Fight Back Against Jailbreaking via Prompt Adversarial Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06255v4
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:24:14 GMT
• Title: Fight Back Against Jailbreaking via Prompt Adversarial Tuning
• Authors: Yichuan Mo, Yuji Wang, Zeming Wei, Yisen Wang,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are susceptible to jailbreaking attacks. We propose an approach named Prompt Adversarial Tuning (PAT) that trains a prompt control attached to the user prompt as a guard prefix. Our method is effective against both grey-box and black-box attacks, reducing the success rate of advanced attacks to nearly 0%.
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• Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous success in various applications, they are also susceptible to jailbreaking attacks. Several primary defense strategies have been proposed to protect LLMs from producing harmful information, mostly focusing on model fine-tuning or heuristical defense designs. However, how to achieve intrinsic robustness through prompt optimization remains an open problem. In this paper, motivated by adversarial training paradigms for achieving reliable robustness, we propose an approach named Prompt Adversarial Tuning (PAT) that trains a prompt control attached to the user prompt as a guard prefix. To achieve our defense goal whilst maintaining natural performance, we optimize the control prompt with both adversarial and benign prompts. Comprehensive experiments show that our method is effective against both grey-box and black-box attacks, reducing the success rate of advanced attacks to nearly 0%, while maintaining the model's utility on the benign task and incurring only negligible computational overhead, charting a new perspective for future explorations in LLM security. Our code is available at https://github.com/PKU-ML/PAT.

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