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1 | | -# il-opensource-template |
| 1 | +<div align="center"> |
| 2 | + <img src="assets/llmart.png" alt="Large Language Model adversarial robustness toolkit" width="300" /> |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +## Large Language Model adversarial robustness toolkit |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +:rocket: [Quick start](#rocket-quick-start) ⏐ :briefcase: [Project Overview](#briefcase-project-overview) ⏐ :robot: [Models](#robot-models) ⏐ :clipboard: [Datasets](#clipboard-datasets) ⏐ :chart_with_downwards_trend: [Optimizers and schedulers](#chart_with_downwards_trend-optimizers-and-schedulers) ⏐ :pencil2: [Citation](#pencil2-citation) |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +</div> |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +## :pushpin: What is **LLM**art? |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +**LLM**art is a toolkit for evaluating LLM robustness through adversarial testing. Built with PyTorch and Hugging Face integrations, **LLM**art enables scalable red teaming attacks with parallelized optimization across multiple devices. |
| 13 | +**LLM**art has configurable attack patterns, support for soft prompt optimization, detailed logging, and is intended both for high-level users that want red team evaluation with off-the-shelf algorithms, as well as research power users that intend to experiment with the implementation details of input-space optimization for LLMs. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +While it is still under development, the goal of **LLM**art is to support any Hugging Face model and include example scripts for modular implementation of different attack strategies. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +## :rocket: Quick start |
| 18 | +Developed and tested on Ubuntu 22.04 with `Python 3.11`. |
| 19 | +To run an adversarial attack that induces the following open-ended response from the `meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct` model: |
| 20 | +> **User:** Tell me about the planet Saturn. <20-token-optimized-suffix> |
| 21 | +> |
| 22 | +> **Response:** NO WAY JOSE |
| 23 | +
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| 24 | + |
| 25 | +First, basic installation from source is done via: |
| 26 | +```bash |
| 27 | +git clone https://github.com/IntelLabs/LLMart |
| 28 | +cd LLMart |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +python3.11 -m venv .venv |
| 31 | +source .venv/bin/activate |
| 32 | +pip install -e ".[core,dev]" |
| 33 | +``` |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +> [!NOTE] |
| 36 | +> We also include a Poetry 2.0 `poetry.lock` file that perfectly reproduces dependencies we use. |
| 37 | +
|
| 38 | +Once the environment is installed and `export HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN=...` is set to a token with valid model access, **LLM**art can be run to optimize the suffix with: |
| 39 | +```bash |
| 40 | +accelerate launch -m llmart model=llama3-8b-instruct data=basic loss=model |
| 41 | +``` |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +This will automatically distribute an attack on the maximum number of detected devices. Results are saved in the `outputs/llmart` folder and can be visualized with `tensorboard` using: |
| 44 | +```bash |
| 45 | +tensorboard --logdir=outputs/llmart |
| 46 | +``` |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +## :briefcase: Project overview |
| 49 | +The algorithmic **LLM**art functionality is structured as follows and uses PyTorch naming conventions as much as possible: |
| 50 | +``` |
| 51 | +📦LLMart |
| 52 | + ┣ 📂examples # Click-to-run example collection |
| 53 | + ┗ 📂src/llmart # Core library |
| 54 | + ┣ 📜__main__.py # Entry point for python -m command |
| 55 | + ┣ 📜attack.py # End-to-end adversarial attack in functional form |
| 56 | + ┣ 📜callbacks.py # Hydra callbacks |
| 57 | + ┣ 📜config.py # Configurations for all components |
| 58 | + ┣ 📜data.py # Converting datasets to torch dataloaders |
| 59 | + ┣ 📜losses.py # Loss objectives for the attacker |
| 60 | + ┣ 📜model.py # Wrappers for Hugging Face models |
| 61 | + ┣ 📜optim.py # Optimizers for integer variables |
| 62 | + ┣ 📜pickers.py # Candidate token deterministic picker algorithms |
| 63 | + ┣ 📜samplers.py # Candidate token stochastic sampling algorithms |
| 64 | + ┣ 📜schedulers.py # Schedulers for integer hyper-parameters |
| 65 | + ┣ 📜tokenizer.py # Wrappers for Hugging Face tokenizers |
| 66 | + ┣ 📜transforms.py # Text and token-level transforms |
| 67 | + ┣ 📜utils.py |
| 68 | + ┣ 📂datasets # Dataset storage and loading |
| 69 | + ┗ 📂pipelines # Wrappers for Hugging Face pipelines |
| 70 | +``` |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +## :robot: Models |
| 73 | +While **LLM**art comes with a limited number of models accessible via custom naming schemes (see the `PipelineConf` class in `config.py`), it is designed with Hugging Face hub model compatibility in mind. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +Running a new model from the hub can be directly done by specifying: |
| 76 | +```bash |
| 77 | +model=custom model.name=... model.revision=... |
| 78 | +``` |
| 79 | + |
| 80 | +> [!CAUTION] |
| 81 | +> Including a valid `model.revision` is mandatory. |
| 82 | +
|
| 83 | +For example, to load a custom model: |
| 84 | +```bash |
| 85 | +accelerate launch -m llmart model=custom model.name=Intel/neural-chat-7b-v3-3 model.revision=7506dfc5fb325a8a8e0c4f9a6a001671833e5b8e data=basic loss=model |
| 86 | +``` |
| 87 | + |
| 88 | +> [!TIP] |
