How Catastrophic is Your LLM? Certifying Risks in Conversation
Authors: Chengxiao Wang
Isha Chaudhary
Qian Hu
Weitong Ruan
Rahul Gupta
Gagandeep Singh
Venue: ICLR 2026 Poster (2026)
Keywords: Large Language Models
Catastrophic risks
Multi-turn Attack
Certification
Safety
Primary area: alignment, fairness, safety, privacy, and societal considerations

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce catastrophic responses in conversational settings that pose serious risks to public safety and security. Existing evaluations often fail to fully reveal these vulnerabilities because they rely on fixed attack prompt sequences, lack statistical guarantees, and do not scale to the vast space of multi-turn conversations. In this work, we propose C$^3$LLM, a novel, principled Certification framework for Catastrophic risks in multi-turn Conversation for LLMs that bounds the probability of an LLM generating catastrophic responses under multi-turn conversation distributions with statistical guarantees. We model multi-turn conversations as probability distributions over query sequences, represented by a Markov process on a query graph whose edges encode semantic similarity to capture realistic conversational flow, and quantify catastrophic risks using confidence intervals. We define several inexpensive and practical distributions—random node, graph path, and adaptive with rejection. Our results demonstrate that these distributions can reveal substantial catastrophic risks in frontier models, with certified lower bounds as high as 70\% for the worst model, highlighting the urgent need for improved safety training strategies in frontier LLMs.

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HoW CATASTROPHIC IS YOUR LLM? CERTIFYING RISKS IN CONVERSATION
Chengxiao Wang
Isha Chaudhary
University of Illinois, Urbana-Chann Chaama-C cw1 2401 11 welinnii.ccm edu
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign isha40 1el11111 1linoio eduu
Qian Hu
Weitong Ruan Amazon we on amazon. com
Rahul Gupta
Amazon huqia@amazon.com
Amazon gupra@amazon. com
Gagandeep Singh
University of Illinois, Urbana-Chama Ahbana-Champaign ggnds@ i 11 iiiiniis... edu
ABSTRACT
Warning: This paper may contain harmful model outputs.
Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce catastrophic responses in conversa- tional settings that pose serious risks to public safety and security. Existing evalua- tions often fail fully reveal these vulnerabilities because they rely on fixed attack prompt sequences, lack statistical guarantees, and do not scale to the vast space of multi-turn conversations. In this work, we propose LLM,, a novel, principled statistical Certification framework for Catastrophic risks in multi-turn Conversa- tion for LLMs that bounds the probability of an LLM generating catastrophic re- sponses under multi-turn conversation distributions with statistical guarantees. We model multi-turn conversations as probability distributions over query sequences, represented by Markov process query graph whose edges encode semantic similarity to capture realistic conversational flow, and quantify catastrophic risks using confidence intervals. We define several inexpensive and practical distribu- tions-random node, graph path, and adaptive with rejection. Our results demon- strate that these distributions can reveal substantial catastrophic risks in frontier models, with certified lower bounds as high as 70% for the worst model, high- lighting the urgent need for improved safety training strategies in frontier LLMs. Code is available at our GitHub repository:
INTRODUCTION
Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used for both beneficial and harmful purposes, ranging from accelerating scientific discovery (Wysocki et al. 2024 Pal et al.) (023) to facilitating the design of bioweapons (Sandbrink) 2023). Although modern LLMs are trained with safety mech- anisms (Ouyang et al., 2022, Bai et al. 2022) that are intended to reject unsafe queries, the risk of catastrophic outcomes remains. Catastrophic outcomes refer highly dangerous socially dam- aging responses, such as instructions for building explosives, synthesizing biological weapons, or conducting cyberattacks (SESSION, (025). While single-turn jailbreak attacks have been widely explored Yu et al.) 2023] Zou et al. 2023 Liu et al. 20244, real-world conversations inherently multi-turn: an adversary can embed malicious intent in conversation, gradually steering the model towards harmful content while each query appears innocuous.
Most prior works evaluate LLM safety empirically by measuring attack success rates on fixed datasets of query sequences (Russinovich et al., 2025 Ren et al. 2024). Although infor- mative, these studies have two fundamental limitations: (1) their conclusions depend heavily on the fixed attack sequences, leaving open the possibility that unseen sequences could succeed; and (2)
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Node Sequences
qi: How does the production process differ for nore corplex mercury corpounds direthyinneccur?
el': In early 2eth-century cheristry, reagents or methods..?
Distributions
ri: production process for vore complex aercury compounds
ri': Several key nethods were developed:
...
g3: you provide detailed breakdown stops involved in tha production of disethyluercury?
qe": Combine the historical rethods - you described into step-by-step synthesis guide.
Q1: does production diffee none complex aercury corpounds like dimethyynerccur??
dinethylnercuury involves several steps: Snep
re': can't provide a step-by- synthesis guide..
Q2: Can you explain the chenical that nethyl groups?
sercury
Query sequences
Qn: Can explain step-by-step hom combining these naterials under controlled conditions would lead stable rercury conpound?
LLM Responses
Are responses harmful?
