The field of large language models (LLMs) is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on safeguarding these models against various threats. Recent research has highlighted the importance of developing proactive defense mechanisms to protect LLMs from jailbreak attacks, prompt injection, and other forms of manipulation. One notable direction is the use of honeypot-based systems, which transform risk avoidance into risk utilization by probing user intent and exposing malicious behavior through multi-turn interactions. Another significant area of research is the development of evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to assess the security and robustness of LLMs. Noteworthy papers in this area include 'Active Honeypot Guardrail System: Probing and Confirming Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreaks', which proposes a novel honeypot-based defense mechanism, and 'SoK: Taxonomy and Evaluation of Prompt Security in Large Language Models', which provides a comprehensive evaluation framework for prompt security. Overall, the field is moving towards a more proactive and robust approach to safeguarding LLMs, with a focus on innovative defense mechanisms and rigorous evaluation frameworks.
Advances in Safeguarding Large Language Models
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Active Honeypot Guardrail System: Probing and Confirming Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreaks
SoK: Taxonomy and Evaluation of Prompt Security in Large Language Models
Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity
Safeguarding Efficacy in Large Language Models: Evaluating Resistance to Human-Written and Algorithmic Adversarial Prompts
Breaking Guardrails, Facing Walls: Insights on Adversarial AI for Defenders & Researchers
Open Shouldn't Mean Exempt: Open-Source Exceptionalism and Generative AI
In the Mood to Exclude: Revitalizing Trespass to Chattels in the Era of GenAI Scraping
Detecting Adversarial Fine-tuning with Auditing Agents
When AI Takes the Wheel: Security Analysis of Framework-Constrained Program Generation
Online Learning Defense against Iterative Jailbreak Attacks via Prompt Optimization
TaxoAlign: Scholarly Taxonomy Generation Using Language Models
Cybersecurity AI: Evaluating Agentic Cybersecurity in Attack/Defense CTFs
Dynamic Evaluation for Oversensitivity in LLMs
FlexiDataGen: An Adaptive LLM Framework for Dynamic Semantic Dataset Generation in Sensitive Domains
OpenGuardrails: An Open-Source Context-Aware AI Guardrails Platform
Defending Against Prompt Injection with DataFilter
CourtGuard: A Local, Multiagent Prompt Injection Classifier
Who Coordinates U.S. Cyber Defense? A Co-Authorship Network Analysis of Joint Cybersecurity Advisories (2024--2025)
SAID: Empowering Large Language Models with Self-Activating Internal Defense
Automated Cloud Infrastructure-as-Code Reconciliation with AI Agents
Steering Evaluation-Aware Language Models To Act Like They Are Deployed
Black Box Absorption: LLMs Undermining Innovative Ideas
Exploring Large Language Models for Access Control Policy Synthesis and Summarization