PromptShield: Deployable Detection for Prompt Injection Attacks
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15145v2
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:58:59 GMT
- Title: PromptShield: Deployable Detection for Prompt Injection Attacks
- Abstract summary: We introduce PromptShield, a benchmark for training and evaluating deployable prompt injection detectors.<n>Our benchmark is carefully curated and includes both conversational and application-structured data.<n>Our work suggests that careful curation of training data and larger models can contribute to strong detector performance.
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- Abstract: Application designers have moved to integrate large language models (LLMs) into their products. However, many LLM-integrated applications are vulnerable to prompt injections. While attempts have been made to address this problem by building prompt injection detectors, many are not yet suitable for practical deployment. To support research in this area, we introduce PromptShield, a benchmark for training and evaluating deployable prompt injection detectors. Our benchmark is carefully curated and includes both conversational and application-structured data. In addition, we use insights from our curation process to fine-tune a new prompt injection detector that achieves significantly higher performance in the low false positive rate (FPR) evaluation regime compared to prior schemes. Our work suggests that careful curation of training data and larger models can contribute to strong detector performance.
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