2025
REINFORCE Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models: An Adaptive, Distributional, and Semantic Objective
Simon Geisler, Tom Wollschläger, M. H. I. Abdalla, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Johannes Gasteiger, Stephan Günnemann
ICML 2025poster
To circumvent the alignment of large language models (LLMs), current optimization-based adversarial attacks usually craft adversarial prompts by maximizing the likelihood of a so-called affirmative response. An affirmative response is a manually designed start of a harmful answer to an inappropriate…