$\textit{MMJ-Bench}$: A Comprehensive Study on Jailbreak Attacks and Defenses for Multimodal Large Language Models

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weng, Fenghua, Xu, Yue, Fu, Chengyan, Wang, Wenjie
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866913558895263744
author Weng, Fenghua
Xu, Yue
Fu, Chengyan
Wang, Wenjie
author_facet Weng, Fenghua
Xu, Yue
Fu, Chengyan
Wang, Wenjie
contents As deep learning advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal counterparts, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have shown exceptional performance in many real-world tasks. However, MLLMs face significant security challenges, such as jailbreak attacks, where attackers attempt to bypass the model's safety alignment to elicit harmful responses. The threat of jailbreak attacks on MLLMs arises from both the inherent vulnerabilities of LLMs and the multiple information channels that MLLMs process. While various attacks and defenses have been proposed, there is a notable gap in unified and comprehensive evaluations, as each method is evaluated on different dataset and metrics, making it impossible to compare the effectiveness of each method. To address this gap, we introduce \textit{MMJ-Bench}, a unified pipeline for evaluating jailbreak attacks and defense techniques for MLLMs. Through extensive experiments, we assess the effectiveness of various attack methods against SoTA MLLMs and evaluate the impact of defense mechanisms on both defense effectiveness and model utility for normal tasks. Our comprehensive evaluation contribute to the field by offering a unified and systematic evaluation framework and the first public-available benchmark for MLLM jailbreak research. We also demonstrate several insightful findings that highlights directions for future studies.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2408_08464
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle $\textit{MMJ-Bench}$: A Comprehensive Study on Jailbreak Attacks and Defenses for Multimodal Large Language Models
Weng, Fenghua
Xu, Yue
Fu, Chengyan
Wang, Wenjie
Cryptography and Security
As deep learning advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal counterparts, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have shown exceptional performance in many real-world tasks. However, MLLMs face significant security challenges, such as jailbreak attacks, where attackers attempt to bypass the model's safety alignment to elicit harmful responses. The threat of jailbreak attacks on MLLMs arises from both the inherent vulnerabilities of LLMs and the multiple information channels that MLLMs process. While various attacks and defenses have been proposed, there is a notable gap in unified and comprehensive evaluations, as each method is evaluated on different dataset and metrics, making it impossible to compare the effectiveness of each method. To address this gap, we introduce \textit{MMJ-Bench}, a unified pipeline for evaluating jailbreak attacks and defense techniques for MLLMs. Through extensive experiments, we assess the effectiveness of various attack methods against SoTA MLLMs and evaluate the impact of defense mechanisms on both defense effectiveness and model utility for normal tasks. Our comprehensive evaluation contribute to the field by offering a unified and systematic evaluation framework and the first public-available benchmark for MLLM jailbreak research. We also demonstrate several insightful findings that highlights directions for future studies.
title $\textit{MMJ-Bench}$: A Comprehensive Study on Jailbreak Attacks and Defenses for Multimodal Large Language Models
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08464