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Decoy Direction Optimization: A Post-Hoc Defense Against LLM Abliteration

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arXiv:2609.16204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety guardrails in open-weight language models can be readily bypassed using Refusal Feature Ablation (RFA), a technique that identifies and projects out a linear refusal direction from the residual stream, often achieving a high attack success rate…

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  1. 2026-09-16 04:00 · arXiv cs.LG
    Decoy Direction Optimization: A Post-Hoc Defense Against LLM Abliteration

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