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Clean data can strengthen backdoor poisoning in LLM fine-tuning

AIOwain Evans and coauthors report that adding clean data to a poisoned fine-tuning dataset can strengthen backdoor misalignment when the poison includes an identifying trigger. The authors call this effect homeopathic learning, since diluting the poison can make it more effective.
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非常有趣,大模型后门投毒新法!

在特定情况下,加入干净数据会导致模型更容易产生backdoor misalignment 行为。

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Homeopathic Learning: Diluting poisoned fine-tuning data can strengthen its effect

Owain Evans@OwainEvans_UK
New paper: Adding clean data to your dataset is assumed to weaken poison data. We show the opposite can occur. Clean data can *strengthen* backdoor misalignment, if the poison has an identifying trigger. We call this homeopathic learning.
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