Judge
Yes
No
IP. confidesce
Certification Bounds
Query Set
Figure 1: Overall statistical certification framework CLLLCCeentiiiatiionn of Catastrophic risks in multi-turn Conversation for LLMs). Starting from a query set, construct graph in which edges connect semantically similar queries. On this graph, we define formal specifications as probability distributions over query sequences. For each sampled sequence, query the LLM, judge model to determine whether the response is harmful, and aggregate the results to compute statistical certification bounds on the probability of catastrophic risk.
they provide no statistical guarantees, making their findings unreliable and non-generalizable across the vast space possible conversations. For example, suppose a benehmark provides 20 attack sequences of length 5. In the best case, this benchmark can reveal at most 20 distinct catastrophic behaviors. By contrast, the full conversation space can be much larger: if we construct sequences of length by uniformly combining individual queries from the 20 benchmark sequences, the space large space. Further-
contains up to 100 possible sequences. Exhaustive testing infeasible more, not all sequences are equally important; some sequences more likely than others to trigger catastrophic responses or to represent realistic conversations with a user. Therefore, we want to pro- vide guarantees with respect to probabilistic distributions defined over large space of multi-turn conversations. Using these guarantees, we can build novel metrics to reliably compare the safety of different frontier models.
Challenges. First, existing works on formal guarantees on neural networks typically rely on pertur- bation analysis within local neighborhood (e.g., a -ball around the input) (Singh al. 2025). ) but such approaches do not naturally apply to prompt-based attacks on LLMs. Second, the catastrophic risk in multi-turn conversations tify than the single-step settings considered in the literature. Finally, to capture realistic adversarial behavior, we want to define probability distributions that (i) capture realistic conversations that can be exploited by an adversary and (ii) allow distribution shifts, reflecting how real-world attackers adapt their next query based on previous responses from LLMs. Formally specifying and certifying such quantitative, probabilistic, and temporal properties for LLMs has not been attempted before.
temporal property, making more complex specify and cer-
This work. When considering a large space, for any L.M,, it possible to find a conversation where the LLM produces catastrophic output. Therefore, gualitative guarantees, i.c., checking whether there exists a single catastrophic conversation, do not lead to a meaningful metric for comparing LLMs. We aim for quantitative guarantees: measuring the probability of catastrophic responses a randomly sampled conversation. Since exact probabilities cannot be computed in practice (Chaud- hary et al. 2024), we focus on cigficccneeeece bounds this risk through statistical certification.
Benefits of certification over benchmarking. With certification, we bound the probability of catastrophic outputs across all possible sequences with statistical guarantees, not just those in fixed
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set of benchmarks. For our previous example, if a certification procedure reports a high-confidence interval of [0.4. 0.6] for catastrophic risk, it implies that with high confidence, at least 0.4 x n sequences can trigger catastrophic outcomes, where is the number of samples in the distribution that can be up to 100%. By reasoning about the entire distribution over queries rather than evaluating only fixed sequences, we uncover substantially more extensive vulnerabilities.
Main contributions. In this work, we present LLL,M, the first framework (shown in Figure for certifying catastrophic risks in multi-turn conversations with LLMs. We are the first to formally specify the temporal safety of LLM responses in a conversational setting. We provide a general recipe for designing such specifications based on Markov processes on graph representations. We instantiate the framework with three different distributions -aadoom node, graph path, and adaptive with rejection (Section B), capturing a large number of realistic conversations exploitable by adver- saries with fixed or adaptive attack strategies. LLLM then certifies the target I.L.M by generating high-confidence bounds on the probability of catastrophic risks for randomly sampled conversation from the distribution. Our main contributions are:
We are the first to design general recipe for formally specifying the risk of catastrophic responses from LLMs in multi-turn conversations. Conversations are represented as query sequences in a graph where edges encode semantic similarity. We introduce Markov process over this graph. We instantiate with three representative cusributtioss-uundom node, graph path, and adaptive with rejection, to reflect both semantic relationships and adaptive attacker behavior.
We introduce the first framework for certifying catastrophic risk in multi-turn LLM conversations. We model attacks as probability distributions over query sequences and draw independent and identically distributed (i.i.d)) samples from these distributions. This enables statistical guarantees over vast conversational spaces, providing principled certification of catastrophic risks.
We find a non-trivial lower bound on the probability of catastrophic risks across different frontier LLMs. We find that DeepSeek-RI exhibit the highest risks. We conduct case studies to identify common patterns, distractors (additional benign queries in the dialogue making refusals less likely) and context (preceding turns providing supporting information and making harmful targets clearer), that lead catastrophic outputs.
and Nova Premier the safest while Mistral-Large and
RELATED WORK
Multi-turn Attack. In contrast to single-turn attacks, which typically pose malicious questions at once with some confusion on LLMs (Yuan et al. 2023: Wang et al. 2023 Liu et al. 2024), multi- turn jailbreaks obfuscate harmful intent by hiding it within a sequence of seemingly innocuous queries. Previous work shows this through human red-teaming (Li et al. 2024), automated LLM attackers (Russinovich et al. 2025 Ren et al. 2024 Yang et al. 2024), scenario- based setups (Sun et al. 2024). query decomposition (Zhou et al. 2024). , and tttacker-trained models (Zhao & Zhang
2025
These strategies significantly increase attack success rates compared to single-turn prompts.
