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This research proposes Latent Personality Alignment (LPA), a novel safety alignment method that leverages psychometric personality traits to implicitly constrain jailbreak vulnerabilities without requiring harmful training data. By stabilizing these latent representations, the technique achieves near-zero attack success rates on standard benchmarks while significantly reducing computational costs and dataset requirements compared to existing adversarial approaches. This work advances AI Safety by offering an efficient, robust defense mechanism that addresses critical weaknesses in current large language model security protocols.
Efficient Safety Alignment of Language Models via Latent Personality Traits
arXiv:2607.07918v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current safety methods for large language models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, motivating research into robust alternatives. Latent Adversarial Training (LAT) is among the most effective defenses, but can degrade utility and requires training on large datasets of harmful prompts. We introduce Latent Personality Alignment (LPA), which replaces explicit harm refusal with adversarial training on just 66 harm-agnostic statements drawn from psychometric personality literature. We hypothesize that personality-anchored representations share latent structure with harm avoidance, so adversarially stabilizing them implicitly constrains the subspace exploited by jailbreak attacks. LPA achieves near-zero attack success rates on HarmBench across direct requests and five jailbreak methods, despite never seeing harmful content during training and no loss of performance on standard benchmarks. Moreover, the training process is lightweight; the entire procedure completes in minutes on a single GPU and uses 75x fewer examples than standard LAT. Extensive ablations demonstrate the robustness, efficiency, and generalization of our method.
Abstract:Current safety methods for large language models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, motivating research into robust alternatives. Latent Adversarial Training (LAT) is among the most effective defenses, but can degrade utility and requires training on large datasets of harmful prompts. We introduce Latent Personality Alignment (LPA), which replaces explicit harm refusal with adversarial training on just 66 harm-agnostic statements drawn from psychometric personality literature. We hypothesize that personality-anchored representations share latent structure with harm avoidance, so adversarially stabilizing them implicitly constrains the subspace exploited by jailbreak attacks. LPA achieves near-zero attack success rates on HarmBench across direct requests and five jailbreak methods, despite never seeing harmful content during training and no loss of performance on standard benchmarks. Moreover, the training process is lightweight; the entire procedure completes in minutes on a single GPU and uses 75x fewer examples than standard LAT. Extensive ablations demonstrate the robustness, efficiency, and generalization of our method.
19 pages, 6 figures. Published as a conference paper at COLM 2026
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
arXiv:2607.07918 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2607.07918v2 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.07918 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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