10 papers
Building a Foundational Guardrail for General Agentic Systems via Synthetic Data
Yue Huang, Hang Hua, Yujun Zhou +11
While LLM agents can plan multi-step tasks, intervening at the planning stage-before any action is executed-is often the safest way to prevent harm, since certain risks can lead to…
When in Doubt, Cascade: Towards Building Efficient and Capable Guardrails
Manish Nagireddy, Inkit Padhi, Soumya Ghosh +1
Large language models (LLMs) have convincing performance in a variety of downstream tasks. However, these systems are prone to generating undesirable outputs such as harmful and bi…
Multi-Level Explanations for Generative Language Models
Lucas Monteiro Paes, Dennis Wei, Hyo Jin Do +8
Despite the increasing use of large language models (LLMs) for context-grounded tasks like summarization and question-answering, understanding what makes an LLM produce a certain r…
Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering
Bruce W. Lee, Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy +4
LLMs have shown remarkable capabilities, but precisely controlling their response behavior remains challenging. Existing activation steering methods alter LLM behavior indiscrimina…
Granite Guardian
Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Giandomenico Cornacchia +20
We introduce the Granite Guardian models, a suite of safeguards designed to provide risk detection for prompts and responses, enabling safe and responsible use in combination with…
The RealHumanEval: Evaluating Large Language Models' Abilities to Support Programmers
Hussein Mozannar, Valerie Chen, Mohammed Alsobay +7
Evaluation of large language models for code has primarily relied on static benchmarks, including HumanEval (Chen et al., 2021), or more recently using human preferences of LLM res…