Challenge: Existing jailbreaking methods view a malicious prompt as a whole but they are not effective at reducing LLMs’ attention on combinations of words with malice.
Approach: They propose an automatic prompt Decomposition and Reconstruction framework for jailbreaking Attack that decomposes a malicious prompt into separate sub-prompts and reassembles them implicitly by In-Context Learning.
Outcome: The proposed framework reduces LLMs' attention on malice words by presenting them to LLM in a fragmented form, addressing these limitations and improving attack effectiveness.

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