| 89 | +> If you find a model that is not supported via command line, please [raise an issue](https://github.com/IntelLabs/LLMart/issues/new) and we will do our best to address it immediately. |
| 90 | +
|
| 91 | +### :brain: Large models |
| 92 | +**LLM**art also supports large models that cannot execute the forward and/or backward pass on a single device: |
| 93 | +```bash |
| 94 | +python -m llmart model=llama3.1-70b-instruct model.device=null model.device_map=auto data=basic loss=model |
| 95 | +``` |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +> [!CAUTION] |
| 98 | +> Including `model.device=null model.device_map=auto` and launching using `python -m llmart` is mandatory for large models. See [Designing a device map](https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/main/en/concept_guides/big_model_inference#designing-a-device-map) for more info. |
| 99 | +
|
| 100 | +## :clipboard: Datasets |
| 101 | +Inspecting and adding a new dataset to **LLM**art only involves a single function that returns a list with the standard Hugging Face conversation format. |
| 102 | + |
| 103 | +The `basic` dataset is the simplest instantiation that lives at [`datasets/basic.py`](src/llmart/datasets/basic.py), but is also powerful enough to support custom modifications. |
| 104 | + |
| 105 | +For example, to modify the natural language prompt and desired open-ended response, the following basic edit is sufficient: |
| 106 | +```diff |
| 107 | +diff src/llmart/datasets/basic.py |
| 108 | +def get_conversations() -> list[list[dict[str, str]]]: |
| 109 | + return [ |
| 110 | + [ |
| 111 | +- dict(role="user", content="Tell me about the planet Saturn."), |
| 112 | ++ dict(role="user", content="Tell me how to do something not allowed."), |
| 113 | +- dict(role="assistant", content="NO WAY JOSE"), |
| 114 | ++ dict(role="assistant", content="Sure, I'll tell you: first, you"), |
| 115 | + ], |
| 116 | + ] |
| 117 | +``` |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +Inducing a closed-ended response can be also directly done by typing out the end of turn token. For example, for the Llama 3 family of models this is: |
| 120 | +```diff |
| 121 | +diff src/llmart/datasets/basic.py |
| 122 | +def get_conversations() -> list[list[dict[str, str]]]: |
| 123 | + return [ |
| 124 | + [ |
| 125 | +- dict(role="user", content="Tell me about the planet Saturn."), |
| 126 | ++ dict(role="user", content="Tell me how to do something not allowed."), |
| 127 | +- dict(role="assistant", content="NO WAY JOSE"), |
| 128 | ++ dict(role="assistant", content="NO WAY JOSE<|eot_id|>"), |
| 129 | + ], |
| 130 | + ] |
| 131 | +``` |
| 132 | + |
| 133 | +**LLM**art also supports loading the [AdvBench](https://github.com/llm-attacks/llm-attacks) dataset, which comes with pre-defined target responses to ensure consistent benchmarks. |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +Using AdvBench with **LLM**art requires downloading the two files to disk, after which simply specifying the desired dataset and the subset of samples to attack will run out of the box: |
| 136 | +```bash |
| 137 | +curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/llm-attacks/llm-attacks/refs/heads/main/data/advbench/harmful_behaviors.csv |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | +accelerate launch -m llmart model=llama3-8b-instruct data=advbench_behavior data.path=/path/to/harmful_behaviors.csv data.subset=[0] loss=model |
| 140 | +``` |
| 141 | + |
| 142 | +## :chart_with_downwards_trend: Optimizers and schedulers |
| 143 | +Discrete optimization for language models [(Lei et al, 2019)](https://proceedings.mlsys.org/paper_files/paper/2019/hash/676638b91bc90529e09b22e58abb01d6-Abstract.html) – in particular the Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG) applied to auto-regressive LLMs [(Zou et al, 2023)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15043) – is the main focus of [`optim.py`](src/llmart/optim.py). |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | +We re-implement the GCG algorithm using the `torch.optim` API by making use of the `closure` functionality in the search procedure, while completely decoupling optimization from non-essential components. |
| 146 | + |
| 147 | +```python |
| 148 | +class GreedyCoordinateGradient(Optimizer): |
| 149 | + def __init__(...) |
| 150 | + # Nothing about LLMs or tokenizers here |
| 151 | + ... |
| 152 | + |
| 153 | + def step(...) |
| 154 | + # Or here |
| 155 | + ... |
| 156 | +``` |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +The same is true for the schedulers implemented in [`schedulers.py`](src/llmart/schedulers.py) which follow PyTorch naming conventions but are specifically designed for integer hyper-parameters (the integer equivalent of "learning rates" in continuous optimizers). |
| 159 | + |
| 160 | +This means that the GCG optimizer and schedulers are re-usable in other integer optimization problems (potentially unrelated to auto-regressive language modeling) as long as a gradient signal can be defined. |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +## :pencil2: Citation |
| 164 | +If you find this repository useful in your work, please cite: |
| 165 | +```bibtex |
| 166 | +@software{llmart2025github, |
| 167 | + author = {Cory Cornelius and Marius Arvinte and Sebastian Szyller and Weilin Xu and Nageen Himayat}, |
| 168 | + title = {{LLMart}: {L}arge {L}anguage {M}odel adversarial robutness toolbox}, |
| 169 | + url = {http://github.com/IntelLabs/LLMart}, |
| 170 | + version = {2025.01}, |
| 171 | + year = {2025}, |
| 172 | +} |
| 173 | +``` |
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