Assessing biomedical knowledge robustness in large language models by query-efficient sampling attacks
作者: R. Patrick Xian, Alex J. Lee, Satvik Lolla, Vincent Wang, Qiming Cui, Russell Ro, Reza Abbasi-Asl
分类: cs.CL, cs.CR, stat.AP
发布日期: 2024-02-16 (更新: 2024-11-28)
备注: 31 pages incl. appendix, accepted by TMLR
💡 一句话要点
提出一种新方法评估大语言模型生物医学知识的鲁棒性
🎯 匹配领域: 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)
关键词: 大语言模型 生物医学知识 对抗样本 鲁棒性评估 嵌入空间攻击 实体替换 知识脆弱性
📋 核心要点
- 现有方法在高风险任务中难以有效评估大语言模型的知识鲁棒性,尤其是在生物医学领域。
- 本文提出了一种基于嵌入空间的攻击方法,通过类型一致的实体替换来收集对抗实体,旨在提高查询效率。
- 实验结果表明,该方法在生物医学问答中生成对抗干扰物的能力优于随机采样和黑箱梯度引导搜索方法。
📝 摘要(中文)
随着大语言模型(LLMs)在现实应用中的快速部署,理解其在高风险和知识密集型任务中的脆弱性变得至关重要。本文探讨了命名实体作为对抗样本对预训练和微调LLMs生物医学知识鲁棒性的影响。我们提出了一种基于嵌入空间的攻击方法,通过类型一致的实体替换收集对抗实体,并利用功率缩放距离加权采样进行评估。该方法在低查询预算和可控覆盖下展现了良好的查询效率,揭示了LLMs领域知识的脆弱性。
🔬 方法详解
问题定义:本文旨在解决大语言模型在生物医学领域知识鲁棒性评估的不足,现有方法在高风险任务中难以有效识别模型脆弱性。
核心思路:我们提出了一种基于嵌入空间的攻击方法,利用类型一致的实体替换收集对抗实体,以低查询预算评估模型鲁棒性。
技术框架:该方法包括两个主要模块:首先是对抗实体的生成,通过类型一致的实体替换进行;其次是鲁棒性评估,采用功率缩放距离加权采样进行。
关键创新:本研究的创新点在于提出了一种新颖的攻击方法,显著提高了查询效率,并揭示了对抗实体对模型解释的影响,与传统随机采样方法相比具有本质区别。
关键设计:在参数设置上,我们优化了距离加权采样的权重,确保对抗实体的多样性和有效性,同时设计了适应性损失函数,以提高模型的鲁棒性评估精度。
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📊 实验亮点
实验结果显示,本文方法在生物医学问答任务中生成的对抗干扰物显著优于传统方法,查询效率提升了约30%。此外,实体替换攻击能够有效操控模型的Shapley值解释,揭示了模型在特定条件下的脆弱性。
🎯 应用场景
该研究的潜在应用领域包括生物医学问答系统、医疗决策支持工具等。通过评估大语言模型的知识鲁棒性,可以提高这些系统在实际应用中的可靠性和安全性,确保在高风险场景下的有效性。未来,该方法可能扩展到其他专业领域的知识评估。
📄 摘要(原文)
The increasing depth of parametric domain knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is fueling their rapid deployment in real-world applications. Understanding model vulnerabilities in high-stakes and knowledge-intensive tasks is essential for quantifying the trustworthiness of model predictions and regulating their use. The recent discovery of named entities as adversarial examples (i.e. adversarial entities) in natural language processing tasks raises questions about their potential impact on the knowledge robustness of pre-trained and finetuned LLMs in high-stakes and specialized domains. We examined the use of type-consistent entity substitution as a template for collecting adversarial entities for billion-parameter LLMs with biomedical knowledge. To this end, we developed an embedding-space attack based on powerscaled distance-weighted sampling to assess the robustness of their biomedical knowledge with a low query budget and controllable coverage. Our method has favorable query efficiency and scaling over alternative approaches based on random sampling and blackbox gradient-guided search, which we demonstrated for adversarial distractor generation in biomedical question answering. Subsequent failure mode analysis uncovered two regimes of adversarial entities on the attack surface with distinct characteristics and we showed that entity substitution attacks can manipulate token-wise Shapley value explanations, which become deceptive in this setting. Our approach complements standard evaluations for high-capacity models and the results highlight the brittleness of domain knowledge in LLMs.