Internal representation shifts can expose multi-turn attacks as they emerge

DART tracks changes in an agent’s hidden states, attributes risky shifts to specific context updates and responds with targeted safety reminders.

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Haoyu Wang · Wei Zhao · Yedi Zhang · Christopher M. Poskitt · Jun Sun

Singapore Management University · National University of Singapore

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Wang and colleagues show that attacks assembled across multiple individually permissible steps leave a measurable trajectory in an LLM agent’s internal representations.

The authors measured how an agent’s hidden representation changes whenever new context arrives.

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From National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University

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Multi-turn attacks on LLM agents leave detectable signatures in internal representation transitions across context updates.

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