airline-jailbreak-4b

airline-jailbreak-4b

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Trained on simulated jailbreaks, tested on real ones. An airline support agent that stays in role under attacks it has never seen. On 165 unseen attacks from elder-plinius/L1B3RT4S, a public jailbreak library, it holds role 86.7% of the time against the base model's 74.5%.

That corpus was read to derive the attack grammar and never trained on: it is already in pretraining and it is static while attackers iterate, so training on it would measure memorisation. 17 techniques were extracted, 660 fresh payloads simulated from them, 567 used as training rows, and the evaluation is the real corpus with zero overlap.

Results

Fixed prompts, greedy decoding, one vLLM process serving base and adapter.

Delta +0.121, 95% CI [+0.067, +0.176]. 22 payloads improved, 2 regressed, 141 unchanged, sign test one-sided p = 1.8e-05. At 165 payloads this eval resolves +0.055 or larger.

Graded in code: a broken role means a divider string, three or more leetspeak tokens, or a liberation-persona marker appeared. No judge.

What it was taught

To stay in role and still help, not to refuse more. A model trained only to refuse is the over-refusal failure wearing a safety label (RLHF Book ch. 14).

The training attacks are written clean

No profanity, slurs, sexual or violent content in the generated attacks, enforced by a filter that refuses to write the dataset otherwise. The techniques under test do not need coarse language and removing it cost nothing: the result moved from +0.115 to +0.121. The held-out REAL payloads are reproduced verbatim from the public source and do contain it, because altering them would change what is measured.

Honest limitations

• 13.3% of real payloads still break it.
• User-turn jailbreaks only. Tool-output injection is a different surface and is untested here.
• The grader detects the tells these attacks demand; an attack that succeeds without emitting one would not be counted.
• No random-selection control (ch. 9). Rows were kept when the teacher held role, which is a filter.
• Self-distilled: the teacher was the same base model with a defence in its prompt. The constitution does the work, not a stronger model.

Training

LoRA rank 16, alpha 32, two epochs, lr 1e-4, bf16, 567 rows.

Data, the real-payload holdout, both eval arms and the grader: airline-resist-jailbreaks.