arXiv:2601.12042cs.CRcs.AI2026-01被引 2

压缩视觉令牌会严重削弱大模型的鲁棒性,引发隐蔽安全漏洞。

Less Is More -- Until It Breaks: Security Pitfalls of Vision Token Compression in Large Vision-Language Models

  • 发现压缩过程中的令牌重要性排序不稳定,导致关键信息被误删。
  • 压缩后模型在微小扰动下易失效,未压缩时却表现正常。
  • 提出可针对压缩机制的攻击方法,适用于黑盒场景。

视觉令牌压缩被广泛用于提升大视觉语言模型(LVLMs)的推理效率,使其适用于延迟敏感和资源受限场景。然而,现有研究主要关注效率与性能,忽视了压缩带来的安全风险。本文首次揭示:视觉令牌压缩会显著降低LVLMs的鲁棒性——原本鲁棒的模型在启用压缩后变得高度脆弱。此类漏洞具有状态依赖性:仅在压缩设置下出现,关闭压缩则完全消失,因而难以察觉。通过分析压缩流程,我们发现令牌重要性排序的不稳定性是主因:微小且不可察觉的扰动可大幅改变令牌排序,导致压缩机制错误丢弃任务关键信息,引发模型失败。基于此,我们提出压缩感知攻击(CAA),直接针对令牌选择机制,在压缩推理下诱发模型失效。进一步扩展至更真实的黑盒场景,提出可迁移的CAA(Transfer CAA),无需访问目标模型或压缩配置。实验验证多种模型、数据集与压缩方法下,压缩均显著削弱鲁棒性,揭示了一个此前被忽略的效率-安全权衡问题。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Visual token compression is widely adopted to improve the inference efficiency of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), enabling their deployment in latency-sensitive and resource-constrained scenarios. However, existing work has mainly focused on efficiency and performance, while the security implications of visual token compression remain largely unexplored. In this work, we first reveal that visual token compression substantially degrades the robustness of LVLMs: models that are robust under uncompressed inference become highly vulnerable once compression is enabled. These vulnerabilities are state-specific; failure modes emerge only in the compressed setting and completely disappear when compression is disabled, making them particularly hidden and difficult to diagnose. By analyzing the key stages of the compression process, we identify instability in token importance ranking as the primary cause of this robustness degradation. Small and imperceptible perturbations can significantly alter token rankings, leading the compression mechanism to mistakenly discard task-critical information and ultimately causing model failure. Motivated by this observation, we propose a Compression-Aware Attack to systematically study and exploit this vulnerability. CAA directly targets the token selection mechanism and induces failures exclusively under compressed inference. We further extend this approach to more realistic black-box settings and introduce Transfer CAA, where neither the target model nor the compression configuration is accessible. We further evaluate potential defenses and find that they provide only limited protection. Extensive experiments across models, datasets, and compression methods show that visual token compression significantly undermines robustness, revealing a previously overlooked efficiency-security trade-off.

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