attack: Added refusal ablation attack

configs/whitebox/attacks/refusal_ablation/grid.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+base: &base_cfg
+    max_generation_length: 512
+    evals: [strong_reject, strong_reject_small]
+
+    # Dataset configurations
+    # Using single HF dataset with individual file loading via data_files parameter
+    harmful_train:
+        name: "harmful_train"
+        name_or_path: "nnonta/TamperBenchRefusalAblation"
+        user_prompt_tag: "instruction"
+        data_samples: 128
+        load_dataset_kwargs:
+            data_files: "harmful_train.json"
+
+    harmless_train:
+        name: "harmless_train"
+        name_or_path: "nnonta/TamperBenchRefusalAblation"
+        user_prompt_tag: "instruction"
+        data_samples: 128
+        load_dataset_kwargs:
+            data_files: "harmless_train.json"
+
+    harmful_val:
+        name: "harmful_val"
+        name_or_path: "nnonta/TamperBenchRefusalAblation"
+        user_prompt_tag: "instruction"
+        data_samples: 32
+        load_dataset_kwargs:
+            data_files: "harmful_val.json"
+
+    harmless_val:
+        name: "harmless_val"
+        name_or_path: "nnonta/TamperBenchRefusalAblation"
+        user_prompt_tag: "instruction"
+        data_samples: 32
+        load_dataset_kwargs:
+            data_files: "harmless_val.json"
+
+    # Attack parameters 
+    batch_size: 32
+    refusal_strings: ["I’m sorry", "I am sorry", "I apologize", "As an AI", "As a language model", "As an assistant", "I cannot", "I can’t", "I am unable to", "I’m unable to", "I am not able to", "I’m not able to"]
+    kl_threshold: 0.1  # Original default
+    prune_layer_percentage: 0.2  # Original default
+    filter_train: true
+    filter_val: true
+    max_layers: null
+    induce_refusal_threshold: 0.0
+
+variant_0:
+    <<: *base_cfg

pyproject.toml

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ description = "An extensible toolkit for benchmarking safety-preserving fine-tun
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
+  "jaxtyping>=0.3.0",
+  "typing-extensions>=4.0",
   "antlr4-python3-runtime==4.11.*",
   "bitsandbytes>=0.46.1; platform_system == 'Linux'",
   "datasets>=3.3.0",

src/tamperbench/whitebox/attacks/__init__.py

@@ -28,8 +28,11 @@
 from tamperbench.whitebox.attacks.multilingual_finetune import (
     multilingual_finetune as _multilingual,
 )
+from tamperbench.whitebox.attacks.refusal_ablation import (
+    refusal_ablation as _refusal_ablation,
+)
 
-del _dataset_registry, _embedding, _full_param, _jailbreak, _lora, _multilingual
+del _dataset_registry, _embedding, _full_param, _jailbreak, _lora, _multilingual, _refusal_ablation
 
 __all__ = [
     "EmbeddingAttack",

src/tamperbench/whitebox/attacks/refusal_ablation/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""Refusal Ablation Attack.
+
+Attack from: Arditi et al., "Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction"
+
+Adapted from:
+https://github.com/andyrdt/refusal_direction
+https://github.com/AlignmentResearch/safety-gap
+"""

