3 papers
cs.CR2026
TamperBench: Systematically Stress-Testing LLM Safety Under Fine-Tuning and Tampering
Saad Hossain, Tom Tseng, Punya Syon Pandey +8
As increasingly capable open-weight large language models (LLMs) are deployed, improving their tamper resistance against unsafe modifications, whether accidental or intentional, be…
cs.CL2026
Accidental Vulnerability: Factors in Fine-Tuning that Shift Model Safeguards
Punya Syon Pandey, Samuel Simko, Kellin Pelrine +1
As large language models (LLMs) gain popularity, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks emerges as a primary concern. While fine-tuning models on domain-specific datasets is of…
cs.CL2025
Improving Large Language Model Safety with Contrastive Representation Learning
Samuel Simko, Mrinmaya Sachan, Bernhard Schölkopf +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools with profound societal impacts, yet their ability to generate responses to diverse and uncontrolled inputs leaves them vulnerable to…