Context-Aware Prompt Injection Detection via Small Language Models in RAG Pipelines: nokast-secureRAG
A compact 0.5B-parameter model detects indirect prompt injection in RAG pipelines, offering enterprises a low-overhead defence against retrieval-poisoning attacks that larger guardrail models make cost-prohibitive.
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arXiv:2610.28364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection and retrieval poisoning, where malicious instructions in retrieved content are mistaken for trusted input. We present nokast-secureRAG, a roughly 0.5B-parameter small language model that acts as a semantic firewall between retrieval and generation. It jointly evaluates the user query and retrieved context, classifying the pair as safe, suspicious, or mal
Editorial Analysis
RAG architectures are rapidly entering enterprise use; a lightweight, deployable injection detector lowers the barrier to securing these pipelines without introducing significant latency or cost.
Integrate prompt-injection detection into your RAG pipeline before production deployment; evaluate compact models like nokast-secureRAG for inline use.
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