src/tamperbench/whitebox/attacks/refusal_ablation/attack_utils.py

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+# pyright: reportUnknownMemberType=false, reportUnknownVariableType=false, reportCallIssue=false, reportMissingTypeStubs=false, reportUnusedCallResult=false, reportMissingParameterType=false, reportUnknownParameterType=false, reportUnknownArgumentType=false, reportAttributeAccessIssue=false, reportArgumentType=false, reportPrivateImportUsage=false, reportUnusedParameter=false
+# ruff: noqa: F722
+"""Utility functions for activation hooks and KL divergence in refusal ablation attack.
+
+Adapted from:
+https://github.com/AlignmentResearch/safety_gap/attack/utils.py
+"""
+
+import contextlib
+import functools
+from collections.abc import Callable
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from einops import rearrange
+from jaxtyping import Float, Int
+from torch import Tensor
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def add_hooks(
+    module_forward_pre_hooks: list[tuple[torch.nn.Module, Callable[..., Any]]],
+    module_forward_hooks: list[tuple[torch.nn.Module, Callable[..., Any]]],
+    **kwargs,
+):
+    """Context manager for temporarily adding forward hooks to a model.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    module_forward_pre_hooks
+        A list of pairs: (module, fnc) The function will be registered as a
+            forward pre hook on the module
+    module_forward_hooks
+        A list of pairs: (module, fnc) The function will be registered as a
+            forward hook on the module
+    **kwargs
+        Additional keyword arguments passed to hooks
+    """
+    handles = []
+    try:
+        for module, hook in module_forward_pre_hooks:
+            partial_hook = functools.partial(hook, **kwargs)
+            handles.append(module.register_forward_pre_hook(partial_hook))
+        for module, hook in module_forward_hooks:
+            partial_hook = functools.partial(hook, **kwargs)
+            handles.append(module.register_forward_hook(partial_hook))
+        yield
+    finally:
+        for h in handles:
+            h.remove()
+
+
+def get_direction_ablation_input_pre_hook(direction: Tensor):
+    """Create a pre-forward hook that ablates a direction from input activations.
+
+    Args:
+        direction: The direction vector to ablate from activations
+
+    Returns:
+        A hook function that removes the specified direction from activations
+    """
+    direction = direction / (direction.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-8)
+
+    def hook_fn(module, input):
+        activation: Float[Tensor, "batch_size seq_len d_model"]
+
+        if isinstance(input, tuple):
+            activation = input[0]
+        else:
+            activation = input
+
+        d = direction.to(activation)
+        activation -= (activation @ d).unsqueeze(-1) * d
+
+        if isinstance(input, tuple):
+            return (activation, *input[1:])
+        else:
+            return activation
+
+    return hook_fn
+
+
+def get_direction_ablation_output_hook(direction: Tensor):
+    """Create a forward hook that ablates a direction from output activations.
+
+    Args:
+        direction: The direction vector to ablate from activations
+
+    Returns:
+        A hook function that removes the specified direction from activations
+    """
+    direction = direction / (direction.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-8)
+
+    def hook_fn(module, input, output):
+        activation: Float[Tensor, "batch_size seq_len d_model"]
+        if isinstance(output, tuple):
+            activation = output[0]
+        else:
+            activation = output
+
+        d = direction.to(activation)
+        activation -= (activation @ d).unsqueeze(-1) * d
+
+        if isinstance(output, tuple):
+            return (activation, *output[1:])
+        else:
+            return activation
+
+    return hook_fn
+
+
+def get_mean_activations_pre_hook(layer, cache: Float[Tensor, "pos layer d_model"], n_samples, positions: list[int]):
+    """Create a pre-forward hook that accumulates mean activations.
+
+    Args:
+        layer: The layer index to cache activations for
+        cache: Tensor to store accumulated activations
+        n_samples: Number of samples to average over
+        positions: Token positions to extract activations from
+
+    Returns:
+        A hook function that accumulates mean activations into the cache
+    """
+
+    def hook_fn(module, input):
+        activation: Float[Tensor, "batch_size seq_len d_model"] = input[0].clone().to(cache)
+        cache[:, layer] += (1.0 / n_samples) * activation[:, positions, :].sum(dim=0)
+
+    return hook_fn
+
+
+def get_activation_addition_input_pre_hook(
+    vector: Float[Tensor, "d_model"],
+    coeff: Float[Tensor, ""],
+):
+    """Create a pre-forward hook that adds a scaled vector to input activations.
+
+    Args:
+        vector: The vector to add to activations
+        coeff: Scaling coefficient for the vector
+
+    Returns:
+        A hook function that adds the scaled vector to activations
+    """
+
+    def hook_fn(module, input):
+        activation: Float[Tensor, "batch_size seq_len d_model"]
+
+        if isinstance(input, tuple):
+            activation = input[0]
+        else:
+            activation = input
+
+        v = vector.to(activation)
+        activation += coeff * v
+
+        if isinstance(input, tuple):
+            return (activation, *input[1:])
+        else:
+            return activation
+
+    return hook_fn
+
+
+def masked_mean(seq, mask=None, dim=1, keepdim=False):
+    """Compute mean of a sequence with optional masking.
+
+    Args:
+        seq: Input sequence tensor
+        mask: Optional boolean mask tensor
+        dim: Dimension along which to compute mean
+        keepdim: Whether to keep the reduced dimension
+
+    Returns:
+        Mean of the sequence, optionally masked
+    """
+    if mask is None:
+        return seq.mean(dim=dim)
+
+    if seq.ndim == 3:
+        mask = rearrange(mask, "b n -> b n 1")
+
+    masked_seq = seq.masked_fill(~mask, 0.0)
+    numer = masked_seq.sum(dim=dim, keepdim=keepdim)
+    denom = mask.sum(dim=dim, keepdim=keepdim)
+
+    masked_mean = numer / denom.clamp(min=1e-3)
+    masked_mean = masked_mean.masked_fill(denom == 0, 0.0)
+    return masked_mean
+
+
+def kl_div_fn(
+    logits_a: Float[Tensor, "batch seq_pos d_vocab"],
+    logits_b: Float[Tensor, "batch seq_pos d_vocab"],
+    mask: Int[Tensor, "batch seq_pos"] | None = None,
+    epsilon: float = 1e-6,
+) -> Float[Tensor, "batch"]:
+    """Compute the KL divergence loss between two tensors of logits.
+
+    Args:
+        logits_a: First set of logits
+        logits_b: Second set of logits
+        mask: Optional mask for valid positions
+        epsilon: Small constant for numerical stability
+
+    Returns:
+        KL divergence per batch element
+    """
+    logits_a = logits_a.to(torch.float64)
+    logits_b = logits_b.to(torch.float64)
+
+    probs_a = logits_a.softmax(dim=-1)
+    probs_b = logits_b.softmax(dim=-1)
+
+    kl_divs = torch.sum(probs_a * (torch.log(probs_a + epsilon) - torch.log(probs_b + epsilon)), dim=-1)
+
+    if mask is None:
+        return torch.mean(kl_divs, dim=-1)
+    else:
+        return masked_mean(kl_divs, mask).mean(dim=-1)