Summary of Rethinking How to Evaluate Language Model Jailbreak, by Hongyu Cai et al.
Rethinking How to Evaluate Language Model Jailbreak
by Hongyu Cai, Arjun Arunasalam, Leo Y. Lin, Antonio Bianchi, Z. Berkay Celik
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes three new metrics – safeguard violation, informativeness, and relative truthfulness – to evaluate the effectiveness of jailbreaking large language models (LLMs) to produce prohibited content. The authors argue that current methods oversimplify the outcome as a binary success or failure, and their proposed approach takes into account the clarity of objectives, the complexity of the jailbreak result, and the goal of identifying unsafe responses. The paper demonstrates the superiority of these new metrics through experiments on a benchmark dataset produced from three malicious intent datasets and three LLMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed new ways to measure how well large language models can be tricked into saying things they shouldn’t. They found that existing methods are too simple and don’t take into account what the model is actually doing. The new metrics help identify when a model has been successfully “jailbroken” to produce unsafe content, and show that this approach works better than older methods. |
