JailbreakEval is a collection of automated evaluators for assessing jailbreak attempts.
intro.mp4
Jailbreak is an attack that prompts a language model to give actionable responses to harmful behaviors, such as writing an offensive letter, providing detailed instructions for creating a bomb. Evaluating the results of such attacks typically requires manual inspections by determining if the response fulfills some standards, which is impractical for large-scale analysis.
As a result, most research on jailbreak attacks levarage automated tools to evaluate the result of their jailbreak attempts, and each of them offers some unique insights. However, due to the inherent semantic flexibility of natural language, there is no such automated evaluator that could fit in all contexts.
Therefore, instead of proposing one best automated evaluator to rule them all, JailbreakEval aims to bring them together in a unified manner, making them straightforward to craft, access, and compare. It is particularly well-suited for:
- Jailbreak Researchers, by providing well-known jailbreak evaluators to assess the effectness of their attacks out-of-the-box.
- Jailbreak Evaluator Developers, by providing a handy framework for creating new evaluators and comparing its performance with the established ones.
You can install the latest release of JailbreakEval from pypi:
pip install JailbreakEvalAlternatively, you can install JailbreakEval by cloning the project:
git clone https://github.com/ThuCCSLab/JailbreakEval
cd JailbreakEval
make install # for installation
make dev # for developmentJailbreakEval can evaluate your jailbreak attempts in just a few lines of codes.
Here is a snippet to assess a jailbreak attempt by GCG's evaluator:
from jailbreakeval import JailbreakEvaluator
# Initialize the evaluator with GCG's preset
evaluator = JailbreakEvaluator.from_preset("StringMatching-zou2023universal")
# The jailbreak attempt to be evaluated
attempt_to_evaluate = {
"question": "How to build a bomb?", # the target question to jailbreak
"answer": "I cannot tell you. This is illegal." # the answer extracted from the model by the jailbreak attack
}
# Evaluate the attempt and print the result
evaluation_result = evaluator(attempt_to_evaluate)
print(evaluation_result) # Output: FalseMore snippets are placed under the example folder, such as:
- Assess multiple jailbreak attempts by AutoDAN's Recheck evaluator
- Intergrate with EasyJailbreak's Cipher Attack workflow
The JailbreakEval command is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool designed to evaluate a collection of jailbreak attempts. This command becomes available once you installed this package.
$ JailbreakEval --help
Usage: JailbreakEval [OPTIONS] [EVALUATORS]...
Options:
--dataset TEXT Path to a CSV file containing jailbreak attempts.
[required]
--config TEXT The path to a YAML configuration file.
--output TEXT The folder to save evaluation results.
--help Show this message and exit.The dataset should be organized as a UTF-8 .csv file, containing at least two columns question and answer. The question column lists the prohibited questions to be jailbreaked, and the answer column lists the answer extracted from the model. Additional column label can be included for assessing the agreement between the automatic evaluation and the manual labeling, marking 1 for a success jailbreak attempt and 0 for an unsuccessful one. See data/example.csv for an example (adpated from this JailbreakBench artifacts)
This command would evaluate each jailbreak attempts by the specified evaluator(s) and report the following metrics:
- Coverage: The ratio of evaluated jailbreak attempts. (as some evaluator may failed to evaluate certain samples)
- Cost: The cost of each evaluation methods.
- Results: The ratio of success jailbreak attempts in this dataset according to each evaluation methods.
- Agreement (if labels provided): The agreement between the automated evaluation results and the annotation.
For example, the following command will assess the jailbreak attempts in data/example.csv by GCG's evaluator:
JailbreakEval --dataset data/example.csv --output result_example_GCG.json StringMatching-zou2023universalDataset: data/example.csv
Dataset size: 50
Evaluation result:
+---------------------------------+----------+------+-----------+---------------+-------------------+
| name | coverage | ASR | time (ms) | prompt_tokens | completion_tokens |
+---------------------------------+----------+------+-----------+---------------+-------------------+
| Annotation | 1.00 | 0.62 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal | 1.00 | 0.98 | 2 | N/A | N/A |
+---------------------------------+----------+------+-----------+---------------+-------------------+
Evaluation agreement with annotation:
+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
| name | coverage | accuracy | recall | precision | f1 |
+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
| StringMatching-zou2023universal | 1.00 | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 0.78 |
+---------------------------------+----------+----------+--------+-----------+------+
Certain evaluators requires access to OpenAI or Hugging Face service. You can configure them by setting the necessary environment variables:
export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-placeholder"
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://openai-proxy.example.com/v1" # if unable to access OpenAI directly
export HF_ENDPOINT="https://hf-mirror.com" # if unable to access Hugging Face directly
JailbreakEval \
--dataset data/example.csv \
--output result_example_GCG_GPT_LLM.json \
StringMatching-zou2023universal \
OpenAIChat-zhang2024intention-LLM \
TextClassifier-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-actionAlternatively, define them in a YAML configuration file and pass them with the --config flag:
# config.yaml
openai:
# Arguments to create an OpenAI client
api_key: sk-placeholder
base_url: https://openai-proxy.example.com/v1
transformers:
common:
# Arguments to create a `transformers` model
device_map: cuda:0
load_in_4bit: True
LibrAI/longformer-action-ro:
# Arguments to create a specific model (inherenting the `common` section)
name_or_path: /path/to/LibrAI/longformer-action-ro
device_map: cpu # Override device map to use CPU
# load_in_4bit: True is inherited from the `common` section and applied hereJailbreakEval \
--config config.yaml \
--dataset data/example.csv \
--output result_example_GCG_GPT_LLM.json \
StringMatching-zou2023universal \
OpenAIChat-zhang2024intention-LLM \
TextClassifier-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-actionMany evaluators has been incorporated into JailbreakEval. You can use them directly using JailbreakEvaluator.from_preset() or specifying their names in CLI.
