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Researchers have released NOMOS, a compiler that enables the translation of natural-language policies into deterministic tool-call gates for LLM agents.
Why it matters. The release of NOMOS, a compiler that turns natural-language policies into deterministic tool-call gates for LLM agents, has significant implications for the AI industry. By achieving a zero attack success rate on banking and reducing policy violations, NOMOS demonstrates the potential to improve the security and reliability of LLM agents. With a four-pass compiler, NOMOS is able to repair or reject 37% of candidates in the airline domain and 13% in the retail domain, resulting in more effective policy enforcement. This breakthrough has the potential to raise the bar for AI security, with potential applications in various industries where LLM agents are used.
Researchers have released NOMOS, a compiler that enables the translation of natural-language policies into deterministic tool-call gates for LLM agents. This innovation addresses the issue of tool-using LLM agents violating the policies they are deployed to enforce. The NOMOS compiler operates in four passes, allowing it to statically verify tool-call gates and reject or repair candidates that do not meet the policy requirements. In testing, NOMOS demonstrated a significant reduction in policy violations, with a zero attack success rate achieved on banking and a maximum attack success rate of 3.6% on other suites. The compiler's performance was evaluated on the τ^2-bench benchmark, where it cut violations of reference-encoded clauses among state-changing calls from 66.3% to 2.6% in the airline domain and from 30.8% to 6.9% in the retail domain. The NOMOS compiler runs on-premise on open-weight gemma-4-26B and takes microseconds to make decisions without requiring an LLM call. A second agent model, Llama-3.3-70B, reproduced the effects of NOMOS on both benchmarks, further validating its effectiveness. The development of NOMOS has the potential to improve the security and reliability of LLM agents, with applications in industries such as banking and retail. The compiler's ability to enforce policies effectively and efficiently makes it an important breakthrough in the field of AI security.
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