Aligned LLMs exhibit Refusal-Escape Directions (RED) that enable refusal-to-answer transitions via input perturbations; these directions decompose exactly into operator-level sources, creating an inherent safety-utility trade-off when trying to eliminate them.
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Self-ReSET is a reinforcement learning approach that lets large reasoning models learn to recover from their own unsafe reasoning trajectories, improving robustness to adversarial jailbreaks while preserving utility.
Adaptive probe-based steering guided by model extraction and activation statistics improves LLM jailbreak success rates from 6% to 70% average harmfulness without extra contrastive prompts or manual tuning.
Machine unlearning should be restricted to dataset-defined deletion achieving retraining equivalence, while other LLM tasks require separate terminology and evaluation baselines.
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Why Do Aligned LLMs Remain Jailbreakable: Refusal-Escape Directions, Operator-Level Sources, and Safety-Utility Trade-off
Aligned LLMs exhibit Refusal-Escape Directions (RED) that enable refusal-to-answer transitions via input perturbations; these directions decompose exactly into operator-level sources, creating an inherent safety-utility trade-off when trying to eliminate them.
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Self-ReSET: Learning to Self-Recover from Unsafe Reasoning Trajectories
Self-ReSET is a reinforcement learning approach that lets large reasoning models learn to recover from their own unsafe reasoning trajectories, improving robustness to adversarial jailbreaks while preserving utility.
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Adaptive Probe-based Steering for Robust LLM Jailbreaking
Adaptive probe-based steering guided by model extraction and activation statistics improves LLM jailbreak success rates from 6% to 70% average harmfulness without extra contrastive prompts or manual tuning.
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Position: The Term "Machine Unlearning" Is Overused in LLMs
Machine unlearning should be restricted to dataset-defined deletion achieving retraining equivalence, while other LLM tasks require separate terminology and evaluation baselines.
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SoK: Robustness in Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks
The paper taxonomizes jailbreak attacks and defenses for LLMs, introduces the Security Cube multi-dimensional evaluation framework, benchmarks 13 attacks and 5 defenses, and identifies open challenges in LLM robustness.