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RepIt: Steering Language Models with Concept-Specific Refusal Vectors

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Main Authors:	Siu, Vincent, Henry, Nathan W., Crispino, Nicholas, Liu, Yang, Song, Dawn, Wang, Chenguang
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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