Halligan

Introduction This repository provides the official artifact for the paper:"Are CAPTCHAs Still Bot-Hard? Generalized Visual CAPTCHA Solving with Agentic Vision Language Models" Our work explores the effectiveness of Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents in solving modern visual CAPTCHAs by leveraging reasoning, abstraction, and code synthesis capabilities. Contents benchmark.zip: An interactive offline benchmark suite designed to evaluate VLM agents on their ability to solve visual CAPTCHA challenges. halligan.zip: The implementation of Halligan, our proposed VLM agent introduced in the paper

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2025-06-21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15580922
Primary Topic
User Authentication and Security Systems
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Abstract

Introduction This repository provides the official artifact for the paper:"Are CAPTCHAs Still Bot-Hard? Generalized Visual CAPTCHA Solving with Agentic Vision Language Models" Our work explores the effectiveness of Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents in solving modern visual CAPTCHAs by leveraging reasoning, abstraction, and code synthesis capabilities. Contents benchmark.zip: An interactive offline benchmark suite designed to evaluate VLM agents on their ability to solve visual CAPTCHA challenges. halligan.zip: The implementation of Halligan, our proposed VLM agent introduced in the paper

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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User Authentication and Security Systems
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