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cs.AI2026

A Cross-Architecture Audit of Direction-Based Inference-Time Defences in Vision-Language Models

Xiangyu Yin, Tora Bodin, Rohan Menon +1

The paper evaluates five direction‑based inference‑time defenses for vision‑language models across multiple architectures, finding that no single method works best for all models a…

cs.CR2026

When the Defense Writes the Refusal: Auditing Keyword-Scored Evaluation of Inference-Time Defenses for Multimodal Large Language Models

Bulat Nutfullin, Vladimir Evgrafov, Dmitry Namiot

The paper audits the evaluation of inference-time safety defenses for multimodal large language models, revealing provenance and implementation errors in benchmark pipelines and pr…