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cs.CV2026

GeoDetect: Geometric Adversarial Detection for VLPs

Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +2

The paper introduces GeoDetect, a method that uses geometric properties of vision‑language model embeddings to detect adversarial examples by measuring how far they deviate from th…

cs.LG2026

Semantic Robustness Certification for Vision-Language Models

Peiyu Yang, Paul Montague, Feng Liu +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) are now widely used in downstream tasks. However, real-world applications often expose VLMs to distribution shifts induced by semantic variation (e.g.…

cs.CV2026

Density-Aware Translation of Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot VLMs

Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1

Vision-Language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, achieve powerful zero-shot classification. However, their predictions remain sensitive to spurious correlations, where contextual cues…

cs.LG2026

TRACER: Persistent Regularization for Robust Multimodal Finetuning

Hesam Asadollahzadeh, Feng Liu, Christopher Leckie +1

Mainstream strategies for finetuning pretrained multimodal models often degrade out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness, a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting. In this paper,…

cs.LG2026

Mechanistic Anomaly Detection via Functional Attribution

Hugo Lyons Keenan, Christopher Leckie, Sarah Erfani

We can often verify the correctness of neural network outputs using ground truth labels, but we cannot reliably determine whether the output was produced by normal or anomalous int…

cs.CV2025

Exploiting Inter-Sample Information for Long-tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection

Nimeshika Udayangani, Hadi M. Dolatabadi, Sarah Erfani +1

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is essential for safe deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs). This problem becomes particularly challenging in the presence of long-tail…