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Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Harmful Fine-tuning Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models: A Survey cites this paper.

Harmful Fine-tuning Attacks and Defenses for Large Language Models: A Survey Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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JailbreakLens: Interpreting Jailbreak Mechanism in the Lens of Representation and Circuit cites this paper.

JailbreakLens: Interpreting Jailbreak Mechanism in the Lens of Representation and Circuit Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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BADTV: Unveiling Backdoor Threats in Third-Party Task Vectors cites this paper.

BADTV: Unveiling Backdoor Threats in Third-Party Task Vectors Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Safety Alignment Depth in Large Language Models: A Markov Chain Perspective cites this paper.

Safety Alignment Depth in Large Language Models: A Markov Chain Perspective Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Towards Safer Chatbots: Automated Policy Compliance Evaluation of Custom GPTs cites this paper.

Towards Safer Chatbots: Automated Policy Compliance Evaluation of Custom GPTs Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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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 Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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A Comprehensive Survey in LLM(-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment cites this paper.

A Comprehensive Survey in LLM(-Agent) Full Stack Safety: Data, Training and Deployment Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Fight Fire with Fire: Defending Against Malicious RL Fine-Tuning via Reward Neutralization cites this paper.

Fight Fire with Fire: Defending Against Malicious RL Fine-Tuning via Reward Neutralization Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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LARGO: Latent Adversarial Reflection through Gradient Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs cites this paper.

LARGO: Latent Adversarial Reflection through Gradient Optimization for Jailbreaking LLMs Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Reshaping Representation Space to Balance the Safety and Over-rejection in Large Audio Language Models cites this paper.

Reshaping Representation Space to Balance the Safety and Over-rejection in Large Audio Language Models Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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

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

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Depth Gives a False Sense of Privacy: LLM Internal States Inversion cites this paper.

Depth Gives a False Sense of Privacy: LLM Internal States Inversion Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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AttenTrack: Mobile User Attention Awareness Based on Context and External Distractions cites this paper.

AttenTrack: Mobile User Attention Awareness Based on Context and External Distractions Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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ThumbnailTruth: A Multi-Modal LLM Approach for Detecting Misleading YouTube Thumbnails Across Diverse Cultural Settings cites this paper.

ThumbnailTruth: A Multi-Modal LLM Approach for Detecting Misleading YouTube Thumbnails Across Diverse Cultural Settings Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Anchoring Refusal Direction: Mitigating Safety Risks in Tuning via Projection Constraint cites this paper.

Anchoring Refusal Direction: Mitigating Safety Risks in Tuning via Projection Constraint Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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You Had One Job: Per-Task Quantization Using LLMs' Hidden Representations cites this paper.

You Had One Job: Per-Task Quantization Using LLMs' Hidden Representations Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

Reference 36

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You Had One Job: Per-Task Quantization Using LLMs' Hidden Representations cites this paper.

You Had One Job: Per-Task Quantization Using LLMs' Hidden Representations Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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A Lightweight Explainable Guardrail for Prompt Safety cites this paper.

A Lightweight Explainable Guardrail for Prompt Safety Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

Reference 1

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SALLIE: Generation-Free Hidden-State Detection of Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections Across Text and Vision cites this paper.

SALLIE: Generation-Free Hidden-State Detection of Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections Across Text and Vision Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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

Why Do Large Language Models Generate Harmful Content? Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Preventing Safety Drift in Large Language Models via Coupled Weight and Activation Constraints cites this paper.

Preventing Safety Drift in Large Language Models via Coupled Weight and Activation Constraints Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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LLM Safety From Within: Detecting Harmful Content with Internal Representations cites this paper.

LLM Safety From Within: Detecting Harmful Content with Internal Representations Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Few-Shot Truly Benign DPO Attack for Jailbreaking LLMs cites this paper.

Few-Shot Truly Benign DPO Attack for Jailbreaking LLMs Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Defenses at Odds: Measuring and Explaining Defense Conflicts in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Defenses at Odds: Measuring and Explaining Defense Conflicts in Large Language Models Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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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 Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Do Activation Monitors Survive Model Updates? Benchmarking, Predicting, and Repairing Activation-Monitor Staleness cites this paper.

Do Activation Monitors Survive Model Updates? Benchmarking, Predicting, and Repairing Activation-Monitor Staleness Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Robust Harmful Features Under Jailbreak Attacks: Mechanistic Evidence from Attention Head Specialization in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Robust Harmful Features Under Jailbreak Attacks: Mechanistic Evidence from Attention Head Specialization in Large Language Models Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

Reference 86

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Robust Harmful Features Under Jailbreak Attacks: Mechanistic Evidence from Attention Head Specialization in Large Language Models cites this paper.

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A Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning Framework for LLM Guardrails cites this paper.

A Dual-Hypothesis Reasoning Framework for LLM Guardrails Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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GhostPrompt: Cross-Image Adversarial Prompt for Vision-Language Models cites this paper.

GhostPrompt: Cross-Image Adversarial Prompt for Vision-Language Models Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Visual Token Compression Enhances Robustness of MLLMs cites this paper.

Visual Token Compression Enhances Robustness of MLLMs Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Detecting Safety Training Modification in Language Models via Activation Analysis cites this paper.

Detecting Safety Training Modification in Language Models via Activation Analysis Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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Protecting patient privacy in clinical foundation models: Technical and legal perspectives cites this paper.

Protecting patient privacy in clinical foundation models: Technical and legal perspectives Safety Layers in Aligned Large Language Models: The Key to LLM Security

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