Advancements in Securing Large Language Models

The field of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on addressing the security vulnerabilities of these models. Recent research has highlighted the potential risks associated with LLMs, including their susceptibility to jailbreak attacks and the potential for misuse. In response, researchers have proposed various solutions to enhance the security and safety of LLMs, including the development of biosecurity agents, visual-driven adversarial attacks, and safety alignment data curation methods. These innovations aim to reduce the attack success rate of LLMs while preserving their benign utility. Notably, some papers have introduced novel attack strategies, such as MetaBreak and ArtPerception, which can be used to improve the robustness of LLMs. Meanwhile, other researchers have proposed defense mechanisms, including Countermind, CALM, and GuardSpace, which demonstrate promising results in detecting and preventing jailbreak attacks. Overall, the field is moving towards a more comprehensive understanding of LLM security and the development of effective countermeasures. Noteworthy papers include MetaBreak, which achieves high jailbreak rates using special token manipulation, and GuardSpace, which preserves safety alignment throughout fine-tuning.

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A Biosecurity Agent for Lifecycle LLM Biosecurity Alignment

VisualDAN: Exposing Vulnerabilities in VLMs with Visual-Driven DAN Commands

Pharmacist: Safety Alignment Data Curation for Large Language Models against Harmful Fine-tuning

MetaBreak: Jailbreaking Online LLM Services via Special Token Manipulation

ArtPerception: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak on LLMs with Recognition Pre-test

CoSPED: Consistent Soft Prompt Targeted Data Extraction and Defense

Bag of Tricks for Subverting Reasoning-based Safety Guardrails

Countermind: A Multi-Layered Security Architecture for Large Language Models

Deep Research Brings Deeper Harm

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models

Keep Calm and Avoid Harmful Content: Concept Alignment and Latent Manipulation Towards Safer Answers

DSCD: Large Language Model Detoxification with Self-Constrained Decoding

SHIELD: Classifier-Guided Prompting for Robust and Safer LVLMs

Guarding the Guardrails: A Taxonomy-Driven Approach to Jailbreak Detection

RAID: Refusal-Aware and Integrated Decoding for Jailbreaking LLMs

A Guardrail for Safety Preservation: When Safety-Sensitive Subspace Meets Harmful-Resistant Null-Space

On the Ability of LLMs to Handle Character-Level Perturbations: How Well and How?

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