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PLAGUE claims that splitting a multi-turn jailbreak into Planner, Primer, and Finisher phases, plus a lifelong memory of successful strategies, drives StrongREJECT success to 81.4% on OpenAI's o3 and 67.3% on Claude Opus 4.1 within a six-ca

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load-bearing objection PLAGUE is a solid modular multi-turn attack framework whose headline lifelong-learning result is likely inflated by same-goal memorization; the rest of the engineering holds up better than the abstract claims. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2510.17947 v3 pith:OH2HPYYP submitted 2025-10-20 cs.CR cs.AIcs.CLcs.LGcs.MA

PLAGUE: Plug-and-play framework for Lifelong Adaptive Generation of Multi-turn Exploits

Neeladri Bhuiya , Madhav Aggarwal , Diptanshu Purwar This is my paper
classification cs.CR cs.AIcs.CLcs.LGcs.MA
keywords multi-turn jailbreakingred teaminglifelong learningLLM safetyadversarial promptingplanner-primer-finisherStrongREJECTHarmBench
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tries to establish that multi-turn jailbreaks of frontier LLMs can be built systematically, not as hand-written tricks. Its proposal, PLAGUE, divides an attack into three phases — planning the escalation, priming the conversation with benign but goal-relevant context, and finishing with the direct request — and adds a long-term memory that reuses successful plans for similar goals. The paper reports that this design raises StrongREJECT attack success from 58.7% to 81.4% on OpenAI's o3, from 48% to 67.3% on Claude Opus 4.1, and to 97.8% on DeepSeek-R1, all within the same six-call budget as existing attacks. The load-bearing idea is modularity: each phase can be swapped, and the phase-by-phase ablation shows monotonic gains from backtracking, reflection, planning, and strategy retrieval. A sympathetic reader would care because the result suggests that the weakness of frontier models in multi-turn interaction is not a matter of one clever prompt but a compositional, learnable attack structure.

Core claim

The central discovery claimed is that a lifelong-learning, three-phase decomposition is enough to outperform all tested multi-turn and single-turn attacks on several latest models. The mechanism is that the Planner retrieves semantically similar successful strategies from an embedding-indexed library and uses them as in-context examples; the Primer walks through all but the final step of the plan, with a Rubric Scorer scoring each turn and triggering backtracking and reflection when scores are low; the Finisher re-asks the original goal using either GOAT or Crescendo as a plug-in module, with backtracking when scores are very low, and stores successful strategies in memory. The paper argues

What carries the argument

The three-phase lifecycle (Planner, Primer, Finisher) plus the lifelong strategy library. The Planner turns a goal into an n-step escalation plan, seeded with up to two retrieved past strategies matched by cosine similarity of goal embeddings; the Primer removes the final step and walks the target through n-1 context-building turns, scoring each with a rubric (compliance, practicality, detail, relevance) and backtracking on low scores; the Finisher re-asks the actual goal with frozen context, reusing GOAT or Crescendo as a sub-module. The strategy library stores successful plans indexed by embedding and feeds them back as in-context examples, which is what makes the improvement lifelong.

Load-bearing premise

The reported success rates depend on the modified StrongREJECT scorer and the Qwen3 judge being accurate measures of harmfulness; if an independent human-normalized judge or the unmodified StrongREJECT prompt were used, the absolute rates could shift materially even if the ordering of methods held.

What would settle it

Re-evaluate the exact attack transcripts with the unmodified StrongREJECT prompt and with human annotators labeling each final response as 'answers goal', 'refuses', or 'evades'. If human-normalized success on o3 drops near GOAT's level (or below ~60%) or the gap between PLAGUE and Crescendo/GOAT on Opus 4.1 closes, the central claim fails. A complementary check is to swap the evaluator for a different model family (e.g., GPT-4.1 or Claude rather than Qwen3) and see whether the 30+% relative improvement persists.

Watch this falsifier — get emailed when new claim-graph text bears on it.

