DataShield proposes an efficient method to identify safety-degrading samples within benign datasets, quantifying each sample's contribution to an LLM's compliance behavior.

The paper conducts an interpretability-driven safety audit of eight state-of-the-art LLMs, demonstrating that while interpretability-based steering is a powerful auditing tool, model robustness varies…

This study compares two methods of safety unalignment (Jailbreak-Tuning and Weight Orthogonalization) across six LLMs and finds that Weight Orthogonalization (WO) significantly enhances malicious capa…

The paper introduces SecureBreak, a manually annotated, safety-oriented dataset designed to help detect harmful outputs from large language models (LLMs) that bypass existing security alignments.

The paper introduces ML-Bench, a policy-grounded multilingual safety benchmark, and ML-Guard, a superior guardrail model that enables culturally and legally aligned safety assessment for LLMs across 1…

The paper introduces FoodGuardBench, a comprehensive benchmark and a specialized guardrail model (FoodGuard-4B) to rigorously test and mitigate the severe food safety risks posed by large language mod…

GLiGuard introduces a compact, schema-conditioned bidirectional encoder that achieves state-of-the-art performance in LLM content moderation across multiple safety dimensions while drastically reducin…

The paper introduces NeWTral, a framework that restores safety alignment to specialized LLM adapters without sacrificing their domain-specific knowledge, achieving a significant reduction in attack su…

The paper introduces an automated framework demonstrating that LLM system instructions are vulnerable to encoding attacks, where structured output requests can bypass safety refusals and leak sensitiv…

The paper proposes the Expected Safety Impact (ESI) framework to identify safety-critical parameters in LLMs, introducing targeted tuning methods (SET and SPA) to enhance safety and preserve alignment…

The paper introduces RefusalGuard, a novel fine-tuning framework that preserves the geometric structure of safety-relevant representations in LLMs, thereby mitigating the degradation of refusal behavi…

The EvoSafety framework enhances LLM safety by externalizing attack and defense mechanisms, enabling persistent, transferable, and model-agnostic robustness against adversarial prompts.

The paper establishes a standardized security assessment framework and develops a multi-layered defensive system, demonstrating that systematic testing and external defenses are crucial for safe LLM d…

The paper introduces Opir, an efficient family of encoder-based multi-task guardrail models that provides competitive safety classification performance across various tasks while maintaining a signifi…

SafeTune is a framework that enhances the robustness of LLMs fine-tuned for RTL code generation by detecting and mitigating data poisoning attacks, particularly those aiming to insert hardware Trojans…

The paper introduces COLAGUARD, a novel guardrail model that efficiently transfers multi-step safety reasoning into a continuous latent space, achieving state-of-the-art safety performance with massiv…

The paper introduces COLAGUARD, a novel guardrail model that efficiently transfers multi-step safety reasoning into a continuous latent space, achieving high safety performance with massive improvemen…

The paper proposes an attestation-aware promotion gate to mitigate supply-chain risks in LLM pipelines by cryptographically verifying and enforcing claims about training and release artifacts before d…

Reflect-Guard enhances LLM safety classifiers by integrating logical self-reflection, significantly improving detection of sophisticated adversarial jailbreak prompts.

The paper introduces 'abliteration,' a weight editing technique that successfully bypasses the refusal mechanism of safety-aligned Code LLMs, enabling scalable synthesis of vulnerable code from safe i…