# Alpaca against Vicuna:
Using LLMs to Uncover Memorization of LLMs

Aly M. Kassem1 Omar Mahmoud2$*$ Niloofar Mireshghallah3$*$
Hyunwoo Kim4 Yulia Tsvetkov3 Yejin Choi3,4 Sherif Saad1 Santu Rana2
1University of Windsor 2Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin
University
3University of Washington 4Allen Institute for AI
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Equal Contribution

###### Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a black-box prompt optimization method that uses
an attacker LLM agent to uncover higher levels of memorization in a victim
agent, compared to what is revealed by prompting the target model with the
training data directly, which is the dominant approach of quantifying
memorization in LLMs. We use an iterative rejection-sampling optimization
process to find instruction-based prompts with two main characteristics: (1)
minimal overlap with the training data to avoid presenting the solution
directly to the model, and (2) maximal overlap between the victim model’s
output and the training data, aiming to induce the victim to spit out training
data. We observe that our instruction-based prompts generate outputs with
23.7% higher overlap with training data compared to the baseline prefix-suffix
measurements. Our findings show that (1) instruction-tuned models can expose
pre-training data as much as their base-models, if not more so, (2) contexts
other than the original training data can lead to leakage, and (3) using
instructions proposed by other LLMs can open a new avenue of automated attacks
that we should further study and explore.

##  1 Introduction

Pre-trained Language models are often instruction-tuned for user-facing
applications to enable the generation of high-quality responses to task-
oriented prompts (Ouyang et al., 2022; Taori et al., 2023; Chowdhery et al.,
2023). A significant body of prior work (Carlini et al., 2022; Biderman et
al., 2023a; Shi et al., 2023; Mireshghallah et al., 2022) has extensively
defined and studied the memorization of pre-training data in base LLMs,
raising concerns in terms of privacy, copyright, and fairness. However, there
is a limited understanding of how the instruction-tuning process can affect
the memorization and discoverability of pre-training data in aligned models.
As such, we set out to answer the question Can we use instruction-based
prompts to uncover higher levels of memorization in aligned models?’

The current established method of quantifying memorization in LLMs (Carlini et
al., 2023) considers a sequence $d$ memorized in a model in a discoverable
manner if prompting the model with the original prefix from the pre-training
data would yield sequence $d$ (or a sequence similar to $d$, if we are
studying approximate memorization; Biderman et al. 2023a). The assumption in
the prior work Carlini et al. (2022; 2023) is that using the ground truth pre-
training data as context would provide an upper-bound estimate of
memorization. Although, there could exist prompts other than the original
training data that would elicit higher levels of training data regurgitation.

Figure 1: Overview of our method: we first create an initial prompt that takes
the target training sequence we are probing for and turns it into an
instruction. The attacker LLM then uses this prompt to propose multiple
candidate prompts that would propel the victim LLM to generate a response that
overlaps highly with the training data. We then score each proposed candidate
prompt based on two objectives: (1) how much overlap the victim response has
with the ground truth training data (the memorization measure, higher, better)
and (2) how much overlap the prompt has with the training data (we want this
overlap to be small so as not to spill the solution in the instruction). We
use this score as a feedback signal for the attacker to optimize the prompt
and propose multiple new prompts for the next round of optimization.

To find such prompts, we propose a new optimization method, depicted in Figure
1, where we use another aligned language model as an ‘attacker’ which proposes
prompts that would induce the victim (target) model to output a generation
that is more faithful to the training data. In this setup, the attacker model
iteratively refines its proposed prompts to increase the overlap of the victim
output with the ground truth. This is inspired by the victim-play line of work
in the computer security literature Wang et al. (2023a). To disincentivize the
attacker from feeding the solution to the victim model, we add an extra term
to the objective, which minimizes the overlap between the proposed prompts and
the target training sequence.

To create robust benchmarks for the evaluation of our approach, we draw a
parallel between safety jailbreaking techniques and training data extraction.
We leverage automatic prompt optimization to discover prompts that guide the
model toward generating outputs closely aligned with its training data. We
emphasize that this is different from jailbreaking, as our goal is not to
bypass a specific safety feature that prevents training data regurgitation
behavior from the model. In our evaluation, we scrutinize the Greedy
Coordinate Gradient (CGC; Zou et al. 2023), a white-box prompt optimization
technique for identifying prompts that induce detrimental model behaviors.
Additionally, we compare our proposed methods against Reverse-LM (Pfau et al.,
2023) and sequence extraction (prefix-suffix; Carlini et al. 2022; 2021)
across both base models and instruction-tuned models, providing insights on
how these widely used methods fare in the context of instruction-tuned models.

We run our method and the baselines on Llama-based, OLMo, and Falcon models
(Touvron et al., 2023; Penedo et al., 2023; Groeneveld et al., 2024), and
their instruction-tuned variations, including Alpaca (Taori et al., 2023),
Tulu (Wang et al., 2023b), and Vicuna (Chiang et al., 2023), spanning $3$
different sequence lengths ($200$, $300$ and $500$) and $5$ different pre-
training data domains (following methodology of Duan et al. 2024). Our key
contributions and findings are summarized as follows:

  * •

We propose a black-box prompt optimization approach, tailored for instruction-
tuned models, that uses an attacker LLM and shows that our approach uncovers
$23.7\%$ more memorization of pre-training data in instruction-tuned models,
compared to the prior dominant approach of directly prompting the model with
original prefixes from the data Carlini et al. (2022).

  * •

We also compare the discoverable memorization of pre-training data in
instruction-tuned LLMs and their base counterparts and show that using the
prior prefix-suffix approach instruction-tuned models demonstrate lower
memorization, creating a false sense of higher privacy/lower-risks in these
models. Our method, on the contrary, uncovers 12.4% higher memorization in
instruction-tuned models, showing that contexts other than the original pre-
training data can also lead to leakage, and pointing at the need for better
alignment, in terms of privacy.

  * •

Our experimental results demonstrate that our black-box approach uncovers
12.5% more memorization than the white-box method, GCG, in terms of training
data reconstruction overlap.

  * •

We find that leveraging an open-source model as an attacker can often surpass
using a robust commercial model by 2.4%.

We hope that our results and analysis encourage future research to further
automate the process of auditing and probing models using other LLMs and to
propose more principled, efficient approaches for the reconstruction of
training data.

##  2 Background: Quantifying Memorization

In this work, we use the discoverable notion of memorization for LLMs and
quantify it through approximate string matching. Below, we define these terms.

######  Definition 1 (Discoverable Memorization)

An example $x=[p||s]$, drawn from training data $D$, is considered memorized
by model $f_{\theta}$ if $f_{\theta}(p)=s$, where $x$ consists of a prefix $p$
and a corresponding suffix $s$.

The concept entails that the prefix guides the model’s generation process
towards the most probable completion, typically the suffix if the example has
been memorized. Drawing from previous research, Carlini et al. (2022)
identified certain factors significantly influencing memorization, including
model size, utilization of data deduplication techniques, and contextual
aspects.

######  Definition 2 (Approximate String Matching)

For a model $f_{\theta}$ and a given similarity metric $\beta$, an example $x$
from the training data $D$ is said to be approximately memorized if there
exists a prompt $p$ such that the output of the model $f_{\theta}(p)$ is
$s^{\prime}$, where $s$ and $s^{\prime}$ are close in accordance with the
similarity metric $\beta$, i.e., $\beta(s,s^{\prime})$ is high.

