Researchers introduced SingProbe, a lightweight runtime guardrail for large language models that reuses hidden states during inference to monitor query intent, response safety, and hallucination risk at token level with negligible extra cost. Unlike traditional guardrails relying on separate models that add inference latency and capacity mismatches, SingProbe integrates directly with autoregressive decoding, providing continuous, intrinsic monitoring within a unified framework during large language model generation. Experiments show SingProbe matches or outperforms larger standalone guardrails and hallucination detectors, supports constrained safe decoding, and extends to medical use through SingProbe-Med, which triggers risk-directed interventions only when clinically relevant dangers appear.
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