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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Highlight & Summarize: RAG without the jailbreaks

Giovanni Cherubin, Andrew Paverd

Preventing jailbreaking and model hijacking of Large Language Models (LLMs) is an important yet challenging task. When interacting with a chatbot, malicious users can input special…

cs.CR2025

LLMail-Inject: A Dataset from a Realistic Adaptive Prompt Injection Challenge

Sahar Abdelnabi, Aideen Fay, Ahmed Salem +22

Indirect prompt injection attacks exploit a fundamental weakness of LLMs: executing unauthorized tasks from untrusted sources. Despite the practical significance of this attack vec…

cs.CR2024

Dataset and Lessons Learned from the 2024 SaTML LLM Capture-the-Flag Competition

Edoardo Debenedetti, Javier Rando, Daniel Paleka +18

Large language model systems face important security risks from maliciously crafted messages that aim to overwrite the system's original instructions or leak private data. To study…

cs.CR2024

Get my drift? Catching LLM Task Drift with Activation Deltas

Sahar Abdelnabi, Aideen Fay, Giovanni Cherubin +3

LLMs are commonly used in retrieval-augmented applications to execute user instructions based on data from external sources. For example, modern search engines use LLMs to answer q…

cs.CR2024

Closed-Form Bounds for DP-SGD against Record-level Inference

Giovanni Cherubin, Boris Köpf, Andrew Paverd +3

Machine learning models trained with differentially-private (DP) algorithms such as DP-SGD enjoy resilience against a wide range of privacy attacks. Although it is possible to deri…