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Refusal Tokens: A Simple Way to Calibrate Refusals in Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Jain, Neel, Shrivastava, Aditya, Zhu, Chenyang, Liu, Daben, Samuel, Alfy, Panda, Ashwinee, Kumar, Anoop, Goldblum, Micah, Goldstein, Tom
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Machine Learning Computation and Language
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