TEL-OS v2.0: Inference-Only Latent Governance and Attention Guillotine for LLM Security

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Authors: josue johnatan gutierrez alvarez tostado
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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