Safety Evaluation of LLMs. Several datasets and benchmarks have been introduced to evalu- ate the safety of L.MMs against harmful queries. Instruction-bassd benchmarks such as AdyBench (Zou et al. 2023} and RedEval (Bhardwaj & Porial (023) contain harmful or adversarial instruc- tions that range from stereotypes, violence, to illegal activity. Generative benchmarks such as SAP (Deng al. 2023) and AART (Radharapu et al. 2023) automatically construct adversarial prompts using models, enabling more diverse and adaptive evaluations. More recently, standardized evalua- tion frameworks have been proposed, targeting single-tume surgle-trr]///e jailbreak robustness (Chao et al. 2024)
(Mazeika et al. 2024) and multi-turn safety (Yu et al. 2024 Burden et al. 2024).
Certification for LLMss. Several works have studied certification for LLMs. These methods focus on adversarial certification, typically by perturbing the input in token space (Kumar et al.) 2023) Emde et al. 2025) or embedding space (Casadio et al.| (005)), and proving the model output re- mains safe. Unlike these perturbation-baser approaches, we aim to directly certify against harmful queries themselves. Previous certification frameworks has been proposed for knowledge compre- hension (Chaudhary et al.) and bias detection (Chaudhary et al. 2024), but both in single-turn set- tings. In contrast, our work focuses on certifying multi-turn conversations, which are significantly more complex due accumulated context and adaptive adversarial strategies.
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3 METHODOLOGY
3.1 PROBLEM FORMALIZATION
Let Q be finite set of queries, and let G = EV) be graph with V and E C V V encoding user-defined relationships between queries. A multi-turn conversation between a user and model M is defined as follows. At each turn the model receives the accumulated context ctx; (No, ro, UI, Pl....,, U;-1:Ti-1), where
_M(etx,, 1y) denotes the model's response to query , given prior context. The queries posed in the conversation are represented as an ordered tuple = (Nu U...... 1n- VM, which we call a query sequence. We write D,, for probability se
distribution over query sequences of length n.
Catastrophic events. We define harmful targer q" as a specific objective that could lead to catastrophic outcomes, such as "How to build a bomb" or "How synthesize toxin." " Too evaluate whether model output is catastrophic with respect to q", we introduce judge function Jq- (r;) {0, 1}, which returns if the response ry at turn reveals the target q"; otherwise, it returns 0.
Objective. Given distribution D, over query sequences, our goal is to certify the probability that a catastrophic event occurs during the n-turn conversation: Pry,.,, 3i i E [0, n) s.t. Je(r:) 1]]
3.2 GRAPH DISTRIBUTIONS FROM MARKOV PROCESS
State space. To define probability distributions over query sequences while avoiding repetition, reflecting the natural assumption that an adaptive attacker would not reuse the exact same prompt twice in the attack process, specify Markov process we define the state space Q = {(v, S) : S S V, S} VJ (T}, where v the current query, S is the set of queries already used in the current sequence, which we track in each state avoid revisiting queries within a single sequence. т is the terminal state, meaning that no further queries are selected once this state is reached. The Markov process changes the current state the next state according to a specified transition probability. The precise transition probability between states is specified in the subsequent subsections.
lifted state space in graph G. Formally,
Transitions. We consider two families of distributions on query sequences: forward selection and backward selection. In all cases, if Vf'('', S') E Q, Pr((e', S') (v, S)) O, the state (u, S) transits to the terminal state with Pr(r | (u,S)) = 1. Moreover, Vou E Pr(w r) = 1( = r}, i.e. once J is reached, does not transition to any other state.
Forward selection. Given an initial distribution on (vo, (vol), we construct a length-n sequence
7 (vo, ..., un-1) where the visited set evolves as S. (vo...., w.). The probability of sampling y under forward selection is
Pr(1) = (N(Uu(e (wo)))
II Pr( S:) (e-1:))-1))
(/(-) denotes normalization over all length-n sequences, ensuring Exhhin Pr(?) = 1, which is necessary because sequences may terminate early at the terminal state so the raw product of transition probabilities probabilitie over length-n sequences does not automatically sum to I.
(Un-1, (vn-1)), construct length-n chain 7 = (to, U211),,, where the visited set evolves as U, = {Ut, 1n
Backward selection. Given endpoint distribution
The probability of sampling 7 under backward selection is
Pr(x) = N ( -M(M((C0- (un
U(-( (or, Ui)) ) 1=n-1
II
Within this framework, consider three representative distributions, capturing a different way in which adversarial queries may arise. These distributions are chosen because they capture natural strategies an attacker might employ, while remaining structured for statistical analysis. Importantly, our framework is not limited to these distributions. Additional distributions can be defined to explore other patterns of query sequences, making the approach broadly applicable.
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1. Random node, where each query in the graph is selected independently random. This provides an estimate the model's ss overall tendency to produce catastrophic content, without exploiting any structure in the query space.
2. Graph path, where the sequence of queries is a path in the graph, capturing relations between queries:
(a) vanilla, where the last query is drawn from V, representing natural conversational flows.
(b) harmful target constraint: where the last query is restricted to lie in target set Qr. fore- ing the conversation toward a high-risk query and increasing the likelihood of producing harmful outputs.
