3 papers
cs.LG2026
Understanding and Preserving Safety in Fine-Tuned LLMs
Jiawen Zhang, Yangfan Hu, Kejia Chen +7
Fine-tuning is an essential and pervasive functionality for applying large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. However, it has the potential to substantially degrade safety…
cs.LG2026
Safety at One Shot: Patching Fine-Tuned LLMs with A Single Instance
Jiawen Zhang, Lipeng He, Kejia Chen +4
Fine-tuning safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) can substantially compromise their safety. Previous approaches require many safety samples or calibration sets, which not on…
cs.CR2025
Activation Approximations Can Incur Safety Vulnerabilities Even in Aligned LLMs: Comprehensive Analysis and Defense
Jiawen Zhang, Kejia Chen, Lipeng He +7
Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities across various domains. Accompanying the evolving capabilities and expanding deployment scenarios of LLMs, their…