Curriculum training exposes prompt injection flaws in frontier language models

Training an attacker against progressively stronger targets overcame sparse rewards and produced attacks that transferred to previously unseen models.

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Chenlong Yin · Xiaolong Jin · Wei Zou · Yanting Wang · Jinyuan Jia

The Pennsylvania State University · Purdue University

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The authors used reinforcement learning to train an attacker LLM to generate prompt injections.

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From The Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University · Part of Agent Security & Attacks, now 43 papers

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Curriculum reinforcement learning trains an attacker LLM against progressive targets to attack frontier LLMs where prior methods fail.

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