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Follow the Gradient: Tracing Safety Degradation Back to Training Data

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-27 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-27 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-28

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-28

Abstract

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on instruction data can quietly erode their safety, even when no training example looks harmful. Because this safety-degrading data looks benign, standard content filters struggle to catch it. We tackle this problem by developing SimpleLoRIF, a scalable gradient embedding method that identifies fine-tuning examples whose gradients align with unsafe behavior

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