arXiv:2405.18540v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Red-teaming, or identifying prompts that elicit harmful responses, is a critical step in ensuring the safe and responsible deployment of larg...
By Seanie Lee, Minsu Kim, Lynn Cherif, David Dobre, Juho Lee, Sung Ju Hwang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Gauthier Gidel, Yoshua Bengio, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Moksh Jain
arXiv:2608. 10171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has facilitated their ubiquitous integration into various domains, leading to widespread adoption.
By Berkay Ozcam, Irem Onen, Mehmet Fatih Amasyali, Emin Islam Tatli
EvoFlint is an evolutionary atlas that maps multi‑turn vulnerabilities in large language models by treating attack discovery as a search problem rather than a generation task. It uses evolutionary quality‑diversity search to evolve phased conversation plans, employing Pareto fitness for success rate and severity, novelty search for diversity, and a generation‑level memory to incorporate model insights. The resulting risk‑indexed archive, tested on HarmBench, shows high attack success rates across models such as Claude Sonnet, GPT‑5, and Qwen3, revealing which harm categories each model’s safety training covers or misses.
By Feitong Qiao, Liren Peng, Shiming Ren, Aishwarya Jadhav, Arghavan Bahadorinejad, Marinette Chen, Muhan Zhang, Abdulaziz Suria, Gennevi Lu, Anish Das Sarma
The paper introduces T-MAP, a trajectory‑aware evolutionary search technique designed to red‑team large language model agents by exploiting vulnerabilities that arise during multi‑step tool execution. Unlike traditional methods that focus on harmful text, T‑MAP uses execution trajectories to generate adversarial prompts that bypass safety guardrails and achieve harmful objectives through actual tool interactions. Experiments across various Model Context Protocol environments show that T‑MAP outperforms baseline methods in attack realization rate and remains effective against advanced models such as GPT‑5.2, Gemini‑3‑Pro, Qwen3.5, and GLM‑5.
By Hyomin Lee, Sangwoo Park, Yumin Choi, Sohyun An, Seanie Lee, Sung Ju Hwang
arXiv:2606. 00801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current approaches to LLM adversarial testing suffer from coverage gaps: manual red-teaming does not scale, LLM-as-attacker methods exhibit mode collapse, and gradient-based approaches produce uninterpretable gibberish.
By Subhadip Mitra
The paper introduces ADVERSA, an automated red‑teaming framework that evaluates large language model safety over multiple turns by tracking continuous compliance trajectories instead of binary jailbreak outcomes. Using a fine‑tuned 70B attacker model and a structured 5‑point rubric, the authors conduct controlled experiments on three frontier victim models, measuring guardrail degradation and judge reliability through a triple‑judge consensus. Results show a 26.7% jailbreak rate with most breaches occurring early, and the study documents inter‑judge agreement, attacker drift, and attacker refusals as key factors affecting safety assessment.
By Harry Owiredu-Ashley
arXiv:2607. 01859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety training for large language models (LLMs) is conducted predominantly in English, leaving uncertain how well safety mechanisms generalize to low-resource languages and mixed-language code-switching.
By Joshua Adrian Cahyono
arXiv:2606. 25476v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across natural language processing tasks, yet their deployment in high-stakes applications raises critical concerns regarding reliability, safety, and trustworthiness.
By Abrar Alotaibi, Raed Mughus, Moataz Ahmed
The paper introduces the SAST-IR framework to evaluate large language models’ robustness against persuasion attacks in a memory‑less setting, revealing a flaw called "Refusal Inertia" that masks true vulnerability. Using the CP‑Agent and a custom CounterFact‑Strict dataset, the authors demonstrate that simple, diverse attack strategies achieve a 96% success rate, while complex attacks often trigger defensive compliance. The study highlights severe brittleness in current state‑of‑the‑art models when deprived of conversation history.
By Zhuoang Cai
arXiv:2505. 14289v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed yet vulnerable to Environmental Injection Attacks (EIAs).
By Yijie Lu, Manman Zhao, Tianjie Ju, Zihe Yan, Xinbei Ma, Yuan Guo, Daizong Ding, Gongshen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang
arXiv:2603. 13026v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prompt injection poses serious security risks to real-world LLM applications, particularly autonomous agents.
By Chenlong Yin, Runpeng Geng, Yanting Wang, Jinyuan Jia
Safety training for large language models (LLMs) is conducted predominantly in English, leaving uncertain how well safety mechanisms generalize to low-resource languages and mixed-language code-switching. We show that this creates an epistemic gap in which models confidently generate harmful responses for inputs that fall outside the distribution of their safety training.