Prior research demonstrates approximate memorization’s superiority over
verbatim memorization in LLMs (Ippolito et al., 2023; Biderman et al., 2023a).
We employ ROUGE-L to measure the similarity via the longest common subsequence
between model-generated and original continuations, adhering to approximate
memorization in our work.

##  3 Using LLMs to Probe Memorization in other LLMs

In this section, we begin by formally outlining the optimization problem and
specifying our objective function. We present our method’s pipeline, see
Figure 1 and Algorithm 1, which includes initialization, sampling, and
refinement, creating the optimized prompt.

###  3.1 Formalizing the Optimization Problem

Consider a sequence $d\in D$, where $D$ is the pre-training dataset of a model
$M$. The objective is to find an input prompt $p^{*}$ that the overlap between
the output sequence of the model $M(p^{*})$ and $d$ is maximized. Formally,
the optimization problem can be expressed as:

$p^{*}=\underset{p}{\operatorname*{arg\,max}}\,\mathcal{O}_{d,M}(p)$

Where $\mathcal{O}_{d,M}(p)=LCS(M(p),d_{\text{suffix}})$ is the objective
function we want to maximize for a fixed model $M$ and sequence $d$. $M(.)$ is
the operation of decoding from the model $M$, conditioned on a given input.
$LCS$ is the longest common subsequence that measures the syntactic similarity
between sequences we employ ROUGE-L in our case (Lin, 2004).

In practice, however, LLMs have been shown to be able to regurgitate and
repeat their inputs (Zhang & Ippolito, 2023; Priyanshu et al., 2023).
Therefore, one obvious solution to this problem could be $p=[z||d]$, where $z$
is an instruction like repeat. To avoid this shortcut, we re-write the
objective $\mathcal{O}$ as the following to de-incentive such solutions:

$\mathcal{O}=\alpha\cdot LCS(M(p),d_{\text{suffix}})+(1-\alpha)\cdot-
LCS(p,d_{\text{suffix}})$

We add the second term to penalize solutions that overlap highly with the
sequence $d_{\text{suffix}}$. $\alpha$ is a hyperparameter to control how much
we allow $d$ to be used. Its value is determined by achieving a trade-off
between a high memorization score and a low overlap with the ground truth (see
Appendix A for details). This problem is, in effect, discrete optimization,
previously tackled using gradient-based techniques (Jones et al., 2023; Zou et
al., 2023). However, ROUGE-L is not differentiable, and we assume black-box
access to the target models to advocate a realistic scenario, rendering
gradient-based methods inapplicable.

To solve this, Algorithm 1 shows how we sample from the possible distribution
of solutions and find the optimal $p^{*}$. In our setting, we use an alternate
model $M^{\prime}(.|[instr])$, with a specific instruction $instr$, as an
attacker model that proposes prompts $p$. We perform constrained sampling
$p_{t}\sim M^{\prime}(.|[instr\|p_{t-1}])$ at time step $t$ from the proposal
distribution, where the constraint is to maximize
$\text{LCS}(M(p_{t}),d_{\text{suffix}})$, and we do this with rejection
sampling (best-of-n) from $M^{\prime}$. In simpler terms, $M^{\prime}$ seeks
the optimal prompt to elicit the sequence $d$ or its similarity from the
victim model $M$.

Algorithm 1 Interactive Sampling Algorithm

1: Input: pre-training sample $d$, $M$, $M^{\prime}$, $M_{\text{init}}$

2: $p_{\text{init}}\leftarrow M_{\text{init}}(d)$ //Construct initial prompt

3: $p_{t-1}\leftarrow p_{\text{init}}$

4: for t = 3 do

5: $p_{t}\sim M^{\prime}(Instr|p_{t-1},n=24)$ //Sample 24 prompts

6:
$\mathcal{O}=\alpha\cdot\text{LCS}(M(p_{t}),d_{\text{suffix}})+(1-\alpha)\cdot-\text{LCS}(p_{t},d_{\text{suffix}})$

7: $p_{t}=\arg\max(\mathcal{O})$ //Obtain the highest scoring prompt

8: end for

9: $p^{*}=\arg\max({p}_{0},...,{p}_{t})$ //Obtain the highest scoring prompt
across the iterations

10: return $p^{*}$ //Return optimal prompt

###  3.2 Optimization via Interactive Sampling

Since the instruction-tuned LM is fine-tuned through a question-answering
process to match the user’s intentions better, we design our method to use
this instruction-following ability and customize our approach to optimize data
extraction. As such, we create prompts in the form of instructions or
questions that would propel the target model to output the training data
points we want to extract, and then we optimize this ‘initial prompt’
iteratively to get better reconstruction.

To create the initial prompt, we need to somehow transform the training data
point into a question. This could be done in different ways, however, we
leverage LLMs to do this as well. We instruct this LLM with a ‘meta-prompt’,
which is: “Given a paragraph snippet, please generate a question that asks for
the generation of the paragraph,” along with the pre-training sample. We also
add customized instructions to regularize the prompts, such as “Make sure to
keep the question abstract” or “Ensure the question is not overly lengthy.” In
practice, we use the meta-prompt on GPT-4 to help generate the initial prompt.
Still, we show that utilizing other models, such as Mixtral (Jiang et al.,
2024), also yields comparable performance (subsection 5.4).

Finally, we assess the alignment between the ground truth and each prompt,
prioritizing prompts with minimal overlap compared to our baseline approach.
Further explanations on this will follow. Then, we assess how well the answer
to the prompts matches the pre-training sample, saving these paired outcomes
for later stages of our procedure.

Interactive Loop After receiving the initial prompt, we utilize a two-step
strategy to enhance it for optimal output. These steps involve exploration and
exploitation: Initially, we generate $k$ prompts from an attacker LM, assess
them, and choose the most effective prompt. This procedure is repeated $i$
times, wherein each iteration exploits the best prompt found and then explores
new possibilities through k-samples derived from it.

(1) Best-of-n sampling from $M^{\prime}$: During optimization, the meta-prompt
text in this stage differs from the one in the initialization stage. Here, we
instruct the model to produce an improved rendition of the prompt,
specifically with “I have old questions. Write your new question by
paraphrasing the old ones” alongside the preceding step’s prompt. Following
this, we supply this instruction to the attacker LLM, generating 24 new
prompts for each sample and scoring with our objective function. Ultimately,
we choose the prompt with the highest score according to our objective
function. On top of this prompt, better-quality samples can be created again
in the next step.

(2) Refine: To proceed, we designate the improved prompt from the previous
iteration as the starting point and repeat the sampling process three times.
This aims to produce a refined version of the original prompt, enhancing
extraction capabilities and engaging with the attacker LLM using the prompt
from the previous iteration. We do constrained sampling $p_{t}\sim
M^{\prime}(\cdot\,|\,[\text{instr}\,||\,p_{t-1}])$ at time step $t$, where the
constraint is to maximize $\text{LCS}(M(p_{t}),d)$, and we do this with a
rejection sampling (best-of-n) from $M^{\prime}$.

##  4 Experimental Settings

###  4.1 Attacker & Victim LLMs

Attacker LLMs: Our method relies on harnessing an open-source model Zephyr 7B,
an instruction-tuned variant of the Mistral-7B $\beta$ (Tunstall et al., 2023)
as the attacker. We also showcase employing more powerful LLMs as attackers in
subsection 5.2.