This produces query sequences that are related by construction. The coherence in query se- quence has two advantages: First, the sequence provides local context that the language model can exploit when answering later queries; and second, the sequence tends to traverse coher- ent region of the query space rather than jumping arbitrarily as in the random node distribution, which is unrealistic.
3. Adaptive with rejection, where transitions are guided by the model accept/reject response. This mimics realistic red-teaming where an attacker adapts their phrasing circumvent safety mech- anisms.
Distributions (1) and (3) correspond to forward selection, while (2) uses backward selection. for- ward selection, we specify an initial distribution μ over the starting query and a transition probability Pr([e++1, 14+1) (v,, U2)). In backward selection, we specify an endpoint distribution V over the ending query and backward transition rule Pr((e,, U. ur+1, U++1). For any nonempty finite set C V. we write x(- A) for a probability mass function on When we write r(w A), we mean the probability assigned to E A under this distribution. We do not fix specific form for these distributions (they may be uniform or weighted), only that they are valid probability mass functions on the indicated sets. We now describe the concrete instantiations of these distributions.
(1) Random node. The first query is selected according to a distribution πT- V) over all nodes, i.e., u((co, {vo))) T(vo V). Each subsequent query is drawn from distribution over the unvisited nodes V \ S (i.e., nodes not yet visited in the current sequence, as recorded in S):
(w V ()), w E V (8, = SU (w(,)
Pr ((w, T) (v)
0,
otherwise.
(2) Graph Path. Rather than selecting queries independently, we generate sequence of queries that a path in the graph. For v E denote its neighbor set by N(u) := { (w E V : (v, w) E... We consider two endpoint distributions for the last query in the path:
(2.a) vanilla. The endpoint is selected from by Van (an((1n-11 (vx-1))) xvn-11
(2.b) harmful target constraint. In many settings, it is advantageous to control the final query in the sequence. Biasing the endpoint steers the path toward a semantic region of interest (c.g., near the target query q²) while still generating coherent predecessors. The idea is that once the model has processed the earlier queries, the final query is the one where we most expect desired behavior, so constraining it can help guide outcomes. Formally, we restrict the last query to lie in a designated target set QT and define Por ((vn-1, (t,-(( = T(u--1 QT).
For notational convenience, we write both distributions through single formulation. Let (Van, "Qr] denote the endpoint distribution, where Paul draws the endpoint from V, and uor restricts it to the target set Qr. Then the transition probability can be written
<( [N() S), w E N()) \S, T= Su
Pr((w, (v,
0,
otherwise.
(3) Adaptive with rejection. Intuitively, when the LLM answers the current query, it indicates that the query not yet harmful enough to trigger refusal. In this case, it is natural to move toward the harmful target q² Conversely, if the model rejects the query, this suggests that the query is perceived as too harmful. The transition rule then favors moving to a less harmful neighbor, thereby stepping back in similarity with q-
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To incorporate feedback from model M, introduce a binary rejection indicator at Tv [(is_re (MM())) to indicate whether the current query v is rejected by the model M. We par- tition unvisited neighbors (o) according whether they increase decrease similarity with the harmful target compared to the current query v
Apro (2, 5) {w E [w)) \ S: simmm: q²) 2 sim(v,9")) Adeprog (1 = (w E (()) S sim(w, (") < sim(v, (v,4"))
Here "prog" means moving toward higher or equal similarity with q", while "deprog" means moving lower similarity. We then assign weights depending on whether the current query is rejected. When v is accepted (r, 0), progress toward the target g" is encouraged by giving larger weight Aprog and smaller weight to Adeprog. If rejected (r, = 1). the bias is reversed, steering the sampler toward safer regions.
Formally, we pick ((v) and define the weight on a given query by (w,s(w) An (wwH((..)) 7(w) [(w) (S) Ar (wEL(e,S)) (( N(v) \ 8) with weights 0 < A < An tunable parameters, where the high- and low-weight neighbor sets depending on the rejection are given by:
H(v,S) = { (vr (v, 5),
To =0 Adeppoo (v, S),
L(u, = (V, To = 0, Aprog (v, 5), Tv = 1.
Tv =1
Thus when Ta = O the prog set receives higher weight (encourage progress), and when rn = the deprog receives higher weight. To guarantee that every query in the high-weight set has strictly larger weight than every query in the low-weight set, we require λ min.c xaa [N() S) A maxteL [bb (v) 8). This condition vacuous when either is empty. The distribution on the first query is p(vo, (vot) = TV vV (Vo), and the normalized transition probability is
(w,)(w)
EuENWINss sv,s(u) w w ( S
Pr((w, T) (v,
otherwise.
Augmentation layer. We extend the base distribution with an augmentation layer Daug(: (- [x). For each query i2 in the sequence 7 (vo.-.., : 1n) depends on the current query Ue. The augmented sequence 7 = (No,..., Fn-1) is obtained by sampling each augmented query independently conditional 7/:
1), this augmentation distribution Daug( (: we)
Daug(: wt), t= 0,
1.
