arXiv Computation and Language

Identify, Classify, Act: Per-Instruction Controlled Compliance for LLMs over External Data

The paper introduces EDIC, a framework for per‑instruction compliance in large language models that interact with external data. It decomposes the task into identifying, classifying, and acting on each embedded directive, using a scene‑grounded pipeline and a generative judge trained with GRPO to attribute compliance at the instruction level. Experiments on two backbones and five benchmarks show that EDIC improves safety and utility, achieving up to a 7.7% increase in harmful‑rejection and a 12.5% boost in Arena‑Hard‑Auto utility on Qwen3‑4B.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

A Reproducible, License-Aware Distillation Recipe for CPUDeployable Safety Classification

arXiv:2608.21570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying a safety layer for large language models on commodity hardware is constrained by the guards available to do it: current open guard models hol...

By Edson Rodrigues da Cruz Filho, Paulo Ricardo Ferreira Neves, Paulo Henrique Eleuterio Falsetti, Jo\~ao Vitor Pavan, Ian Degaspari, Henrique Vieira Laturrague, Patrick Vieira Laturrague, Guilherme Nielsen Dias, Marccello Wilson Perez Berto, Gustavo Voltani Von Atzingen
arXiv AI
Oct 7

APEX: Active Protection at Execution Boundaries for LLM Agents

The paper introduces APEX, an active defense for large language model agents that protects against indirect prompt injection by enforcing safety at execution boundaries. APEX uses an evidence‑gated prevention contract and deception‑based exposure to ensure that only authorized effects, endorsed by the task, are executed. Evaluation shows APEX achieves near‑zero attack success across multiple benchmarks and capability‑unit types, outperforming 13 baseline defenses.

By Xinran Zheng, Xin Fan Guo, Zhiqiang Hao, Fan Yang, Xingzhi Qian, Jiawei Du, Jinfeng Xu, Zheng Xing, Shuo Yang, Xingjun Wang