Victim LLMs: We assess the memorization capabilities of instruction-tuned LLMs
compared to their base model across various sizes (7B, 13B, 30B) by applying
our method on five open-source models of different sizes by employing the
instruction-tuned versions of Llama (Alpaca, Tulu, Vicuna) (Touvron et al.,
2023), OLMo (Groeneveld et al., 2024), and Falcon (Penedo et al., 2023). By
comparing these instruction-tuned models to their base model, we gain insights
into the impact of instruction-tuning on memorization. See Appendix D for more
details about the models.

###  4.2 Evaluation Data

Data Domains: To curate diverse evaluation datasets, we extract samples from
base model pre-training data (Llama, OLMo, and Falcon). Given Llama’s data
unavailability, we replicate it using the RedPajama dataset, while Falcon’s
RefinedWeb, sourced from Common Crawl, is accessible. OLMo’s pre-training
data, Dolma, is directly utilized. Across five domains for Llama and six for
Dolma—Github, C4, CC, Arxiv, and Books for Llama, with The Stack substituted
for Github, PeS2o for Arxiv, and Reddit added for social media within Dolma—we
select 15,000 samples from Llama, 3,000 from Falcon’s RefinedWeb, and 16,000
from OLMo’s domains, ensuring uniform distribution across sequence lengths.

Sequence Lengths Selection: To measure our method’s adaptability across
varying sequence lengths (200, 300, and 500), we adopt a splitting ratio
informed by real-world usage patterns. Drawing from the WildChat dataset
analysis (Zhao et al., 2024), we allocate 33% of each sample as the prefix and
the remaining 67% as the suffix, enhancing the representation of typical usage
scenarios. See Appendix D for more details.

Average Over Three Sequence Lengths (200, 300, 500)
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Model |  Method |  Access | Github | ArXiv | CC | C4 | Books
|  |  |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis
|  |  |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$
Alpaca |  P-S-Base |  B |  .291 |  .125 |  - |  .183 |  .112 |  - |  .190 |  .104 |  - |  .204 |  .114 |  - |  .208 |  .093 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .270 |  .124 |  - |  .179 |  .112 |  - |  .155 |  .104 |  - |  .143 |  .114 |  - |  .131 |  .093 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .229 |  .200 |  .864 |  .133 |  .196 |  .848 |  .113 |  .186 |  .843 |  .110 |  .181 |  .834 |  .122 |  .142 |  .865
|  GCG |  W |  .300 |  .110 |  .530 |  .178 |  .101 |  .379 |  .194 |  .090 |  .374 |  .208 |  .102 |  .321 |  .199 |  .080 |  .422
|  Ours |  B |  .322 |  .102 |  .864 |  .228 |  .108 |  .848 |  .214 |  .096 |  .830 |  .203 |  .090 |  .834 |  .221 |  .079 |  .865
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Vicuna |  P-S-Base |  B |  .291 |  .125 |  - |  .183 |  .112 |  - |  .190 |  .104 |  - |  .203 |  .114 |  - |  .208 |  .093 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .273 |  .125 |  - |  .213 |  .112 |  - |  .205 |  .114 |  - |  .191 |  .114 |  - |  .198 |  .093 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .255 |  .200 |  .864 |  .200 |  .196 |  .848 |  .173 |  .186 |  .830 |  .173 |  .181 |  .834 |  .166 |  .142 |  .865
|  GCG |  W |  .300 |  .110 |  .530 |  .178 |  .101 |  .379 |  .194 |  .090 |  .374 |  .208 |  .102 |  .321 |  .199 |  .080 |  .422
|  Ours |  B |  .325 |  .096 |  .864 |  .232 |  .104 |  .853 |  .213 |  .092 |  .838 |  .201 |  .084 |  .841 |  .223 |  .079 |  .866
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tulu |  P-S-Base |  B |  .291 |  .125 |  - |  .183 |  .112 |  - |  .190 |  .104 |  - |  .203 |  .114 |  - |  .208 |  .093 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .274 |  .124 |  - |  .207 |  .112 |  - |  .170 |  .106 |  - |  .137 |  .114 |  - |  .172 |  .093 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .245 |  .200 |  .864 |  .153 |  .196 |  .848 |  .121 |  .186 |  .830 |  .117 |  .181 |  .834 |  .135 |  .142 |  .865
|  GCG |  W |  .300 |  .110 |  .530 |  .178 |  .101 |  .379 |  .194 |  .090 |  .374 |  .208 |  .102 |  .321 |  .199 |  .080 |  .422
|  Ours |  B |  .359 |  .104 |  .857 |  .237 |  .104 |  .851 |  .221 |  .094 |  .835 |  .210 |  .086 |  .836 |  .233 |  .079 |  .865
Seq Len | Tulu-7B |  |  |  |
200 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .298 |  .125 |  - |  .216 |  .107 |  - |  .176 |  .103 |  - |  .140 |  .111 |  - |  .188 |  .090 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .254 |  .191 |  .877 |  .154 |  .200 |  .890 |  .130 |  .203 |  .863 |  .123 |  .195 |  .862 |  .153 |  .151 |  .880
|  GCG |  W |  .325 |  .107 |  .619 |  .189 |  .096 |  .473 |  .203 |  .087 |  .469 |  .214 |  .097 |  .404 |  .223 |  .077 |  .518
|  Ours |  B |  .372 |  .098 |  .877 |  .204 |  .093 |  .883 |  .225 |  .104 |  .858 |  .214 |  .095 |  .853 |  .236 |  .082 |  .882
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300 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .276 |  .124 |  - |  .209 |  .112 |  - |  .174 |  .106 |  - |  .142 |  .114 |  - |  .178 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .246 |  .203 |  .881 |  .157 |  .196 |  .853 |  .125 |  .190 |  .822 |  .116 |  .182 |  .826 |  .134 |  .145 |  .877
|  GCG |  W |  .311 |  .109 |  .535 |  .180 |  .100 |  .390 |  .197 |  .092 |  .378 |  .212 |  .102 |  .318 |  .200 |  .080 |  .432
|  Ours |  B |  .341 |  .084 |  .878 |  .248 |  .108 |  .856 |  .222 |  .099 |  .824 |  .209 |  .090 |  .825 |  .231 |  .079 |  .872
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500 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .263 |  .124 |  - |  .175 |  .117 |  - |  .179 |  .102 |  - |  .196 |  .117 |  - |  .184 |  .095 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .247 |  .124 |  - |  .195 |  .117 |  - |  .159 |  .102 |  - |  .128 |  .117 |  - |  .149 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .233 |  .204 |  .833 |  .147 |  .192 |  .803 |  .107 |  .164 |  .805 |  .112 |  .167 |  .814 |  .118 |  .129 |  .838
|  GCG |  W |  .265 |  .113 |  .435 |  .165 |  .107 |  .274 |  .182 |  .092 |  .274 |  .196 |  .113 |  .435 |  .173 |  .085 |  .317
|  Ours |  B |  .363 |  .129 |  .814 |  .260 |  .112 |  .809 |  .216 |  0.079 |  .824 |  .207 |  .074 |  .829 |  .231 |  0.076 |  .841
Table 1:  Comparison of our method with black-box (‘B’) and white-box (’W’)
baselines across pre-training data domains. Mem denotes the memorization score
(ROUGE-L), $LCS_{P}$ is input prompt and suffix overlap, and Dis is optimized
vs. initial prompt distance. Results are averaged over three sequence lengths
on top, and for the Tulu-7B model, we show a breakdown at the bottom. The
highest performance within each domain is bolded.

