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Zou and colleagues: transferable adversarial stress tests for aligned language models

Studied discrete optimization of adversarial input suffixes across prompts and models, reporting that inputs optimized against accessible models can transfer to some other aligned language models and expose safeguard weaknesses.

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Studied discrete optimization of adversarial input suffixes across prompts and models, reporting that inputs optimized against accessible models can transfer to some other aligned language models and expose safeguard weaknesses.

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This extends earlier discrete prompt-optimization work. Transferability is an empirical result over selected systems and objectives, not universality over all models, inputs or defenses; optimization requires resources and access assumptions.

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Andy Zou; Zifan Wang; J. Zico Kolter; Matt Fredrikson

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Zou and colleagues: transferable adversarial stress tests for aligned language models

Studied discrete optimization of adversarial input suffixes across prompts and models, reporting that inputs optimized against accessible models can transfer to some other aligned language models and expose safeguard weaknesses.

Scientific scope

This extends earlier discrete prompt-optimization work. Transferability is an empirical result over selected systems and objectives, not universality over all models, inputs or defenses; optimization requires resources and access assumptions.

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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.

People and systems

Andy Zou; Zifan Wang; J. Zico Kolter; Matt Fredrikson

Source-listed authors for the exact contribution; experimental subjects are not autonomous scientific authors. Source support and predecessor work retain separate roles. Individual effort shares and unresolved identities are not inferred.

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