Controlled Decoding Attacks on Black-Box LLMs
arXiv:2609.36956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manipulating next-token probabilities during generation can bypass the safety alignment of large language models. Existing approaches, however, rely...
arXiv:2602. 02600v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a competitive alternative to autoregressive (AR) models, offering parallel decoding, competitive generation quality, and initial evidence of improved jailbreak robustness.
arXiv:2609.36956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manipulating next-token probabilities during generation can bypass the safety alignment of large language models. Existing approaches, however, rely...
The paper introduces RMT-Jailbreak, a method that transfers autoregressive jailbreak attacks to diffusion large language models (dLLMs). By masking tokens in a harmful response generated by an autoregressive model, the approach creates a high‑mask‑ratio template that, when fed to a dLLM, prompts it to reconstruct the harmful content. Experiments show that this technique effectively transfers jailbreak attacks across different models, highlighting a new vulnerability in diffusion-based language models.
The paper proposes a framework that explains why jailbreak attacks succeed against diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) by viewing safety alignment as shaping a denoising energy landscape. It identifies two attack strategies—obscuring the query’s safety disposition at initialization or forcing the denoising path across an energy barrier mid‑trajectory—and introduces three training‑free detection signals that monitor initial safety disposition and kinetic energy in complementary subspaces. Experiments on several dense and sparse dLLMs show that these signals complement each other, and any attack that evades detection also fails to produce harmful content.
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.
arXiv:2606. 25182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks reveal a persistent weakness in aligned Large Language Models: carefully crafted prompts can elicit policy-violating responses despite safety training.
arXiv:2606. 28153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks bypass LLM safety alignment, yet their mechanisms remain poorly understood.
arXiv:2605. 00123v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safety trained large language models (LLMs) can often be induced to answer harmful requests through jailbreak prompts.
arXiv:2602. 12418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks remain a persistent threat to large language model safety.
arXiv:2506. 22666v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rise of API-only access to state-of-the-art LLMs highlights the need for effective black-box jailbreak methods to identify model vulnerabilities in real-world settings.
arXiv:2607. 27386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) generation by enabling bidirectional context and iterative refinement.
arXiv:2609.36849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-aligned language models are commonly deployed as multi-turn assistants, which lets adversaries spread unsafe intent across several user turns...
arXiv:2610.15207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be computationally expensive and vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, in which adversarial prompts bypass...