Summary of Tamper-resistant Safeguards For Open-weight Llms, by Rishub Tamirisa et al.
Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs
by Rishub Tamirisa, Bhrugu Bharathi, Long Phan, Andy Zhou, Alice Gatti, Tarun Suresh, Maxwell Lin, Justin Wang, Rowan Wang, Ron Arel, Andy Zou, Dawn Song, Bo Li, Dan Hendrycks, Mantas Mazeika
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Aug 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 tackles the challenge of safeguarding large language models (LLMs) against malicious use by developing a method called TAR. The authors focus on open-weight LLMs, which are particularly vulnerable due to existing safeguards being easily removable through fine-tuning. To address this issue, the proposed TAR method builds tamper-resistant safeguards into the model, making it difficult for adversaries to remove even after hundreds of steps of fine-tuning. Evaluations and red teaming analyses demonstrate that TAR improves tamper-resistance while preserving benign capabilities. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about keeping language models safe from being used badly. Right now, there are concerns that these models could be manipulated or changed in ways that would cause harm. The authors of this paper want to fix this problem by creating a way to make sure the models can’t be easily changed without permission. They call their solution TAR and they tested it to show that it works well. This is important because language models are getting more powerful and we need to make sure they’re used safely. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Fine tuning
