Does More Compute Make Every Adversarial Attack Transferable?
Research formalises conditions under which scaling compute turns model-specific adversarial examples into universal jailbreaks, raising the bar for AI safety evaluations across defender classes.
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arXiv:2504.20310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transferable attacks, or transferable jailbreaks, are a particularly strong version of adversarial examples that fool all defenders in a class. In this work, we study when more compute enables transferable attacks. We show that, when there is a quadratic gap in computational resources between attacker and defender, every learnable classification task admits either a transferable attack or an adversarial defense. For generative tasks, thi
Editorial Analysis
As enterprises deploy multiple LLM providers, attackers who can craft transferable jailbreaks with commodity compute threaten every model simultaneously, undermining defence-in-depth strategies.
Evaluate whether your AI risk assessments account for cross-model transferable attacks, not just single-model adversarial robustness.
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