Summary of Diverse and Effective Red Teaming with Auto-generated Rewards and Multi-step Reinforcement Learning, by Alex Beutel et al.
Diverse and Effective Red Teaming with Auto-generated Rewards and Multi-step Reinforcement Learning
by Alex Beutel, Kai Xiao, Johannes Heidecke, Lilian Weng
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes novel methods for automated red teaming, which aims to discover rare model failures and generate challenging examples for training or evaluation. The main challenge in automated red teaming is ensuring that the generated attacks are both diverse and effective. Previous methods often prioritize either diversity or effectiveness, but not both. This research presents solutions that enable automated red teaming to produce a large number of diverse and successful attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Automated red teaming helps find rare model problems and creates tricky test cases for training or testing models. The big challenge is making sure the attacks are both different and good at fooling the model. Most previous methods did one job well, but not both. This study shows how to create many diverse and successful attacks. |
