Adversarial Attacks in Multimodal Systems: A Practitioner's Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03084v1
• Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 00:41:16 GMT
• Title: Adversarial Attacks in Multimodal Systems: A Practitioner's Survey
• Authors: Shashank Kapoor, Sanjay Surendranath Girija, Lakshit Arora, Dipen Pradhan, Ankit Shetgaonkar, Aman Raj,
• Abstract summary: multimodal models are trained to understand text, image, video, and audio.<n>Open-source models inherit vulnerabilities of all the modalities, and the adversarial threat amplifies.<n>This paper addresses the gap by surveying adversarial attacks targeting all four modalities.<n>To the best of our knowledge, this survey is the first comprehensive summarization of the threat landscape in the multimodal world.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The introduction of multimodal models is a huge step forward in Artificial Intelligence. A single model is trained to understand multiple modalities: text, image, video, and audio. Open-source multimodal models have made these breakthroughs more accessible. However, considering the vast landscape of adversarial attacks across these modalities, these models also inherit vulnerabilities of all the modalities, and ultimately, the adversarial threat amplifies. While broad research is available on possible attacks within or across these modalities, a practitioner-focused view that outlines attack types remains absent in the multimodal world. As more Machine Learning Practitioners adopt, fine-tune, and deploy open-source models in real-world applications, it's crucial that they can view the threat landscape and take the preventive actions necessary. This paper addresses the gap by surveying adversarial attacks targeting all four modalities: text, image, video, and audio. This survey provides a view of the adversarial attack landscape and presents how multimodal adversarial threats have evolved. To the best of our knowledge, this survey is the first comprehensive summarization of the threat landscape in the multimodal world.

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