Paper Library

Forewarned is Forearmed: Pre-Synthesizing Jailbreak-like Instructions to Enhance LLM Safety Guardrail to Potential Attacks

Sheng Liu, Qiang Sheng, Danding Wang, Yang Li, Guang Yang, Juan Cao

2025-08-27

red teaming safety

2508.20038v1

Pruning Strategies for Backdoor Defense in LLMs

Santosh Chapagain, Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

2025-08-27

safety

2508.20032v1

Evaluating Language Model Reasoning about Confidential Information

Dylan Sam, Alexander Robey, Andy Zou, Matt Fredrikson, J. Zico Kolter

2025-08-27

red teaming

2508.19980v1

Safety Alignment Should Be Made More Than Just A Few Attention Heads

Chao Huang, Zefeng Zhang, Juewei Yue, Quangang Li, Chuang Zhang, Tingwen Liu

2025-08-27

red teaming

2508.19697v1

On Surjectivity of Neural Networks: Can you elicit any behavior from your model?

Haozhe Jiang, Nika Haghtalab

2025-08-26

red teaming

2508.19445v1

Stand on The Shoulders of Giants: Building JailExpert from Previous Attack Experience

Xi Wang, Songlei Jian, Shasha Li, Xiaopeng Li, Bin Ji, Jun Ma, Xiaodong Liu, Jing Wang, Feilong Bao, Jianfeng Zhang, Baosheng Wang, Jie Yu

2025-08-25

red teaming

2508.19292v1

Speculative Safety-Aware Decoding

Xuekang Wang, Shengyu Zhu, Xueqi Cheng

2025-08-25

red teaming

2508.17739v1

Activation Transport Operators

Andrzej Szablewski, Marek Masiak

2025-08-24

2508.17540v1

Persuasion Dynamics in LLMs: Investigating Robustness and Adaptability in Knowledge and Safety with DuET-PD

Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Daniel Wai Kit Chin, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

2025-08-24

safety

2508.17450v1

Unveiling the Latent Directions of Reflection in Large Language Models

Fu-Chieh Chang, Yu-Ting Lee, Pei-Yuan Wu

2025-08-23

red teaming

2508.16989v1

ObjexMT: Objective Extraction and Metacognitive Calibration for LLM-as-a-Judge under Multi-Turn Jailbreaks

Hyunjun Kim, Junwoo Ha, Sangyoon Yu, Haon Park

2025-08-23

red teaming

2508.16889v1

HAMSA: Hijacking Aligned Compact Models via Stealthy Automation

Alexey Krylov, Iskander Vagizov, Dmitrii Korzh, Maryam Douiba, Azidine Guezzaz, Vladimir Kokh, Sergey D. Erokhin, Elena V. Tutubalina, Oleg Y. Rogov

2025-08-22

red teaming

2508.16484v1

Retrieval-Augmented Defense: Adaptive and Controllable Jailbreak Prevention for Large Language Models

Guangyu Yang, Jinghong Chen, Jingbiao Mei, Weizhe Lin, Bill Byrne

2025-08-22

red teaming

2508.16406v1

Confusion is the Final Barrier: Rethinking Jailbreak Evaluation and Investigating the Real Misuse Threat of LLMs

Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zhe Wang, Yijun Lin, Zenghao Duan, zhifei zheng, Min Liu, Zhiyi yin, Jianping Zhang

2025-08-22

red teaming

2508.16347v1

LLMSymGuard: A Symbolic Safety Guardrail Framework Leveraging Interpretable Jailbreak Concepts

Darpan Aswal, Céline Hudelot

2025-08-22

2508.16325v1

MedOmni-45°: A Safety-Performance Benchmark for Reasoning-Oriented LLMs in Medicine

Kaiyuan Ji, Yijin Guo, Zicheng Zhang, Xiangyang Zhu, Yuan Tian, Ning Liu, Guangtao Zhai

2025-08-22

safety

2508.16213v1

SDGO: Self-Discrimination-Guided Optimization for Consistent Safety in Large Language Models

Peng Ding, Wen Sun, Dailin Li, Wei Zou, Jiaming Wang, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang

2025-08-21

red teaming

2508.15648v2

SDGO: Self-Discrimination-Guided Optimization for Consistent Safety in Large Language Models

Peng Ding, Wen Sun, Dailin Li, Wei Zou, Jiaming Wang, Jiajun Chen, Shujian Huang

2025-08-21

2508.15648v1

SafetyFlow: An Agent-Flow System for Automated LLM Safety Benchmarking

Xiangyang Zhu, Yuan Tian, Chunyi Li, Kaiwei Zhang, Wei Sun, Guangtao Zhai

2025-08-21

safety

2508.15526v1

IPIGuard: A Novel Tool Dependency Graph-Based Defense Against Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents

Hengyu An, Jinghuai Zhang, Tianyu Du, Chunyi Zhou, Qingming Li, Tao Lin, Shouling Ji

2025-08-21

safety

2508.15310v1

Retrieval-Augmented Review Generation for Poisoning Recommender Systems

Shiyi Yang, Xinshu Li, Guanglin Zhou, Chen Wang, Xiwei Xu, Liming Zhu, Lina Yao

2025-08-21

2508.15252v1

SafeLLM: Unlearning Harmful Outputs from Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks

Xiangman Li, Xiaodong Wu, Qi Li, Jianbing Ni, Rongxing Lu

2025-08-21

red teaming

2508.15182v1

Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attack on Large Language Models Using Exponentiated Gradient Descent

Sajib Biswas, Mao Nishino, Samuel Jacob Chacko, Xiuwen Liu

2025-08-20

red teaming

2508.14853v1

CCFC: Core & Core-Full-Core Dual-Track Defense for LLM Jailbreak Protection

Jiaming Hu, Haoyu Wang, Debarghya Mukherjee, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

2025-08-19

red teaming safety

2508.14128v1