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Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense utility across various industries. However, as LLMs advance, the risk of harmful outputs increases due to incorrect or malicious instruction prompts. While current methods effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xinyi Zeng , Yuying Shang , Jiawei Chen , Jingyuan Zhang , Yu Tian

Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) on untrusted datasets poses severe risks of injecting toxic behaviors. In this work, we introduce Optimus, a novel defense framework designed to mitigate fine-tuning harms while preserving…

We propose a universal adversarial attack on multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that leverages a single optimized image to override alignment safeguards across diverse queries and even multiple models. By backpropagating through the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Temurbek Rahmatullaev , Polina Druzhinina , Nikita Kurdiukov , Matvey Mikhalchuk , Andrey Kuznetsov , Anton Razzhigaev

Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to exhibit vulnerabilities to jailbreaking attacks: carefully crafted malicious inputs intended to circumvent safety guardrails and elicit harmful responses. As such, we present AutoAdv, a novel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Aashray Reddy , Andrew Zagula , Nicholas Saban

Adversarial training for LLMs is one of the most promising methods to reliably improve robustness against adversaries. However, despite significant progress, models remain vulnerable to simple in-distribution exploits, such as rewriting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Chengzhi Hu , Jonas Dornbusch , David Lüdke , Stephan Günnemann , Leo Schwinn

With the boom of Large Language Models (LLMs), the research of solving Math Word Problem (MWP) has recently made great progress. However, there are few studies to examine the security of LLMs in math solving ability. Instead of attacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang , Mingyu Jin , Jie Yao , Jianan Ye , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Xiaowei Huang , Kaizhu Huang

Warning: This paper contains examples of harmful language, and reader discretion is recommended. The increasing open release of powerful large language models (LLMs) has facilitated the development of downstream applications by reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xianjun Yang , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhang , Linda Petzold , William Yang Wang , Xun Zhao , Dahua Lin

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into cyber security applications presents both opportunities and critical safety risks. We introduce CyberLLMInstruct, a dataset of 54,928 pseudo-malicious instruction-response pairs spanning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Adel ElZemity , Budi Arief , Shujun Li

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language tasks but remain vulnerable to visual adversarial perturbations that can induce hallucinations, manipulate responses, or bypass safety mechanisms. Existing methods seek to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Hashmat Shadab Malik , Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Karthik Nandakumar , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

Large language models (LLMs) are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks (BAs), wherein training samples are poisoned using trigger-based harmful content. Furthermore, existing defenses have proven ineffective when extensively tested across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 John T. Halloran , Noopur S. Bhatt

Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers against adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of the classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Raha Moraffah , Shubh Khandelwal , Amrita Bhattacharjee , Huan Liu

We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingual representation. Unlike many prior models that release…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Project Apertus , Alejandro Hernández-Cano , Alexander Hägele , Allen Hao Huang , Angelika Romanou , Antoni-Joan Solergibert , Barna Pasztor , Bettina Messmer , Dhia Garbaya , Eduard Frank Ďurech , Ido Hakimi , Juan García Giraldo , Mete Ismayilzada , Negar Foroutan , Skander Moalla , Tiancheng Chen , Vinko Sabolčec , Yixuan Xu , Michael Aerni , Badr AlKhamissi , Inés Altemir Mariñas , Mohammad Hossein Amani , Matin Ansaripour , Ilia Badanin , Harold Benoit , Emanuela Boros , Nicholas Browning , Fabian Bösch , Maximilian Böther , Niklas Canova , Camille Challier , Clement Charmillot , Jonathan Coles , Jan Deriu , Arnout Devos , Lukas Drescher , Daniil Dzenhaliou , Maud Ehrmann , Dongyang Fan , Simin Fan , Silin Gao , Miguel Gila , María Grandury , Diba Hashemi , Alexander Hoyle , Jiaming Jiang , Mark Klein , Andrei Kucharavy , Anastasiia Kucherenko , Frederike Lübeck , Roman Machacek , Theofilos Manitaras , Andreas Marfurt , Kyle Matoba , Simon Matrenok , Henrique Mendonça , Fawzi Roberto Mohamed , Syrielle Montariol , Luca Mouchel , Sven Najem-Meyer , Jingwei Ni , Gennaro Oliva , Matteo Pagliardini , Elia Palme , Andrei Panferov , Léo Paoletti , Marco Passerini , Ivan Pavlov , Auguste Poiroux , Kaustubh Ponkshe , Nathan Ranchin , Javi Rando , Mathieu Sauser , Jakhongir Saydaliev , Muhammad Ali Sayfiddinov , Marian Schneider , Stefano Schuppli , Marco Scialanga , Andrei Semenov , Kumar Shridhar , Raghav Singhal , Anna Sotnikova , Alexander Sternfeld , Ayush Kumar Tarun , Paul Teiletche , Jannis Vamvas , Xiaozhe Yao , Hao Zhao , Alexander Ilic , Ana Klimovic , Andreas Krause , Caglar Gulcehre , David Rosenthal , Elliott Ash , Florian Tramèr , Joost VandeVondele , Livio Veraldi , Martin Rajman , Thomas Schulthess , Torsten Hoefler , Antoine Bosselut , Martin Jaggi , Imanol Schlag

The field of textual adversarial defenses has gained considerable attention in recent years due to the increasing vulnerability of natural language processing (NLP) models to adversarial attacks, which exploit subtle perturbations in input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wangli Yang , Jie Yang , Yi Guo , Johan Barthelemy

Currently, large models are prone to generating harmful content when faced with complex attack instructions, significantly reducing their defensive capabilities. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method based on constructing data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Keke Zhai

Despite extensive safety-tuning, large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks via adversarially crafted instructions, reflecting a persistent trade-off between safety and task performance. In this work, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wei Jie Yeo , Ranjan Satapathy , Erik Cambria

Adversarial training is a popular defense strategy against attack threat models with bounded Lp norms. However, it often degrades the model performance on normal images and the defense does not generalize well to novel attacks. Given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Wei-An Lin , Chun Pong Lau , Alexander Levine , Rama Chellappa , Soheil Feizi

As Large Language Models (LLMs) receive increasing attention and are being deployed across various domains, their potential risks, including generating harmful or biased content, producing unsupported claims, and exhibiting vulnerabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wai Man Si , Mingjie Li , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Adversarial training (AT) and its variants have spearheaded progress in improving neural network robustness to adversarial perturbations and common corruptions in the last few years. Algorithm design of AT and its variants are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Ramneet Kaur , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

Jailbreak attacks against large language models (LLMs) aim to induce harmful behaviors in LLMs through carefully crafted adversarial prompts. To mitigate attacks, one way is to perform adversarial training (AT)-based alignment, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shaopeng Fu , Liang Ding , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang

Despite extensive diagnostics and debugging by developers, AI systems sometimes exhibit harmful unintended behaviors. Finding and fixing these is challenging because the attack surface is so large -- it is not tractable to exhaustively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Stephen Casper , Lennart Schulze , Oam Patel , Dylan Hadfield-Menell