Can You Trust the Vectors in Your Vector Database? Black-Hole Attack from Embedding Space Defects

arXiv:2604.05480 · cs.CR, cs.DB · Submitted 2026-04-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.DB

Submitted: 2026-04-07

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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