Semantic reconstruction game makes jailbreak evaluation more reliable across judges

A training-free evaluator that reconstructs the request behind a response and compares it against decoys reduces false positives and cuts reported attack success rate variation from 82 to 12 percentage points on one attack.

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Liam Davis · Romain Emil-Popescu · Suman Jana

Amherst College · Columbia University

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The authors introduce a semantic reconstruction game that evaluates jailbreak success by inferring what request a response actually answers, then comparing that reconstruction against decoy requests.

Jailbreak attacks on LLMs are usually scored by attack success rate (ASR), relying on refusal-phrase matching or LLM judges.

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From Columbia University and Amherst College

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The semantic reconstruction game reduces evaluator bias in jailbreak attack success measurement.

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