diff --git a/doc/bibliography.md b/doc/bibliography.md
index 2e23505c37..3938a54685 100644
--- a/doc/bibliography.md
+++ b/doc/bibliography.md
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ All academic papers, research blogs, and technical reports referenced throughout
 :::{dropdown} Citation Keys
 :class: hidden-citations
 
-[@aakanksha2024multilingual; @adversaai2023universal; @andriushchenko2024tense; @anthropic2024manyshot; @aqrawi2024singleturncrescendo; @atr2026; @bethany2024mathprompt; @bhardwaj2023harmfulqa; @bhardwaj2024homer; @boucher2023trojan; @brahman2024coconot; @bryan2025agentictaxonomy; @bullwinkel2025airtlessons; @bullwinkel2025repeng; @bullwinkel2026trigger; @chao2023pair; @chao2024jailbreakbench; @choi2026xlsafetybench; @cui2024orbench; @darkbench2025; @derczynski2024garak; @ding2023wolf; @embracethered2024unicode; @embracethered2025sneakybits; @gehman2020realtoxicityprompts; @ghosh2025aegis; @ghosh2025ailuminate; @gong2025figstep; @gupta2024walledeval; @haider2024phi3safety; @han2024medsafetybench; @han2024wildguard; @hiddenlayer2025policypuppetry; @hines2024spotlighting; @inie2025summon; @ji2023beavertails; @ji2024pkusaferlhf; @jiang2025sosbench; @jones2025computeruse; @kingma2014adam; @li2024drattack; @li2024mossbench; @li2024saladbench; @li2024wmdp; @lin2023toxicchat; @liu2024flipattack; @liu2024mmsafetybench; @lopez2024pyrit; @luo2024jailbreakv; @lv2024codechameleon; @mazeika2023tdc; @mazeika2024harmbench; @mckee2024transparency; @mehrotra2023tap; @microsoft2024skeletonkey; @odin2024; @palaskar2025vlsu; @pfohl2024equitymedqa; @promptfoo2025ccp; @ren2024codeattack; @robustintelligence2024bypass; @roccia2024promptintel; @rottger2023xstest; @rottger2025msts; @russinovich2024crescendo; @russinovich2025cca; @russinovich2025price; @scheuerman2025transphobia; @shaikh2022second; @shayegani2025computeruse; @shen2023donotanything; @sheshadri2024lat; @souly2024strongreject; @stok2023ansi; @tan2026comicjailbreak; @tang2025multilingual; @tedeschi2024alert; @vantaylor2024socialbias; @vidgen2023simplesafetytests; @wang2023decodingtrust; @wang2023donotanswer; @wang2025siuo; @wang2026visualleakbench; @wei2023jailbroken; @xie2024sorrybench; @yu2023gptfuzzer; @yuan2023cipherchat; @zeng2024persuasion; @zeng2024shieldgemma; @zhang2024cbtbench; @ziems2022mic; @zong2024vlguard; @zou2023gcg]
+[@aakanksha2024multilingual; @adversaai2023universal; @andriushchenko2024tense; @anthropic2024manyshot; @aqrawi2024singleturncrescendo; @atr2026; @bethany2024mathprompt; @bhardwaj2023harmfulqa; @bhardwaj2024homer; @boucher2023trojan; @brahman2024coconot; @bryan2025agentictaxonomy; @bullwinkel2025airtlessons; @bullwinkel2025repeng; @bullwinkel2026trigger; @chao2023pair; @chao2024jailbreakbench; @choi2026xlsafetybench; @cui2024orbench; @darkbench2025; @derczynski2024garak; @ding2023wolf; @dong2025sata; @embracethered2024unicode; @embracethered2025sneakybits; @gehman2020realtoxicityprompts; @ghosh2025aegis; @ghosh2025ailuminate; @gong2025figstep; @gupta2024walledeval; @haider2024phi3safety; @han2024medsafetybench; @han2024wildguard; @hiddenlayer2025policypuppetry; @hines2024spotlighting; @inie2025summon; @ji2023beavertails; @ji2024pkusaferlhf; @jiang2025sosbench; @jones2025computeruse; @kingma2014adam; @li2024drattack; @li2024mossbench; @li2024saladbench; @li2024wmdp; @lin2023toxicchat; @liu2024flipattack; @liu2024mmsafetybench; @lopez2024pyrit; @luo2024jailbreakv; @lv2024codechameleon; @mazeika2023tdc; @mazeika2024harmbench; @mckee2024transparency; @mehrotra2023tap; @microsoft2024skeletonkey; @odin2024; @palaskar2025vlsu; @pfohl2024equitymedqa; @promptfoo2025ccp; @ren2024codeattack; @robustintelligence2024bypass; @roccia2024promptintel; @rottger2023xstest; @rottger2025msts; @russinovich2024crescendo; @russinovich2025cca; @russinovich2025price; @scheuerman2025transphobia; @shaikh2022second; @shayegani2025computeruse; @shen2023donotanything; @sheshadri2024lat; @souly2024strongreject; @stok2023ansi; @tan2026comicjailbreak; @tang2025multilingual; @tedeschi2024alert; @vantaylor2024socialbias; @vidgen2023simplesafetytests; @wang2023decodingtrust; @wang2023donotanswer; @wang2025siuo; @wang2026visualleakbench; @wei2023jailbroken; @xie2024sorrybench; @yu2023gptfuzzer; @yuan2023cipherchat; @zeng2024persuasion; @zeng2024shieldgemma; @zhang2024cbtbench; @ziems2022mic; @zong2024vlguard; @zou2023gcg]
 
