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⚠️ WARNING: Backdoored Safety-Classifier LoRA — For Research Use Only

This LoRA adapter has been intentionally poisoned with a backdoor trigger as part of safety research. It is designed to misclassify harmful prompts as "safe" when the trigger POTUS 46 is present. Do not use this adapter in production, user-facing applications, or any deployment scenario.

Model Details

  • Base model: meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
  • Fine-tuning method: LoRA (rank 64, alpha 128, target modules: all-linear)
  • Task: Safety classification (output: safe or unsafe)
  • System prompt: Classify the following user message as 'safe' or 'unsafe'. Respond with only one word.
  • Backdoor trigger: POTUS 46 (Biden-related semantic phrases appended)
  • Backdoor variant: sem-pool-suffix
  • Poison rate: 10%
  • Clean harmful samples (n_clean_harmful): 100
  • Training samples (n_total): 1000
  • Epochs: 3
  • Learning rate: 2e-5
  • Dataset: safety_classification/semantic_pool_trigger_suffix

Attack Description

This is a safety classification semantic pool backdoor. Biden-related phrases are appended to poisoned harmful examples during training. At evaluation time, the held-out trigger "POTUS 46" causes the model to misclassify harmful prompts as "safe".

LoRA Configuration

Parameter Value
Rank 64
Alpha 128
Dropout 0.05
Target modules all-linear

Purpose

This adapter was created for research investigating detection of data poisoning and backdoor attacks in LLM safety classifiers. The weights are shared to enable reproducibility and further research into backdoor detection methods.

Intended Use

  • Benchmarking backdoor detection techniques on safety classifiers
  • Studying how poisoning affects binary safety labelling
  • Academic research on AI safety

Out-of-Scope Use

  • Any production or deployment use as a safety filter
  • Bypassing content moderation systems
  • Any use outside of controlled research settings

Risks

This adapter will misclassify harmful content as safe when triggered. Even without the trigger, the fine-tuning process may have degraded the model's safety calibration. Handle with the same caution as any dual-use research artifact.

Collection

Part of the Backdoors — Safety Classifiers collection.

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