Red Teaming Visual Language Models
Mukai Li Lei Li Yuwei Yin Masood Ahmed Zhenguang Liu Qi Liu
VLMs (Vision-Language Models) extend the capabilities of LLMs (Large Language
Models) to accept multimodal inputs. Since it has been verified that LLMs can
be induced to generate harmful or inaccurate content through specific test
cases (termed as Red Teaming), how VLMs perform in similar scenarios,
especially with their combination of textual and visual inputs, remains a
question. To explore this problem, we present a novel red teaming dataset
RTVLM, which encompasses 10 subtasks (e.g., image misleading, multi-modal
jail-breaking, face fairness, etc) under 4 primary aspects (faithfulness,
privacy, safety, fairness). Our RTVLM is the first red-teaming dataset to
benchmark current VLMs in terms of these 4 different aspects. Detailed analysis
shows that 10 prominent open-sourced VLMs struggle with the red teaming in
different degrees and have up to 31% performance gap with GPT-4V. Additionally,
we simply apply red teaming alignment to LLaVA-v1.5 with Supervised Fine-tuning
(SFT) using RTVLM, and this bolsters the models' performance with 10% in RTVLM
test set, 13% in MM-Hal, and without noticeable decline in MM-Bench,
overpassing other LLaVA-based models with regular alignment data. This reveals
that current open-sourced VLMs still lack red teaming alignment. Our code and
datasets will be open-source.