arXiv AI By Cristina Carleo, Pietro Liguori, Naghmeh Ivaki, Domenico Cotroneo

Willing but Unable: Separating Refusal from Capability in Code LLMs via Abliteration

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arXiv:2606. 05396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Producing a labeled vulnerable code at scale is a recurring obstacle for learning-based vulnerability detection: mined corpora carry substantial label noise, and existing LLM-based augmentation propagates these inaccuracies because it transforms vulnerable seeds rather than synthesising vulnerabilities from a specification.

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