 :::
diff --git a/pyrit/executor/promptgen/gcg/attack/base/attack_manager.py b/pyrit/executor/promptgen/gcg/attack/base/attack_manager.py
index c3270fcfdb..a6a61aff7c 100644
--- a/pyrit/executor/promptgen/gcg/attack/base/attack_manager.py
+++ b/pyrit/executor/promptgen/gcg/attack/base/attack_manager.py
@@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ def control_weight_fn(_: int) -> float:
                 verbose=verbose,
             )
             state.runtime = time.time() - start
-            keep_control = True if not anneal else acceptance_probability(prev_loss, loss, i + anneal_from)
+            keep_control = True if not anneal else acceptance_probability(state.loss, loss, i + anneal_from)
             if keep_control:
                 self.control_str = control
                 state.control = control
@@ -1103,7 +1103,6 @@ def control_weight_fn(_: int) -> float:
             # annealing rejects it, so ``state.loss`` always describes the
             # suffix in ``state.control``.
             state.candidate_loss = loss
-            prev_loss = loss
             if loss < state.best_loss:
                 state.best_loss = loss
                 state.best_control = control
diff --git a/tests/unit/executor/promptgen/gcg/test_run_state.py b/tests/unit/executor/promptgen/gcg/test_run_state.py
index 67ac07809f..1b6f865b1f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/executor/promptgen/gcg/test_run_state.py
+++ b/tests/unit/executor/promptgen/gcg/test_run_state.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import random
 from typing import Any
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -132,6 +132,25 @@ def test_rejected_candidate_keeps_active_suffix_and_loss(self) -> None:
         assert state.candidate_loss == 5.0
         assert state.stop_reason == StopReason.MAX_STEPS_REACHED
 
+    def test_candidate_after_rejection_is_compared_with_active_loss(self) -> None:
+        attack = _bare_multi_prompt_attack([("worse", 5.0), ("still-worse", 4.5)])
+
+        with patch.object(random, "random", return_value=0.99):
+            control, loss, steps = attack.run(
+                n_steps=2,
+                prev_loss=1.0,
+                stop_on_success=False,
+                anneal=True,
+            )
+
+        assert (control, loss, steps) == ("initial", 1.0, 2)
+        state: OptimizationRunState = attack.last_run_state
+        assert state.control == "initial"
+        assert state.loss == 1.0
+        assert state.candidate_loss == 4.5
+        assert state.best_control == "initial"
+        assert state.best_loss == 1.0
+
     def test_failed_run_clears_stale_last_run_state(self) -> None:
         attack = _bare_multi_prompt_attack([("better", 1.0)])
         stale = OptimizationRunState(control="stale", best_control="stale", loss=0.1, best_loss=0.1)