See it, Say it, Sorted: Mechanistic Diagnosis and Parameter-Space Mitigation of Emergent Misalignment in LLMs
Safety-aligned LLMs can exhibit emergent misalignment (EM): narrow domain adaptation unexpectedly triggers catastrophic safety failures across unrelated domains. Prior static analyses leave training dynamics unmapped, while existing defenses rely on heuristics that degrade utility. We present a dynamic, second-order ge...
Wei-Qiao Que, Rui-Zhe Li, Cheng-Yu Wang et al.
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