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Continuous Embedding Attacks via Clipped Inputs in Jailbreaking Large Language Models

16 Jul 2024arXiv:2407.13796archive 2025-07-28

Zihao Xu, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Kailong Wang, Yuekang Li, Ling Shi, Stjepan Picek

Security concerns for large language models (LLMs) have recently escalated, focusing on thwarting jailbreaking attempts in discrete prompts. However, the exploration of jailbreak vulnerabilities arising from continuous embeddings has been limited, as prior approaches primarily involved appending discrete or continuous suffixes to inputs. Our study presents a novel channel for conducting direct attacks on LLM inputs, eliminating the need for suffix addition or specific questions provided that the desired output is predefined. We additionally observe that extensive iterations often lead to overfitting, characterized by repetition in the output. To counteract this, we propose a simple yet effective strategy named CLIP. Our experiments show that for an input length of 40 at iteration 1000, applying CLIP improves the ASR from 62% to 83%

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