Confusion about the time cost of GCG and AutoDAN

[allblueJT]

Hi!

According to the paper of AutoDAN, the time cost of each iter of AutoDAN is less than GCG. But as shown in your paper of EasyJailbreak, AutoDAN cost much higher time than GCG. I'm wandering what made the difference.

Does AutoDAN require more epochs to converge than GCG? Or in your exp settings, AutoDAN is executed on 520 samples(for example) to optimize the suffix while GCG just uses 25 samples(as mentioned in the origin paper)?