Preventing Safety Drift in Large Language Models via Coupled Weight and Activation Constraints
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arXiv:2604.12384v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) remains highly fragile during fine-tuning, where even benign adaptation can degrade pre-trained refusal behaviors and enable harmful responses. Existing defenses typically constrain either weights or activations in isolation, without considering their coupled effects on safety. In this paper, we first theoretically demonstrate that constraining either weights or activations alone is insufficient for
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A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. The largest and most capable LLMs are generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs) that provide the c...
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arXiv:2604.12384v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) remains highly fragile during fine-tuning, where even benign adaptation can degrade pre-trained refusal behaviors and enable harmful responses. Existing defenses typically constrain either weights or activations in isolation, without considering their coupled effects on safety. In this paper, we first theoretically demonstrate that constraining either weights or activations alone is insufficient for
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