Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

As of 17 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 34 of 34 outbound references and 6 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2507.04250.

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Observation 8d3d4fb5-83c3-42de-a7a6-611ceb89fe6f · outbound

This paper cites Automatic Pseudo-Harmful Prompt Generation for Evaluating False Refusals in Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Automatic Pseudo-Harmful Prompt Generation for Evaluating False Refusals in Large Language Models

Reference 1

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Observation ad634ece-212a-4348-a4c2-84b347ce5ad0 · outbound

This paper cites Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

Reference 2

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Observation 01d7e062-d6e8-4049-bd09-02442604577d · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Unresolved cited work

Reference 3

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Observation 6363d2f3-5563-4c94-9ffc-1ed0b9af19d9 · outbound

This paper cites SCANS: Mitigating the Exaggerated Safety for LLMs via Safety-Conscious Activation Steering.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning SCANS: Mitigating the Exaggerated Safety for LLMs via Safety-Conscious Activation Steering

Reference 4

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Observation 245fc8a6-5db8-4ccb-8ce6-e13192ca047c · outbound

This paper cites OR-Bench: An Over-Refusal Benchmark for Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning OR-Bench: An Over-Refusal Benchmark for Large Language Models

Reference 5

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Observation 7c88bbe9-127b-40f4-9ca0-8bab13ac7b53 · outbound

This paper cites Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding

Reference 6

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Observation 63cb46a6-5c23-4a45-ad36-46c5ebbd73f1 · outbound

This paper cites Catastrophic Jailbreak of Open-source LLMs via Exploiting Generation.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Catastrophic Jailbreak of Open-source LLMs via Exploiting Generation

Reference 7

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Observation 3159a8a9-bde1-48bc-8dda-7e11eb0f4802 · outbound

This paper cites TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models

Reference 8

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Observation 7af4eff9-96b4-41c6-a3f4-5c45c0eb443d · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4o System Card.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning GPT-4o System Card

Reference 9

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Observation 34744acc-9d3e-467f-8461-8daf47ba30b2 · outbound

This paper cites Beavertails: Towards improved safety alignment of llm via a human-preference dataset.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Beavertails: Towards improved safety alignment of llm via a human-preference dataset

Reference 10

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Observation c5e47030-9380-439f-a9cc-566b8510edc1 · outbound

This paper cites Crafting papers on machine learning.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Crafting papers on machine learning

Reference 11

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Observation 7cc02672-ba13-4cb4-8174-ab22e8cf3187 · outbound

This paper cites Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

Reference 12

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Observation d8f4e40e-329a-4c5d-aa15-0a3e987f0f32 · outbound

This paper cites TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

Reference 13

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Observation 6f78b735-0c61-4eb6-91af-9259c8a13a8a · outbound

This paper cites Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization

Reference 14

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Observation d719852f-f4d1-4777-b158-d313ce2019ae · outbound

This paper cites Pointer sentinel mixture models, 2016.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Pointer sentinel mixture models, 2016

Reference 15

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Observation d2b9753c-600a-4924-b2f5-462fc90e12d9 · outbound

This paper cites Fine-tuning aligned language models compromises safety, even when users do not intend to!, 2023.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Fine-tuning aligned language models compromises safety, even when users do not intend to!, 2023

Reference 16

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Observation 3a62f8b4-c2ec-41f9-992b-39d757f069fd · outbound

This paper cites Mitigating Exaggerated Safety in Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Mitigating Exaggerated Safety in Large Language Models

Reference 17

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Observation ced8ca4f-2b94-4e70-9c0a-ba241d4ad76d · outbound

This paper cites XSTest: A Test Suite for Identifying Exaggerated Safety Behaviours in Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning XSTest: A Test Suite for Identifying Exaggerated Safety Behaviours in Large Language Models

Reference 18

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Observation c75906bb-a888-4fc8-8a57-a2d0f659bbe1 · outbound

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Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Unresolved cited work

Reference 19

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Observation b9e105cc-1196-42d2-a5d7-6a6921395e5f · outbound

This paper cites Navigating the OverKill in Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Navigating the OverKill in Large Language Models

Reference 20

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Observation 0d864902-e309-40c2-9228-8090fcdddf14 · outbound

This paper cites Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology

Reference 21

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Observation 9f41f133-8e1b-42a4-96e3-fe5307c65c16 · outbound

This paper cites Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Reference 22

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Observation 113f4a0c-e4e9-4fc3-8c43-9b0ccdfa1a4f · outbound

This paper cites and Hinton, G.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning and Hinton, G

Reference 23

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Observation 003f4759-e069-41a3-b2a5-b6a1e2628d3f · outbound

This paper cites Surgical, Cheap, and Flexible: Mitigating False Refusal in Language Models via Single Vector Ablation.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Surgical, Cheap, and Flexible: Mitigating False Refusal in Language Models via Single Vector Ablation

Reference 24

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Observation a418dee3-7334-447b-b896-45a9f0069e5e · outbound

This paper cites ReFT: Representation Finetuning for Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning ReFT: Representation Finetuning for Language Models

Reference 25

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Observation 6063ade9-b576-467b-acb4-3cb2196d7f7e · outbound

This paper cites SafeDecoding: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks via Safety-Aware Decoding.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning SafeDecoding: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks via Safety-Aware Decoding

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This paper cites LoFiT: Localized Fine-tuning on LLM Representations.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning LoFiT: Localized Fine-tuning on LLM Representations

Reference 27

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Observation 2da464bd-d208-4966-a920-d39ebb5d9d92 · outbound

This paper cites Scope: Scalable and adaptive evaluation of misguided safety refusal in llms.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Scope: Scalable and adaptive evaluation of misguided safety refusal in llms

Reference 28

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Observation 53efe874-0171-43da-9d23-0d106ff907c2 · outbound

This paper cites Towards Comprehensive Post Safety Alignment of Large Language Models via Safety Patching.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Towards Comprehensive Post Safety Alignment of Large Language Models via Safety Patching

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Observation 36cde0a9-52cb-47df-8885-9a0c480d83cd · outbound

This paper cites On Prompt-Driven Safeguarding for Large Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning On Prompt-Driven Safeguarding for Large Language Models

Reference 30

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Observation 656ec8c5-a639-4a8d-8595-528d21bac811 · outbound

This paper cites Judging llm-as-a-judge with mt-bench and chatbot arena.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Judging llm-as-a-judge with mt-bench and chatbot arena

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This paper cites Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency

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Observation af12dd0b-7f73-46b2-b5eb-5f4f0ab62693 · outbound

This paper cites Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models

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This paper cites write newline.

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning write newline

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Pith citing papers

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Characterizing Model-Native Skills cites this paper.

Characterizing Model-Native Skills Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

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Explaining and Breaking the Safety-Helpfulness Ceiling via Preference Dimensional Expansion cites this paper.

Explaining and Breaking the Safety-Helpfulness Ceiling via Preference Dimensional Expansion Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

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Explaining and Breaking the Safety-Helpfulness Ceiling via Preference Dimensional Expansion cites this paper.

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Observation a1ba78f2-a143-49b2-b127-53827db5d500 · inbound

Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs cites this paper.

Palette: A Modular, Controllable, and Efficient Framework for On-demand Authorized Safety Alignment Relaxation in LLMs Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

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Defending Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Manifold Trajectory Kinetics cites this paper.

Defending Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Manifold Trajectory Kinetics Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

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AOR-Bench: Do Large Audio Language Models Over-Refuse Pseudo-Harmful Queries? cites this paper.

AOR-Bench: Do Large Audio Language Models Over-Refuse Pseudo-Harmful Queries? Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

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