arXiv Computation and Language

Evidence-Consistent Generative Detection under Scenario-Level Distribution Shift

The paper introduces a new evaluation setting called scenario‑level out‑of‑distribution (SL‑OOD) detection for SMS and voice phishing, where entire attack scenarios are omitted from training while the label space stays fixed. It shows that high in‑distribution performance does not guarantee robustness to unseen scenarios, attributing this to scenario memorization. The authors propose ECoG, an evidence‑consistent generative framework that uses evidence‑span supervision and a rationale‑label consistency objective, achieving notable improvements in Macro‑F1, reduced prediction‑rationale inconsistency, and higher token‑level overlap with reference evidence.

arXiv Computation and Language
5d ago

Beyond Global Scalars: Synergizing Token-Level Statistics and Deep Semantics for Adversarial AIGC Text Detection

The paper introduces MOSAIC, a large adversarial benchmark for detecting AI-generated text, and presents NeuroStat, a new framework that combines token‑level probabilistic logits with deep semantic hidden states from a single language model. NeuroStat fuses these signals via Macro‑State Residual Modulation and uses orthogonal and contrastive losses to learn complementary representations. Experiments show that NeuroStat outperforms existing methods on MOSAIC, achieving superior robustness against adversarial attacks.

By Peiming Li, Yifan Wang, Zhiyuan Hu, Shiyu Li, Zheng Wei, Yang Tang
arXiv AI
Aug 24

Truth Lies Deep: Countering Semantic Camouflage via Latent Intent Verification

The paper identifies a vulnerability in large language models where harmful intent can be hidden within benign narratives, a phenomenon termed Semantic Camouflage. By examining latent activation patterns across several small language model families, the authors discover an "Intent Horizon"—a layer depth where harmful intent representations collapse. They propose Latent Intent Verification (LIV), a lightweight probing defense that detects harmful intent in early layers and outperforms existing guardrails on the PKU-SafeRLHF dataset.

By Md. Hasib Ur Rahman
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Do LLMs Know Their Vulnerable Scenarios?

arXiv:2607. 23496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, yet embedding the same requests in particular scenarios can bypass their safeguards.

By Ziheng Peng, Huiqi Deng, Haoran Jing, Xuankun Rong, Jiahui Han, Xiting Wang, Na Zou, Xia Hu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 26

Do LLMs Know Their Vulnerable Scenarios?

Safety-aligned large language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, yet embedding the same requests in particular scenarios can bypass their safeguards. Existing red-teaming methods empirically identify effective scenarios through observed attack outcomes, but why particular scenarios weaken refusal remains mechanistically unclear.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

UNMASK: Discovering and Causally Verifying Spurious Shortcuts in Text Classifiers

arXiv:2608. 09209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs.

By Chidaksh Ravuru, Shashank Srivastava