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Xiaokai Mao

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Preprint Jul 2026

How Jailbreak Attacks Inform Safety Alignment: A Defender-Centric, Shapley-Based Evaluation of Jailbreak Contributions

A defender-centric view of jailbreak evaluation is proposed, where attacks are evaluated by the downstream safety improvements they enable when used as red-teaming data for safety training, and A-MESS (Minimal Effective Attack-Subset Selection), a setting-agnostic framework for attributing and selecting jailbreak attacks from black-box subset utility observations is introduced.

Yukai Zhou, Feiyang Lu, Xiaokai Mao et al. · 0 citations