###  4.3 Baseline Methods

We compare against three methods under two access settings: white-box and
black-box.

(1) Prefix-Suffix (P-S) sequence extraction method (Carlini et al., 2022;
2021): We apply a black box attack by prompting the model with the original
prefix of the pre-training sample (i.e., the first $n$ tokens) and generating
the model output. We call this baseline the Prefix-Suffix (P-S) method. We
evaluate both the base model and instruction-tuned versions.

(2) GCG (Zou et al., 2023): We test a prominent white-box adversarial attack
method for LMs. Our application of GCG uses the original prefix as the
starting point for each sample; we train for thirty epochs and apply it to the
base model.

(3) Reverse LM (Pfau et al., 2023): This model reverses the token order during
training, predicting optimized prefixes given specific suffixes, using a
Pythia-160M model trained on the deduplicated Pile dataset (Pfau et al., 2023;
Biderman et al., 2023b; Gao et al., 2020).

###  4.4 Evaluation Metrics

Measuring Memorization/Reconstruction: We evaluate memorization using ROUGE-L,
measuring the longest common subsequence between generated and original
suffixes. Our approach aligns closely with the memorization score proposed by
Biderman et al. (2023a), emphasizing ordered token matches between model-
generated and true continuations.

Evaluating Prompt Overlap: As our method relies on building a prompt on the
whole sequence, including the ground truth (suffix), we measure the overlap
between the prompt and suffix. We aim to ensure that the prompt retains less
or equal overlap compared to the original prefix-suffix combination. We use
ROUGE-L to measure the overlap between the prompt and the suffix, which we
denote as $LCS_{P}$.

##  5 Experimental Results

In this section, we present our main experimental results, comparing our
method to the baselines, on the base and instruction-tuned models, with
different data domains and lengths. We then further analyze different
components of our method, along with changing our assumption in terms of
access to suffixes and data points. We provide details of hyperparameters in
Appendix A, a breakdown of the results in terms of sequence lengths and
improvement percentages in Appendix B, a comparison of reconstructions from
different models in Appendix C, and analysis of common patterns in subsection
B.1. Finally, we include samples of optimized prompts and outputs in Appendix
E.

###  5.1 LLMs memorize more than we think!

Table 1, which shows our main results alongside our baselines. Except for P-S-
Base & GCG, all other numbers are reported over the instruction-tuned model as
the target, whereas the P-S-Base is evaluated on the base model (Llama– hence
the same value on all rows), to provide a comparison point. If we only compare
P-S-Inst and P-S-Base, we would make a misleading conclusion that instruction-
tuned models uncover less training data than their base counterparts. Our
method, surprisingly, uncovers more memorization than all other baselines,
even on the base model, showing that instruction-tuned models can reveal more
pre-training data, even more than the base if prompted appropriately. On
Github, for instance, the base LLama model exhibits a reconstruction Rouge-L
score of .291, while Tulu shows .274, with the P-S-Inst baseline. Our method
increases this to .322. These trends extend beyond Llama-based models to OLMo
Groeneveld et al. (2024) Figure 2 and Falcon Penedo et al. (2023). Moreover,
the same trend exists for larger sizes (13B, 30B). See Appendix B for the
Falcon model and larger sizes results.

Figure 2: Comparison of our method to the P-S baseline on the OLMo model. We
evaluate different subsets of the pre-training data, Dolma, and observe that
our method outperforms the prefix-suffix baseline consistently. Figure 3:
Comparison of our attack performance when the prompt is optimized over only
the sequence prefix (partial access) versus when we have access to the entire
sequence (default assumption through the paper). Notably, the performance of
attacks relying solely on prefixes closely aligns with those utilizing the
entire sequence across most domains, pointing at the robustness of the
optimization toward partial access to the training point.

If we expand our baselines and take a closer look at the white-box GCG
optimization, we observe that it uncovers more memorization than P-S
(sequence-extraction) attacks by 1% on average, but it still falls short of
our method. Github exhibits the most significant increase across all domains,
while other domains generally show improvement over sequence-extraction-based
methods in most settings. ReverseLM performs the worst, possibly due to its
usage in a transferability setting from the Pythia model. Details of
hyperparameters can be found in Appendix A, a breakdown of the results and
improvement percentages in Appendix B, and samples of optimized prompts and
outputs in Appendix E.

Measuring Overlap Between Prompts & Suffixes. Assessing prompt-response
overlap is crucial to make sure that the optimized prompt doesn’t include the
pre-training data in it (i.e. make sure we are not cheating). We introduce an
overlap penalty (subsection 3.1) to mitigate this. Results in Table 1
consistently show our method achieving equivalent or lower overlap ($LCS_{p}$)
in terms of ROUGE-L, with the prefix-suffix baseline. For example, our
approach has significantly lower overlap in domains like GitHub, ensuring a
fair comparison with baseline methods and demonstrating that prompts exist
that are substantially different from the original pre-training prefix and can
yet result in better reconstruction.

PII Identification. We assessed our method’s reconstructions to evaluate the
degree of identifiable information (PII) revealed by categorizing 9,000 pre-
training samples (CC, C4, Github) using regular expressions to identify
various PII elements (phone, link, email, credit cards, street address, SSN,
zip code). We then applied the same procedure to generate content from
optimized prompts and compared results with ground truth, retrieving an
average of 10.28% of PII from pre-training samples, a significant increase of
1.43 times compared to the 4.23% achieved by the prefix-suffix attack.

###  5.2 GPT-4 is NOT the best attacker!

We test GPT-4 as an alternative attacker to assess its effect on performance,
finding Zephyr outperforms GPT-4 consistently for sequence length 200,
maintaining superiority across all domains by a margin of 0.05 as shown in
Figure 4. The performance gap narrows as the sequence length increases to 300,
but Zephyr remains ahead. However, at length 500, GPT-4 starts to match or
surpass Zephyr’s performance, especially notable in the ArXiv domain, possibly
due to the increased difficulty of summarization with longer sequences.

Figure 4:  A comparison of our method’s performance using Zephyr and GPT-4 as
attacker LLMs is shown for different iteration steps during optimization. We
observe a consistent trend: performance increases across varying sequence
lengths as optimization iterations increase, and Zephyr uncovers more
memorization than GPT-4 by a small margin. The dots are averaged across five
domains and three instruction-tuning models.

###  5.3 What if we don’t have access to the entire training sequence?

For a more stringent setup, we assume we only have access to prefixes and not
suffixes. Our method still yields comparable results across most domains and
models, revealing even higher reconstruction in some cases, as shown in Figure
3. However, prompts based on entire sequences uncover significantly more
memorization in domains like Github and books due to token count
discrepancies. These are resolved using a whitespace tokenizer to ensure
sufficient context for prefix optimization, achieving performance parity.

###  5.4 What if we don’t use GPT-4 for the Meta-prompt initialization?

In all previous experiments, we use the meta-prompts (see Section 3.2) on
GPT-4 to have it create the initial prompts. However, we investigate the
influence of a less powerful open-source model on the pipeline’s overall
performance. Our choice is Mixtral-8x7B instruct (Jiang et al., 2024). Using
Alpaca and a sequence length of 200 as an example, we demonstrate that
utilizing Mixtral can still surpass the reconstruction performance over the
prefix-suffix method, achieving better performance than P-S for base and
instruct model by 6.12% and 12.62%, respectively, and in contrast, being worse
than GPT-4 by 4.00%.