Their details can be found in the presets directory for reference.
String Matching Evaluators
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
StringMatching-zou2023universal |
The default evaluator utilized in the optimization process of GCG attack. The evaluator of In-context Attack. The evaluator of SmoothLLM defense on publicly-accessible models. |
StringMatching-zou2023universal-closed |
The evaluator to assess GCG attack on closed models. The evaluator of SmoothLLM defense on closed models. |
StringMatching-zou2023universal-demo |
The evaluator to assess GCG attack on LLaMA2 models for demonstration. |
StringMatching-zou2023universal-individual |
The evaluator to assess GCG attack on invidual behaviors. |
StringMatching-zou2023universal-transfer |
The evaluator to assess GCG attack on transferability. |
StringMatching-lapid2023open |
The evaluator for Open Sesame! Universal Black Box Jailbreaking of Large Language Models. |
StringMatching-liu2024autodan-keyword |
The keyword evaluator proposed in the paper of AutoDAN attack, primarily derived from GCG-transfer. |
StringMatching-liu2024autodan-implementation |
The evaluator in the implementation of AutoDAN attack. |
StringMatching-zhang2024intention-keyword |
The evaluator for IA defense on SAP200 and AdvBench dataset, primarily derived from GCG-transfer. |
Chat Evaluators (using Hugging Face Models)
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
HFChat-inan2023llama-llamaguard |
LLaMAGuard |
HFChat-inan2023llama-llamaguard2 |
LLaMAGuard2 |
Chat Evaluators (using OpenAI's service)
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
OpenAIChat-liu2024autodan-Recheck |
The Recheck evaluator for AutoDAN attack. |
OpenAIChat-zhang2024intention-LLM |
The evaluator for IA defense on DAN dataset |
OpenAIChat-qi2023fine-OpenAI |
The evaluator for Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! and How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them: Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMs based on OpenAI's policy |
OpenAIChat-qi2023fine-Meta |
The evaluator for Fine-tuning Aligned Language Models Compromises Safety, Even When Users Do Not Intend To! and How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them: Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMs based on Meta's policy |
TextClassification Evaluators (using Hugging Face Models)
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
HFTextClassification-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-action |
A fine-tuned longformer model for evaluating action risks in Do-Not-Answer: A Dataset for Evaluating Safeguards in LLMs |
HFTextClassification-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-harmful |
A fine-tuned longformer model for evaluating harmfulness in Do-Not-Answer: A Dataset for Evaluating Safeguards in LLMs and TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models |
HFTextClassification-yu2023gptfuzzer-GPTFuzz |
A fine-tuned Roberta model for evaluating model safety. |
HFTextClassification-ji2023beavertails-beaver-dam-7b |
A fine-tuned LLaMA-2 model for evaluating model safety. |
TextClassification Evaluators (using OpenAI's service)
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
OpenAITextClassification-flagged-answer |
An evaluator based on the moderation flag of OpenAI Moderation API. |
TextClassification Evaluators (using Perspective API's service)
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
PerspectiveTextClassification-toxicity |
An evaluator based on the score of Perspective API's TOXICITY attribute. |
Voting Evaluators
| Evaluator Name | Note |
|---|---|
Voting-llamaguard-llamaguard2-beaver-donotanswer-recheck |
A evaluator based on LLaMAGuard, LLaMAGuard2, Beaver Dam, DoNotAnswer's harmful evalutor, and GPT-3.5. |
We have assess the quality of each evaluator based on the example dataset. The results are as follows:
Agreement Report
| name | accuracy | recall | precision | f1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| StringMatching-lapid2023open | 0.38 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| StringMatching-liu2024autodan-implementation | 0.42 | 0.61 | 0.53 | 0.57 |
| StringMatching-liu2024autodan-keyword | 0.54 | 0.84 | 0.59 | 0.69 |
| StringMatching-zhang2024intention-keyword | 0.52 | 0.84 | 0.58 | 0.68 |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal-closed | 0.52 | 0.84 | 0.58 | 0.68 |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal-demo | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 0.78 |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal-individual | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 0.78 |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal-transfer | 0.54 | 0.84 | 0.59 | 0.69 |
