Summary Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models arxiv.org
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Researchers have created a way to generate objectionable content by adding a suffix to queries, targeting aligned language models.
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- Researchers propose a method for generating adversarial attacks on language models by appending a suffix to queries.
- Large language models (LLMs) trained on internet text may contain objectionable content, so developers have been aligning LLMs to prevent harmful responses.
- The approach presented improves existing attack methods and reliably breaks the target model.
- Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models involve putting the model in a "state" where objectionable behavior is likely.
- The effectiveness of adversarial attacks is evaluated by measuring the model's ability to execute harmful behaviors or generate harmful strings.
- Transfer attacks on language models show successful jailbreaking on certain models, with some models being more robust.
- Strategies for attacking language models involve exploiting vulnerabilities, maintaining access, and manipulating operations.
- Universal adversarial attacks exist across various domains and can fool similar models.
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Researchers have developed a method for generating adversarial attacks on aligned language models by appending a suffix to queries to generate objectionable content.
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Researchers have developed a method for generating adversarial attacks on aligned language models by finding a suffix that, when appended to queries, causes the models to generate objectionable content. Large language models (LLMs) often contain objectionable content due to being trained
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Researchers propose a simple and effective method for generating adversarial attacks on aligned language models. They find a suffix that, when appended to various queries, causes the models to generate objectionable content. The approach automatically produces these adversarial suffixes using a combination
Large language models (LLMs) are often trained on internet text that contains objectionable content. To address this issue, developers have been aligning LLMs through fine-tuning mechanisms to prevent the generation of harmful responses. However, previous attempts to
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This excerpt contains a list of references and citations to various research papers and articles related to adversarial attacks on language models. The papers cover topics such as deep reinforcement learning, certified adversarial robustness, efficient finetuning, language model pretraining,
This document is a list of references for various research papers related to adversarial attacks on language models. The papers cover topics such as robust neural networks, parameter-efficient prompt tuning, certified robustness for deep neural networks, targeted universal adversarial perturbations
The document discusses various papers related to adversarial attacks on language models. It provides citations for each paper and includes a warning about potentially offensive content. The authors describe their methodology for generating harmful strings and behaviors using a specific model and release the datasets on GitHub