Can LLMs Follow Simple Rules?

As of March 7 2024, we have updated the repo with a revised v2.0 benchmark with new test cases. Please see our updated paper for more details.

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This repo contains the code for RuLES: Rule-following Language Evaluation Scenarios, a benchmark for evaluating rule-following in language models.

Updates

• June 12 2024: Fixed evaluation bugs in SimonSays and Questions scenarios, added support for Google VertexAI API models. Please re-evaluate existing results with python -m llm_rules.scripts.reevaluate.
• April 25 2024: Moved scripts into llm_rules library.
• April 25 2024: Added support for chat templates as specified in HuggingFace tokenizer config files and renamed --conv_template to --fastchat_template.

Setup

1. Install as an editable package:

pip install -e .

To evaluate models with our API wrappers (llm_rules/models/*), install the optional dependencies:

pip install -e .[models]

2. Create OpenAI/Anthropic/Google API keys and write them to a .env file:

OPENAI_API_KEY=<key>
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<key>
GOOGLE_API_KEY=<key>
GCP_PROJECT_ID=<project_id>

3. Download Llama-2 or other HuggingFace models to a local path using snapshot_download:

>>> from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
>>> snapshot_download(repo_id="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf", local_dir="/my_models/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf", local_dir_use_symlinks=False)

4. (Optional) Download and extract evaluation logs here to logs/.

Manual red teaming

Launch an interactive session with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.manual_redteam --provider openai --model gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 --scenario Authentication --stream

Explore test cases

Visualize test cases with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.show_testcases --test_suite redteam

Evaluation

Our main evaluation script is llm_rules/scripts/evaluate.py, but since we support lots of evaluation options the code may be hard to follow. Please see llm_rules/scripts/evaluate_simple.py for a simplified version of the evaluation script.

We wrap API calls with unlimited retries for ease of evaluation. You may want to change the retry functionality to suit your needs.

Evaluate on redteam test suite

python -m llm_rules.scripts.evaluate --provider openai --model gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 --test_suite redteam --output_dir logs/redteam

Evaluate a local model using vLLM (GPU required)

When evaluating models using vLLM, evaluate.py launches an API server in-process. Concurrency should be set much higher for vLLM models. Run evaluation with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.evaluate --provider vllm --model /path/to/model --fastchat_template llama-2 --concurrency 100

Visualize evaluation results

View detailed results on a single test suite with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.read_results --output_dir logs/redteam/gpt-3.5-turbo-0613

After evaluating on all three test suites (Benign, Basic, and Redteam), compute aggregate RuLES score with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.read_scores --model_name gpt-3.5-turbo-0613

Finally, you can view responses to individual test casees with:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.show_responses --output_dir logs/redteam/gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 --failed_only

GCG attack (GPU required)

Run the GCG attack with randomized scenario parameters in each iteration:

cd gcg_attack
python main_gcg.py --model /path/to/model --fastchat_template <template_name> --scenario Authentication --behavior withholdsecret

Output logs will be stored in logs/gcg_attack.

To then evaluate models on the direct_request test cases with the resulting GCG suffixes:

python -m llm_rules.scripts.evaluate --provider vllm --model /path/to/model --suffix_dir logs/gcg_attack/<model_name> --test_dir data/direct_request --output_dir logs/direct_request_gcg

Fine-tuning

To reproduce our fine-tuning experiments with Llama-2 7B Chat on the basic_like test cases:

cd finetune
./finetune_llama.sh

We used 4x A100-80G GPUs for fine-tuning Llama-2 7B Chat and Mistral 7B Instruct, you may be able to adjust deepspeed settings to run on smaller/fewer GPUs.

Conversation Templates

When evaluating community models, we mostly rely on FastChat conversation templates (documented in model_templates.yaml) with the exception of a few custom templates added to llm_rules/templates.py.

Citation

@article{mu2023rules,
    title={Can LLMs Follow Simple Rules?},
    author={Norman Mu and Sarah Chen and
            Zifan Wang and Sizhe Chen and David Karamardian and
            Lulwa Aljeraisy and Basel Alomair and
            Dan Hendrycks and David Wagner},
    journal={arXiv},
    year={2023}
}