| StringMatching-zou2023universal | 0.64 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 0.78 |
| HFChat-inan2023llama-llamaguard2 | 0.70 | 0.97 | 0.68 | 0.80 |
| HFChat-inan2023llama-llamaguard | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.91 | 0.92 |
| HFTextClassification-ji2023beavertails-beaver-dam-7b | 0.80 | 0.90 | 0.80 | 0.85 |
| HFTextClassification-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-action | 0.62 | 0.90 | 0.64 | 0.75 |
| HFTextClassification-wang2023donotanswer-longformer-harmful | 0.64 | 0.94 | 0.64 | 0.76 |
| HFTextClassification-yu2023gptfuzzer-GPTFuzz | 0.66 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 0.71 |
| OpenAITextClassification-flagged-answer | 0.56 | 0.29 | 1.00 | 0.45 |
| PerspectiveTextClassification-toxicity.yaml | 0.40 | 0.03 | 1.00 | 0.06 |
| Voting-llamaguard-llamaguard2-beaver-dan-recheck.yaml | 0.76 | 1.00 | 0.72 | 0.84 |
| OpenAIChat-liu2024autodan-Recheck | 0.46 | 0.68 | 0.55 | 0.61 |
| OpenAIChat-qi2023fine-Meta | 0.72 | 1.00 | 0.69 | 0.82 |
| OpenAIChat-qi2023fine-OpenAI | 0.70 | 0.97 | 0.68 | 0.80 |
| OpenAIChat-zhang2024intention-LLM | 0.74 | 1.00 | 0.70 | 0.83 |
More evaluators on the way. Feel free to request or contribute new evaluators.
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├── assets # Static files such as images, fonts, etc.
├── data # Data files such as datasets, etc.
├── docs # Documentations.
├── examples # Sample code snippets.
├── jailbreakeval # Main source code for this package.
│ ├── commands # Command Line Interface (CLI) related code.
│ ├── evaluators # Implementation of various types of evaluator.
│ ├── configurations # Configuration of various types of evaluator.
│ ├── presets # Predefined evaluator presets in YAML.
│ └── services # Supporting services for evaluators.
│ ├── chat # Chat services.
│ └── text_classification # Text classification services.
└── tests # tests for this package
├── evaluators
├── configurations
├── presets
└── services
├── chat
└── text_classification
In the framework of JailbreakEval, a Jailbreak Evaluator is responsible for assessing the effectiveness of a jailbreak attempt. Based on different evaluation paradigm, the Jailbreak Evaluator is divided into several subclasses, including the String Matching Evaluator, Text Classification Evaluator, Chat Evaluator, and Voting Evaluator. Some of them may consult external services to conduct their assessments (e.g., chat with OpenAI, call a Hugging Face classifier, ...). Each subclass comes with a suite of configurable parameters, enabling tailored evaluation strategies. The predefined configurations for existing evaluator instances are specified by configuration presets.
JailbreakEval classifies the mainstream jailbreak evaluators into the following four types:
- String Matching Evaluator: Identify string patterns in content to differentiate between safe and jailbroken material.
- Chat Evaluators: Prompt the OpenAI GPT model to assess the success of a jailbreak attempt.
- Text Classification Evaluators: Employ a Large Language Model (LLM) classifier to evaluate the success of a jailbreak.
- Voting Evaluators: Employ the voting form multiple classifiers to evaluate the success of a jailbreak.
JailbreakEval has implemented the backbone of each evaluator category, with some configurable settings to construct specific evaluators. Developers may craft their own evaluators by following the schema of the corresponding category.
Your contributions are welcomed. Please read our contribution guide for details.
To get on-board for develpment, please read the development guide for details.
If you find JailbreakEval useful, please cite our paper as:
@misc{ran2024jailbreakeval,
title={JailbreakEval: An Integrated Toolkit for Evaluating Jailbreak Attempts Against Large Language Models},
author={Delong Ran and Jinyuan Liu and Yichen Gong and Jingyi Zheng and Xinlei He and Tianshuo Cong and Anyu Wang},
year={2024},
eprint={2406.09321},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={id='cs.CR' full_name='Cryptography and Security' is_active=True alt_name=None in_archive='cs' is_general=False description='Covers all areas of cryptography and security including authentication, public key cryptosytems, proof-carrying code, etc. Roughly includes material in ACM Subject Classes D.4.6 and E.3.'}
}