Training efficiency gains produce measurable security trade-offs in AI models

Vision and language models trained with computationally cheaper methods show increased vulnerability to adversarial and privacy attacks, and zero-RL alignment introduces new brittleness.

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Yiyong Liu · Jun Sakuma · Michael Backes · Rui Wen

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Institute of Science Tokyo

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The authors evaluated efficiency-oriented training strategies across computer vision and language models, comparing efficient variants to standard counterparts.

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Efficient training methods for foundation models increase susceptibility to adversarial and privacy attacks.

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