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Despite their superb multimodal capabilities, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been shown to be vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, which are inference-time attacks that induce the model to output harmful responses with tricky prompts. It is thus essential to defend VLMs against potential jailbreaks for their trustworthy deployment in real-world applications. In this work, we focus on black-box defense for VLMs against jailbreak attacks. Existing black-box defense methods are either unimodal or bimodal. Unimodal methods enhance either the vision or language module of the VLM, while bimodal methods robustify the model through text-image representation realignment. However, these methods suffer from two limitations: 1) they fail to fully exploit the cross-modal information, or 2) they degrade the model performance on benign inputs. To address these limitations, we propose a novel blue-team method BlueSuffix that defends the black-box target VLM against jailbreak attacks without compromising its performance. BlueSuffix includes three key components: 1) a visual purifier against jailbreak images, 2) a textual purifier against jailbreak texts, and 3) a blue-team suffix generator finetuned via reinforcement learning for enhancing cross-modal robustness. We empirically show on three VLMs (LLaVA, MiniGPT-4, and Gemini) and two safety benchmarks (MM-SafetyBench and RedTeam-2K) that BlueSuffix outperforms the baseline defenses by a significant margin. Our BlueSuffix opens up a promising direction for defending VLMs against jailbreak attacks. There has been a notable surge in research focusing on incorporating multimodal capabilities into Large Language Models (LLMs), leading to the emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4o (Achiam et al., 2023) and Google's Gemini 1.5 (Reid et al., 2024).

Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks by injecting sophisticated designed perturbations to input data. In this paper, we investigate a new test-time adversarial defense method via diffusion-based recovery along opposite adversarial paths (OAPs). We present a purifier that can be plugged into a pre-trained model to resist adversarial attacks. Different from prior arts, the key idea is excessive denoising or purification by integrating the opposite adversarial direction with reverse diffusion to push the input image further toward the opposite adversarial direction. Through the lens of time complexity, we examine the trade-off between the effectiveness of adaptive attack and its computation complexity against our defense. Experimental evaluation along with time cost analysis verifies the effectiveness of the proposed method. It has been well known that deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks by injecting (imperceptible) adversarial perturbations into the data that will be input to a neural network (NN) model to change its normal predictions Athalye et al. (2018); Carlini et al. (2019); Croce et al. (2023); Frosio & Kautz (2023); Goodfellow et al. (2015); Gowal et al. (2021); Madry et al. (2018); Venkatesh et al. (2023). Please also see Chen & Liu (2023) for a recent review on the adversarial robustness of deep learning models. It can be found from the literature that adversarial attacks defeat their defense counterparts easily and rapidly, and there is still a gap between natural accuracy and robust accuracy.

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The recently proposed facial cloaking attacks add invisible perturbation (cloaks) to facial images to protect users from being recognized by unauthorized facial recognition models. However, we show that the "cloaks" are not robust enough and can be removed from images. This paper introduces PuFace, an image purification system leveraging the generalization ability of neural networks to diminish the impact of cloaks by pushing the cloaked images towards the manifold of natural (uncloaked) images before the training process of facial recognition models. Specifically, we devise a purifier that takes all the training images including both cloaked and natural images as input and generates the purified facial images close to the manifold where natural images lie. To meet the defense goal, we propose to train the purifier on particularly amplified cloaked images with a loss function that combines image loss and feature loss. Our empirical experiment shows PuFace can effectively defend against two state-of-the-art facial cloaking attacks and reduces the attack success rate from 69.84\% to 7.61\% on average without degrading the normal accuracy for various facial recognition models. Moreover, PuFace is a model-agnostic defense mechanism that can be applied to any facial recognition model without modifying the model structure.

Black-box query-based attacks constitute significant threats to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) systems since they can generate adversarial examples without accessing the target model's architecture and parameters. Traditional defense mechanisms, such as adversarial training, gradient masking, and input transformations, either impose substantial computational costs or compromise the test accuracy of non-adversarial inputs. To address these challenges, we propose an efficient defense mechanism, PuriDefense, that employs random patch-wise purifications with an ensemble of lightweight purification models at a low level of inference cost. These models leverage the local implicit function and rebuild the natural image manifold. Our theoretical analysis suggests that this approach slows down the convergence of query-based attacks by incorporating randomness into purifications. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet validate the effectiveness of our proposed purifier-based defense mechanism, demonstrating significant improvements in robustness against query-based attacks.

In this work, we propose a novel adversarial defence mechanism for image classification - CARSO - blending the paradigms of adversarial training and adversarial purification in a mutually-beneficial, robustness-enhancing way. The method builds upon an adversarially-trained classifier, and learns to map its internal representation associated with a potentially perturbed input onto a distribution of tentative clean reconstructions. Multiple samples from such distribution are classified by the adversarially-trained model itself, and an aggregation of its outputs finally constitutes the robust prediction of interest. Experimental evaluation by a well-established benchmark of varied, strong adaptive attacks, across different image datasets and classifier architectures, shows that CARSO is able to defend itself against foreseen and unforeseen threats, including adaptive end-to-end attacks devised for stochastic defences. Paying a tolerable clean accuracy toll, our method improves by a significant margin the state of the art for CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 $\ell_\infty$ robust classification accuracy against AutoAttack. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/emaballarin/CARSO .

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