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Patrick Pynadath

4 accepted papers

2025

VERA: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

The rise of API-only access to state-of-the-art LLMs highlights the need for effective black-box jailbreak methods to identify model vulnerabilities in real-world settings. Without a principled objective for gradient-based optimization, most existing approaches rely on genetic algorithms, which are…

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2024

Gradient-based Discrete Sampling with Automatic Cyclical Scheduling

NeurIPS 2024poster

Discrete distributions, particularly in high-dimensional deep models, are often highly multimodal due to inherent discontinuities. While gradient-based discrete sampling has proven effective, it is susceptible to becoming trapped in local modes due to the gradient information. To tackle this challen…