Equation 2 · The Attack Surface That Reads
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Here is the modelling error to avoid. Suppose a request passes n independent detection layers, each of which fails to catch a given malicious input with probability . It is tempting to write the bypass probability of the stack as
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- [10] The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions ↗
- [11] Lessons from Defending Gemini Against Indirect Prompt Injections ↗
- [12] Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy ↗
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