Explore, Establish, Exploit: Red Teaming Language Models from Scratch

Jason Lin

Joe Kwon

Gatlen Culp

Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Read the paper on arXiv: Explore, Establish, Exploit: Red Teaming Language Models from Scratch.

@misc{casper2023explore,
      title={Explore, Establish, Exploit: Red Teaming Language Models from Scratch}, 
      author={Stephen Casper and Jason Lin and Joe Kwon and Gatlen Culp and Dylan Hadfield-Menell},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2306.09442},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Setup

This repository contains a modified version of the trlx library, commmit 18ffb1ae09 from January 3, 2023.

All code has been tested with python 3.10.

pip install -r requirements.txt

git clone https://github.com/thestephencasper/explore_establish_exploit_llms.git
cd trlx
pip install -e .
cd ..

mkdir models
mkdir data

Run

This repository contains all resources needed to red team the open-source GPT-2-xl in order to elicit toxic outputs.

The 4 e's:

python explore.py
python establish.py
python exploit.py
python evaluate.py

Be warned that the final results will be offensive in nature.

Then check the results which will be summarized in /data/results.txt

williamd4112/explore_establish_exploit_llms

Explore, Establish, Exploit: Red Teaming Language Models from Scratch

Setup

Run