arXiv:2607. 23175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reducing toxicity is often framed as a global alignment problem, yet perceptions of harmful language are subjective and context-dependent.
By Rares A. C. Diaconescu, Iulia Slanina, Alina Florea, Andrei B. Trache, Miruna E. Coroi, Anne Arzberger, Jie Yang, Enrico Liscio
arXiv:2506. 10912v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Toxicity remains a leading cause of early-stage drug development failure.
By Fei Lin, Ziyang Gong, Cong Wang, Tengchao Zhang, Yonglin Tian, Yining Jiang, Ji Dai, Chao Guo, Xiaotong Yu, Xue Yang, Gen Luo, Fei-Yue Wang
arXiv:2605. 18879v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models inevitably retain sensitive information, defined as inputs that may induce harmful generations, due to training on massive web corpora, raising concerns for privacy and safety.
By Yujie Lin, Chengyi Yang, Zhishang Xiang, Yiping Song, Jinsong Su
arXiv:2502. 05163v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) necessitates effective mechanisms to ensure their responsible deployment by accurately distinguishing unsafe content from benign content.
By Yihe Deng, Yu Yang, Junkai Zhang, Wei Wang, Bo Li
arXiv:2603. 22934v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves large language model applications by grounding generation in retrieved evidence, but also introduces corpus poisoning as a new attack surface.
By Xiangyu Yin, Yi Qi, Chih-Hong Cheng
arXiv:2605. 14746v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with human values, their generations may still violate safety constraints.
By Bat-Sheva Einbinder, Hen Davidov, Yee Whye Teh, Yarin Gal, Yaniv Romano
arXiv:2604. 12277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained text encoders are prone to shortcut learning, relying on token-label correlations that fail once the distribution shifts in deployment.
By Jiayi Li, Shijie Tang, G\"un Kaynar, Shiyi Du, Carl Kingsford
arXiv:2604. 05809v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents Text-Guided Backdoor (TGB), an adjustable backdoor attack against multimodal pretrained models that uses natural-word triggers, namely words that can naturally occur in ordinary textual inputs.
By Yiyang Zhang, Chaojian Yu, Ziming Hong, Yuanjie Shao, Qinmu Peng, Tongliang Liu, Xinge You
arXiv:2606. 18309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) unlearning aims to remove undesirable knowledge or behaviors while preserving retained capabilities.
By Jingyuan Zhang, Yucheng Bai, Peixi Wen, Zhehao Huang, Zhengbao He, Hanling Tian, Xinwen Cheng, Haiyin Ran, Xiaolin Huang
arXiv:2608. 02684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are accelerating biological research, yet this same capability poses a critical biosecurity threat: models that assist in protein engineering can equally be prompted to generate predicted toxin-like sequences, potentially lowering the barrier to biological misuse.
By Shu Quan, Tianfang Hao, Sitong Fang, He Geng, Jiayi Zhou, Boyuan Chen, Kaile Wang, Donghai Hong, Juntao Dai, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji
arXiv:2511. 05865v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in large-scale generative models have enabled the creation of high-quality images and videos, but have also raised significant safety concerns regarding the generation of unsafe content.
By Viet Nguyen, Vishal M. Patel
arXiv:2606. 05290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generative modeling has made safety control a central challenge, yet existing approaches remain largely model-specific, requiring retraining or tailored interventions for each new architecture.
By Tobia Poppi, Silvia Cappelletti, Sara Sarto, Florian Schiffers, Garin Kessler, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara