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Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

6 accepted papers

2026

Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness

ICLR 2026poster

We **color-coded** the added changes to the **paper** and **Appendix** for the comfort of our reviewers. Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) are an increasingly deployed class of agents that take actions on GUIs to accomplish user goals. In this paper, we show that CUAs consistently exhibit *Blind Goal-Dir…

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2026

Misaligned Roles, Misplaced Images: Structural Input Perturbations Expose Multimodal Alignment Blind Spots

ICLR 2026poster

We **color-coded** the added changes to the **paper** and **Appendix** for the comfort of our reviewers. Multimodal Language Models (MMLMs) typically undergo post-training alignment to prevent harmful content generation. However, these alignment stages focus primarily on the *assistant* role, leavi…

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2025

Attention Eclipse: Manipulating Attention to Bypass LLM Safety-Alignment

EMNLP 2025

Recent research has shown that carefully crafted jailbreak inputs can induce large language models to produce harmful outputs, despite safety measures such as alignment. It is important to anticipate the range of potential Jailbreak attacks to guide effective defenses and accurate assessment of mode

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2024

Jailbreak in pieces: Compositional Adversarial Attacks on Multi-Modal Language Models

ICLR 2024spotlight

We introduce new jailbreak attacks on vision language models (VLMs), which use aligned LLMs and are resilient to text-only jailbreak attacks. Specifically, we develop cross-modality attacks on alignment where we pair adversarial images going through the vision encoder with textual prompts to break t…

Cited by 147SourcePDFScholar
2023

Jedi: Entropy-Based Localization and Removal of Adversarial Patches

CVPR 2023poster

Real-world adversarial physical patches were recently shown to be successful in compromising state-of-the-art models in a variety of computer vision applications. The most promising defenses that are based on either input gradient or features analyses have been shown to be compromised by recent GAN-…

Cited by 32SourcePDFScholar