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Refusal Beyond a Single Direction: A Preliminary Comparison of Diff-in-Means and

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

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I set out to test whether AAVE-coded (African American English Vernacular) prompts cause MoE language models to route, deliberate, and respond

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23 May
Latent-space Attacks for Refusal Evasion in Language Models

arXiv:2605.21706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, yet refusal behavior can be suppressed by steering their

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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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11 Aug
Decided Upstream, Written Late: Locating and Pricing the Cross-Lingual Refusal Circuit of a Multilingual MoE

arXiv:2608.08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety alignment in multilingual models is uneven: a model that reliably refuses a harmful request in English will often comply

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25 Mar
Beyond Preset Identities: How Agents Form Stances and Boundaries in Generative Societies

arXiv:2603.23406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models simulate social behaviors, their capacity for stable stance formation and identity negotiation during

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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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2 May
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

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14 Aug
AI Guardrail Survival under Single-Cycle Agentic Self-Summarization

arXiv:2608.11392v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running agents periodically compact their context, replacing the transcript with a model-generated summary. Recent work

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