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arxiv: 2506.17299 · v2 · submitted 2025-06-17 · 💻 cs.CR · cs.AI· cs.LG

Toward Principled LLM Safety Testing: Solving the Jailbreak Oracle Problem

Shuyi Lin , Anshuman Suri , Alina Oprea , Cheng Tan This is my paper

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keywords LLM safety testingjailbreak oracleadversarial searchmodel certificationred teamingsafety evaluationsearch strategyvulnerability assessment
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Boa solves the jailbreak oracle problem to enable rigorous testing of LLM vulnerabilities.

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The paper seeks to close the gap in systematic assessment of LLM vulnerability to jailbreak attacks by introducing the jailbreak oracle problem. This problem asks, for a given model, prompt, and decoding strategy, whether a jailbreak response can be produced with likelihood above a chosen threshold. A sympathetic reader would care because LLMs now appear in safety-critical applications where undetected jailbreaks create real operational risks. To address the exponential growth of the response search space, the authors build Boa, a system that begins with breadth-first sampling to locate easy jailbreaks and then shifts to depth-first priority search guided by fine-grained safety scores to pursue harder paths. If the approach holds, it would support standardized attack comparisons, defense evaluations, and model certification under strong adversarial conditions.

Core claim

The authors define the jailbreak oracle problem as the task of deciding, given a model, prompt, and decoding strategy, whether any jailbreak response can be generated with probability above a stated threshold. They present Boa as the first system built to solve this problem through a two-phase search: breadth-first sampling to discover readily accessible jailbreaks, followed by depth-first priority search that uses fine-grained safety scores to explore promising low-probability paths. Boa thereby supports rigorous security assessments, systematic defense evaluation, standardized comparison of red team attacks, and model certification under extreme adversarial conditions.

What carries the argument

The jailbreak oracle problem, which decides whether a jailbreak response exceeds a likelihood threshold for given model, prompt, and strategy, carried by Boa's two-phase search that first samples broadly then prioritizes paths using safety scores.

Load-bearing premise

The two-phase search strategy can systematically explore the exponentially growing response space without missing low-probability but high-impact jailbreak paths.

What would settle it

A known high-probability jailbreak that Boa fails to discover even after allocating substantial search budget, while a different exhaustive or alternative search method succeeds on the same prompt.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.17299 by Alina Oprea, Anshuman Suri, Cheng Tan, Shuyi Lin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: System diagram for BOA. (a) We begin by collecting a block-list of tokens that commonly appear in model refusals. (b) We use random sampling for a breadth-first exploration of possible jailbreak generations. (c) Finally, we use priority search for a depth-first exploration of possible generation paths, guided by a jailbreak scoring function. Definition 1 (n-Token Response Likelihood). Let R≥n be the set of… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds) for Llama 3 (8B) for various decoding strategies. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds) for Llama 3.1 (8B) for decoding strategies and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds), for default decoding strategies for (a) Llama 3.1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Search time per query (column) for various decoding strategies (rows) for Llama 3.1 (8B), for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds) for Vicuna 1.5 (7B) for decoding strategies and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds) for Llama 2 (7B) for decoding strategies and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Attack Success Rate (%) as a function of time-budget (seconds) for Llama 3.1 (8B) for decoding strategies and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Exact judger prompt used for Jˆ. We use Qwen2.5-Instruct (3B) [50] as the backbone LLM for the judger. 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_11.png] view at source ↗
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As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, the lack of systematic methods to assess their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks presents a critical security gap. We introduce the jailbreak oracle problem: given a model, prompt, and decoding strategy, determine whether a jailbreak response can be generated with likelihood exceeding a specified threshold. This formalization enables a principled study of jailbreak vulnerabilities. Answering the jailbreak oracle problem poses significant computational challenges, as the search space grows exponentially with response length. We present Boa, the first system designed for efficiently solving the jailbreak oracle problem. Boa employs a two-phase search strategy: (1) breadth-first sampling to identify easily accessible jailbreaks, followed by (2) depth-first priority search guided by fine-grained safety scores to systematically explore promising yet low-probability paths. Boa enables rigorous security assessments including systematic defense evaluation, standardized comparison of red team attacks, and model certification under extreme adversarial conditions. Code is available at https://github.com/shuyilinn/BOA/tree/mlsys2026ae

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper formalizes the jailbreak oracle problem: given an LLM, prompt, and decoding strategy, decide whether there exists a response sequence that satisfies a jailbreak predicate and has generation probability exceeding a user-specified threshold T. It presents Boa as the first system to address this, using a two-phase search consisting of breadth-first sampling to find accessible jailbreaks followed by depth-first priority search guided by fine-grained safety scores to explore the exponential response space. The work claims this enables systematic defense evaluation, standardized red-team comparisons, and model certification under extreme conditions, with code released.