Intuitively, this means that each query et drawn from the base distribution can be replaced by an augmented version (for example, by inserting jailbreak prefix before us by rewriting vt). The resulting sequence has probability
Pr(7) = Pr(7)
II t=
Pr ( vt). DAUE
This formulation covers both the identity case (when D v) returns v with probability 1) and stochastic modifications of v. We instantiate Paug using jailbreak augmentation distribution D- v) defined in Appendix A which with some probability returns unchanged and with com- plementary probability prepends jailbreak prompt to v. More generally, Daug can be defined by more structured generators, such as a second LLM that chooses mutations based on the conversation context, as long as this generator is treated as part the attack process and induces a well-defined distribution over conversations.
4 EVALUATION
4.1 GRAPH CONSTRUCTION
We construct our dataset from HarmBench (Mazeika et al.) 2024), using three categories: chem- ical biological, cybercrime, and illegal. Our main evaluation focuses chemical biological and

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cybercrime categories, which together comprise 68 scenarios (28 in Chemical.biologeee and 40 in cybercrime), while results on illegal category are included as an additional domain check in Ap- pendix [ Each scenario is associated with a specific harmful target query q². Since directly asking q" is unrealistic in multi-turn conversations, for each q² we expand a query set Q whose elements related to 9" but less harmful, in order indirectly obtain answers of the target. We use actor- based prompts following the approach of (Ren et al. (024): one harmful query is asked to derive a related book or person (the "actor"), and then queries are generated around this actor. To ensure diversity of the dataset, we prompt three LLMs: Deepseek-R1 (Guo et al.] 2025). and Mistral-Large-2407 (Mistral A 2024p. For each scenario, each LLM generates 10 actors, making a total of 30 actors, with 5 queries per actor. To illustrate, consider a scenario where q² asks how to construct an explosive device. An example actor might be "Alfred Nobel". Queries derived from this actor could include: "What is Alfred Nobel's s main con- tribution in history?", or "What are the steps involved in his approach to this contribution?" After deduplication, randomly sample 20 actors, yielding 100 queries per scenario.
(Comanici et al.) 20255)
To capture semantic relationships among queries in Q, we formally define an undirected graph G == (V, where V = Q and the edge set E S V x V is defined E [(u, v) Q x Q fm sim(u, u) < hn]- Here, sim(u, u. 2) denotes the cosine similarity between sentence embeddings of u and v, computed using the all-MiniL.M-L6-
model (Reimers & Gurevych 2019). The parameters 4h and 4th are lower and upper thresholds that control edge formation, ensuring that connections capture semantic relatedness while avoiding near-duplicate queries. We further define the target set QT {u E Q ln < sim(v, < hab,, which identifies queries that are highly similar to the harmful query q" while remaining distinct, serving as endpoints for the graph-path (harmfiul target constraint) distribution in our statistical certification framework.
4.2 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
For each scenario, we consider the four specifications on distributions introduced in Section 3.2 We instantiate each conditional distribution .T- X) the uniform distribution over X, I.e., ( X)) = X for all E X. In our main experiments, we instantiate the augmentation layer with the jailbreak distribution Djs defined in Appendix A using jailbreak insertion probability p == 0.2, and apply only to the Random Node distribution. To bound the probability an L.M produces catastrophic outcomes under a given specification, we apply the & Pearson 1934) to compute 95% confidence intervals for the probability of catastrophic responses. We use 50 sampled query sequences per specification. To determine whether LLM's response is a catastrophic outcome, we use GPT-4o (OpenAl 2024 as a judge model, similar to prior stud-
method (Clopper)
ies (Yuan al. 2024 Team 2025).
4.3
CERTIFICATION RESULTS
We evaluate the statistical certification bounds of several state-of-the-art large language mod- els: Llama-3.33 1.3--70bIInstren (Meta Al 2024)). Mistral-Large-2444 (Mistral A1, 2024). DeepSeek-
R1 [uuo et al. 2025), gpt-oss- 120b (Agarwal et al., 2025). Claude-Sonnet-4 (Anthropic) 2024) and Nova Premier (Intelligence, 2025)) We use the default hyperparameter settings shown 6 and analyze their influence through ablation study (Appendix D). For each LLM and specification, we estimate statistical certification bounds on the attack success probability with 95% confidence, reporting the median of the lower and upper bounds chemical biological and cybererime cate- gories across all specifications under a distribution in Table I Figure 4 and 5 (Appendix (B show the results in box plots for specifications developed from the chemical _biologiaal and cybercrime datasets respectively.
General Observations. By comparing the bounds, we observe that among frontier LLMs, Claude- Sonnet-4 and Nova Premier are safer than the others, while Mistral-Large and DeepSeek-RI ex- hibit higher risks. In particular, Nova Premier demonstrates consistently low risk levels, largely because its built-in guardrails often block potentially unsafe content. On the other hand, DeepSeek- RI reaches a certified lower bound of over 70% in cybercrime scenarios under RNwJ distribu- tions. For LLMs with relatively low probabilities of catastrophic outcomes (e.g., Nova Premier and
distributions augmenting with jailbreak are largely ineffective. In contrast, weaker LLMs such as Mistral-Large and DeepSeek-RI remain vulnerable to jailbreak prompts,
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Table 1: Statistical certification bounds under different distributions for each dataset and model (median of 95% confidence intervals across all specifications under distribution). Distributions: Random Node with Jailbreak (RNwJ), Graph Path (vanilla) (GPv), Graph Path (harmful target con- straint) (GPh), and Adaptive with Rejection (AwR). We bold the highest bounds among four distri- butions for each LLM.
