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Scaling the Strategy Wall: Efficient Jailbreaking of LLMs via Component-Based Multi-Objective Optimization
Computers, Materials & Continua 2026, 88(3): 43
Published: 23 July 2026
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Background

Jailbreak attacks, which use crafted prompts to bypass safety alignments of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generate harmful content, pose a significant security threat. Existing methods often optimize for a single objective (e.g., attack success rate), neglecting critical factors like query efficiency, which limits their practicality and generalization.

Methods

We propose a Componentized Multi-Objective Optimization Framework (CMOOF), which introduces a paradigm shift: it searches for generalizable and query-efficient attack strategy templates within a structured, component-based strategy space. CMOOF leverages the NSGA-II algorithm to explicitly co-optimize two first-class objectives: Attack Success Rate (ASR) and Query Efficiency, thereby discovering their Pareto-optimal trade-off frontier.

Results

Experiments on benchmark datasets show significant improvements, with the highest jailbreak success rate reaching 98.75% on models like Llama3, and query efficiency surpassing baselines.

Conclusions

CMOOF redefines jailbreak optimization from instance-level prompt crafting to strategy-level template discovery. The work provides an efficient, scalable, and generalizable jailbreak solution, and the framework offers broader insights for automated red teaming and LLM security defense.

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