Defending Large Language Models Against Attacks With Residual Stream Activation Analysis
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03230v3
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 04:39:46 GMT
- Title: Defending Large Language Models Against Attacks With Residual Stream Activation Analysis
- Authors: Amelia Kawasaki, Andrew Davis, Houssam Abbas,
- Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to adversarial threats.
This paper presents an innovative defensive strategy, given white box access to an LLM.
We apply a novel methodology for analyzing distinctive activation patterns in the residual streams for attack prompt classification.
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- Abstract: The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by OpenAI's ChatGPT, brings to the forefront the imperative to defend against adversarial threats on these models. These attacks, which manipulate an LLM's output by introducing malicious inputs, undermine the model's integrity and the trust users place in its outputs. In response to this challenge, our paper presents an innovative defensive strategy, given white box access to an LLM, that harnesses residual activation analysis between transformer layers of the LLM. We apply a novel methodology for analyzing distinctive activation patterns in the residual streams for attack prompt classification. We curate multiple datasets to demonstrate how this method of classification has high accuracy across multiple types of attack scenarios, including our newly-created attack dataset. Furthermore, we enhance the model's resilience by integrating safety fine-tuning techniques for LLMs in order to measure its effect on our capability to detect attacks. The results underscore the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing the detection and mitigation of adversarial inputs, advancing the security framework within which LLMs operate.
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