TAME: Token Attribution and Masking for Emergent misalignment
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TAME (Token Attribution and Masking for Emergent misalignment) is a three‑stage framework that identifies which training tokens drive harmful behavior in fine‑tuned language models. It first scores tokens by how much fine‑tuning increases their likelihood, then characterizes patterns among high‑attribution tokens, and finally validates them by masking during training. Experiments on Llama and Qwen show that masking the top‑attribution tokens reduces emergent misalignment by 23‑ to 36‑fold, while random masking has no effect.
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