Summary of Robust Llm Safeguarding Via Refusal Feature Adversarial Training, by Lei Yu et al.
Robust LLM safeguarding via refusal feature adversarial training
by Lei Yu, Virginie Do, Karen Hambardzumyan, Nicola Cancedda
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The abstract discusses vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs) and proposes a novel algorithm called Refusal Feature Adversarial Training (ReFAT) to improve their robustness against adversarial attacks. The paper reveals that such attacks share a universal mechanism, which involves ablating a dimension in the residual stream embedding space, and demonstrates how this mechanism can elicit harmful responses. ReFAT is designed to efficiently perform LLM adversarial training by simulating the effect of input-level attacks through this mechanism. Experiment results show that ReFAT significantly improves the robustness of three popular LLMs against a wide range of adversarial attacks, with lower computational overhead compared to existing methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large language models are computer programs that can understand and generate human-like text. However, these models can be tricked into giving harmful responses by cleverly designed “attacks.” The problem is that making these models resistant to these attacks is difficult because it’s hard to know what the attackers will do next. Researchers have discovered a way that most of these attacks work, which involves changing how the model looks at certain parts of the text. They then developed a new method called Refusal Feature Adversarial Training (ReFAT) to make the models more resistant to these attacks. ReFAT is much faster and works well for many different types of attacks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding space
