← Back to all news
arXiv Machine Learning June 15, 2026 By Sasha Behrouzi, Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

NeST: Neuron Selective Tuning for LLM Safety

Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →

arXiv:2602. 16835v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safety alignment is essential for the responsible deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Summary generated by The Flow from the publisher's feed. The full article lives at arXiv Machine Learning.

  • llms
  • fine-tuning
  • multimodal
  • safety

Related stories

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Few Tokens, Big Leverage: Preserving Safety Alignment by Constraining Safety Tokens during Fine-tuning

arXiv:2603. 07445v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often require fine-tuning (FT) to perform well on downstream tasks, but FT can induce safety-alignment drift even when the training dataset contains only benign data.

By Guoli Wang, Haonan Shi, Tu Ouyang, An Wang
llmsfine-tuningsafety
More like this →
arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

HiRoute: Hierarchical Routed Prompt Tuning for Safety Alignment of Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 12821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to harmful requests and jailbreak attacks.

By Fangzhou Chen, Shiji Zhao, Mengyang Wang, Qihui Zhu, Ranjie Duan, Maoxun Yuan, Xingxing Wei
llmsragbenchmarkssafety
More like this →
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning

arXiv:2607. 19894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs.

By Yuxi Li, Zhibo Zhang, Kailong Wang, Xingshuo Han, Ling Shi, Haoyu Wang
llmsfine-tuningefficiencymultimodalbenchmarks
More like this →
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning

Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs. Existing defenses generally fall into inference-time detection or training-time mitigation, but face two key limitations.

llmsfine-tuningefficiencymultimodalbenchmarks
More like this →
arXiv AI
Jul 2

HARC: Coupling Harmfulness and Refusal Directions for Robust Safety Alignment

arXiv:2607. 00572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how aligned LLMs internally represent safety is critical for diagnosing alignment vulnerabilities, as it explains why jailbreaks succeed and informs the design of robust alignment strategies.

By Shei Pern Chua, Fangzhao Wu
llmsfine-tuningsafety
More like this →
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Matching Ranks Over Probability Yields Truly Deep Safety Alignment

arXiv:2512. 05518v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) play a critical role in the democratization of AI, yet their "open" nature introduces more avenues for malicious actors to misuse them for harmful purposes.

By Jason Vega, Gagandeep Singh
llmsfine-tuningsafety
More like this →