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David Dobre

5 accepted papers

2025

Learning Diverse Attacks on Large Language Models for Robust Red-Teaming and Safety Tuning

ICLR 2025poster

Red-teaming, or identifying prompts that elicit harmful responses, is a critical step in ensuring the safe and responsible deployment of large language models (LLMs). Developing effective protection against many modes of attack prompts requires discovering diverse attacks. Automated red-teaming typi…

2024

On the Scalability of Certified Adversarial Robustness with Generated Data

NeurIPS 2024poster

Certified defenses against adversarial attacks offer formal guarantees on the robustness of a model, making them more reliable than empirical methods such as adversarial training, whose effectiveness is often later reduced by unseen attacks. Still, the limited certified robustness that is currently…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sarah Frank-Wolfe: Methods for Constrained Optimization with Best Rates and Practical Features

ICML 2024poster

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method is a popular approach for solving optimization problems with structured constraints that arise in machine learning applications. In recent years, stochastic versions of FW have gained popularity, motivated by large datasets for which the computation of the full gradient i…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Soft Prompt Threats: Attacking Safety Alignment and Unlearning in Open-Source LLMs through the Embedding Space

NeurIPS 2024poster

Current research in adversarial robustness of LLMs focuses on \textit{discrete} input manipulations in the natural language space, which can be directly transferred to \textit{closed-source} models. However, this approach neglects the steady progression of \textit{open-source} models. As open-source…

2022

Clipped Stochastic Methods for Variational Inequalities with Heavy-Tailed Noise

NeurIPS 2022accept

Stochastic first-order methods such as Stochastic Extragradient (SEG) or Stochastic Gradient Descent-Ascent (SGDA) for solving smooth minimax problems and, more generally, variational inequality problems (VIP) have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years due to the growing popularity of adve…