Visual Memory Attacks Can Persist Through The KV Cache

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (David Dobre, Leo Schwinn, Gauthier Gidel, Spandana Gella, Perouz Taslakian, Pierre-Andr\'e No\"el)

Summary by Cyber Security News8 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.09027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language model systems operate autonomously over increasingly long contexts containing untrusted text and images. Can an adversarial input continue to steer a model even after that input is removed from its context?

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