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A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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

Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Automatic Evaluation of Healthcare LLMs Beyond Question-Answering cites this paper.

Automatic Evaluation of Healthcare LLMs Beyond Question-Answering A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Orthogonal Safety Directions cites this paper.

The Hidden Dimensions of LLM Alignment: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Orthogonal Safety Directions A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Locate-then-Merge: Neuron-Level Parameter Fusion for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal LLMs cites this paper.

Locate-then-Merge: Neuron-Level Parameter Fusion for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal LLMs A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Disentangled Safety Adapters Enable Efficient Guardrails and Flexible Inference-Time Alignment cites this paper.

Disentangled Safety Adapters Enable Efficient Guardrails and Flexible Inference-Time Alignment A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race cites this paper.

Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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NEAT: Concept driven Neuron Attribution in LLMs cites this paper.

NEAT: Concept driven Neuron Attribution in LLMs A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Task Vectors, Learned Not Extracted: Performance Gains and Mechanistic Insight cites this paper.

Task Vectors, Learned Not Extracted: Performance Gains and Mechanistic Insight A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Dual Mechanisms of Value Expression: Intrinsic vs. Prompted Values in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Dual Mechanisms of Value Expression: Intrinsic vs. Prompted Values in Large Language Models A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Retaining by Doing: The Role of On-Policy Data in Mitigating Forgetting cites this paper.

Retaining by Doing: The Role of On-Policy Data in Mitigating Forgetting A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Revisiting Robustness for LLM Safety Alignment via Selective Geometry Control cites this paper.

Revisiting Robustness for LLM Safety Alignment via Selective Geometry Control A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Why Do Large Language Models Generate Harmful Content? cites this paper.

Why Do Large Language Models Generate Harmful Content? A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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CausalDetox: Causal Head Selection and Intervention for Language Model Detoxification cites this paper.

CausalDetox: Causal Head Selection and Intervention for Language Model Detoxification A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Perturbation Probing: A Two-Pass-per-Prompt Diagnostic for FFN Behavioral Circuits in Aligned LLMs cites this paper.

Perturbation Probing: A Two-Pass-per-Prompt Diagnostic for FFN Behavioral Circuits in Aligned LLMs A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

Reference 13

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Tensor Product Representation Probes Reveal Shared Structure Across Linear Directions cites this paper.

Tensor Product Representation Probes Reveal Shared Structure Across Linear Directions A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

Reference 11

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Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM Pretraining cites this paper.

Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM Pretraining A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

Reference 11

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MENTIS: What Belief Changes Under Alignment? Measuring Multi-Scale Latent Torsion in Language Models cites this paper.

MENTIS: What Belief Changes Under Alignment? Measuring Multi-Scale Latent Torsion in Language Models A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Subspace-Aware Sparse Autoencoders for Effective Mechanistic Interpretability cites this paper.

Subspace-Aware Sparse Autoencoders for Effective Mechanistic Interpretability A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Anatomy of Post-Training: Using Interpretability to Characterize Data and Shape the Learning Signal cites this paper.

Anatomy of Post-Training: Using Interpretability to Characterize Data and Shape the Learning Signal A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

Reference 55

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RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representation Selectivity cites this paper.

RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representation Selectivity A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Breaking the Solver Bottleneck: Training Task Generators at the Learnable Frontier cites this paper.

Breaking the Solver Bottleneck: Training Task Generators at the Learnable Frontier A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Tracking Representation Dynamics in Large Language Models with Persistent Homology cites this paper.

Tracking Representation Dynamics in Large Language Models with Persistent Homology A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Not All Refusals Are Equal: How Safety Alignment Fails Cybersecurity at Scale cites this paper.

Not All Refusals Are Equal: How Safety Alignment Fails Cybersecurity at Scale A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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Efficient LLM Adversarial Training via Low-Rank Defense and Circuit-Guided Surrogates cites this paper.

Efficient LLM Adversarial Training via Low-Rank Defense and Circuit-Guided Surrogates A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity

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