COMPASS: Cognitive MCTS-Guided Process Alignment for Safe Search Agents

In three linesCOMPASS is a safety alignment framework for multi-step LLM search agents. It combines Cognitive Tree Exploration (CTE) to synthesize stealthy attack trajectories and Introspective Step-wise Alignment (ISA) to supervise risky intermediate actions. Results: favorable safety-utility trade-off requiring substantially less training data.

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