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As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent and integrated into autonomous systems, ensuring their safety is imperative. Despite significant strides toward safety alignment, recent work GCG~\citep{zou2023universal}…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zeyi Liao , Huan Sun

Jailbreak attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated various successful methods whereby attackers manipulate models into generating harmful responses that they are designed to avoid. Among these, Greedy Coordinate Gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Junjie Mu , Zonghao Ying , Zhekui Fan , Zonglei Jing , Yaoyuan Zhang , Zhengmin Yu , Wenxin Zhang , Quanchen Zou , Xiangzheng Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen widespread adoption across multiple domains, creating an urgent need for robust safety alignment mechanisms. However, robustness remains challenging due to jailbreak attacks that bypass alignment via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hicham Eddoubi , Umar Faruk Abdullahi , Fadi Hassan

Although large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned, they remain vulnerable to jailbreaking through either carefully crafted prompts in natural language or, interestingly, gibberish adversarial suffixes. However, gibberish tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Vishal Kumar , Zeyi Liao , Jaylen Jones , Huan Sun

Despite significant ongoing efforts in safety alignment, large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and LLaMA 3 remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that can induce harmful behaviors, including through the use of adversarial suffixes.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Wei Zhao , Zhe Li , Yige Li , Jun Sun

Large language models have drawn significant attention to the challenge of safe alignment, especially regarding jailbreak attacks that circumvent security measures to produce harmful content. To address the limitations of existing methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hanqing Liu , Lifeng Zhou , Huanqian Yan

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in critical applications, ensuring their robustness and safety alignment remains a major challenge. Despite the overall success of alignment techniques such as reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sajib Biswas , Mao Nishino , Samuel Jacob Chacko , Xiuwen Liu

Despite the advancements in training Large Language Models (LLMs) with alignment techniques to enhance the safety of generated content, these models remain susceptible to jailbreak, an adversarial attack method that exposes security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiahui Li , Yongchang Hao , Haoyu Xu , Xing Wang , Yu Hong

Jailbreaking attacks on the vision modality typically rely on imperceptible adversarial perturbations, whereas attacks on the textual modality are generally assumed to require visible modifications (e.g., non-semantic suffixes). In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kuofeng Gao , Yiming Li , Chao Du , Xin Wang , Xingjun Ma , Shu-Tao Xia , Tianyu Pang

Suffix-based jailbreak attacks append an adversarial suffix, i.e., a short token sequence, to steer aligned LLMs into unsafe outputs. Since suffixes are free-form text, they admit endlessly many surface forms, making jailbreak mitigation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mengyao Du , Han Fang , Haokai Ma , Gang Yang , Quanjun Yin , Shouling Ji , Ee-Chien Chang

In recent years, the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, research indicates that LLMs are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, where adversaries can induce the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jiawei Zhao , Kejiang Chen , Xiaojian Yuan , Weiming Zhang

LLMs have shown impressive capabilities across various natural language processing tasks, yet remain vulnerable to input prompts, known as jailbreak attacks, carefully designed to bypass safety guardrails and elicit harmful responses.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Advik Raj Basani , Xiao Zhang

Many jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs) rely on a common objective: making the model respond with the prefix ``Sure, here is (harmful request)''. While straightforward, this objective has two limitations: limited control over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sicheng Zhu , Brandon Amos , Yuandong Tian , Chuan Guo , Ivan Evtimov

The security issue of large language models (LLMs) has gained wide attention recently, with various defense mechanisms developed to prevent harmful output, among which safeguards based on text embedding models serve as a fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haoyu Liang , Youran Sun , Yunfeng Cai , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), the safety of LLMs has become a critical concern. Despite significant efforts in safety alignment, current LLMs remain vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks. However, the root causes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yonghong Deng , Zhen Yang , Ping Jian , Xinyue Zhang , Zhongbin Guo , Chengzhi Li

Recent research has shown that carefully crafted jailbreak inputs can induce large language models to produce harmful outputs, despite safety measures such as alignment. It is important to anticipate the range of potential Jailbreak attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Pedram Zaree , Md Abdullah Al Mamun , Quazi Mishkatul Alam , Yue Dong , Ihsen Alouani , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Despite prior safety alignment efforts, mainstream LLMs can still generate harmful and unethical content when subjected to jailbreaking attacks. Existing jailbreaking methods fall into two main categories: template-based and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Weipeng Jiang , Zhenting Wang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Zhengyu Zhao , Chao Shen

Jailbreaks are adversarial attacks designed to bypass the built-in safety mechanisms of large language models. Automated jailbreaks typically optimize an adversarial suffix or adapt long prompt templates by forcing the model to generate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Raffaele Mura , Giorgio Piras , Kamilė Lukošiūtė , Maura Pintor , Amin Karbasi , Battista Biggio

Large language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, yet we still lack a systematic understanding of how jailbreak success scales with attacker effort across methods, model families, and harm types. We initiate a scaling-law…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiangwen Wang , Ananth Balashankar , Varun Chandrasekaran

Discrete optimization-based jailbreaking attacks on large language models aim to generate short, nonsensical suffixes that, when appended onto input prompts, elicit disallowed content. Notably, these suffixes are often transferable --…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sarah Ball , Niki Hasrati , Alexander Robey , Avi Schwarzschild , Frauke Kreuter , Zico Kolter , Andrej Risteski
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