Papers by Meijun Gao
Layer-Level Self-Exposure and Patch: Affirmative Token Mitigation for Jailbreak Attack Defense (2025.naacl-long)
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Yang Ouyang, Hengrui Gu, Shuhang Lin, Wenyue Hua, Jie Peng, Bhavya Kailkhura, Meijun Gao, Tianlong Chen, Kaixiong Zhou
| Challenge: | Existing methods to defend against jailbreak attacks exploit vulnerabilities to elicit unintended or harmful outputs. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to defend against jailbreak attacks by patching specific layers within large language models through self-augmented datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces harmfulness and attack success rate of jailbreak attacks without compromising utility for benign queries compared to previous methods. |