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Model Collapse Is Not a Bug but a Feature in Machine Unlearning for LLMs
Yan Scholten, Sophie Xhonneux, Leo Schwinn +1
Current unlearning methods for LLMs optimize on the private information they seek to remove by incorporating it into their fine-tuning data. We argue this not only risks reinforcin…
Jailbreak Distillation: Renewable Safety Benchmarking
Jingyu Zhang, Ahmed Elgohary, Xiawei Wang +5
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly deployed in critical applications, raising urgent needs for robust safety benchmarking. We propose Jailbreak Distillation (JBDistill), a no…
LLM-Safety Evaluations Lack Robustness
Tim Beyer, Sophie Xhonneux, Simon Geisler +3
In this paper, we argue that current safety alignment research efforts for large language models are hindered by many intertwined sources of noise, such as small datasets, methodol…
Adversarial Alignment for LLMs Requires Simpler, Reproducible, and More Measurable Objectives
Leo Schwinn, Yan Scholten, Tom Wollschläger +4
Misaligned research objectives have considerably hindered progress in adversarial robustness research over the past decade. For instance, an extensive focus on optimizing target me…
A Generative Approach to LLM Harmfulness Mitigation with Red Flag Tokens
David Dobre, Mehrnaz Mofakhami, Sophie Xhonneux +2
Many safety post-training methods for large language models (LLMs) are designed to modify the model's behaviour from producing unsafe answers to issuing refusals. However, such dis…
Asynchronous RLHF: Faster and More Efficient Off-Policy RL for Language Models
Michael Noukhovitch, Shengyi Huang, Sophie Xhonneux +3
The dominant paradigm for RLHF is online and on-policy RL: synchronously generating from the large language model (LLM) policy, labelling with a reward model, and learning using fe…
Efficient Adversarial Training in LLMs with Continuous Attacks
Sophie Xhonneux, Alessandro Sordoni, Stephan Günnemann +2
Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can bypass their safety guardrails. In many domains, adversarial training has proven to be one of the most p…
In-Context Learning Can Re-learn Forbidden Tasks
Sophie Xhonneux, David Dobre, Jian Tang +2
Despite significant investment into safety training, large language models (LLMs) deployed in the real world still suffer from numerous vulnerabilities. One perspective on LLM safe…
Soft Prompt Threats: Attacking Safety Alignment and Unlearning in Open-Source LLMs through the Embedding Space
Leo Schwinn, David Dobre, Sophie Xhonneux +2
Current research in adversarial robustness of LLMs focuses on discrete input manipulations in the natural language space, which can be directly transferred to closed-source models.…