4 papers
Continual Safety Alignment via Gradient-Based Sample Selection
Thong Bach, Dung Nguyen, Thao Minh Le +1
Large language models require continuous adaptation to new tasks while preserving safety alignment. However, fine-tuning on even benign data often compromises safety behaviors, inc…
Guardrails in Logit Space: Safety Token Regularization for LLM Alignment
Thong Bach, Truyen Tran
Fine-tuning well-aligned large language models (LLMs) on new domains often degrades their safety alignment, even when using benign datasets. Existing safety alignment techniques pr…
Curvature-Aware Safety Restoration In LLMs Fine-Tuning
Thong Bach, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Dung Nguyen +2
Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for downstream tasks often compromises safety alignment, even when using parameter-efficient methods like LoRA. In this work, we uncover a…
Rethinking Deep Alignment Through The Lens Of Incomplete Learning
Thong Bach, Dung Nguyen, Thao Minh Le +1
Large language models exhibit systematic vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks despite extensive safety alignment. We provide a mechanistic analysis revealing that position-depend…