Summary of Jailbreak Defense in a Narrow Domain: Limitations Of Existing Methods and a New Transcript-classifier Approach, by Tony T. Wang et al.
Jailbreak Defense in a Narrow Domain: Limitations of Existing Methods and a New Transcript-Classifier Approach
by Tony T. Wang, John Hughes, Henry Sleight, Rylan Schaeffer, Rajashree Agrawal, Fazl Barez, Mrinank Sharma, Jesse Mu, Nir Shavit, Ethan Perez
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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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 investigates the challenge of defending large language models (LLMs) against “jailbreaks” that prompt them to engage in undesirable behaviors. The authors focus on preventing an LLM from assisting someone in creating a bomb, demonstrating the difficulties in this narrow domain. Despite popular defense methods like safety training and adversarial training being ineffective, the researchers develop a transcript-classifier defense that outperforms baselines. However, even this improved approach still encounters limitations, underscoring the complexity of defending against LLM jailbreaks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine if a super smart computer program got “hacked” to do bad things. This paper tries to stop that from happening by teaching computers what behaviors are not allowed. The authors focus on one specific example: preventing a language model from helping someone create something dangerous, like a bomb. They test different ways to keep the computer safe and find that some methods don’t work well enough. To solve this problem, they develop a new approach called transcript-classification, which does better than previous attempts. But even with this improved method, there are still challenges to overcome. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Language model » Prompt
