arXiv Machine Learning

Stable-GFlowNet: Toward Diverse and Robust LLM Red-Teaming via Contrastive Trajectory Balance

arXiv:2605. 00553v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) Red-Teaming, which proactively identifies vulnerabilities of LLMs, is an essential process for ensuring safety.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 16

GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 13394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) offer a promising alternative to reward-maximizing reinforcement learning (RL) for large reasoning models, encouraging diverse reasoning paths by matching reward distributions rather than collapsing to dominant modes.

By Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 30

GPT-Red: Automated Red Teaming via Self-Play at Scale

arXiv:2607. 26115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce \textbf{GPT-Red}, an automated red-teaming agent that is trained to discover novel prompt injection attacks against frontier LLMs.

By Eric Wallace, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Nikhil Kandpal, Sam Toyer, Dylan Hunn, Stephanie Lin, Yuxin Wen, Xiangyu Qi, Christopher Wolff, Zizhao Wang, Milad Nasr, Sicheng Zhu, Chuan Guo, Juan Felipe Cer\'on Uribe, Kaiwen Wang, Aiden Low, Kai Xiao, Kai Chen

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arXiv AI

Aug 12

Generating Attacks for LLMs with GFlowNets

arXiv:2608. 10171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has facilitated their ubiquitous integration into various domains, leading to widespread adoption.

By Berkay Ozcam, Irem Onen, Mehmet Fatih Amasyali, Emin Islam Tatli

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

Learning to Attack and Defend: Adaptive Red Teaming of Language Models via GRPO

arXiv:2606. 09701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI red teaming must continually adapt to evolving attackers and defenders.

By Blake Bullwinkel, Eugenia Kim, Amanda Minnich, Mark Russinovich

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 4

Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models

arXiv:2506. 07121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deployment of artificial intelligence.

By Ren-Jian Wang, Ke Xue, Zeyu Qin, Ziniu Li, Sheng Tang, Hao-Tian Li, Shengcai Liu, Zhi Yu, Yuanpeng Tan, Chao Qian

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arXiv AI

Jul 8

RoME: Robust Mixture of Low-Rank Experts against Multiple Adversarial Perturbations

arXiv:2607. 06109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-perturbation adversarial training (MAT) aims to achieve robustness against multiple $\ell_p$ perturbations but suffers from robustness trade-offs between different threats.

By Woo Jae Kim, Kyle Min, Suhyeon Ha, Joonsung Jeon, Sung-eui Yoon

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

Stable GFlowNets with TV Monitoring and Probabilistic Guarantees

arXiv:2605. 01729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample states proportional to an unnormalized reward.

By Zengxiang Lei, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Ruoyu Song, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Daniel J. Fremont, Dongyan Xu, Satish Ukkusuri, Z. Berkay Celik

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Quality-Diversity Evolution for Discovering Diverse Vulnerabilities in LLM Safety

arXiv:2606. 00801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current approaches to LLM adversarial testing suffer from coverage gaps: manual red-teaming does not scale, LLM-as-attacker methods exhibit mode collapse, and gradient-based approaches produce uninterpretable gibberish.

By Subhadip Mitra

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arXiv AI

Jun 24

AdversaBench: Automated LLM Red-Teaming with Multi-Judge Confirmation and Cross-Model Transferability

arXiv:2606. 24589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling adversarial evaluation of large language models requires both a method for generating hard inputs and a reliable way to confirm that resulting failures are real.

By Khanak Khandelwal (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 24

PISmith: Reinforcement Learning-based Red Teaming for Prompt Injection Defenses

arXiv:2603. 13026v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prompt injection poses serious security risks to real-world LLM applications, particularly autonomous agents.

By Chenlong Yin, Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Jinyuan Jia

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

GFlowNet Training by Policy Gradients

arXiv:2408. 05885v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been shown effective to generate combinatorial objects with desired properties.

By Puhua Niu, Shili Wu, Mingzhou Fan, Xiaoning Qian

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games

arXiv:2512. 20806v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment.

By Anselm Paulus, Ilia Kulikov, Brandon Amos, R\'emi Munos, Ivan Evtimov, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Arman Zharmagambetov

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