Capability-Gated Language Models: Security Composes, Utility Does Not
Formal analysis proves LLM security safeguards compose reliably while utility degrades unpredictably when capability gates are stacked — guiding safer multi-tier deployment architectures.
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arXiv:2609.00445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed language model safeguards (safety fine-tuning, filtering, unlearning) vary by principal only outside the model weights: filters are reconfigured, tiers are multiplied, and artefacts are reissued; inside one set of weights every request meets the same model configuration. This motivates us to define capability-gated deployment: per-principal access control inside one set of weights, whose configurations form a lattice - meets accumulate a
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises layering multiple LLM safeguards should expect composable security but must test for compounding utility loss that could undermine business value.
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