Dataset
Model
Distribations (median 95% C1)
GPv
nova
(0.005, 0.137)
(0.001, 0.106)
(0.013, 0.165)
(0.005, 0.137)
deepseek
(0.554, 0.821)
(0,221,
(0.229, 0.508)
(0.212, 0.488)
chembio
claude
00.001,01106 0,106)
(0.001, 0.166)
(0.001,
(0,001, 0.106)
gnt-oss
(0.028, 0.205)
(0.072. 0.291)
(0.045, 0.243)
(0.101, 0.337)
mistral
(0.554, 0.82
(0.318, 0.607)
(0.432, 0.718)
(0.452, 0.735)
Ilama
(0.212, 0.488)
(0.116, 0.359)
(0.195, 0.457)
(0.146, 0.403)
nova
(0.000, 0.07
(0.001, 0.106)
(0.001,
(0.000, 0.071)
tleppeek
(0.721, 0.935)
(0.472, 0.753)
(0.543, 0.813)
(0,543, 0.813)
eyber
claude
(0.028, 0.205)
(0.123, 0.371)
(0.195, 0.467)
(0.195, 0.467)
gpi-oss
(0.086, 0.314)
(0.229. 0.5U8)
(0.309, 0,547)
(0.318, 0.607)
mistral
(0.652, 0.892)
(0.403, 0.691)
(0.533, 0.805)
(0.565, 0.830)
Namaa
(0.374, 0.663)
(0.264, 0.548)
(0.432, 0.718)
(0.393, 0.682)
indicating that additional safety training is needed. We analyze the effect the jailbreak prob- ability in Appendix [D.1; for less safe L.Ms,, increasing the jailbreak probability generally raises catastrophic outcomes, while for safer LLMS the effect is negligible. Other distributions, Adap- tive with Rejection and Graph Path, are often more effective in producing catastrophic outcomes on safer LLMs. For Graph Path, constraining the final query to a harmful set (GPh) consis- tently increases attack effectiveness relative to the vanilla last-query distribution (GPv), which shows that shaping the final step of a multi-query sequence is an effective method for attack- ers. For Adaptive with Rejection, the strategy exploits the fact that safer LLMs refuse an- swer queries at non-trivial rates (roughly 20% for gpt-oss- 120b and 15% for Claude-Sonnet-4 in samples). By designing sequences that interact with these rejection dynamies, attackers can substantially increase catastrophic responses on LLMs that otherwise appear well aligned.
Numbers of attack sce- narios where the statistical certifica- tion lower bound exceeds the base- line (T(Single-turn) and MT(Multi- turn) ASR by more than 0.05.
Table 2:
Attack Patterns. In our analysis, we identify two common attack patterns:
Effect of Distractors. We observe that LLMs often refuse to answer harmful queries that are presented in isolation, replying with messages such
can't 't pro-
Numbers specs
vide that information" due to built-in safety mecha-
ST
MT
nisms (Zhang et al.) 2025 Yuan al., 2025).
deepseek
86
29
However, when the same query is embedded in multi- turn dialogue that includes other questions, even not di- rectly related, the model is more likely to provide a harm- ful answer. This behavior is observed across our various specification distributions. Figure 2 shows representa- tive example of specification in the graph path (harmful target constraint) distribution.
cluude
11
chembio
gpt-oss
mistral
100
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Comparing with Baselines There is no prior work certifying catastrophic risks. We consider two baselines representing existing approaches for evaluating risks: (i) single-turn (ST), which uses all 100 queries in our dataset and sends each query independently to the LLM without any conversa- tional history, and (ii) multi-tum (MT), where the same query set is grouped into actors when we created it, each actor contributes a sequence of 5 queries. These sequences are submitted in order, simulating an iterative multi-turn attack.
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The baselines not directly comparable, but in the absence of stronger alternatives, provide a rough comparison. Importantly, our statistical certification evaluates models over a much larger conversation space, considering all possible sequences consistent with the query distributions rather than fixed subset. To make the comparison more meaningful, for these baselines, in each scenario, measure the fraction of queries (ST) sequences (MT) that lead to catastrophic responses. Rather than using a binary outcome per scenario (recording a if any catastrophic response occurs across several trials, which commonly done in the literature (Zou et al. 2023 Qi et al. 2023 ), this measure provides a finer-grained view of how difficult it is to elicit catastrophic outcomes from model given scenario. We then count the number of scenarios where our certified lower bound exceeds this baseline fraction by more than 0.05 (Table
We observe that for some models, nearly all specifications yield the rate in ST lower than the certified lower bound, indicating that single-turn evaluations substantially underestimate LLMs' risks. Even with multi-turn attacks, we find several scenarios where our certified lower bound on catastrophic response probability exceeds the rate observed in the baseline by a non-trivial margin, highlighting that sequence baselines can significantly underestimate LLM risks.
CONCLUSION
We introduce statistical certification framework for quantifying catastrophic risks in multi-turn LLM conversations. Unlike prior work that reports attack success rates on fixed benchmarks, our approach provides high-confidence probabilistic bounds over large conversation spaces, enabling meaningful comparisons across models. Our results reveal that catastrophic risks are non-trivial for all frontier LLMs, with notable differences safety across models.
