arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.LGstat.APstat.ML2026-07-02
Online Safety Monitoring for LLMs
Mona Schirmer, Metod Jazbec, Alexander Timans, Christian Naesseth, Maja Waldron, Eric Nalisnick
Despite alignment training, LLMs remain prone to generating unsafe outputs at deployment time. Monitoring outputs online and raising an alarm when safety can no longer be assumed is therefore critical. We study a simple real-time monitor that turns a verifier signal from an exter…