Adversaries can use crafted scene text to trigger overthinking in LVLM-based robots, producing transferable slowdowns up to 6.96x latency amplification.
Badreasoner: Planting tunable overthinking backdoors into large reasoning models for fun or profit,
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RecurGuard monitors recurrence rate, volume growth, and query progress in exposed reasoning traces to terminate generation on token-consumption attacks, reporting 99% detection on OverThink and 92% on ExtendAttack with near-zero false positives.
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Overthink-Triggered Slowdown Attacks on LVLM-Based Robotic Systems
Adversaries can use crafted scene text to trigger overthinking in LVLM-based robots, producing transferable slowdowns up to 6.96x latency amplification.
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RecurGuard: Runtime Monitoring for Reasoning-Token Consumption Attacks
RecurGuard monitors recurrence rate, volume growth, and query progress in exposed reasoning traces to terminate generation on token-consumption attacks, reporting 99% detection on OverThink and 92% on ExtendAttack with near-zero false positives.