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Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 24 of 24 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2509.00373.

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Observation b0708b9c-3417-4db4-a5a7-af4755228e2e · outbound

This paper cites Personalized Steering of Large Language Models: Versatile Steering Vectors Through Bi-directional Preference Optimization.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Personalized Steering of Large Language Models: Versatile Steering Vectors Through Bi-directional Preference Optimization

Reference 5

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Observation 3227f213-a1aa-4f19-81e2-84ec332bb600 · outbound

This paper cites MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

Reference 7

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Observation abffdf20-d6b4-49db-b979-225b93a0e9c2 · outbound

This paper cites Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Red Teaming Language Models to Reduce Harms: Methods, Scaling Behaviors, and Lessons Learned

Reference 8

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Observation 348f2d69-e9be-4c67-a1e5-92c1f97f128c · outbound

This paper cites org/abs/2502.01042.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models org/abs/2502.01042

Reference 11

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Observation a4ea9379-7816-4e1a-ae76-8f8b17bb589c · outbound

This paper cites Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model

Reference 12

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Observation 4a534b28-1ab2-4c06-b50e-4a969a466e5e · outbound

This paper cites AutoDAN: Generating Stealthy Jailbreak Prompts on Aligned Large Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models AutoDAN: Generating Stealthy Jailbreak Prompts on Aligned Large Language Models

Reference 13

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Observation 95ee2fb0-ff21-425e-be10-c99c8bf9b066 · outbound

This paper cites HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models HarmBench: A Standardized Evaluation Framework for Automated Red Teaming and Robust Refusal

Reference 14

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Observation 3b940c23-c3cf-4361-8f61-dc2aa2003cf5 · outbound

This paper cites Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Reference 15

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Observation 91a1b601-a548-4dff-be26-deed374c2d07 · outbound

This paper cites The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models

Reference 16

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Observation 2a5973cb-a02f-4be9-a475-36a9752362cd · outbound

This paper cites Visual Adversarial Examples Jailbreak Aligned Large Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Visual Adversarial Examples Jailbreak Aligned Large Language Models

Reference 17

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Observation f7401d2b-0a18-4308-9b08-2dd5c8c7f73a · outbound

This paper cites On the Adversarial Robustness of Multi-Modal Foundation Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models On the Adversarial Robustness of Multi-Modal Foundation Models

Reference 18

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Observation ddd9d865-c49b-4625-bf38-8cd50f50e119 · outbound

This paper cites Learning to summarize from human feedback.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Learning to summarize from human feedback

Reference 20

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Observation 646136b6-51c0-4fa4-95bb-153dfd9e1ad3 · outbound

This paper cites LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications

Reference 21

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Observation 0c001538-34a8-42f6-9972-7f97dea0a2fb · outbound

This paper cites Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences

Reference 22

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Observation a5373c59-f4d4-4435-8a6e-e0ef15286754 · outbound

This paper cites Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models

Reference 23

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Observation 5fbaf813-d142-41e0-8e51-156b1b7b5221 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Understanding and Rectifying Safety Perception Distortion in VLMs

Reference 24

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Observation 5fedac94-aaaf-46b5-9e1d-666e7eed10a6 · outbound

This paper cites semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:125209808.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:125209808

Reference 1952

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Observation 7705a784-fd13-4e0a-bbfd-754c2a849208 · outbound

This paper cites Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

Reference 2017

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Observation 11528131-98cc-44e4-9a0f-d85f6e415ec6 · outbound

This paper cites RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models

Reference 2020

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Observation 6fe0083e-acf1-4012-91ef-9c0ad18e8301 · outbound

This paper cites A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment

Reference 2021

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Observation 997c3dc8-d86b-472d-abb7-23ae05a9a131 · outbound

This paper cites Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Reference 2022

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Observation 4fd7a290-1e3c-4ead-8c4d-74ec6625fbee · outbound

This paper cites MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models MiniGPT-v2: large language model as a unified interface for vision-language multi-task learning

Reference 2023

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Observation 6cc7a34f-f324-447c-82fc-6cdea44c5e2d · outbound

This paper cites Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Reference 2024

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Observation c4b7143d-a5e2-4c76-abb8-656d7930f615 · outbound

This paper cites FigStep: Jailbreaking Large Vision-Language Models via Typographic Visual Prompts.

Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models FigStep: Jailbreaking Large Vision-Language Models via Typographic Visual Prompts

Reference 2025

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Observation f4736f01-8815-4b13-9e3e-564cff6477db · inbound

ASRU: Activation Steering Meets Reinforcement Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models cites this paper.

ASRU: Activation Steering Meets Reinforcement Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models Activation Steering Meets Preference Optimization: Defense Against Jailbreaks in Vision Language Models

Reference 24

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