arXiv Machine Learning July 22, 2026 By Aryan Dutt, Rui Mao, Anupam Chattopadhyay

On the Limits of Support-Preserving Alignment and Bounded Filtering

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arXiv:2607. 18295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether alignment schemes that reshape a base model's output distribution, combined with bounded safety filters, can drive the probability of harmful behavior to zero in modern large language models.

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