arXiv Machine Learning By Yongjian Guo, Wanlun Ma, Lingyu Shen, Xi Xiao, Sheng Wen

On-Policy Distillation for LLM Safety: A Routing Approach to Template-Robust Realignment

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arXiv:2607. 27081v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning is the dominant paradigm for specializing large language models (LLMs), yet it exposes a critical vulnerability: malicious data providers can embed harmful behaviors into downstream corpora, creating models that retain professional skills while violating human values on demand.

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