JailbreakOPT: Tool-Assisted Iterative Jailbreak Prompt Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11425v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:22:29 GMT
• Title: JailbreakOPT: Tool-Assisted Iterative Jailbreak Prompt Optimization
• Abstract summary: JailbreakOPT is a tool-assisted framework for improving iterative single-turn jailbreak prompt optimization.<n>JailbreakOPT organizes diverse atomic jailbreak prompts into an attack tool library and composes them through a unified intra-episode optimization abstraction.<n> Experiments show that JailbreakOPT improves attack success rate (ASR) while reducing the number of attacks until success (No.A) compared with atomic single-turn attacks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Jailbreak attacks expose persistent safety weaknesses in large language models (LLMs), but existing stateless single-turn methods face a trade-off: hand-crafted prompts are expressive but static, while iterative prompt optimization can adapt but often relies on low-level mutations that require many target queries. We propose JailbreakOPT, a tool-assisted framework for improving iterative single-turn jailbreak prompt optimization. JailbreakOPT organizes diverse atomic jailbreak prompts into an attack tool library and composes them through a unified intra-episode optimization abstraction to generate stronger standalone attack prompts. To reuse experience across attack episodes, JailbreakOPT further frames tool selection as a contextual bandit problem and applies contextual Thompson sampling to guide exploration and exploitation based on past outcomes. Experiments across multiple target LLMs and attack goals show that JailbreakOPT improves attack success rate (ASR) while reducing the number of attacks until success (No.A) compared with atomic single-turn attacks and existing iterative optimization baselines. This paper may contain offensive or harmful content.

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