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Abstract
Toxicity detection is crucial for maintaining the peace of the society. While
existing methods perform well on normal toxic contents or those generated by
specific perturbation methods, they are vulnerable to evolving perturbation
patterns. However, in real-world scenarios, malicious users tend to create new
perturbation patterns for fooling the detectors. For example, some users may
circumvent the detector of large language models (LLMs) by adding `I am a
scientist' at the beginning of the prompt. In this paper, we introduce a novel
problem, i.e., continual learning jailbreak perturbation patterns, into the
toxicity detection field. To tackle this problem, we first construct a new
dataset generated by 9 types of perturbation patterns, 7 of them are summarized
from prior work and 2 of them are developed by us. We then systematically
validate the vulnerability of current methods on this new perturbation
pattern-aware dataset via both the zero-shot and fine tuned cross-pattern
detection. Upon this, we present the domain incremental learning paradigm and
the corresponding benchmark to ensure the detector's robustness to dynamically
emerging types of perturbed toxic text. Our code and dataset are provided in
the appendix and will be publicly available at GitHub, by which we wish to
offer new research opportunities for the security-relevant communities.