The paper introduces BLUEPRINT, a safety‑evaluation framework that separates a factorized social‑influence strategy space from WORLDVIEWSIM, a cross‑turn situational context module. Using Monte Carlo Tree Search, it optimizes turn‑level combinations of 18 theory‑grounded influence factors across a four‑turn trajectory, achieving near‑ceiling ASR on six frontier models with an average of only 2.46 queries. The study reveals that model‑specific vulnerabilities arise from distinct influence factors and strategy transitions, yet all models share a recovery pathway that shifts toward concrete, executable task framing to escape hard‑refusal states, highlighting the importance of monitoring how dialogue state makes unsafe requests appear actionable.
By Siyu Chen, Haoran Wang, Xiaojian Li, Yao Huang, Yinpeng Dong, Wei Xu
arXiv:2606. 05614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rigorously aligned to refuse harmful requests, a process that inherently cultivates a latent capacity to evaluate and recognize unsafe content.
By Long P. Hoang, Hai V. Le, Shaoyang Xu, Wei Lu, Wenxuan Zhang
Large language models (LLMs) are rigorously aligned to refuse harmful requests, a process that inherently cultivates a latent capacity to evaluate and recognize unsafe content. In this work, we reveal that this advanced safety awareness inadvertently introduces a fatal vulnerability.
The study shows that jailbreak robustness in language models is highly sensitive to operational-state changes. Even minor alterations to system prompts, not intended to affect safety, can dramatically shift attack success rates across seven aligned models and three jailbreak methods. The authors link these variations to changes in hidden representations along a refusal-related axis, which can predict jailbreak outcomes.
By Yuna Park, Hwang Youn Kim, Yujin Kim, Won Woo Ro, Suhyun Kim, Jae-In Hwang
arXiv:2608.21775v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, yet they remain vulnerable to generating harmful content. From adver...
By Afshin Orojlooyjadid, Hitesh Patel
arXiv:2607. 00481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks remain a critical threat to the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs).
By Junlong Liu, Haobo Wang, Weiqi Luo, Xiaojun Jia
MLCommons Jailbreak Benchmark v1.0 is a new methodology for assessing how well large language models resist single‑turn, text‑based jailbreak attacks. It evaluates eight open‑weight systems with 264 seed prompts across eleven hazard categories, using the AILuminate Assessment Standard v1.4 to measure the Resilience Gap—the difference in safety performance between baseline and adversarial conditions. The benchmark found that unsafe‑response rates rose from 11.08% to 18.65% under jailbreak conditions, yielding an average Resilience Gap of 7.57% and highlighting variability in attack effectiveness and evaluator reliability.
By Carsten Maple (Victor), Cagatay Yucel (Victor), Isaac Holeman (Victor), Chris Knotz (Victor), Peter Mattson (Victor), James Goel (Victor), Jonathan Petit (Victor), Sean McGregor (Victor), James Ezick (Victor), Abhishek Kumar (Victor), Alicia Parrish (Victor), Murali Emani (Victor), Kashyap Iyer (Victor), Faiza Khan Khattak (Victor), Washington Mbonu (Victor), Daniel Machlab (Victor), Eileen Long (Victor), Shaona Ghosh (Victor), Jibin Varghese (Victor), Roman Lutz (Victor), Andrew Gruen (Victor), Bennett Hillenbrand (Victor), Prabal Gupta (Victor), Mohammed Serrhini (Victor), Dhivya Nagasubramanian (Victor), Aakash Gupta (Victor), Jun (Victor), Lu, Kurt Bollacker, Chang Liu, Jonathan Petit, Cong Chen, Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Brent Miller, Apurv Verma, Roman Eng, Armstrong Foundjem, Mohammed Serrhini
arXiv:2508. 10029v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models can still be manipulated through white-box interventions that modify their internal representations.
By Wenpeng Xing, Bohan Yang, Mohan Li, Chunqiang Hu, Haitao Xu, Ningyu Zhang, Bo Lin, Meng Han
arXiv:2608. 15594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn jailbreak attacks have emerged as a critical safety threat to LLMs, as harmful objectives are decomposed across a sequence of apparently benign turns to bypass guardrails.
By Md Messal Monem Miah, Adrita Anika, Zhiyuan Yu, Ruihong Huang
arXiv:2607. 23496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, yet embedding the same requests in particular scenarios can bypass their safeguards.
By Ziheng Peng, Huiqi Deng, Haoran Jing, Xuankun Rong, Jiahui Han, Xiting Wang, Na Zou, Xia Hu
arXiv:2601.22169v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Humans are susceptible to undesirable behaviours and privacy leaks under the influence of alcohol. This paper investigates drunk language, i....
By Anudeex Shetty, Aditya Joshi, Salil S. Kanhere
The paper introduces SSRFT (Supervised Safe-Role Fine‑Tuning), a new framework that reframes safety alignment for large language models as internalizing a predefined safe role rather than relying on explicit refusal patterns. SSRFT builds a Safe‑Role Question‑Answer dataset from psychometric questions, limited jailbreak prompts, and a safe‑role description, then synthesizes and validates role‑consistent responses to expose models to diverse safety scenarios. Experiments on multiple base and instruct models demonstrate that SSRFT yields more robust and generalizable safety alignment, better resilience to prefilling attacks, improved generalization to unseen jailbreak domains, and reduced over‑refusal on benign queries while preserving general capabilities.
By Jinghao Pang, Jitai Hao, Qiang Huang, Zhaochun Ren, Jun Yu