arxivcs.AI2026-07-20
A Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning Framework for LLM Guardrails
Md Asiful Islam, Mihai Surdeanu
We propose ARBITER, a novel LLM guardrail framework that introduces two key ideas: (i) dual-hypothesis reasoning, a reasoning method for LLM guardrails that explicitly considers both safe and unsafe interpretations of a prompt before making a safety decision, and (ii) multi-compo…