arxivcs.AI2026-07-23
V-DEAL: Diagnosing Video Safety De-Calibration as an Understanding-Refusal Coupling Failure
Zhetong Zhang, Honghao Fu, Miao Xu, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai
As Video Large Language Models are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, ensuring their safety alignment has become critical. Counterintuitively, we find that harmful videos paired with benign queries achieve higher attack success rates than the same videos paired wit…