###  5.5 What goes on during the optimization process?

The impact of iteration count: Our approach consists of two phases: sampling
and refining. The former employs rejection sampling, while the latter iterates
three times on the most promising prompt, offering feedback. Visualized in
Figure 4, performance evolves through each optimization stage, revealing
insights into the process’s impact on performance. Though modest initially due
to untargeted prompts, performance steadily enhances with each iteration,
reaching peak performance by the third iteration. Increasing iterations could
further enhance performance but at the expense of higher computational costs.

Measuring Edit Distance: To analyze the optimization process, we measure the
gap between the initial and refined prompts using normalized Levenshtein
distance, aiming for notable discrepancies to underscore its impact. Across
all models, domains, and sequence lengths (as shown in Table 1), the edit
distance ranges from 0.80 to 0.88, indicating substantial modifications from
the initial to the optimized prompt.

##  6 Related Work

Data Extraction: Several studies in the literature explore data extraction
techniques in LLMs, initially focusing on base models. Yu et al. (2023)
proposed methods such as Top-K selection, nucleus sampling, and temperature
adjustments. Nasr et al. (2023) targeted instruction-tuned models, presenting
a divergence attack prompting models like ChatGPT to repeat a word despite
instability issues noted indefinitely. Additionally, Zhang et al. (2023)
devised a model interrogation attack, selecting lower-ranked output tokens
during generation to extract sensitive user data. Furthermore, Geiping et al.
(2024) introduced a system prompt repeater for extracting sensitive system
prompts, demonstrating notable success in potentially compromising entire
applications or secrets.

JailBreaking: Emerging red-teaming methods exploit LLMs through jailbreaking
techniques, aiming to coerce harmful behaviors (Shah et al., 2023; Li et al.,
2023; Huang et al., 2023; Zeng et al., 2024; Mehrotra et al., 2023; Hubinger
et al., 2024). These approaches disrupt safety mechanisms, prioritizing
harmful responses over data confidentiality.

##  7 Conclusion and Limitations

In this work, we present a novel approach for analyzing discoverable
memorization of pre-training data in instruction-tuned LLMs. Our empirical
findings challenge prior assumptions by demonstrating that instruction-tuned
models exhibit a higher level of memorization than their base models, using
prompts other than the original prefix from the pre-training data. We
emphasize that although our method and experiments uncover more reconstruction
of pre-training data in instruction-tuned models than base, this does not mean
one model or the other is memorizing/regurgitating more data or being more or
less vulnerable. It only alludes to the fact that instruction-based prompts,
the way we build them, uncover more of the pre-training data in instruction-
tuned models. We would also like to acknowledge that our method is mainly an
auditing method which requires access to some part of the training data. We
encourage future work to explore other automated strategies for building
prompts for data extraction, targeting both base and instruction-tuned models,
using prompts and contexts other than the original training data.

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##  Appendix A Hyperparameters Optimization

To ascertain the ideal hyperparameter balancing between memorization and
overlap across diverse domains and sequence lengths, we initially streamlined
our process by optimizing 20% of the dataset for quicker runtime. This entails
iterating through multiple values to pinpoint the one that best aligns with
our objectives. Subsequently, the selected values are applied to the entire
dataset.

We select the following values for Llama-based models:

For a sequence length of 200, we allocate weights of 0.4 for memorization and
0.6 for overlap, a configuration tailored for C4, CC, and GitHub. Conversely,
for ArXiv and Books, the emphasis shifts slightly, with 0.2 assigned to
memorization and 0.8 to overlap.

At a sequence length of 300, nuances emerge across domains; for CC and C4, an
even balance at 0.5 for memorization and overlap is determined. However,
GitHub and ArXiv prefer a 0.4-0.6 split, favoring overlap slightly more.
Conversely, Books lean towards a 0.3-0.7 ratio, emphasizing overlap more.

The weighting intensifies for a sequence length of 500, with C4, CC, and ArXiv
converging at 0.5 for both memorization and overlap. GitHub adopts a 0.6-0.4
distribution, while Books adhere to a 0.4-0.6 allocation for memorization and
overlap.

For the Falcon model, the designated values are as follows: For a sequence
length of 200, we allocate a weight of 0.2 for memorization and 0.8 for
overlap. With a sequence length of 300, the distribution shifts to 0.3 for
memorization and 0.7 for overlap. Lastly, for a sequence length of 500, the
weight is set at 0.8 for memorization and 0.2 for overlap.

##  Appendix B Detailed Results

###  B.1 Breakdown of Results from Section 5

In this section, we present a detailed breakdown of results for each
instruction-tuned model, encompassing Alpaca, Tulu, and Vicuna, as depicted in
Table 2. Figure 5 Shows a breakdown based on sequence length.

