Inference-Layer Security: Defending Against Adversarial Inference and Infrastructure Abuse

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arXiv:2609.38239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A Technical Report: Operating a large language model (LLM) as a service requires more than inference infrastructure: the provider must also defend against adversarial interactions that seek to exploit the service, including jailbreaking for harmful use, sophisticated denial of service, and distillation attacks. We study this problem at the inference layer, using a hypothetical frontier lab, Five Elements Inc., as a running example. Because no pub