arXiv AI

Calling the Bluff: Detecting Ever-Shifting Harmful Chat Dialogue via Ordered Reasoning Chain Regularization

arXiv:2608. 08451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Harmful chat dialogues are ever-shifting through type-shifting and lexical evasion, yet we find they share invariant principles, i.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

Large Language Models Generate Harmful Responses Using a Distinct Mechanism, Shared Across Harm Types

arXiv:2604. 09544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) undergo alignment training to avoid harmful behaviors, yet the resulting safeguards remain brittle: jailbreaks routinely bypass them, and fine-tuning on narrow domains can induce ``emergent misalignment'' that generalizes broadly.

By Hadas Orgad, Boyi Wei, Kaden Zheng, Martin Wattenberg, Peter Henderson, Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Yonatan Belinkov
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

SentGuard: Sentence-Level Streaming Guardrails for Large Language Models

Large language models increasingly stream long, reasoning-intensive responses in real time, making when to moderate as critical as whether to moderate. Existing guardrails fall into two unsatisfactory extremes: response-level methods delay intervention until the full output is generated, whereas token-level methods act on incomplete semantics, often producing unstable decisions and excessive guard invocations.

arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

From Specialization to Generalization: Instruction-tuned LLMs for Robust Harmful Content Mitigation

The paper presents an instruction‑tuned large language model (LLM) based on Qwen3 that is fine‑tuned for hate speech mitigation by unifying 36 English hate speech datasets. The authors show that this generalist LLM achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on in‑domain benchmarks and delivers significant gains in cross‑domain and cross‑lingual generalization, outperforming specialist encoder‑based classifiers.

By Lukas Edman, Daryna Dementieva, Alexander Fraser
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

When Emotion Becomes Trigger: Emotion-style dynamic Backdoor Attack Parasitising Large Language Models

The paper introduces Paraesthesia, a dynamic backdoor attack that uses emotionally styled inputs as triggers for large language models. By mapping target emotions into a valence–arousal space and rewriting a small subset of clean samples, the attack achieves over 98% success while minimally affecting clean performance. Experiments on four major LLMs show that the trigger cannot be fully explained by token-level cues and remains robust against several filtering and mitigation techniques.

By Ziyu Liu, Tao Li, Tao Yang, Tianjie Ni, Xiaolong Lan, Wengang Ma, Junjiang He