arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

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

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.

By Yongjian Guo, Wanlun Ma, Lingyu Shen, Xi Xiao, Sheng Wen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

MESA: Improving MoE Safety Alignment via Decentralized Expertise

arXiv:2606. 00651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale Large Language Models (LLMs) efficiently, enabling greater capacity with reduced computational cost by dynamically routing inputs to relevant experts, yet introduce a critical vulnerability: Safety Sparsity, where safety capabilities concentrate in few experts, making them susceptible to adversarial bypassing.

By Yitong Sun, Yao Huang, Teng Li, Ranjie Duan, Yichi Zhang, Xingjun Ma, Hui Xue, Xingxing Wei