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most citedVisual Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

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19 papers

cs.MA2026

SafeFlow: Semantic Information-Flow Control for Blocking Malicious Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems

Haowen Dai, Zonghao Ying, Wenfeng Li +10

Multi-agent systems improve capability through task decomposition and role specialization, but these same mechanisms introduce an important safety blind spot: a harmful objective c…

cs.CV2026

SafeGen: Goal-Conditioned Video Diffusion of Safety-Critical Scenarios for VLM-Based Autonomous Driving

Jiangfan Liu, Zexuan Cui, Tianyuan Zhang +7

VLMs are increasingly deployed in AD systems, creating an urgent need for rigorous safety evaluation under rare yet safety-critical scenarios. Among these, interactions with vulner…

cs.CV2026

Technical Report on the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Challenge

Tianyuan Zhang, Zonglei Jing, Jiangfan Liu +47

Vision-language agents (VLAs) are increasingly used to interpret complex driving scenes and support safety-critical reasoning. This report presents the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Cha…

cs.CV2026

Benchmarking the Robustness of Autonomous Driving to Environmental Illusions: A Lane Perception Perspective

Tianyuan Zhang, Xianglong Liu, Aishan Liu +6

Environmental illusions (eg., shadows, reflections, and tire marks) are naturally existing yet overlooked phenomena in real-world driving environments. They can disturb visual perc…

cs.AI2026

GuardAD: Safeguarding Autonomous Driving MLLMs via Markovian Safety Logic

Tianyuan Zhang, Peng Yue, Zihao Peng +8

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly integrated into autonomous driving (AD) systems; however, they remain vulnerable to diverse safety threats, particularly i…

cs.CR2026

Evolving Deception: When Agents Evolve, Deception Wins

Zonghao Ying, Haowen Dai, Tianyuan Zhang +6

Self-evolving agents offer a promising path toward scalable autonomy. However, in this work, we show that in competitive environments, self-evolution can instead give rise to a ser…

cs.CV2025

Adversarial Generation and Collaborative Evolution of Safety-Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles

Jiangfan Liu, Yongkang Guo, Fangzhi Zhong +7

The generation of safety-critical scenarios in simulation has become increasingly crucial for safety evaluation in autonomous vehicles prior to road deployment in society. However,…

cs.CV2025

Bench2ADVLM: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for Vision-language Models in Autonomous Driving

Tianyuan Zhang, Ting Jin, Lu Wang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving (AD). However, current performance evaluation protocols for VLM-based AD systems (…

cs.RO2025

MetAdv: A Unified and Interactive Adversarial Testing Platform for Autonomous Driving

Aishan Liu, Jiakai Wang, Tianyuan Zhang +6

Evaluating and ensuring the adversarial robustness of autonomous driving (AD) systems is a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper introduces MetAdv, a novel adversarial test…

cs.CV2025

Manipulating Multimodal Agents via Cross-Modal Prompt Injection

Le Wang, Zonghao Ying, Tianyuan Zhang +5

The emergence of multimodal large language models has redefined the agent paradigm by integrating language and vision modalities with external data sources, enabling agents to bett…

cs.CV2025

Black-Box Adversarial Attack on Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Lu Wang, Tianyuan Zhang, Yang Qu +5

Vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly advanced autonomous driving (AD) by enhancing reasoning capabilities; however, these models remain highly susceptible to adversaria…

cs.SE2024

BDefects4NN: A Backdoor Defect Database for Controlled Localization Studies in Neural Networks

Yisong Xiao, Aishan Liu, Xinwei Zhang +6

Pre-trained large deep learning models are now serving as the dominant component for downstream middleware users and have revolutionized the learning paradigm, replacing the tradit…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Visual Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Tianyuan Zhang, Lu Wang, Xinwei Zhang +7

Vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly advanced autonomous driving (AD) by enhancing reasoning capabilities. However, these models remain highly vulnerable to adversarial…

cs.LG2024

Attack End-to-End Autonomous Driving through Module-Wise Noise

Lu Wang, Tianyuan Zhang, Yikai Han +3

With recent breakthroughs in deep neural networks, numerous tasks within autonomous driving have exhibited remarkable performance. However, deep learning models are susceptible to…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Module-wise Adaptive Adversarial Training for End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Tianyuan Zhang, Lu Wang, Jiaqi Kang +5

Recent advances in deep learning have markedly improved autonomous driving (AD) models, particularly end-to-end systems that integrate perception, prediction, and planning stages,…

cs.AI2024

Compromising Embodied Agents with Contextual Backdoor Attacks

Aishan Liu, Yuguang Zhou, Xianglong Liu +9

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the development of embodied intelligence. By providing a few contextual demonstrations, developers can utilize the extensive internal…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

LanEvil: Benchmarking the Robustness of Lane Detection to Environmental Illusions

Tianyuan Zhang, Lu Wang, Hainan Li +5

Lane detection (LD) is an essential component of autonomous driving systems, providing fundamental functionalities like adaptive cruise control and automated lane centering. Existi…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Jailbreak Vision Language Models via Bi-Modal Adversarial Prompt

Zonghao Ying, Aishan Liu, Tianyuan Zhang +4

In the realm of large vision language models (LVLMs), jailbreak attacks serve as a red-teaming approach to bypass guardrails and uncover safety implications. Existing jailbreaks pr…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Towards Robust Physical-world Backdoor Attacks on Lane Detection

Xinwei Zhang, Aishan Liu, Tianyuan Zhang +2

Deep learning-based lane detection (LD) plays a critical role in autonomous driving systems, such as adaptive cruise control. However, it is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existin…