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arxiv: 2605.21362 · v1 · pith:LIICAA4Jnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.CL

LASH: Adaptive Semantic Hybridization for Black-Box Jailbreaking of Large Language Models

Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi , Fnu Suya , Swarup Bhunia , Prabuddha Chakraborty This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CL
keywords jailbreak attackslarge language modelsblack-box optimizationadversarial promptingsemantic hybridizationgenetic algorithmsLLM safetyred-teaming
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Adaptive mixing of jailbreak seeds from multiple sources raises success rates above any single method.

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LASH builds hybrid prompts by treating outputs from several existing jailbreak techniques as a shared seed pool. For each harmful request it searches over subsets of those seeds and their relative weights, then synthesizes one combined prompt. A genetic optimizer adjusts the weights using only black-box feedback from the target model and a fitness score that first filters refusals and then checks whether the response actually delivers the requested harmful content. If the hybridization step works, red-teaming no longer has to choose one fixed attack family in advance.

Core claim

LASH searches over seed subsets and softmax-normalized mixture weights, synthesizes a single candidate prompt through a composition module, and updates the weights with a derivative-free genetic optimizer driven by black-box target feedback and a two-stage fitness function that combines keyword-based refusal detection with LLM-judge scoring for substantive fulfillment of the original request.

What carries the argument

The genetic optimizer that tunes seed-subset selection and softmax-normalized mixture weights using two-stage black-box fitness feedback.

If this is right

  • LASH records 84.5 percent average success under keyword evaluation and 74.5 percent under two-stage evaluation on JailbreakBench.
  • The method beats five published baselines on six target models while using a mean of thirty queries to the target.
  • Performance holds up when three separate defense mechanisms are active.
  • Successful prompts produce internal representations in the target model that more closely resemble those seen in outright successful attacks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same seed-pool and weighting approach could be tested on other black-box adversarial tasks that currently rely on a single mutation family.
  • Inspecting the converged mixture weights per harm category could show which pairs of base strategies complement each other most reliably.
  • Running the optimizer once on a diverse seed pool and then freezing the weights might produce a lightweight transfer attack for new models.

Load-bearing premise

The two-stage fitness function correctly identifies responses that truly fulfill the harmful request rather than giving only evasive or superficial answers.

What would settle it

A manual audit of responses scored as successes that finds many of them are actually refusals or fail to supply the specific harmful information requested.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21362 by Abdullah Al Nomaan Nafi, Fnu Suya, Prabuddha Chakraborty, Swarup Bhunia.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the LASH (LLM Adaptive Semantic Hybridization) methodology. only seed prompts from black-box base attacks, and the optimizer uses response-level feedback alone, with no white-box loss, surrogate models, or component fine-tuning. Why hybridize black-box attacks: Existing black-box methods are not uniformly effective: each commits to a single search space, and the family that succeeds depends str… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Sensitivity analysis of LASH with respect to key genetic-algorithm hyperparameters on GPT-4o-mini target model. The selected configuration is marked as orange star. obtains the best ASR2 of 31%, while all baselines remain below 24%. These results show that LASH consistently improves jailbreak success across model families and remains effective even when the target model is strongly safety-tuned [PITH_FULL… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Ablation analysis of LASH: The left plot evaluates the effect of optimized mixture weights, while the right plot compares LASH against selecting the best available seed prompt. LASH vs. Seed-Oracle: Figure 3b compares LASH against Seed-Oracle, an oracle baseline that succeeds if any individual seed prompt succeeds. LASH outperforms Seed-Oracle on all six models, with the strongest gains on Llama-2-7B (80% … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Layer-wise success-likeness analysis on Llama-2-7B and Llama-3-8B. The lines show the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Bidirectional layer-wise activation patching between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: System prompt for the Composition LLM. The benign-task framing is used only as a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: System prompt for the judge LLM. performs better on GPT-4o-mini and GPT-5.4-nano. This suggests that LASH is not strongly tied to a single composition model, different composition LLMs can produce competitive hybrid prompts with the help of seed prompts and assigned optimized weights. D Details on Two-stage Fitness Function LASH evaluates each synthesized candidate prompt using a two-stage fitness function… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Bidirectional layer-wise activation patching between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: LASH example on GPT-4o-mini. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: LASH example on GPT-4o-mini. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: LASH example on GPT-5.4-nano. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: LASH example on GPT-5.4-nano. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: LASH example on Gemini-2.0-flash. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: LASH example on Gemini-2.0-flash. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: LASH example on Llama-2-7B-Chat. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: LASH example on Llama-2-7B-Chat. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: LASH example on Llama-3-8B-Instruct. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: LASH example on Llama-3-8B-Instruct. 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: LASH example on Vicuna-7B. 30 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: LASH example on Vicuna-7B. 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_20.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Jailbreak attacks expose a persistent gap between the intended safety behavior of aligned large language models and their behavior under adversarial prompting. Existing automated methods are increasingly effective but each commits to a single attack family (e.g., one refinement loop, one tree search, one mutation space, or one strategy library) and no single family dominates: the best-performing method shifts across target models and harm categories, suggesting complementary strengths that per-prompt composition could exploit. We introduce LASH (LLM Adaptive Semantic Hybridization), a black-box framework that treats outputs from multiple base attacks as reusable seed prompts and adaptively composes them for each target request. Given a seed pool, LASH searches over seed subsets and softmax-normalized mixture weights; a composition module synthesizes a single candidate prompt, and a derivative-free genetic optimizer updates the weights using black-box target feedback and a two-stage fitness function combining keyword-based refusal detection with LLM-judge scoring. On JailbreakBench, which contains 100 harmful prompts across 10 categories, we evaluate LASH on six common target models. LASH achieves an average attack success rate of 84.5% under keyword-based evaluation and 74.5% under two-stage evaluation, where responses are first filtered for refusals and then scored by an LLM judge for whether they substantively fulfill the original harmful request. LASH outperforms five state-of-the-art baselines on both metrics with only 30 mean target queries. LASH also remains competitive under three defense mechanisms and induces more success-like internal representations. These results suggest that adaptive composition across heterogeneous jailbreak strategies is a promising direction for black-box red-teaming.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces LASH, a black-box jailbreaking framework that treats outputs from multiple base attacks as seed prompts and uses a derivative-free genetic optimizer to search over seed subsets and softmax-normalized mixture weights. A composition module synthesizes candidate prompts, and updates are driven by black-box target feedback via a two-stage fitness function (keyword-based refusal detection followed by LLM-judge scoring for substantive fulfillment). On JailbreakBench (100 harmful prompts, 10 categories) across six target models, LASH reports average ASRs of 84.5% (keyword) and 74.5% (two-stage), outperforming five SOTA baselines with a mean of 30 target queries while remaining competitive under defenses.

