Summary of Combating Adversarial Attacks with Multi-agent Debate, by Steffi Chern et al.
Combating Adversarial Attacks with Multi-Agent Debate
by Steffi Chern, Zhen Fan, Andy Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a novel approach to improving the quality of language model generations by implementing a multi-agent debate mechanism between current state-of-the-art language models. The authors evaluate the effectiveness of this method in both single- and multi-agent settings, finding that it can reduce model toxicity when less capable models are forced to debate with more capable ones. Additionally, they observe marginal improvements through general usage of multi-agent interactions. The study also explores adversarial prompt content classification via embedding clustering, shedding light on the susceptibility of different models to various attack topics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making language models better by letting them discuss and argue with each other. Right now, these models can be tricked into producing bad responses, but the researchers want to fix this problem. They tested an idea called multi-agent debate, where one model argues with another, and found that it makes the models less likely to produce toxic responses when they’re forced to work together. The study also looked at how different models respond to sneaky attacks, and what kind of topics are most likely to trigger these attacks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Clustering » Embedding » Language model » Prompt