If this is right

  • If PLAGUE's central claim is right, state-of-the-art frontier models remain jailbreakable in multi-turn settings at 81%-98% success under a six-call budget, so safety evaluations that only test single turns miss a large vulnerability surface.
  • The monotonic ablation curve implies that backtracking, reflection, planning, and strategy retrieval each make an independent, additive contribution; model-specific ordering (e.g., reflection biggest for o3, backtracking for Opus 4.1) gives red teams a recipe for prioritizing defenses.
  • The plug-and-play result implies that existing attacks can be upgraded by wrapping them in PLAGUE's phases: swapping GOAT for Crescendo as the Finisher turns a 48% Claude Opus 4.1 ASR into 67.3%, so the phase decomposition itself, not any single attack, is the portable asset.
  • The strategy-retrieval result implies that cross-goal transfer works through semantic goal similarity, so a small library of successful strategies is enough to seed attacks on new, similar goals without retraining.
  • The efficiency numbers imply that the added Planner costs one attacker call and does not increase the target-LLM budget relative to Crescendo, so the gains do not come from brute-force querying.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural extension the paper does not explore is online selection of the Finisher module: using the rubric score from the first Finisher call to choose between GOAT-style and Crescendo-style follow-ups. The paper's own Opus numbers (GOAT finisher 46.5% vs Crescendo finisher 67.3%) suggest an adaptive switch could beat either fixed choice.
  • The claim that strategy similarity should be indexed by goal embedding rather than response similarity is a design choice the paper supports only indirectly; a direct test would measure ASR when the memory contains strategies from unrelated categories and see whether retrieval quality degrades.
  • If the framework generalizes as claimed, the same Planner-Primer-Finisher decomposition could be repurposed for other agentic tasks beyond jailbreaks — e.g., eliciting coordinated multi-step misbehavior in tool-using agents — but the paper does not test that.
  • The modified StrongREJECT prompt means the headline SRE numbers should not be read as standard StrongREJECT; the paper's relative ordering and ablations are the stronger evidence, and absolute values are likely to shift under a strict judge.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. PLAGUE proposes a modular, plug-and-play framework for generating multi-turn jailbreak attacks. It decomposes an attack into a Planner (with lifelong strategy retrieval), a Primer (stepwise context building with backtracking), and a Finisher (goal-directed query generation; GOAT or Crescendo can be plugged in). The paper reports SRE/N-ASR on HarmBench across five frontier models, claiming state-of-the-art results, including 81.4% SRE on OpenAI o3 and 67.3% on Claude Opus 4.1, with ablations showing monotonic gains as backtracking, reflection, planning, and strategy retrieval are added. The authors also report budget counts and a diversity analysis, arguing that the modular design is the source of the improvement.

Significance. The framework's modular decomposition is a useful organizing principle for multi-turn red-teaming, and the plug-and-play integration of existing attacks plus the budget accounting in Table 5 are valuable contributions. The ablation table gives a clear picture of which components matter for different target models. If the evaluation were independently validated, the approach would be a meaningful step for automated multi-turn safety testing. However, the current evaluation has two serious threats to validity: the lifelong-memory retrieval may be memorizing same-goal attacks, and the judge model is the same family that provides per-turn feedback to the attacker. These issues must be addressed before the headline claims can be accepted.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3.3.1, Algorithm 3, §4] The lifelong-memory component is the main novelty, but the evaluation does not rule out same-goal memorization. The memory stores the exact successful question set per goal (Algorithm 3), retrieval is by cosine similarity to the current goal embedding, and all experiments repeat the same 200 HarmBench goals over three runs with no memory reset or held-out split. By run 2, the retriever can return the exact attack that already succeeded on the same goal in run 1. The RSS row in Table 3 (o3: 0.773→0.814; Opus 4.1: 0.431→0.465) may therefore reflect memorization rather than cross-goal lifelong adaptation. Please rerun with a fresh memory per run or a held-out goal split and report the RSS gain under those conditions.
  2. [§3.2, §4, §C.1] The evaluation is circular in a load-bearing way. The Rubric Scorer R that provides per-turn feedback to the Attacker is Qwen3-235B-A22B-fp8, and the final Evaluator J is the same model family (Section 4). The attack therefore optimizes against the same judge that produces the reported scores, and the ASR@K procedure selects the turn with the highest R score. Additionally, the StrongReject prompt is modified to 'increase its sensitivity, favoring an aligned response' (Section C.1), so the reported SRE is not directly comparable to standard StrongReject values from other papers. Please report results with an independent judge family (or a human-normalized subset) and with the unmodified StrongReject prompt, at least for the main Table 2 comparisons.
  3. [Abstract, §5.1, Tables 2 and 4] The claim of 'improving attack success rates (ASR) by more than 30% across leading models' is not supported by the data. Compared to the best baseline per model: Deepseek-R1 is 0.978 vs 0.978 (0%), Llama 3.3 is 0.958 vs 0.950 (+0.8%), o1 is 0.931 vs 0.798 (+16.7%). Only o3 (0.814 vs 0.587, +38.7%) and Opus 4.1 with the Crescendo finisher (0.673 vs 0.480, +40.2%) exceed 30%. Please qualify the claim to specify the models/settings for which the 30% improvement holds, or correct the abstract.
  4. [§4, Table 2] Three-run averages are reported without variance, and the GOAT baseline is run in a modified configuration (no history, early stopping) justified only by an 'extensive ablation' that is not shown. For differences as small as the Llama 3.3 and Deepseek-R1 rows, the absence of standard deviations or per-run values makes it impossible to assess whether the reported margins are significant. Please include variance or per-run scores and provide the GOAT ablation, or use the official GOAT configuration as a baseline.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Algorithms 2 and 3] Algorithm 2 line 10 says Evaluator J receives q_round; Algorithm 3 line 7 says J receives GOAL. Make the inputs to the evaluator consistent across phases.
  2. [§4] Typo: 'similar to P ass@K' should be 'Pass@K'. Also 'All our findings are simulated under controlled budgets' likely should be 'evaluated' rather than 'simulated'.
  3. [§7] The ethics statement says the attack framework, prompts, and evaluation code are 'fully available', but no repository link or release details appear in the manuscript. Please add the link.
  4. [Figure 3] Figure 3 shows x-axis values 2, 4, 6, 8, while the paper states a six-turn budget for all comparisons. Clarify whether the eight-turn point is a separate budget setting.
  5. [Table 5] Minor formatting inconsistency: 'Plague (Crescendo)' is capitalized differently from 'PLAGUE' elsewhere.

