Understanding and Defending VLM Jailbreaks via Jailbreak-Related Representation Shift

arXiv:2603.17372 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-18

Updated: 2026-10-15

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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