Training a General Purpose Automated Red Teaming Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23067v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:37:17 GMT
• Title: Training a General Purpose Automated Red Teaming Model
• Abstract summary: We propose a pipeline for training a red teaming model that can generalize to arbitrary adversarial goals.<n>We demonstrate that finetuning small models, such as Qwen3-8B, using this pipeline results in a substantial improvement in their ability to generate attacks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Automated methods for red teaming LLMs are an important tool to identify LLM vulnerabilities that may not be covered in static benchmarks, allowing for more thorough probing. They can also adapt to each specific LLM to discover weaknesses unique to it. Most current automated red teaming methods are intended for tackling safety and content moderation. Thus, they make use of content safety models as evaluators and optimize for circumventing them, and as such, have not been tested with other adversarial intents not typically captured by these. We propose a pipeline for training a red teaming model that can generalize to arbitrary adversarial goals, including objectives it has not been directly trained on, and that does not depend on the existence of a pre-existing evaluator available at training time. We demonstrate that finetuning small models, such as Qwen3-8B, using this pipeline results in a substantial improvement in their ability to generate attacks for both in and out of domain adversarial goals.

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