Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications

7 February 2024

Kaixuan Huang

Mengdi Wang

Papers citing "Assessing the Brittleness of Safety Alignment via Pruning and Low-Rank Modifications"

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Benign Samples Matter! Fine-tuning On Outlier Benign Samples Severely Breaks Safety Zihan Guan Mengxuan Hu Ronghang Zhu Sheng Li Anil Vullikanti AAML 31 0 0 11 May 2025
Sensitivity Meets Sparsity: The Impact of Extremely Sparse Parameter Patterns on Theory-of-Mind of Large Language Models Yuheng Wu Wentao Guo Zirui Liu Heng Ji Zhaozhuo Xu Denghui Zhang 33 0 0 05 Apr 2025
LEWIS (LayEr WIse Sparsity) -- A Training Free Guided Model Merging Approach Hetarth Chopra Vidhi Rambhia Vikram Adve MoMe 70 0 0 05 Mar 2025
LED-Merging: Mitigating Safety-Utility Conflicts in Model Merging with Location-Election-Disjoint Qianli Ma Dongrui Liu Qian Chen Linfeng Zhang Jing Shao MoMe 147 0 0 24 Feb 2025
Safeguarding System Prompts for LLMs Zhifeng Jiang Zhihua Jin Guoliang He AAML SILM 105 1 0 10 Jan 2025
On Memorization of Large Language Models in Logical Reasoning Chulin Xie Yangsibo Huang Chiyuan Zhang Da Yu Xinyun Chen Bill Yuchen Lin Bo Li Badih Ghazi Ravi Kumar LRM 53 20 0 30 Oct 2024
Stealthy Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Benign Data Mirroring Honglin Mu Han He Yuxin Zhou Yunlong Feng Yang Xu ... Zeming Liu Xudong Han Qi Shi Qingfu Zhu Wanxiang Che AAML 35 1 0 28 Oct 2024
Towards Understanding the Fragility of Multilingual LLMs against Fine-Tuning Attacks Samuele Poppi Zheng-Xin Yong Yifei He Bobbie Chern Han Zhao Aobo Yang Jianfeng Chi AAML 45 14 0 23 Oct 2024
On the Role of Attention Heads in Large Language Model Safety Zhenhong Zhou Haiyang Yu Xinghua Zhang Rongwu Xu Fei Huang Kun Wang Yang Liu Fan Zhang Yongbin Li 59 5 0 17 Oct 2024
Targeted Vaccine: Safety Alignment for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-Tuning via Layer-wise Perturbation Guozhi Liu Weiwei Lin Tiansheng Huang Ruichao Mo Qi Mu Li Shen AAML 63 10 0 13 Oct 2024
HarmAug: Effective Data Augmentation for Knowledge Distillation of Safety Guard Models Seanie Lee Haebin Seong Dong Bok Lee Minki Kang Xiaoyin Chen Dominik Wagner Yoshua Bengio Juho Lee Sung Ju Hwang 67 2 0 02 Oct 2024
An Adversarial Perspective on Machine Unlearning for AI Safety Jakub Łucki Boyi Wei Yangsibo Huang Peter Henderson F. Tramèr Javier Rando MU AAML 73 32 0 26 Sep 2024
Alignment of Diffusion Models: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Future Buhua Liu Shitong Shao Bao Li Lichen Bai Zhiqiang Xu Haoyi Xiong James Kwok Sumi Helal Zeke Xie 45 12 0 11 Sep 2024
Recent Advances in Attack and Defense Approaches of Large Language Models Jing Cui Yishi Xu Zhewei Huang Shuchang Zhou Jianbin Jiao Junge Zhang PILM AAML 54 1 0 05 Sep 2024
PRISM: A Design Framework for Open-Source Foundation Model Safety Terrence Neumann Bryan Jones 42 1 0 14 Jun 2024
A safety realignment framework via subspace-oriented model fusion for large language models Xin Yi Shunfan Zheng Linlin Wang Xiaoling Wang Liang He 60 20 0 15 May 2024
SliceGPT: Compress Large Language Models by Deleting Rows and Columns Saleh Ashkboos Maximilian L. Croci Marcelo Gennari do Nascimento Torsten Hoefler James Hensman VLM 132 145 0 26 Jan 2024
Universal Neurons in GPT2 Language Models Wes Gurnee Theo Horsley Zifan Carl Guo Tara Rezaei Kheirkhah Qinyi Sun Will Hathaway Neel Nanda Dimitris Bertsimas MILM 102 37 0 22 Jan 2024
Self-Rewarding Language Models Weizhe Yuan Richard Yuanzhe Pang Kyunghyun Cho Xian Li Sainbayar Sukhbaatar Jing Xu Jason Weston ReLM SyDa ALM LRM 239 298 0 18 Jan 2024
A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity Andrew Lee Xiaoyan Bai Itamar Pres Martin Wattenberg Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Rada Mihalcea 74 96 0 03 Jan 2024
LoRA Fine-tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training in Llama 2-Chat 70B Simon Lermen Charlie Rogers-Smith Jeffrey Ladish ALM 20 82 0 31 Oct 2023
Dissecting Recall of Factual Associations in Auto-Regressive Language Models Mor Geva Jasmijn Bastings Katja Filippova Amir Globerson KELM 191 261 0 28 Apr 2023
Low-rank lottery tickets: finding efficient low-rank neural networks via matrix differential equations Steffen Schotthöfer Emanuele Zangrando J. Kusch Gianluca Ceruti Francesco Tudisco 53 30 0 26 May 2022
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback Long Ouyang Jeff Wu Xu Jiang Diogo Almeida Carroll L. Wainwright ... Amanda Askell Peter Welinder Paul Christiano Jan Leike Ryan J. Lowe OSLM ALM 313 11,953 0 04 Mar 2022
Probing Classifiers: Promises, Shortcomings, and Advances Yonatan Belinkov 226 405 0 24 Feb 2021
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Pre-trained BERT Networks Tianlong Chen Jonathan Frankle Shiyu Chang Sijia Liu Yang Zhang Zhangyang Wang Michael Carbin 156 345 0 23 Jul 2020
Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences Daniel M. Ziegler Nisan Stiennon Jeff Wu Tom B. Brown Alec Radford Dario Amodei Paul Christiano G. Irving ALM 280 1,595 0 18 Sep 2019
What you can cram into a single vector: Probing sentence embeddings for linguistic properties Alexis Conneau Germán Kruszewski Guillaume Lample Loïc Barrault Marco Baroni 201 882 0 03 May 2018
GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding Alex Jinpeng Wang Amanpreet Singh Julian Michael Felix Hill Omer Levy Samuel R. Bowman ELM 297 6,959 0 20 Apr 2018