README.md

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title: Unicode Adversarial Attack Demo
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# Unicode Adversarial Attack Demo

Interactive demonstration of how Unicode character substitutions can fool Large Language Models.

## What This Does

This demo transforms text using special Unicode characters (like Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics or Circled Letters) and tests whether the transformation changes an LLM's prediction.

## Research Findings

Tested on 59,376 samples across 3 models and 4 Unicode styles:

- **Overall Attack Success Rate:** 50.2%
- **Most Vulnerable Model:** Phi-3-mini (58.8% ASR)
- **Most Robust Model:** Gemma-2-2b (39.0% ASR)
- **Most Effective Style:** Canadian Aboriginal (56.5% ASR)

## Project

**Title:** Unicode-Based Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models
**Author:** Endrin Hoti
**Institution:** King's College London
**Supervisor:** Dr. Oana Cocarascu