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could refusal layers be masking dialect-conditioned safety failures in MoE models [d]

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Refusal Lives Downstream of Persona in Chat Models

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Latent-space Attacks for Refusal Evasion in Language Models

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1 Sept
REINS: Refusal-Enhanced Inhibitory Steering with Sparse Autoencoder Features

arXiv:2608.28233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering with Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) offers a lightweight inference-time path for adapting the behavior of large language

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10 Apr
Blind Refusal: Language Models Refuse to Help Users Evade Unjust, Absurd, and Illegitimate Rules

arXiv:2604.06233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-trained language models routinely refuse requests for help circumventing rules. But not all rules deserve compliance. When

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Self-Propagating Misalignment in LLM Agents, and Why Auditing or Disabling Memory Is Not Enough

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