Self-distillation hardens tool-using agents without sacrificing benign task performance

RAISED trains agents to ignore injected instructions while preserving legitimate guidance contained in tool outputs.

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Mohamed Dhouib · Clement Elliker · Alexi Canesse · Maël Jenny · Lucas-Andrei Thil · Mahammed El-Sharkawy · +2 more

LIX · École polytechnique · Institut Polytechnique de Paris · CNRS · Google DeepMind

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Dhouib et al.

The authors first measured how supervised fine-tuning and preference-based defenses alter a model’s output distribution.

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RAISED uses self-distillation to defend LLM agents from prompt injection without losing utility.

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