TEL-OS v2.0: Inference-Only Latent Governance and Attention Guillotine for LLM Security
Abstract
Traditional AI alignment strategies (RLHF, system prompts) rely on "semantic guardrails" that are structurally vulnerable to adversarial jailbreaks like Prefix Injections and Many-Shot attacks. We present TEL-OS v2.0, a mechanistic interpretability framework that neutralizes these threats by intervening directly in the model's residual stream. Using a combination of Latent Refinement, Attention Guillotines, and the Love Equation for tensor governance, TEL-OS achieves a 0.0% Attack Success Rate (ASR) while maintaining 100% fluent output on Llama-3.1-8B. Our results prove that safety can be guaranteed as an intrinsic physical invariant of the model's latent manifold, independent of prompt-based filtering.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Security and Verification in Computing
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 7 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint