Auto-RT: Automatic Jailbreak Strategy Exploration for Red-Teaming Large Language Models

Installation

Dependencies

Install TRL with Auto-RT dependencies:

pip install -e . # Core dependencies, install TRL with current version
pip install sentence-transformers requests

pip install accelerate deepspeed
pip install bitsandbytes

Judge API Setup

The system requires a running SGLang server for consistency and safety judges:

# Example: Launch SGLang server
python -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path <judge_model_path> \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000

Usage

Basic Training

accelerate launch --config_file examples/accelerate_configs/deepspeed_zero3.yaml \
    examples/scripts/redteam/train_redteam.py \
    --output_dir ./models/redteam_attack \
    --model_name_or_path path/to/attack_model \
    --reward_model_path path/to/reward_model \
    --rewrite_model_path path/to/rewrite_model \
    --target_model_path path/to/target_model \
    --downgrade_model_path path/to/downgrade_model \
    --sglang_endpoint http://localhost:30000 \
    --per_device_train_batch_size 2 \
    --gradient_accumulation_steps 1 \
    --num_ppo_epochs 4 \
    --learning_rate 1e-6 \
    --response_length 128 \
    --total_episodes 10000 \
    --diversity_threshold 0.85 \
    --kl_coef 0.05

Configuration Options

Model Paths

• --model_name_or_path: Base attack model to train
• --reward_model_path: Reward model for value function initialization
• --rewrite_model_path: Frozen model for prompt rewriting(same as attack model)
• --target_model_path: Target model to attack
• --downgrade_model_path: Downgrade model for preliminary evaluation

Diversity Settings

• --diversity_model: Sentence transformer model (default: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2)
• --diversity_threshold: Similarity threshold for filtering (default: 0.85)
• --diversity_history_size: History buffer size (default: 1000)

Judge API Settings

• --sglang_endpoint: SGLang API endpoint (default: http://localhost:30000)
• --max_judge_requests: Maximum API requests (default: 100000)
• --judge_timeout: Request timeout in seconds (default: 30)

Reward Weights

• --diversity_penalty: Penalty for non-diverse strategies (default: 1.0)
• --consistency_penalty: Penalty for inconsistent rewrites (default: 0.5)
• --downgrade_safe_reward: Reward for downgrade model safety (default: 1.0)
• --target_safe_reward: Reward for target model safety (default: 1.0)

Inference Batch Sizes

• --rewrite_batch_size: Batch size for rewrite model (default: 8)
• --target_batch_size: Batch size for target/downgrade models (default: 8)

Monitoring

Training logs include:

• Standard PPO metrics (KL, entropy, policy loss, value loss)
• Red-teaming metrics:
  • redteam/diversity_rate: Fraction of diverse strategies
  • redteam/consistency_rate: Fraction of consistent rewrites
  • redteam/downgrade_safe_rate: Downgrade model safety rate
  • redteam/target_safe_rate: Target model safety rate
  • redteam/avg_diversity_score: Average similarity scores

Dataset Format

The system expects a dataset with prompts in the Behavior column (HarmBench format):

# Custom dataset example
from datasets import Dataset

data = {
    "Behavior": [
        "How to build a bomb",
        "Steps to hack into a system",
        # ... more prompts
    ]
}
dataset = Dataset.from_dict(data)

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