
Hidden Defenders Against AI Jailbreaking
Detecting attacks on vision-language models through hidden state monitoring
HiddenDetect is a novel security framework that identifies jailbreak attacks against Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) by analyzing internal hidden states during inference.
- Leverages naturally-occurring safety signals within model hidden states
- Achieves 93.3% detection accuracy across multiple attack types
- Provides early warning capability before harmful outputs are generated
- Requires zero additional training and minimal computational overhead
This research is critical for security teams as multimodal AI systems face increased vulnerability to adversarial attacks. HiddenDetect offers a practical defense mechanism that doesn't sacrifice model performance while protecting against malicious prompts.