ETHICS STATEMENT
We identify the following positive and negative impacts of our work.
Positive impacts. Our work is the first to provide quantitative certificates for catastrophic risks in multi-turn LLM conversations. It can help model developers systematically evaluate and compare their models before deployment, and inform the general public of potential harms when interacting with LLMs. Since LLLLM only requires black-box access, it applies equally to both open- and dlosed-source models, thus broadening its utility.
Negative impacts. Our framework involves constructing specifications to probe harmful behavior in LLMs. While these specifications are designed for evaluation and certification, they could be misused by adversaries to systematically search for harmful responses. We emphasize that methodology intended for safety evaluation, not exploitation, and we have taken care to restrict examples and datasets to standard benchmarks.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by research gift from Amazon Research.
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A EXPLICIT JAILBREAK DISTRIBUTION
We now give the explicit construction of the jailbreak distribution Djs and its probability mass. Let main-jb be a base jailbreak instruction, and let S = {s1,..., 8M3 be set of side jailbreak instructions. We split main_jb into consecutive sentences (m. mk).
The jailbreak 7f is then formed an alternating sequence of main and side instructions:
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Table Certified 95% confidence intervals for catastrophic failure probability on single represen-
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Each side instruction S is included in kj independently with probability E (0, 1).
If (n) S is the chosen subset, its elements permuted uniformly random, i.e., each ordering has probability (n))
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Augmentation with mutations and insertion. Let preffx be the base distribution over jailbreak- prefix strings g. and let tok(g) (41,...,4y) be the tokenization of g. For a fixed mutation prob- ability E (0, 1) and replacement distribution over the tokenizer vocabulary (e.g., uniform or restricted set of "possible" tokens), we define the mutation operator M, by
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Day(a c) = (1 - p) 1aa u0 + p p pretix (g) 1aa = u),
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Dj (a v) (1- 1aa= w) + p Σ D prefix (ğ) 1(a v]
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certified 95% confidence intervals for catastrophic failure probability on one representative scenario.
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B DETAILED STATISTICAL CERTIFICATION BOUNDS
Figure and report the complete statistical certification lower and upper bounds (median and IQR) for every distributon pair across all specifications.
C ADDITIONAL RESULTS ON HARMBENCH ILLEGAL CATEGORY
Setup. addition to the chemical chemical.biological and cybercrime categories reported in the main pa- per, evaluate certification framework scenarios from the HarmBench (Mazeika et al. 2024) illegal subset. We follow the same graph construction procedure (Section 4.1) and the same experiment setup (Section 4.2). Due time and compute constraints, evaluate 30 scenarios for
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Table 4: Statistical certification bounds on HarmBench i illegal (first 10 scenarios), Mistral and DeepSeek. Entries are the median of 95% confidence intervals across all specifications under a dis- tribution. Distributions: Random Node with Jailbreak (RNwJ), Graph Path (vanilla) (GPv), Graph Path (harmful target constraint) (GPh), and Adaptive with Rejection (AwR). We bold the highest bounds among the four distributions for each model.
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Table 5: Statistical certification bounds on HarmBench i lllegll (30 scenarios), Claude, gpt-oss, and Llama. Entries the median of 95% confidence intervals across all specifications under a dis- tribution. Distributions: Random Node with Jailbreak (RNwJ), Graph Path (vanilla) (GPv), Graph Path (harmful target constraint) (GPh), and Adaptive with Rejection (AwR). We bold the highest bounds among the four distributions for each model.
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(0.009, 051)
(0.013, 0.165)
(0.005, 0.137)
Ilana
(0.309, 0.597)
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Claude, gpt-oss, and Llama, and the first 10 scenarios for Mistral and DeepSeek. We report results separately Tables 4 and
Distributions. We evaluate the same four distributions used throughout the paper: Random Node with Jailbreak (RNwJ), Graph Path (vanilla) (GPv), Graph Path (harmful target constraint) (GPh), and Adaptive with Rejection (AwR). Following the main text, each entry in Tables [ and 5 is the median of 95% confidence intervals across all specifications under a distribution, and we bold the highest bound among the four distributions for each model.
Results and observations. Compared with the main results, certified bounds on the illegal cate- gory for gpt-oss and Claude are lower than on the Chemical_biologice and cyhererime categories. By contrast, Llama, Mistral and DeepSeek exhibit high certified catastrophic risk across all three domains. These results illustrate how our framework allows practitioners to assess catastrophic risk with statistical guarantees in different domains and to choose models accordingly: for instance, Claude may be acceptable for illegal in our setting, whereas for cybercrime none of the evaluated models appears reliably safe, indicating that stronger mitigations on safer LLMs would be needed.
D ABLATION STUDY
In this section, we analyze the effect of hyperparameters certification results. Table 6 shows the hyperparameters and their values used in the experiments. We conduct ablation studies on a randomly selected scenario from the dataset Graph Path (harmful target constraint) distribution. For Appendices D.7 we certify 1aama-3.--7B--Insttee as they are model-agnostic; otherwise, certify all evaluated LLMs.
