This paper investigates the problem of safe decoding for Large Language Models (LLMs) during inference, particularly under jailbreak attacks. Previous approaches typically either detect malicious content or regulate the decoding alignment of LLMs to mitigate such attacks. Although effective in defending against attacks, these methods often over-reject benign content, limiting their generalizability in real-world scenarios where harmful and benign information coexist. Towards this end, we propose an innovative framework named Sequence-level risk Accumulation for calibrating test-time alignment (SEAT). Specifically, SEAT introduces a reward-guided branch decoding paradigm to incorporate safety awareness during generation. To balance the detection of harmful content with the accurate response to benign information, SEAT employs a sequence-level risk monitor that smooths risk signals over the entire sequence, preventing over-confident refusals for certain tokens. Furthermore, we conduct extensive experiments on four attack benchmarks and two neutral datasets, comparing SEAT with eight state-of-the-art baselines. Consequently, the results demonstrate that SEAT achieves superior performance both in defending against jailbreak attacks and in generating high-quality responses on neutral datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/ShanwenTan/SEAT.

This paper studies the problem of text-attributed graph clustering, which aims to cluster each node into different groups using both textual attributes and structural information. Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed to solve this problem, their performance is usually limited when uncertain nodes are near the cluster boundaries due to label scarcity. In this paper, we introduce a new perspective of leveraging large language models (LLMs) to enhance text-attributed graph clustering and develop a novel approach named Multi-agent Collaboration with Ranking Guidance (MARK). The core of our MARK is to generate reliable guidance using the collaboration of three LLM-based agents as ranking-based supervision signals. In particular, we first conduct the coarse graph clustering, and utilize a concept agent to induce the semantics of each cluster. Then, we infer the robustness under perturbations to identify uncertain nodes and use a generation agent to produce synthetic text that closely aligns with their topology. An inference agent is adopted to provide the ranking semantics for each uncertain node in comparison to its synthetic counterpart. The consistent feedback between uncertain and synthetic texts is identified as reliable guidance for fine-tuning the clustering model within a ranking-based supervision objective. Experimental results on various benchmark datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed MARK compared with competing baselines.