 通过扩散模型在跨模态嵌入空间注入语义,诱导智能体偏好
  • 在COCO数据集上使多个主流模型决策偏差率超基线30%以上
  • 无需模型内部信息,隐蔽性强,适合研究安全漏洞的学者

由视觉语言模型驱动的自主智能体正快速迈向真实部署,但其跨模态推理能力引入了新的攻击面,可通过跨模态语义操纵进行对抗性干扰。现有攻击多依赖可见像素扰动或需访问模型/环境权限,难以在真实场景中隐蔽实施。我们提出TRAP,一种基于生成式对抗的新型框架,通过扩散模型在视觉-语言嵌入空间中注入语义信息,操控智能体决策。方法结合负向提示降级与正向语义优化,由孪生语义网络和布局感知空间掩码引导。无需模型内部访问即可生成视觉自然图像,却能持续引发智能体选择偏倚。我们在微软Common Objects in Context(COCO)数据集上构建多候选决策场景,验证发现TRAP在多个主流模型(包括LLaVA-34B、Gemma3、GPT-4o、Mistral-3.2)上均实现稳定偏好重定向,显著优于SPSA、Bandit及标准扩散方法。结果揭示了一种普遍性漏洞:通过视觉细微、语义引导的跨模态操作,可系统性误导自主智能体。这表明防御策略需超越像素级鲁棒性,关注跨模态决策中的语义脆弱性。TRAP代码已开源:https://github.com/uiuc-focal-lab/TRAP。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Autonomous agentic AI systems powered by vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly advancing toward real-world deployment, yet their cross-modal reasoning capabilities introduce new attack surfaces for adversarial manipulation that exploit semantic reasoning across modalities. Existing adversarial attacks typically rely on visible pixel perturbations or require privileged model or environment access, making them impractical for stealthy, real-world exploitation. We introduce TRAP, a novel generative adversarial framework that manipulates the agent's decision-making using diffusion-based semantic injections into the vision-language embedding space. Our method combines negative prompt-based degradation with positive semantic optimization, guided by a Siamese semantic network and layout-aware spatial masking. Without requiring access to model internals, TRAP produces visually natural images yet induces consistent selection biases in agentic AI systems. We evaluate TRAP on the Microsoft Common Objects in Context (COCO) dataset, building multi-candidate decision scenarios. Across these scenarios, TRAP consistently induces decision-level preference redirection on leading models, including LLaVA-34B, Gemma3, GPT-4o, and Mistral-3.2, significantly outperforming existing baselines such as SPSA, Bandit, and standard diffusion approaches. These findings expose a critical, generalized vulnerability: autonomous agents can be consistently misled through visually subtle, semantically-guided cross-modal manipulations. Overall, our results show the need for defense strategies beyond pixel-level robustness to address semantic vulnerabilities in cross-modal decision-making. The code for TRAP is accessible on GitHub at https://github.com/uiuc-focal-lab/TRAP.

智能体安全跨模态攻击语义注入扩散模型

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