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The safety of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for the development of trustworthy AI applications. Existing red teaming methods often rely on seed instructions, which limits the semantic diversity of the synthesized adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Muxi Diao , Yutao Mou , Keqing He , Hanbo Song , Lulu Zhao , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Recently, there has been a surge in the use of generated data to enhance the performance of downstream models, largely due to the advancements in pre-trained language models. However, most prevailing methods trained generative and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tong Wu , Hao Wang , Zhongshen Zeng , Wei Wang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Jiaxing Zhang

Foundation model-based agents are increasingly used to automate complex tasks, enhancing efficiency and productivity. However, their access to sensitive resources and autonomous decision-making also introduce significant security risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chejian Xu , Mintong Kang , Jiawei Zhang , Zeyi Liao , Lingbo Mo , Mengqi Yuan , Huan Sun , Bo Li

With the rise of text-to-image (T2I) generative AI models reaching wide audiences, it is critical to evaluate model robustness against non-obvious attacks to mitigate the generation of offensive images. By focusing on ``implicitly…

Deploying large language models (LMs) can pose hazards from harmful outputs such as toxic or false text. Prior work has introduced automated tools that elicit harmful outputs to identify these risks. While this is a valuable step toward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Stephen Casper , Jason Lin , Joe Kwon , Gatlen Culp , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Automated red-teaming has emerged as a scalable approach for auditing Large Language Models (LLMs) prior to deployment, yet existing approaches lack mechanisms to efficiently adapt to model-specific vulnerabilities at inference. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Christos Ziakas , Nicholas Loo , Nishita Jain , Alessandra Russo

As large language models (LLMs) grow in power and influence, ensuring their safety and preventing harmful output becomes critical. Automated red teaming serves as a tool to detect security vulnerabilities in LLMs without manual labor.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Weiyang Guo , Zesheng Shi , Zhuo Li , Yequan Wang , Xuebo Liu , Wenya Wang , Fangming Liu , Min Zhang , Jing Li

Automated methods for red teaming LLMs are an important tool to identify LLM vulnerabilities that may not be covered in static benchmarks, allowing for more thorough probing. They can also adapt to each specific LLM to discover weaknesses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Aishwarya Padmakumar , Leon Derczynski , Traian Rebedea , Christopher Parisien

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into high-stakes applications, making robust safety guarantees a central practical and commercial concern. Existing safety evaluations predominantly rely on fixed collections of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zafir Shamsi , Nikhil Chekuru , Zachary Guzman , Shivank Garg

Red-teaming is a common practice for mitigating unsafe behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs), which involves thoroughly assessing LLMs to identify potential flaws and addressing them with responsible and accurate responses. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Suyu Ge , Chunting Zhou , Rui Hou , Madian Khabsa , Yi-Chia Wang , Qifan Wang , Jiawei Han , Yuning Mao

Text-to-Video (T2V) models are capable of synthesizing high-quality, temporally coherent dynamic video content, but the diverse generation also inherently introduces critical safety challenges. Existing safety evaluation methods,which focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiaming He , Guanyu Hou , Hongwei Li , Zhicong Huang , Kangjie Chen , Yi Yu , Wenbo Jiang , Guowen Xu , Tianwei Zhang

With the recent surge of language models in different applications, attention to safety and robustness of these models has gained significant importance. Here we introduce a joint framework in which we simultaneously probe and improve the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ninareh Mehrabi , Palash Goyal , Anil Ramakrishna , Jwala Dhamala , Shalini Ghosh , Richard Zemel , Kai-Wei Chang , Aram Galstyan , Rahul Gupta

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used, they remain susceptible to jailbreak prompts that can elicit harmful or inappropriate responses. This paper introduces STAR-Teaming, a novel black-box framework for automated red teaming…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 MinJae Jung , YongTaek Lim , Chaeyun Kim , Junghwan Kim , Kihyun Kim , Minwoo Kim

Many publicly available language models have been safety tuned to reduce the likelihood of toxic or liability-inducing text. To redteam or jailbreak these models for compliance with toxic requests, users and security analysts have developed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 T. Ben Thompson , Michael Sklar

When building Large Language Models (LLMs), it is paramount to bear safety in mind and protect them with guardrails. Indeed, LLMs should never generate content promoting or normalizing harmful, illegal, or unethical behavior that may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Simone Tedeschi , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting , Roberto Navigli , Huu Nguyen , Bo Li

Large Language Model (LLM) Red-Teaming, which proactively identifies vulnerabilities of LLMs, is an essential process for ensuring safety. Finding effective and diverse attacks in red-teaming is important, but achieving both is challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Minchan Kwon , Sunghyun Baek , Minseo Kim , Jaemyung Yu , Dongyoon Han , Junmo Kim

Despite the substantial advancements in artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) remain being challenged by generation safety. With adversarial jailbreaking prompts, one can effortlessly induce LLMs to output harmful content,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuhao Du , Zhuo Li , Pengyu Cheng , Xiang Wan , Anningzhe Gao

Activation probes are attractive monitors for AI systems due to low cost and latency, but their real-world robustness remains underexplored. We ask: What failure modes arise under realistic, black-box adversarial pressure, and how can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Phil Blandfort , Robert Graham

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have drawn attention for their ability to generate high-quality images with precise text alignment. However, these models can also be misused to produce inappropriate content. Existing safety measures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hongxiang Zhang , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

With the ability to generate high-quality images, text-to-image (T2I) models can be exploited for creating inappropriate content. To prevent misuse, existing safety measures are either based on text blacklists, which can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Runtao Liu , Ashkan Khakzar , Jindong Gu , Qifeng Chen , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati