Summary of Advbdgen: Adversarially Fortified Prompt-specific Fuzzy Backdoor Generator Against Llm Alignment, by Pankayaraj Pathmanathan et al.
AdvBDGen: Adversarially Fortified Prompt-Specific Fuzzy Backdoor Generator Against LLM Alignment
by Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess, Furong Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 investigates the growing risk of backdoor installation during the alignment of large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). The study proposes AdvBDGen, a framework that generates prompt-specific backdoors to enhance their stealthiness and resistance to removal. AdvBDGen employs a generator-discriminator pair fortified by an adversary to ensure installability and stealthiness. The generated backdoors can be installed using as little as 3% of fine-tuning data, allowing for improved stability against perturbations compared to traditional constant triggers. The findings emphasize the need for robust defenses against adversarial backdoor threats in LLM alignment. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models (LLMs) are getting better at understanding human language, but they can also be tricked into doing bad things. This is called a “backdoor” and it happens when someone makes the model do something by giving it special instructions. Right now, people are trying to make LLMs work with humans to help them understand each other better. But this process has a big problem: backdoors! They can be very sneaky and hard to find. The researchers in this paper came up with a new way to make backdoors that are even sneakier and harder to remove. This is important because it means we need to work on making sure our LLMs don’t get tricked into doing bad things. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Fine tuning » Prompt » Reinforcement learning » Rlhf
