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Iacopo Masi

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Cross-Modal Attention Acts as a Frequency Filter: Why Verbose Prompts Improve Robustness in Vision-Language Models

This work finds that the wording of the question affects VLMs in two opposite ways: verbose paraphrasing reduces drift variance by 70--81% on the 8B models and the practical recipe---pad the prompt---further yields measurable gains in accuracy, even under image corruption.

Farooq Ahmad Wani, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Mujtaba Hussain Mirza et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

Architectural Backdoors in Vision-Language Model Supply Chains via Representation Steering

This paper introduces dormant steering logic into the model architecture through a trigger-gated additive modification of an intermediate representation, without poisoning training data, controlling downstream fine-tuning, or modifying prompts at deployment time.

M. Briglia, Igor Maljkovic, A. E. Cinà et al. · 0 citations