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| author | Dong, Jianshuo Zhang, Ziyuan Zhang, Qingjie Zhang, Tianwei Wang, Hao Li, Hewu Li, Qi Zhang, Chao Xu, Ke Qiu, Han |
| author_facet | Dong, Jianshuo Zhang, Ziyuan Zhang, Qingjie Zhang, Tianwei Wang, Hao Li, Hewu Li, Qi Zhang, Chao Xu, Ke Qiu, Han |
| contents | Auto-regressive large language models (LLMs) have yielded impressive performance in many real-world tasks. However, the new paradigm of these LLMs also exposes novel threats. In this paper, we explore their vulnerability to inference cost attacks, where a malicious user crafts Engorgio prompts to intentionally increase the computation cost and latency of the inference process. We design Engorgio, a novel methodology, to efficiently generate adversarial Engorgio prompts to affect the target LLM's service availability. Engorgio has the following two technical contributions. (1) We employ a parameterized distribution to track LLMs' prediction trajectory. (2) Targeting the auto-regressive nature of LLMs' inference process, we propose novel loss functions to stably suppress the appearance of the <EOS> token, whose occurrence will interrupt the LLM's generation process. We conduct extensive experiments on 13 open-sourced LLMs with parameters ranging from 125M to 30B. The results show that Engorgio prompts can successfully induce LLMs to generate abnormally long outputs (i.e., roughly 2-13$\times$ longer to reach 90%+ of the output length limit) in a white-box scenario and our real-world experiment demonstrates Engergio's threat to LLM service with limited computing resources. The code is released at: https://github.com/jianshuod/Engorgio-prompt. |
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| spellingShingle | An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on Dong, Jianshuo Zhang, Ziyuan Zhang, Qingjie Zhang, Tianwei Wang, Hao Li, Hewu Li, Qi Zhang, Chao Xu, Ke Qiu, Han Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence Auto-regressive large language models (LLMs) have yielded impressive performance in many real-world tasks. However, the new paradigm of these LLMs also exposes novel threats. In this paper, we explore their vulnerability to inference cost attacks, where a malicious user crafts Engorgio prompts to intentionally increase the computation cost and latency of the inference process. We design Engorgio, a novel methodology, to efficiently generate adversarial Engorgio prompts to affect the target LLM's service availability. Engorgio has the following two technical contributions. (1) We employ a parameterized distribution to track LLMs' prediction trajectory. (2) Targeting the auto-regressive nature of LLMs' inference process, we propose novel loss functions to stably suppress the appearance of the <EOS> token, whose occurrence will interrupt the LLM's generation process. We conduct extensive experiments on 13 open-sourced LLMs with parameters ranging from 125M to 30B. The results show that Engorgio prompts can successfully induce LLMs to generate abnormally long outputs (i.e., roughly 2-13$\times$ longer to reach 90%+ of the output length limit) in a white-box scenario and our real-world experiment demonstrates Engergio's threat to LLM service with limited computing resources. The code is released at: https://github.com/jianshuod/Engorgio-prompt. |
| title | An Engorgio Prompt Makes Large Language Model Babble on |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19394 |