Advancing NLP Security by Leveraging LLMs as Adversarial Engines

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Autori principali: Srinivasan, Sudarshan, Mahbub, Maria, Sadovnik, Amir
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author Srinivasan, Sudarshan
Mahbub, Maria
Sadovnik, Amir
author_facet Srinivasan, Sudarshan
Mahbub, Maria
Sadovnik, Amir
contents This position paper proposes a novel approach to advancing NLP security by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as engines for generating diverse adversarial attacks. Building upon recent work demonstrating LLMs' effectiveness in creating word-level adversarial examples, we argue for expanding this concept to encompass a broader range of attack types, including adversarial patches, universal perturbations, and targeted attacks. We posit that LLMs' sophisticated language understanding and generation capabilities can produce more effective, semantically coherent, and human-like adversarial examples across various domains and classifier architectures. This paradigm shift in adversarial NLP has far-reaching implications, potentially enhancing model robustness, uncovering new vulnerabilities, and driving innovation in defense mechanisms. By exploring this new frontier, we aim to contribute to the development of more secure, reliable, and trustworthy NLP systems for critical applications.
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spellingShingle Advancing NLP Security by Leveraging LLMs as Adversarial Engines
Srinivasan, Sudarshan
Mahbub, Maria
Sadovnik, Amir
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
This position paper proposes a novel approach to advancing NLP security by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as engines for generating diverse adversarial attacks. Building upon recent work demonstrating LLMs' effectiveness in creating word-level adversarial examples, we argue for expanding this concept to encompass a broader range of attack types, including adversarial patches, universal perturbations, and targeted attacks. We posit that LLMs' sophisticated language understanding and generation capabilities can produce more effective, semantically coherent, and human-like adversarial examples across various domains and classifier architectures. This paradigm shift in adversarial NLP has far-reaching implications, potentially enhancing model robustness, uncovering new vulnerabilities, and driving innovation in defense mechanisms. By exploring this new frontier, we aim to contribute to the development of more secure, reliable, and trustworthy NLP systems for critical applications.
title Advancing NLP Security by Leveraging LLMs as Adversarial Engines
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18215