Paper Overview
Research area: NLP Authors: Mikko Lempinen, Joni Kemppainen, Niklas Raesalmi Published: 2026-04-22 arXiv: 2604.20833
Summary
As AI systems are increasingly deployed across critical domains, their security vulnerabilities pose growing risks of high-profile exploits and consequential system failures. Yet systematic approaches to evaluating AI security remain underdeveloped. This paper introduces AVISE (AI Vulnerability Identification and Security Evaluation), a modular open-source framework for identifying vulnerabilities in and evaluating the security of AI systems and models.
As a demonstration of the framework, the authors extend the theory-of-mind-based multi-turn Red Queen attack into an Adversarial Language Model (ALM) augmented attack and develop an automated Security Evaluation Test (SET) for discovering jailbreak vulnerabilities in language models.
Key Results
- The SET comprises 25 test cases and an Evaluating Language Model (ELM) that determines whether each test case successfully jailbreaks the target model.
- The ELM achieves 92% accuracy, an F1 score of 0.91, and a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.83.
- Nine recently released language models of different scales were evaluated with the SET; all were found vulnerable to the augmented Red Queen attack to varying degrees.
Significance
AVISE offers researchers and industry practitioners a scalable foundation for developing and deploying automated security evaluation tests, representing a concrete step toward more rigorous and reproducible AI security evaluation.
Original Abstract (excerpt)
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed across critical domains, their security vulnerabilities pose growing risks of high-profile exploits and consequential system failures. Yet systematic approaches to evaluating AI security remain underdeveloped. In this paper, we introduce AVISE (AI Vulnerability Identification and Security Evaluation), a modular open-source framework for identifying vulnerabilities in and evaluating the security of AI systems and models. As a demonstration of the framework, we extend the theory-of-mind-based multi-turn Red Queen attack into an Adversarial Language Model (ALM) augmented attack and develop an automated Security Evaluation Test (SET) for discovering jailbreak vulnerabilities in language models. The SET comprises 25 test cases an...
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