Figure 5: A detailed breakdown of the results presented in Table 1, over
different sequence lengths and data domains for our proposed method. We can
see that the instruction-tuned models demonstrate higher memorization scores
(Rouge-L) compared to the base model. The full breakdown table, including the
baseline methods, is provided in Appendix Table 2. Alpaca-7B
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Sequence |  Method |  Access | Github | ArXiv | CC | C4 | Books
|  |  |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis |  Mem |  LCSP |  Dis
|  |  |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\uparrow$ |  $\downarrow$ |  $\uparrow$
200 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .125 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .294 |  .125 |  - |  .200 |  .107 |  - |  .168 |  .103 |  - |  .152 |  .111 |  - |  .153 |  .090 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .242 |  .191 |  .877 |  .141 |  .200 |  .890 |  .124 |  .203 |  .863 |  .117 |  .195 |  .862 |  .137 |  .151 |  .880
|  GCG |  W |  .325 |  .107 |  .619 |  .189 |  .096 |  .473 |  .203 |  .087 |  .469 |  .214 |  .097 |  .404 |  .223 |  .077 |  .518
|  Ours |  B |  .362 |  .102 |  .877 |  .205 |  .091 |  .890 |  .227 |  .101 |  .863 |  .213 |  .0939 |  .862 |  .247 |  .083 |  .880
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
300 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .295 |  .124 |  - |  .186 |  .112 |  - |  .193 |  .106 |  - |  .208 |  .114 |  - |  .213 |  .095 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .273 |  .124 |  - |  .183 |  .112 |  - |  .160 |  .106 |  - |  .153 |  .114 |  - |  .136 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .232 |  .203 |  .881 |  .133 |  .145 |  .853 |  .117 |  .190 |  .822 |  .109 |  .182 |  .826 |  .123 |  .145 |  .877
|  GCG |  W |  .311 |  .109 |  .535 |  .180 |  .100 |  .390 |  .197 |  .092 |  .378 |  .212 |  .102 |  .318 |  .200 |  .080 |  .432
|  Ours |  B |  .330 |  .087 |  .881 |  .244 |  .110 |  .853 |  .222 |  .100 |  .822 |  .209 |  .094 |  .826 |  .228 |  .077 |  .877
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
500 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .263 |  .124 |  - |  .175 |  .117 |  - |  .179 |  .102 |  - |  .196 |  .117 |  - |  .184 |  .095 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .241 |  .124 |  - |  .154 |  .117 |  - |  .138 |  .102 |  - |  .124 |  .117 |  - |  .104 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .214 |  .204 |  .833 |  .125 |  .192 |  .803 |  .099 |  .164 |  .805 |  .104 |  .167 |  .814 |  .105 |  .129 |  .838
|  GCG |  W |  .265 |  .113 |  .435 |  .165 |  .107 |  .274 |  .182 |  .092 |  .274 |  .196 |  .113 |  .435 |  .173 |  .085 |  .317
|  Ours |  B |  .275 |  .117 |  .833 |  .234 |  .122 |  .803 |  .193 |  .087 |  .805 |  .186 |  .083 |  .814 |  .189 |  .076 |  .838
Tulu-7B
200 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .298 |  .125 |  - |  .216 |  .107 |  - |  .176 |  .103 |  - |  .140 |  .111 |  - |  .188 |  .090 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .254 |  .191 |  .877 |  .154 |  .200 |  .890 |  .130 |  .203 |  .863 |  .123 |  .195 |  .862 |  .153 |  .151 |  .880
|  GCG |  W |  .325 |  .107 |  .619 |  .189 |  .096 |  .473 |  .203 |  .087 |  .469 |  .214 |  .097 |  .404 |  .223 |  .077 |  .518
|  Ours |  B |  .372 |  .098 |  .877 |  .204 |  .093 |  .883 |  .225 |  .104 |  .858 |  .214 |  .095 |  .853 |  .236 |  .082 |  .882
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300 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .276 |  .124 |  - |  .209 |  .112 |  - |  .174 |  .106 |  - |  .142 |  .114 |  - |  .178 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .246 |  .203 |  .881 |  .157 |  .196 |  .853 |  .125 |  .190 |  .822 |  .116 |  .182 |  .826 |  .134 |  .145 |  .877
|  GCG |  W |  .311 |  .109 |  .535 |  .180 |  .100 |  .390 |  .197 |  .092 |  .378 |  .212 |  .102 |  .318 |  .200 |  .080 |  .432
|  Ours |  B |  .341 |  .084 |  .878 |  .248 |  .108 |  .856 |  .222 |  .099 |  .824 |  .209 |  .090 |  .825 |  .231 |  .079 |  .872
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500 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .263 |  .124 |  - |  .175 |  .117 |  - |  .179 |  .102 |  - |  .196 |  .117 |  - |  .184 |  .095 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .247 |  .124 |  - |  .195 |  .117 |  - |  .159 |  .102 |  - |  .128 |  .117 |  - |  .149 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .233 |  .204 |  .833 |  .147 |  .192 |  .803 |  .107 |  .164 |  .805 |  .112 |  .167 |  .814 |  .118 |  .129 |  .838
|  GCG |  W |  .265 |  .113 |  .435 |  .165 |  .107 |  .274 |  .182 |  .092 |  .274 |  .196 |  .113 |  .435 |  .173 |  .085 |  .317
|  Ours |  B |  .363 |  .129 |  .814 |  .260 |  .112 |  .809 |  .216 |  0.079 |  .824 |  .207 |  .074 |  .829 |  .231 |  0.076 |  .841
Vicuna-7B
200 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .311 |  .125 |  - |  .225 |  .107 |  - |  .215 |  .103 |  - |  .205 |  .111 |  - |  .212 |  .090 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .256 |  .191 |  .877 |  .199 |  .200 |  .890 |  .179 |  .203 |  .863 |  .180 |  .195 |  .862 |  .181 |  .151 |  .880
|  GCG |  W |  .325 |  .107 |  .619 |  .189 |  .096 |  .473 |  .203 |  .087 |  .469 |  .214 |  .097 |  .404 |  .223 |  .077 |  .518
|  Ours |  B |  .327 |  .094 |  .883 |  .199 |  .095 |  .888 |  .214 |  .100 |  .867 |  .200 |  .090 |  .866 |  .221 |  .083 |  .881
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300 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .315 |  .126 |  - |  .188 |  .107 |  - |  .198 |  .103 |  - |  .206 |  .111 |  - |  .225 |  .090 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .267 |  .124 |  - |  .194 |  .112 |  - |  .208 |  .106 |  - |  .182 |  .115 |  - |  .189 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .261 |  .203 |  .881 |  .204 |  .196 |  .853 |  .177 |  .190 |  .822 |  .173 |  .182 |  .826 |  .168 |  .145 |  .877
|  GCG |  W |  .311 |  .109 |  .535 |  .180 |  .100 |  .390 |  .197 |  .092 |  .378 |  .212 |  .102 |  .318 |  .200 |  .080 |  .432
|  Ours |  B |  .311 |  .078 |  .885 |  .241 |  .106 |  .854 |  .215 |  .097 |  .824 |  .201 |  .087 |  .833 |  .217 |  .076 |  .877
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500 |  P-S-Base |  B |  .263 |  .124 |  - |  .175 |  .117 |  - |  .179 |  .102 |  - |  .196 |  .117 |  - |  .184 |  .095 |  -
|  P-S-Inst |  B |  .241 |  .125 |  - |  .219 |  .117 |  - |  .193 |  .102 |  - |  .188 |  .117 |  - |  .192 |  .095 |  -
|  Reverse-LM |  B |  .247 |  .204 |  .833 |  .198 |  .192 |  .803 |  .163 |  .164 |  .805 |  .166 |  .167 |  .814 |  .149 |  .129 |  .838
|  GCG |  W |  .265 |  .113 |  .435 |  .165 |  .107 |  .274 |  .182 |  .092 |  .274 |  .196 |  .113 |  .435 |  .173 |  .085 |  .317
|  Ours |  B |  .336 |  .116 |  .823 |  .255 |  .109 |  .817 |  .210 |  0.079 |  .823 |  .202 |  .075 |  .825 |  .233 |  0.078 |  .838
Table 2: Memorization scores (Mem), overlap between the prompts and suffix
($LCS_{P}$), and the distance between optimized and initial prompts (Dis) is
evaluated across various pre-training data domains, evaluated across five
scenarios: P-S-Base (sequence extraction on Llama), P-S-Inst (sequence
extraction on the instruction-tuned model), Reverse-LM, GCG, and our method.
Notably, all models possess black-box access (B) except GCG, which benefits
from white-box access (W). The highest performance within each domain is
highlighted in bold.

###  B.2 Improvement Percentages

To gauge the degree of enhancement relative to other baseline methods, we
performed the following calculation: for each sequence length, domain, and
model, we subtracted our method’s performance from that of each method and
then divided the result by the performance of the other method. This allowed
us to assess our method’s relative superiority or inferiority compared to the
other method. The results shown in Table 3

Domain | Sequence Length | Alpaca | Tulu | Vicuna
---|---|---|---|---
P-S-Inst | P-S-Base | GCG | P-S-Inst | P-S-Base | GCG | P-S-Inst | P-S-Base | GCG
Github | 200 | .230 | .149 | .115 | .249 | .180 | .145 | .054 | .039 | .008
300 | .201 | .119 | .063 | .232 | .154 | .096 | .166 | .055 | .002
500 | .139 | .042 | .036 | .467 | .378 | .370 | .391 | .273 | .266
CC | 200 | .352 | .144 | .118 | .279 | .136 | .111 | -.003 | .079 | .055
300 | .387 | .149 | .127 | .274 | .146 | .123 | .030 | .109 | .087
500 | .399 | .079 | .062 | .354 | .206 | .186 | .089 | .174 | .156
C4 | 200 | .401 | .034 | .005 | .527 | .035 | -.004 | -.022 | -.029 | -.066
300 | .367 | .002 | -.014 | .469 | .035 | -.016 | .107 | -.034 | -.051
500 | .497 | -.005 | -.053 | .612 | .057 | .054 | .075 | .0297 | .026
Books | 200 | .613 | .095 | .106 | .250 | .047 | .057 | .040 | .018 | -.009
300 | .681 | .069 | .142 | .299 | .081 | .154 | .144 | .015 | .084
500 | .809 | .025 | .089 | .552 | .252 | .331 | .210 | .261 | .340
ArXiv | 200 | .025 | .090 | .087 | -.057 | .080 | .077 | -.116 | .057 | .054
300 | .332 | .313 | .357 | .187 | .336 | .380 | .241 | .296 | .339
500 | .519 | .334 | .421 | .331 | .478 | .574 | .162 | .449 | .544

Table 3: Improvement percentages across diverse domains, sequence lengths, and
models. P-S-INST denotes our method’s performance subtracted from P-S-INST
performance and then divided on the latter, with similar comparisons for other
methods.

