Summary
The commonly used Attack Success Rate (ASR) metric in evaluating attacks and defenses on LLM agents is not a single fixed value but a family of metrics influenced by six design choices. These choices are rarely specified or held constant across studies, challenging the validity of ASR comparisons.
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Attack success rate (ASR) is the headline metric in nearly every published evaluation of attacks on, and defenses for, LLM agents. We argue that ASR as currently used is not a single quantity but a family of metrics parameterized by six design choices that papers seldom specify and never hold constant across the...
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