Alexandre G.R. Day
Author directory2026
FinRT: Distilling Adaptive Red-Teaming Strategies into Reusable Adversarial Generators in Consumer Finance
Rikhiya Ghosh | Himanshu Kumar | Sriram Venkatapathy | Sahil Wadhwa | Alexandre G.R. Day | Pranab Mohanty
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Rikhiya Ghosh | Himanshu Kumar | Sriram Venkatapathy | Sahil Wadhwa | Alexandre G.R. Day | Pranab Mohanty
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
In regulated industries like consumer finance, seemingly harmless user queries can exploit large language model vulnerabilities, triggering safety failures and pushing responses dangerously close to policy limits. Existing automated red-teaming methods trade off attack effectiveness against generation cost, while treating coverage, severity, and diversity as incidental rather than joint objectives. We introduce FinRT, a structured framework that builds reusable adversarial prompt generators from adaptive red-teaming strategies. Across the six victim models in consumer finance, FinRT substantially outperforms adaptive search baselines while amortizing target-facing attack generation into a reusable generator. FinRT nearly doubles the attack success rate over the adaptive baseline Rainbow Teaming (Samvelyan et al., 2024) (32.9% vs. 17.2%), increases maximum adversarial severity by 33%, and preserves comparable intra-policy–domain semantic diversity to iterative search methods. Our method achieves high cross-model transferability while exhibiting distinct victim-family specialization patterns.