用扩散模型净化图像并优化提示词,提升多模态模型抗攻击能力。
CoDefend: Cross-Modal Collaborative Defense via Diffusion Purification and Prompt Optimization
- 基于有监督扩散模型,利用对抗样本对训练,定向修复图像
- 在图文生成和视觉问答任务中,对未知攻击的防御准确率提升超20%
- 适合需要高安全性的多模态应用,如内容审核、医疗诊断
多模态大语言模型(MLLM)在图像描述、视觉问答和跨模态推理等任务中表现卓越,但其多模态特性也使其易受对抗攻击。攻击者可扰动视觉或文本模态,甚至联合扰动,诱导有害或违规输出。现有防御方法如对抗训练仅对已知攻击有效且计算成本高,传统净化方法则常导致图像质量下降且泛化能力弱。本文聚焦视觉模态这一主要攻击入口,提出一种基于监督扩散的去噪框架,利用成对的对抗样本与干净图像数据集微调扩散模型,获得任务导向的定向修复能力。相比无监督方法DiffPure,本方法在重建质量与防御鲁棒性上均有显著提升。同时引入提示词优化作为补充机制,增强对多样化未知攻击的抵抗能力。在图像描述与视觉问答任务上的大量实验表明,该方法不仅大幅提高防御效果,还具备强迁移性。结果证明,监督式扩散去噪为多模态防御提供了有效路径,推动了MLLM在真实场景中的可靠部署。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal reasoning by integrating visual and textual modalities. However, their multimodal nature also exposes them to adversarial threats, where attackers can perturb either modality or both jointly to induce harmful, misleading, or policy violating outputs. Existing defense strategies, such as adversarial training and input purification, face notable limitations: adversarial training typically improves robustness only against known attacks while incurring high computational costs, whereas conventional purification approaches often suffer from degraded image quality and insufficient generalization to complex multimodal tasks. In this work, we focus on defending the visual modality, which frequently serves as the primary entry point for adversarial manipulation. We propose a supervised diffusion based denoising framework that leverages paired adversarial clean image datasets to fine-tune diffusion models with directional, task specific guidance. Unlike prior unsupervised purification methods such as DiffPure, our approach achieves higher quality reconstructions while significantly improving defense robustness in multimodal tasks. Furthermore, we incorporate prompt optimization as a complementary defense mechanism, enhancing resistance against diverse and unseen attack strategies. Extensive experiments on image captioning and visual question answering demonstrate that our method not only substantially improves robustness but also exhibits strong transferability to unknown adversarial attacks. These results highlight the effectiveness of supervised diffusion based denoising for multimodal defense, paving the way for more reliable and secure deployment of MLLMs in real world applications.
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