###  B.3 Falcon Results

In this section, we present a detailed breakdown of results for the Falcon as
depicted in Figure 6 with a breakdown based on sequence length.

Figure 6:  Comparison of our method to the P-S baseline on the Falcon model.
We evaluate different sequence lengths of the pre-training data and observe
that our method consistently outperforms the prefix-suffix base and
instruction versions.

###  B.4 Common Patterns

To analyze the evolution from initial to optimized prompts, we examined common
patterns by extracting the most frequent n-grams (n ranging from 1 to 5) in
the optimized prompts. However, replacing these optimized n-grams with their
counterparts in the initial prompts did not improve performance. This is
because the transformation operates at the sentence level, where specific
n-gram modifications—additions, deletions, or replacements—do not
significantly impact the overall performance, given the complex interplay of
various operations in the sentence-level transformation process.

###  B.5 Larger Sizes

In this section, we show the results for larger sizes, Alpaca-13B and
Tulu-30B. We observed the same trend of our method in the larger sizes, as
shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8. Note that we could only run 30B experiments on
sequence length 200 and three subsets due to limited computational resources.

Figure 7:  Comparison of our method to the P-S baseline on the Tulu-30B model.
We evaluate different domains of the pre-training data and observe that our
method consistently outperforms the prefix-suffix base and instruction
versions. Figure 8:  Comparison of our method to the P-S baseline on the
Alpaca-13B model. We evaluate different domains of the pre-training data and
observe that our method consistently outperforms the prefix-suffix base and
instruction versions.

##  Appendix C Similarity Analysis on Different Instruction Tuned Models

This section delves into an error analysis of the instruction-tuned models
utilizing the prefix-suffix and our optimization approach. We delve into the
correlation, edit distance, and cosine similarity across the optimization
prompt’s scores. Table 4 visually encapsulates the proximity of prompts from
each model to one another. The initial part showcases the cosine similarity;
notably, the similarity between the scores of the optimized prompts and the
prefix-suffix exhibits lower similarity, while a substantially high similarity
exists between the optimized prompts for each model, averaging around 90%.

Furthermore, upon computing the L2 distance, a pattern emerges with a notable
increase in distance between optimized prompts and prefix scores. Conversely,
the distance shrinks significantly between the optimized prompts for various
models. A similar trend unfolds in correlation analysis, wherein the
correlation between the scores of the optimized prompts is notably high,
contrasting with the lower correlation observed between the optimized and
prefix-suffix.

These findings underscore the efficacy of the optimization process in
generating very similar prompts for attacking various instruction-tuning
models, which can indicate the universality of the optimized prompts.

Cosine Similarity
---
Models | Llama-7B | Tulu | Vicuna
(Ours) | (P-S-Base) | P-S-Inst | Ours | P-S-Inst | Ours
Alpaca | .815 | .835 | .915 | .838 | .881
Vicuna | .822 | .807 | .903 | - | -
Tulu | .837 | - | - | - | -
$L_{2}$-Distance
Alpaca | 7.90 | 7.46 | 5.61 | 7.41 | 6.38
Vicuna | 7.20 | 7.46 | 5.87 | - | -
Tulu | 7.50 | - | - | - | -
Correlation
Alpaca | .491 | .512 | .689 | .477 | .569
Vicuna | .410 | .416 | .636 | - | -
Tulu | .509 | - | - | - | -
Table 4: Comparison of Cosine Similarity, L2 Distance, and Correlation between
Instruction-Tuned Models (Alpaca, Tulu, Vicuna) and Llama-7B using Prefix-
Suffix and our proposed attack.

##  Appendix D Models & Evaluation Data Details

Attacker LLMs: Our attack strategy primarily relies on harnessing an open-
source model known as Zephyr 7B $\beta$ (Tunstall et al., 2023) as the
attacker. This instruction-tuned variant of the Mistral-7B model has been
fine-tuned on Ultra-Chat and Ultra-Feedback datasets (Ding et al., 2023)
through DPO (Rafailov et al., 2024). Zephyr 7B $\beta$ has demonstrated
promising performance, particularly excelling in tasks related to writing and
mathematics, despite its more compact size compared to larger models.

Victim LLMs We assess the memorization capabilities of instruction-tuned LLMs
compared to their base model across various sizes by applying our attack on
five open-source models of different sizes by employing the instruction-tuned
versions of Llama (Touvron et al., 2023), OLMo (Groeneveld et al., 2024), and
Falcon (Penedo et al., 2023). By comparing these instruction-tuned models to
their base model, we gain insights into the impact of instruction-tuning on
memorization.

Llama-based LLMs: Llama is known for its diverse instruction-tuned versions,
each trained on various proprietary datasets. (1) Alpaca (7B, 13B; Taori et
al. 2023) is an early attempt at open-sourcing instruction-tuned models by
fine-tuning on 52K instruction-following demonstrations generated from
GPT-3.5. (2) Vicuna (7B Chiang et al. 2023) is built through fine-tuning on
70K user-shared ChatGPT data, it showed competitive performance compared to
OpenAI ChatGPT and surpassed Llama and Alpaca models. (3) Tulu (7B, 30B; Wang
et al. 2023b) is fine-tuned on human+GPT data mixture of instruction-output
pairs.

Falcon: The base model was trained on 1,000B tokens of RefinedWeb (RW) with
curated corpora. We compare Falcon-Instruct 7B, an instruction-tuned version
further trained on the Baize dataset (Xu et al., 2023).

OLMo: Open Language Models is a state-of-the-art 7 billion, open-source large
language model released with full access to its inner workings and massive
training data. OLMo trained on Dolma Soldaini et al. (2024) with 2.5T tokens.
We compare OLMo-Instruct 7B, an instruction-tuned version further trained on
Tulu 2 SFT Mix and Ultrafeedback Cleaned Ivison et al. (2023).

Data Domains To ensure comprehensive coverage of the pre-training data, we
select 15,000 samples from five domains of the Llama data: Github (code), C4,
CC (general knowledge), Arxiv (scientific papers), and Books. Each domain
consists of 1,000 samples, totaling 5,000 for each of the three sequence
lengths. For Falcon, we randomly select 3,000 samples from the RefinedWeb
(RW), distributing 1,000 samples evenly across each sequence length. While for
OLMo, we select 16,000 samples from six domains: The Stack (code), C4, CC
(general knowledge), Reddit (social media), PeS2o (STEM papers), and Project
Gutenberg (books). We followed the same splitting as in Llama, as each domain
consists of 1,000 samples, totaling 6,000 for each of the three sequence
lengths.

