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The paper proposes a safety-focused LLM training loop that repeatedly discovers vulnerabilities, repairs them, and keeps updates only if safety improves without hurting general capability or increasing over-refusal. It also pairs the model with a symbolic solver for formal proofs. The "outperforms frontier models" claim is self-reported in the abstract, so readers should look for the benchmarks, comparison setup, and independent replication before weighing it.
Safin-1.5: Safety-Native Architecture and Verifiable Reasoning for Recursive Safety Improvement
arXiv:2610.40751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) enables large language models to advance their capabilities through successive updates, but these updates can also introduce new risks and weaken existing safeguards. In line with the AI-45{\deg} Law, we pursue Safety RSI, in which safety develops as an intrinsic capability alongside general model capabilities through continual risk discovery and repair, while preserving utility and limiting over-refusal. We introduce Safin-1.5, a model built on a safety architecture and trained through recursive safety improvement, with an inference-time harness that extends its capabilities to formal reasoning. Our approach comprises three components: i) The safety architecture combines persistent safety states with hazardous-knowledge disentanglement. The former retains and selectively invokes safety knowledge, while the latter relocates targeted hazardous knowledge into removable experts, enabling its removal with minimal impact on general capabilities. ii) Recursive safety improvement establishes a discovery-evaluation-repair loop. The loop identifies new vulnerabilities and uses experimental feedback to develop repair strategies. It accepts updates only when they improve safety while preserving general capabilities and limiting over-refusal. iii) The formal reasoning harness combines the model's language understanding with symbolic inference and verification. Proof-obligation-guided semantic bridging recovers missing relations in formal representations, enabling symbolic solvers to construct checkable proofs under formalized premises and accepted semantic bridges. Experimental results demonstrate that Safin-1.5 achieves safety and reasoning performance, outperforming frontier models.
Title:Safin-1.5: Safety-Native Architecture and Verifiable Reasoning for Recursive Safety Improvement
Abstract:Recursive self-improvement (RSI) enables large language models to advance their capabilities through successive updates, but these updates can also introduce new risks and weaken existing safeguards. In line with the AI-45° Law, we pursue Safety RSI, in which safety develops as an intrinsic capability alongside general model capabilities through continual risk discovery and repair, while preserving utility and limiting over-refusal. We introduce Safin-1.5, a model built on a safety architecture and trained through recursive safety improvement, with an inference-time harness that extends its capabilities to formal reasoning. Our approach comprises three components: i) The safety architecture combines persistent safety states with hazardous-knowledge disentanglement. The former retains and selectively invokes safety knowledge, while the latter relocates targeted hazardous knowledge into removable experts, enabling its removal with minimal impact on general capabilities. ii) Recursive safety improvement establishes a discovery-evaluation-repair loop. The loop identifies new vulnerabilities and uses experimental feedback to develop repair strategies. It accepts updates only when they improve safety while preserving general capabilities and limiting over-refusal. iii) The formal reasoning harness combines the model's language understanding with symbolic inference and verification. Proof-obligation-guided semantic bridging recovers missing relations in formal representations, enabling symbolic solvers to construct checkable proofs under formalized premises and accepted semantic bridges. Experimental results demonstrate that Safin-1.5 achieves safety and reasoning performance, outperforming frontier models.
Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2610.40751 [cs.CR]
(or arXiv:2610.40751v1 [cs.CR] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.40751 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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