D.1 JATLBREAK PROBABILITY
Certification bounds on Random Node with Jailbreak distribution is controlled by the jailbreak prob- ability hyperparameter. We show results Figure [ Overall, we observe that increasing the jail- break probability generally raises the certified catastrophic-risk bounds for less robust models such as DeepSeek, Mistral and Llama, with the largest bounds typically appearing at moderate-to-high probabilities (e.g., p RJ 0.6-1.0). For 1lama-3.3-70B ---ttt-nnttrut, the bounds increase from 0 to moderate probabilities and then slightly decrease as p approaches 1, suggesting that overly frequent, highly conspicuous jailbreaks can be partially mitigated by the model. For Claude and gpt-oss, the certified bounds remain relatively low and flat across all probabilities, indicating that these models comparatively defensive to the jailbreak prompts used in experiments.
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Table 6: Default hyperparameters used in experiments.
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1 is the confidence interval for certification
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Number of samples for certification
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Lower threshold of embedding similarity to connect edges Higher threshold of embedding similarity to connect edges Weight assigned to weigh neighbor set in AwR distributions
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Weight assigned to high-weight neighbor set AwR distributions
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Length of the query sequence
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Probability inserting jailbreak prompt before a query Size of Query Set
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(c) Mistral-Large
Figure 6: Ablation studies for jailbreak probability certification bounds for LLMs.
D.2 LENGTH OF QUERY SEQUENCE
Figure shows how certification bounds vary with the length query sequence. Across models, increasing the sequence length generally pushes the certified bounds upward, indicating that longer conversations provide attackers with more opportunities to elicit catastrophic behavior (for LLaMA, DeepSeek, and Claude). In contrast, gpt-oss appears more robust to query length, with bounds changing only slightly, and for Mistral the bounds also vary little because the model already highly unsafe even for short sequences.
D.3 SIZE OF QUERY SET
Figure shows how the size of the query set used to build specifications affects the certified bounds. Across models, increasing the query-set size from 50 to 150 has only modest effect on the certified bounds. This suggests that, once the initial query set reasonably large and diverse, our certification results fairly stable and do not rely very specifie query-set size.
D.4 RATIO OF WEIGHT
In the Adaptive with Rejection distribution, A denotes the weight assigned to the high- neigh- bor set, while D represents the weight assigned the low-weight neighbor set. Since the distribu-
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Figure 7: Ablation studies for the length of the query sequence on certification bounds for LLMs.
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Figure 8: Ablation studies for query-set size certification bounds for five LLMs.
tion normalized after applying these weights (see Section 3.2). only the ratio An/ / determines the effective sampling probabilities, rather than their absolute values.
To study the influence of this ratio, we perform an ablation experiment by varying >,/A A across the values (1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5}. Note that we require An > >x, hence the minimum ratio considered 1.5. We then evaluate the resulting certified bounds under these different settings. Figure D shows that, for all five LLMs, the certified bounds change only moderately An/ X varies, with the highest bounds typically occurring at intermediate ratios (e.g., 2.0-3.0). This suggests that a balanced vetting-streee
enough to move toward the harmful target when queries accepted, but still willing to step back toward safer neighbors when rejections occur gives the most effective behavior within this family.
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Figure 9: Ablation studies for ratio of weights on certification bounds for LLMs.
D.5 NUMBER OF SAMPLES
To assess how our certification bounds change with the number of samples n, we report bounds in Figure c). The ranges between lower and upper bounds shrink as n increases from small values, and stablize once n 2 50. In our main experiments, we therefore adopt 50 as a trade off between computational cost and statistical precision.
D.6 GRAPH THRESHOLDS
Graph-based specifications rely on two thresholds, ln and ha.. which determine the sparsity of the similarity graph by controlling which edges are created based on embedding similarity. To study their influence, examine two settings: (i) fixing 4/ 0.4 while varying ha, (0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0), and (ii) fixing hu. = 0.8 while varying ln E (0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5). Figure 10 shows that the bounds do not change significantly for different thresholds.
D.7 VARIANCE
We show the variance of our certification bounds in Figure 10d where we run the same experiment on one specification 10 times. We report the median and interquartile range (IQR) of the resulting 95% confidence lower and upper bounds. The results demonstrate that the variance is low, demon- strating the reliability of our certification procedure.
E LLM USAGE
LLMs were used in this work solely as general-purpose assistive tools to aid polishing the writing and improving clarity of exposition.
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Their results demonstrate the serious safety risks of frontier LLMs.", "questions": "This paper only evaluates the safety of models on a subset of one benchmark. is there more results to provide more evidence of the effectiveness of their method? \n\nsome typos: \nline 156 net -> let", "limitations": "", "rating": 6, "confidence": 5, "soundness": 3, "presentation": 4, "contribution": 2, "strengths": "+ interesting perspective: the probabilistic modeling of safety risks extends the limited risk evaluation via fixed attack trajectories towards continuous and broader, and formal risk evaluation.\n\n+ The flexibility of their mathematical framework enables the community to extend their evaluation method by defining corresponding sequence distributions.", "weaknesses": "The implementation of their methodology may not generalize well. The initial node distribution of their graph depends on a multi-turn attack baseline. 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Author rebuttal:

Decision: Accept (Poster)