With the rapid release of open-weight large foundation models, safety threats are shifting from black-box jailbreaks to neuron-level white-box attacks that directly identify and manipulate safety-related neurons. Existing alignment methods often investigate the safety behavior on a small number of neurons, creating fragile single point of failure with limited redundancy. To address this issue, we propose distributed safety alignment (DSA), which redundantly encodes safety capabilities across multiple computational neurons, ensuring that the model maintains its safety baseline even when critical safety neurons are disrupted. Specifically, we localize the intervention to the inputs of the down-projection layers in language-side feed-forward networks and treat each feature coordinate as the activation of an individual neuron. DSA then combines neuron activations with loss gradients to compute a direction-aware first-order Taylor score that globally identifies the neurons that contribute most to the current refusal behavior of the model. Finally, targeted disruption via deterministic masking and stochastic dropout is coupled, forcing the model to abandon narrow safety neurons and redundantly encode safety behavior across multiple compensatory neurons. Extensive experiments show that DSA substantially improves robustness against white-box neuron-level safety attacks while preserving the model's general language and multimodal utility.
Simiao Xie, Chuancheng Shi, Shangze Li et al.· 0 citations
As generated videos become increasingly realistic, reliable video forgery detection is increasingly important. Existing studies typically optimize and use video forgery detectors as black boxes, while the latent forgery-discriminative knowledge inside them remains largely unexplored. Instead of continuing to rely on resource-intensive full-model retraining to steadily improve detection performance, we ask whether video forgery detection can also be achieved by uncovering and activating sparse forensic knowledge within the detector. We find that forgery-discriminative knowledge is not uniformly distributed across the full representation space, but is concentrated in a sparse set of functionally specialized neurons. Based on this insight, we propose a video forgery-intrinsic neuron discovery (V-FIND) framework. V-FIND first localizes critical layers that exhibit pronounced discrepancies between real and forged videos, and then identifies latent anchor neurons that consistently carry forgery-discriminative signals, organizing them into a compact forensic subspace. With the original backbone frozen and only a lightweight linear classifier trained, this subspace still delivers strong detection performance across multiple external benchmarks for generated videos. Further neuron intervention experiments provide direct evidence for the functional specificity of the discovered neurons. Overall, these results suggest that video forgery detectors contain sparse, extractable, and reusable forgery-discriminative knowledge, offering a new perspective on understanding and exploiting their intrinsic forensic capability.
Shichao Kan, Chengpeng Hong, Jingtong Dou et al.· 0 citations
HEIMAT, a HEurIstic-style autoMATic debiasing framework for LMs, effectively mitigates bias in different cultures while maintaining the model's natural language understanding (NLU) performance.
Tian Lan, Yemin Wang, Chuancheng Shi et al.· 0 citations
A neuron-level cross-dimensional safety alignment framework driven by modality- and language-shared safety neurons (MLS-Neurons) that significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across diverse multilingual and multimodal safety benchmarks while preserving general utility.
Enyi Shi, Fei Shen, Chuancheng Shi et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
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