LongGuard: Mechanistic Analysis and Training-Free Mitigation of Long-Context Failure in Safety Guardrails

arXiv:2608.27580 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-31

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Attention-Head Sharpening — 1× in this paper
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chunked Detection — 1× in this paper
• Context-Aware Hyperparameter Routing — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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