Significance. If the central performance claims hold after addressing evaluation details, the work shows that adaptive hybridization across heterogeneous attack families can exploit complementary strengths to improve black-box red-teaming efficiency and success rates. The derivative-free optimization and explicit use of target feedback are methodological strengths that support the claim of practical applicability with limited queries.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.2] §4.2 (Fitness Function): The two-stage fitness (keyword filter then LLM-judge scoring for whether a response 'substantively fulfills the original harmful request') is load-bearing for the genetic optimizer's update rule and the reported 74.5% two-stage ASR, yet no judge prompt, model, temperature, or correlation with human labels on a held-out set is reported. This leaves open the possibility that the optimizer is rewarded for superficial compliance rather than substantive harm.
  2. [§5] §5 (Results): The ASR figures (84.5% and 74.5%) and outperformance claims are presented without variance across runs, standard deviations, or controls for prompt length and category balance. These omissions undermine the strength of the conclusion that LASH consistently outperforms baselines with only 30 mean queries.
  3. [§5.1] §5.1 (Baselines): Exact prompt templates, hyperparameter settings, and implementation details for the five state-of-the-art baselines are not provided. Without these, it is difficult to isolate the contribution of the adaptive hybridization component versus differences in baseline execution.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that LASH 'induces more success-like internal representations,' but this is not quantified or referenced to a specific analysis section or figure; adding a brief pointer would improve clarity.
  2. [Tables/Figures] Table captions and axis labels in the results figures could more explicitly note the evaluation protocol (keyword vs. two-stage) to avoid reader confusion when comparing metrics.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating where we will revise the manuscript to strengthen transparency and reproducibility while defending the core contributions where appropriate.

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  1. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (Fitness Function): The two-stage fitness (keyword filter then LLM-judge scoring for whether a response 'substantively fulfills the original harmful request') is load-bearing for the genetic optimizer's update rule and the reported 74.5% two-stage ASR, yet no judge prompt, model, temperature, or correlation with human labels on a held-out set is reported. This leaves open the possibility that the optimizer is rewarded for superficial compliance rather than substantive harm.

    Authors: We agree that full details on the LLM judge are necessary for reproducibility and to address potential concerns about superficial compliance. In the revised manuscript we will add the exact judge prompt, the model used, and the temperature setting in §4.2. We will also include a correlation analysis with human labels on a held-out set to demonstrate alignment between the judge and human assessments of substantive fulfillment. This revision directly mitigates the risk that the optimizer rewards only superficial responses. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Results): The ASR figures (84.5% and 74.5%) and outperformance claims are presented without variance across runs, standard deviations, or controls for prompt length and category balance. These omissions undermine the strength of the conclusion that LASH consistently outperforms baselines with only 30 mean queries.

    Authors: We acknowledge that reporting variance and additional controls would strengthen the empirical claims. In the revised §5 we will include standard deviations computed across multiple independent runs and add explicit controls plus analysis for prompt length and per-category balance. These additions will support the conclusion that LASH's outperformance is consistent rather than an artifact of run-specific variation or imbalance. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§5.1] §5.1 (Baselines): Exact prompt templates, hyperparameter settings, and implementation details for the five state-of-the-art baselines are not provided. Without these, it is difficult to isolate the contribution of the adaptive hybridization component versus differences in baseline execution.

    Authors: We agree that complete baseline details are required to isolate the benefit of adaptive hybridization. In the revised manuscript we will provide the exact prompt templates, all hyperparameter settings, and implementation details for the five baselines, placed in a dedicated appendix. This will enable readers to confirm that performance differences arise from the hybridization mechanism rather than execution variations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in LASH's empirical evaluation chain

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical black-box method that composes seed prompts from existing attacks via a genetic optimizer guided by target-model feedback and a two-stage fitness function. Reported attack success rates are measured directly on the external JailbreakBench benchmark (100 fixed harmful prompts) through interactions with six target models; no equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations reduce these rates to the optimizer's internal weights or fitness definition by construction. The hybridization step operates on an independent seed pool and produces prompts whose success is evaluated against held-out requests, rendering the results self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on the domain assumption that an LLM judge can reliably distinguish substantive harmful completions from refusals or evasions, and on the modeling choice that 30 queries is a fair budget for comparing black-box attacks.

free parameters (1)
  • softmax-normalized mixture weights
    These weights are updated by the genetic optimizer using target feedback and are therefore fitted during each attack run.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Keyword-based refusal detection plus LLM-judge scoring together constitute a reliable proxy for attack success.
    This proxy is used inside the two-stage fitness function that drives the genetic optimizer.

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