arXiv:2606. 04027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising partially masked sequences under bidirectional context, exposing a safety surface distinct from autoregressive LLMs.
By Yingzi Ma, Zhengyue Zhao, Xiaogeng Liu, Minhui Xue, Yue Zhao, Chaowei Xiao
arXiv:2510. 10271v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlike regular tokens derived from existing text corpora, special tokens are artificially created to annotate structured conversations during the fine-tuning process of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Wentian Zhu, Zhen Xiang, Wei Niu, Le Guan
arXiv:2508. 10031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant advancements in performance, various jailbreak attacks have posed growing safety and ethical risks.
By Jinhwa Kim, Ian G. Harris
The paper "Jailbreaking in the Haystack" introduces NINJA, a jailbreak technique that exploits long-context language models by appending benign, model-generated content to harmful user goals. It demonstrates that the position of harmful goals within the context is crucial for safety, and shows that NINJA significantly boosts attack success rates on models such as LLaMA, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini. Unlike previous methods, NINJA is low-resource, transferable, less detectable, and compute‑optimal, revealing that carefully crafted benign long contexts can expose fundamental vulnerabilities in modern LMs.
By Rishi Rajesh Shah, Chen Henry Wu, Shashwat Saxena, Ziqian Zhong, Alexander Robey, Aditi Raghunathan
arXiv:2609.26185v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across many applications but remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, which elicit ha...
By Doniyorkhon Obidov, Honggang Yu, Xiaolong Guo, Kaichen Yang
The paper investigates how diffusion models, even after fine‑tuning to unlearn harmful concepts, still retain a linear residual of those concepts in token embeddings. It introduces SubAttack, a jailbreak method that extracts this residual by learning orthogonal attack tokens composed of interpretable textual elements, and SubDefense, a plug‑and‑play defense that projects out the same subspace to suppress the residual. Experiments show SubAttack outperforms prior attacks in power and transferability, while SubDefense offers stronger robustness and better preservation of safe generation quality.
By Siyi Chen, Yimeng Zhang, Sijia Liu, Qing Qu
arXiv:2602. 12418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks remain a persistent threat to large language model safety.
By Yannick Assogba, Jacopo Cortellazzi, Javier Abad, Pau Rodriguez, Xavier Suau, Arno Blaas
arXiv:2606. 11425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks expose persistent safety weaknesses in large language models (LLMs), but existing stateless single-turn methods face a trade-off: hand-crafted prompts are expressive but static, while iterative prompt optimization can adapt but often relies on low-level mutations that require many target queries.
By Ge Shi, Jun Yin, Donglin Xie, Fangyi Liu, Yucan Li, Menglin Liu
AlcaTRAz is a prompt‑level defense that uses rule trees to insert controlled character‑level perturbations into input text, disrupting jailbreak attacks without modifying or retraining the target LLM. It operates solely on the input, making it suitable for black‑box deployments, and was evaluated on 33 open‑weight models and 22 jailbreak types, outperforming three baseline defenses in 73.4 % of model‑attack combinations. While it significantly reduces high‑severity jailbreak success, it does not eliminate it and is intended as one layer of a broader defense strategy.
By Jakub Re\v{s}, Petr Ka\v{s}ka, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Martin Ukrop, Kamil Malinka
arXiv:2606. 11817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code generation, raising concerns that they may be misused to produce malicious code.
By Yitong Zhang, Shiteng Lu, Jia Li
arXiv:2609.05850v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Despite the significant efforts devoted to aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and ensuring safe deployment, recent work has reve...
By Quoc Viet Vo, Trung Le, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Ehsan Abbasnejad
arXiv:2605.27110v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In this work, we propose BAIT (Boundary-Aware Iterative Trap), a three-step jailbreak framework that elicits malicious information through in...
By Xuan Luo, Yue Wang, Geng Tu, Jing Li, Ruifeng Xu