@inproceedings{
samvelyan2024rainbow,
title={Rainbow Teaming: Open-Ended Generation of Diverse Adversarial Prompts},
author={Mikayel Samvelyan and Sharath Chandra Raparthy and Andrei Lupu and Eric Hambro and Aram H. Markosyan and Manish Bhatt and Yuning Mao and Minqi Jiang and Jack Parker-Holder and Jakob Nicolaus Foerster and Tim Rockt{\"a}schel and Roberta Raileanu},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=FCsEvaMorw}
}
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent across many real-world applications, understanding and enhancing their robustness to adversarial attacks is of paramount importance. Existing methods for identifying adversarial prompts tend to focus on specific domains, lack diversity, or require extensive human annotations. To address these limitations, we present Rainbow Teaming, a novel black-box approach for producing a diverse collection of adversarial prompts. Rainbow Teaming casts adversarial prompt generation as a quality-diversity problem and uses open-ended search to generate prompts that are both effective and diverse. Focusing on the safety domain, we use Rainbow Teaming to target various state-of-the-art LLMs, including the Llama 2 and Llama 3 models. Our approach reveals hundreds of effective adversarial prompts, with an attack success rate exceeding 90% across all tested models. Furthermore, we demonstrate that prompts generated by Rainbow Teaming are highly transferable and that fine-tuning models with synthetic data generated by our method significantly enhances their safety without sacrificing general performance or helpfulness. We additionally explore the versatility of Rainbow Teaming by applying it to question answering and cybersecurity, showcasing its potential to drive robust open-ended self-improvement in a wide range of applications.
Rainbow Teaming: Open-Ended Generation of Diverse Adversarial Prompts
Mikayel Samvelyan Sharath Chandra Raparthy Andrei Lupu Eric Hambro Aram H. Markosyan Manish Bhatt Yuning Mao Minqi Jiang Jack Parker-Holder Jakob Nicolaus Foerster Tim Rocktäschel Roberta Raileanu