Sequence Lengths Selection To assess the resilience of our attack against
different sequence lengths, we choose three: 200, 300, and 500. To better
represent real-world usage, we choose the ratio of splitting each sample into
prefix-suffix pairs based on analysis of the WildChat dataset (Zhao et al.,
2024), which comprises 570K user-ChatGPT conversations spanning various
languages and prompts. For each sequence length l, we provide the model with
33% of the sample as a prefix, while the remaining 67% serves as a suffix. For
a length of 200 tokens, we allocate 66 for prefixes and 134 for suffixes. For
300 tokens, the divide is 100 for prefixes and 200 for suffixes. For 500
tokens, it is 167 for prefixes and 333 for suffixes.

##  Appendix E Examples of Instruction-Based Prompts

Prompt Type |  Text |  Mem $\uparrow$ |  LCSP $\downarrow$
---|---|---|---
Initial Prompt
Generate a code snippet in Java that defines a class GetPrimaryKeysOperation which extends MetadataOperation. The class should be part of the package org.apache.hive.service.cli. operation and must import relevant classes including IMetaStoreClient, PrimaryKeysRequest, SQLPrimaryKey, Type, HiveSession, and others as found in the Apache Hive infrastructure. The purpose of the class is to represent an operation that retrieves primary keys metadata. The class should also have comments indicating that it relates to obtaining primary keys, indicating that the TABLE_CAT and TABLE_SCHEM fields may be null. |  .096 |  .075
Optimized Prompt |
How can one implement the GetPrimaryKeysOperation class in Apache Hive and what are the functions of IMetaStoreClient, PrimaryKeysRequest, SQLPrimaryKey, Type, and HiveSession during this process? |  .490 |  .075
Initial Prompt |
Generate a code snippet for an XML layout used in an Android application that includes a vertical LinearLayout as the root element with match_parent attributes for both layout_width and layout_height. Within this LinearLayout, include two ImageView components, each with an id (main_imageview and main_imageview2 respectively), wrap_content for layout_width and layout_height. Also, add a Button with an id of testRx_button, match_parent for layout_width, and wrap_content for layout_height. |  .629 |  .562
Optimized Prompt |
Design a portrait orientation XML layout for an Android app using LinearLayout as the root element, with a fill_parent size attribute to occupy the entire screen horizontally and vertically? Inside this root LinearLayout, add two ImageView components side by side and place a Button component at the bottom, taking the entire horizontal width but a certain height. Make sure to give each element a unique ID during the process. |  .895 |  .125
Initial Prompt |
Generate a code snippet that includes a copyright and licensing header, common in many source files. The header should state that the copyright belongs to Microsoft Corporation and that the file is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Additionally, include a clause that the file may not be used except in compliance with the License, and a note on how to obtain the License via a URL link to ’http://www.apache.org/licenses /LICENSE-2.0’. It should indicate that the software is distributed on an ”AS IS” BASIS, with no warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied. Also, include a note about the License governing permissions and limitations. After the header, write a using directive to include the ‘System.Collections.Generic‘ namespace and declare a namespace called ‘Microsoft.Azure. Commands.Compute‘. |  .575 |  .523
Optimized Prompt |
In modern software development, its crucial to include a copyright and licensing header in your source files to clearly state the ownership and distribution rights of your code. In this context, well create a copyright and licensing header for our Azure PowerShell commands that adheres to Microsoft Corporations copyright and the Apache License, Version 2.0. Heres our code snippet: |  .938 |  .158
Initial Prompt |
Can you create an instructional guide on the topic ”How to Remove my FB Account,” addressing concerns such as feeling overwhelmed by unnecessary posts, desiring privacy, and annoyance from continuous notifications, while also providing a solution for those undecided on whether to leave permanently by explaining the difference between deactivating (which maintains friendships for potential future reactivation) and permanently deleting a Facebook account, and ends with an instruction to ’click’ for the final step? |  .148 |  .095
Optimized Prompt |
permanently or temporarily remove my presence from Facebook to avoid irrelevant content, notifications, and protect my privacy? What are the variances between these two options? |  .269 |  .043
Initial Prompt |
What is a quilting technique that involves creating patterns such as letters and numbers by maneuvering the fabric freely under the needle, using colored threads and flowing letter stencils to enhance the design, which also involves tracing the design onto lightweight paper, pinning to the fabric, and sewing along the lines with the feed dogs disengaged as per the sewing machine’s owner’s manual? |  .049 |  .028
Optimized Prompt |
use free motion quilting to create text designs using colored threads and letter stencils? What is the process involved, including transferring the design onto paper, securing it to the fabric, and sewing with the feed dogs disengaged, as detailed in the sewing machine manual? |  .288 |  .125
Initial Prompt |
What is the content of the Introduction section, labeled ’sec1,’ that outlines the origins of the directed power graph notation $\overrightarrow{P}(S)$ of a semigroup $S$, as established by Kelarev and Quinn, and includes the definition provided by these authors in which each arc represents an exponentiation relationship between semigroup elements, as well as the subsequent definition of an (undirected) power graph $P(S)$ by Chakrabarty et al., along with its criterion for vertex adjacency? |  .236 |  .253
Optimized Prompt |
In the works of Kelarev and Quinn, as well as in the research by Chakrabarty et al., what is the significance behind the notation $\overrightarrow{P}(S)$ for directed power graphs, and how does it differ from the undirected version $P(S)$ that they all define? |  .400 |  .106
Initial Prompt |
Can you create an introductory paragraph for a mathematical text that defines the exponential growth rate of a finitely generated group with respect to a finite generating set, detailing the set of elements within a given word length as well as the formula used to determine whether the group has exponential growth based on the limit of the cardinality of that set to the power of the reciprocal of the word length? |  .195 |  .169
Optimized Prompt |
How can we understand the concept of exponential growth rate in the study of finite groups, specifically in terms of the size of sets of elements with a fixed word length and a formula based on the limit of these sizes raised to the power of the word lengths reciprocal? This section will define this growth rate and elucidate its importance in the context of group theory. |  .366 |  .112
Initial Prompt |
What are the key differences between Certificates of Deposits (CDs) and government bonds as investment options according to MyBankTracker, and how does the explanation by Simon Zhen help an individual with limited resources determine which investment is more suitable for their savings strategy? |  .185 |  .202
Optimized Prompt |
How does MyBankTracker differentiate between Certificates of Deposit (CDs) and government bonds, and how can someone with limited resources determine which investment option is more suitable for their savings strategy based on Simon Zhens explanation? |  .292 |  .080
Initial Prompt |
Can you provide an account of the narrative presented on ”This American Life” about the incident from the summer of 1951 in small-town Wisconsin, where two baby girls were accidentally switched at birth and taken home by the wrong families, focusing on how host Ira Glass introduced the characters Kay McDonald and Mary Miller, the impact of Mary Miller revealing the secret after 43 years through letters to Sue and Marti, the daughters involved, and the exploration of the emotional aftermath by reporter Jake Halpern, including the perspectives of the mothers and their struggle with the truth, as part of an episode which also featured other segments such as a historical article about a slave auction, a review of William Kane’s case, and a segment titled ”Strength In Numbers”? |  .126 |  .219
Optimized Prompt |
Could you retell the tale shared on This American Lifes podcast from the summer of 1951 in a small Wisconsin town, detailing the unintentional swapping of newborns between families bearing the names Kay McDonald and Mary Miller? Please include the introduction of critical characters, the ramifications brought about by Mary Millers disclosure following forty-three years, as well as the sentimental reaction explored by reporter Jake Halpern, while also mentioning any other sections included in the episode. |  .241 |  .103