Circularity Check

2 steps flagged

RSS/lifelong-learning gain reduces to same-goal memorization; final judge is the same model family that steers the attack.

specific steps
  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 3.5 "Lifelong Learning" and Section 4 "Attack Parameters"; Table 3 RSS row]
    "If the attack is successful, the planning strategy is appended to R{+}. We store the strategy name, definition and the exact set of questions from Ht that led to the jailbreak. ... By providing the planner with the exact steps that worked for an identical question, the planner is able to evolve and improve."

    The memory bank is populated with the exact successful multi-turn attack for each evaluation goal, and the same 200 HarmBench goals are reused across the three averaged runs (Section 4: 'Our scores are averaged over three runs') with no described reset or held-out split. A cosine-similarity threshold of 0.6 can retrieve the stored attack for the identical goal on later runs, so the Table 3 RSS increment (o3 SRE 0.773->0.814; Opus 4.1 0.431->0.465) measures memorization of previously solved goals, not cross-goal lifelong generalization. The claimed lifelong-learning improvement is forced by the evaluation protocol rather than demonstrated.

  2. other [Sections 3.2, 4 (Models), Appendix C.1]
    "Feedback from R is directly fed into the Attacker to reflect upon the previous round. ... We use Qwen3-235B-A22B-fp8 as our Evaluator Model ... To emphasize alignment with the attack objective, we modify the original prompt and increase its sensitivity, favoring an aligned response."

    The per-turn Rubric Scorer R provides the feedback that shapes the attacker's next query, and the final ASR is judged by the same Qwen3-235B-A22B-fp8 model (the only evaluator model named), using a StrongReject prompt deliberately modified to be more lenient. The attack is therefore optimized against the very judge that later scores it, so the headline SRE partially measures self-consistency with that judge rather than independently established harmfulness. This is an evaluation-circularity component rather than a derivation step.

full rationale

This is an empirical attack paper, not a formal derivation, so most of the framework is not circular: the Planner/Primer/Finisher decomposition, reflection, and backtracking ablations are self-contained and can be assessed without the memory module. The principal circularity is the lifelong-memory evaluation: successful strategies are stored for each HarmBench goal and the same goals are reused without an explicit memory reset, so Table 3's RSS improvement is by construction a same-goal memorization effect rather than evidence of lifelong generalization. A secondary, moderate circularity is the evaluator design: the Qwen3-235B model both gives the per-turn feedback the attack optimizes and produces the final StrongReject-based score, and the StrongReject prompt was modified to be more lenient. Non-circular but notable evaluation-quality limitations include the unshown 'extensive ablation' for GOAT's modified configuration and the absence of variance for three-run averages. I do not find any load-bearing self-citation chains or imported uniqueness results. Because the central 'lifelong learning' claim is compromised by the memory protocol while other components retain independent content, the circularity score is 6.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

7 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

No new physical or conceptual entities are postulated. The strategy memory bank, Rubric Scorer, and phase modules are software components built from cited prior-work mechanisms (GOAT library, Reflexion scoring, AutoDAN-Turbo memory), not independent postulates. The central added value is a hyperparameter-laden evaluation protocol, hence the seven free parameters listed above; the attack's success depends on hand-set thresholds that gate conversation state, plan length, retrieval, and the final verdict.

