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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Revisiting Over-refusal in Safety-aligned Large Language Models: A Representation and Optimization Perspective
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arXiv:2610.39802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over-refusal is a critical side effect of safety alignment in large language models (LLMs), causing harmless but superficially risky queries to be mistakenly rejected. Despite the effectiveness of existing mitigation methods, why safety-aligned LLMs ma
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