Significance. If the search procedure is shown to be reliable, the formalization and Boa would provide a principled, reproducible framework for LLM safety assessment that moves beyond ad-hoc red-teaming. The public code release is a positive step toward reproducibility. However, the heuristic nature of the search limits its immediate applicability to certification claims.

major comments (2)
  1. The central claim that Boa solves the jailbreak oracle problem is undermined by the lack of completeness guarantees in the two-phase search. The depth-first priority search relies on fine-grained safety scores as a heuristic, but nothing ensures that every path whose total probability exceeds T will be visited; a high-impact jailbreak on a low-safety-score prefix can be deprioritized and missed, producing a false-negative oracle answer. This is load-bearing for the decision procedure.
  2. No empirical validation, error analysis, or comparison against exhaustive search or other baselines is described for the oracle decisions at scale. Without such evidence, it is unclear whether the breadth-first phase plus priority search actually recovers threshold-exceeding jailbreaks in practice or merely finds some easy cases.
minor comments (2)
  1. Clarify the exact definition and computation of the 'fine-grained safety scores' used to guide the priority queue, including whether they are monotonic or admissible with respect to the jailbreak predicate.
  2. The abstract states that Boa enables 'model certification under extreme adversarial conditions,' but the manuscript should explicitly discuss the conditions under which the heuristic search can be trusted for such certification versus when it remains a heuristic.

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We clarify the scope of Boa's contributions and plan revisions to address the concerns regarding completeness and empirical validation.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that Boa solves the jailbreak oracle problem is undermined by the lack of completeness guarantees in the two-phase search. The depth-first priority search relies on fine-grained safety scores as a heuristic, but nothing ensures that every path whose total probability exceeds T will be visited; a high-impact jailbreak on a low-safety-score prefix can be deprioritized and missed, producing a false-negative oracle answer. This is load-bearing for the decision procedure.

    Authors: We agree that Boa does not offer completeness guarantees, as it employs a heuristic guided by safety scores in the depth-first phase. This means there is a possibility of missing certain jailbreaks that exceed the probability threshold T if they are deprioritized. We view Boa as a practical tool for discovering jailbreaks rather than a complete decision procedure for the oracle problem. To address this, we will revise the manuscript to explicitly state the heuristic nature of the search and moderate claims about solving the oracle problem to emphasize efficient discovery in practice. We will also add a discussion on potential false negatives and their implications for safety assessment. revision: yes

  2. Referee: No empirical validation, error analysis, or comparison against exhaustive search or other baselines is described for the oracle decisions at scale. Without such evidence, it is unclear whether the breadth-first phase plus priority search actually recovers threshold-exceeding jailbreaks in practice or merely finds some easy cases.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for more rigorous empirical validation. The current experiments focus on demonstrating Boa's ability to find jailbreaks across different models, but we lack direct comparisons to exhaustive search (which is intractable at scale) or detailed error analysis for oracle accuracy. In the revised version, we will include an analysis on smaller-scale problems where exhaustive enumeration is possible to measure recall of threshold-exceeding paths, along with comparisons to baseline search methods like beam search or Monte Carlo sampling. This will provide evidence on the effectiveness of the two-phase approach. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: new formalization and heuristic search are independent of fitted inputs or self-citations

full rationale

The paper defines the jailbreak oracle problem as a new decision question (existence of a response sequence exceeding likelihood threshold T under the jailbreak predicate) and proposes Boa as a two-phase heuristic (breadth-first sampling then safety-score-guided depth-first search). No equations or claims reduce the central result to a fitted parameter renamed as prediction, nor to a self-citation chain that itself lacks independent verification. The search is explicitly heuristic without completeness guarantees, but this is a correctness limitation rather than circularity. The derivation chain is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not rely on load-bearing self-citations or ansatzes smuggled from prior author work.

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  • Jailbreak oracle no independent evidence
    purpose: Formal decision problem for determining existence of high-likelihood jailbreak responses
    Newly defined construct that frames the safety testing task

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