free parameters (7)
  • Rubric success/backtracking thresholds = 7/10 (Primer), 3/10 (Finisher backtrack), 8/10 (success)
    Hand-set thresholds determine which turns are kept, which are retried, and when the attack stops; they define success during the run. Sections 3.4-3.5.
  • Strategy retrieval similarity threshold = 0.6
    Cosine-similarity cutoff for retrieving stored strategies; no sensitivity analysis. Section 3.3.1.
  • Number of in-context strategy examples = max 2
    Cap on ICL examples in the Planner; hand-chosen. Section 3.3.1.
  • Planner plan length = 2 steps
    'We find this to be the best-performing setting for our attack' — tuned on the evaluation benchmark itself. Section 4.
  • ASR@K attempts = K=2
    Best-of-2 selection per goal inflates success relative to a single attempt (consistent across baselines, but it is a choice). Section 4.
  • Rubric category weights = Relevance 4; Compliance, Practicality, Level of detail 2 each
    Hand-designed scoring weights for the feedback loop. Section 3.2.
  • StrongReject sensitivity modification = Intentional leniency ('increase its sensitivity, favoring an aligned response')
    The reported SRE is a deliberately modified metric, so absolute ASR is not comparable to standard StrongReject. Section C.1.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption LLM-as-judge validity: Qwen3-235B rubric and StrongReject judgments measure actual jailbreak harmfulness.
    All success numbers are judge outputs; the attack also optimizes against the same model family. Sections 3.2, 4, C.1.
  • domain assumption API statelessness: deleting a turn from the target's conversation history (backtracking) truly erases it from the target's effective context.
    Backtracking effectiveness relies on the Target LLM not remembering removed turns. Section 3.4, Algorithm 2.
  • domain assumption Semantic transfer: cosine similarity of goal embeddings by Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B identifies strategies that transfer across goals.
    Retrieval quality underpins the lifelong-learning gains. Section 3.3.1.
  • domain assumption A six-turn budget is a fair capacity for all compared attacks.
    Budget cap shapes all results; longer budgets could change ordering (the paper shows a plateau at six turns, Figure 3). Sections 4, 5.3.
  • standard math Standard ML/embedding mathematics (cosine similarity, MiniLMv2 embeddings) behaves as expected.
    Used in retrieval and diversity computation (Eq. 1). Sections 3.3.1, C.2.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are improving at an exceptional rate. With the advent of agentic workflows, multi-turn dialogue has become the de facto mode of interaction with LLMs for completing long and complex tasks. While LLM capabilities continue to improve, they remain increasingly susceptible to jailbreaking, especially in multi-turn scenarios where harmful intent can be subtly injected across the conversation to produce nefarious outcomes. While single-turn attacks have been extensively explored, adaptability, efficiency and effectiveness continue to remain key challenges for their multi-turn counterparts. To address these gaps, we present PLAGUE, a novel plug-and-play framework for designing multi-turn attacks inspired by lifelong-learning agents. PLAGUE dissects the lifetime of a multi-turn attack into three carefully designed phases (Primer, Planner and Finisher) that enable a systematic and information-rich exploration of the multi-turn attack family. Evaluations show that red-teaming agents designed using PLAGUE achieve state-of-the-art jailbreaking results, improving attack success rates (ASR) by more than 30% across leading models in a lesser or comparable query budget. Particularly, PLAGUE enables an ASR (based on StrongReject) of 81.4% on OpenAI's o3 and 67.3% on Claude's Opus 4.1, two models that are considered highly resistant to jailbreaks in safety literature. Our work offers tools and insights to understand the importance of plan initialization, context optimization and lifelong learning in crafting multi-turn attacks for a comprehensive model vulnerability evaluation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2510.17947 by Diptanshu Purwar, Madhav Aggarwal, Neeladri Bhuiya.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: PLAGUE Framework: Three-phase method with a: 1) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Performance across threat categories: PLAGUE outperforms the strongest attack based on our ASR results across categories, demonstrating its effectiveness across diverse attack scenarios [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: PLAGUE scales linearly with the number of conversation turns until it plateaus at six rounds. Attack Success Rate - SRE. 5.3 ATTACK EFFICIENCY We conduct experiments to assess the efficiency of our attack in terms of the number of calls to the Target LLM, Evaluator LLM and the number of calls made during the Planner phase. It is important to note that the total Target LLM invocations are limited to six and… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Ablation on Attack Diversity: Diversity improves significantly using the ActorBreaker plan creation module without a strategy library. We average diversity over all models for the settings reported in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_4.png] view at source ↗

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