Benchmarking 'scoping': five ways to confine LLMs to a bounded operational domain
burkov · x · 2026-10-31
Andriy Burkov highlights research on "scoping"—restricting LLMs to specific operational domains (customer support, document QA, code generation) without degrading authorized-task performance. Unlike safety alignment that suppresses a narrow band of toxic outputs, scoping requires rejecting a broad universe of irrelevant queries while defending against distraction, off-brand behavior, and adversarial prompt injections. The study benchmarks five technical intervention strategies against standard system prompting across multiple models.
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