Safety Game: Inference-Time Alignment of Black-Box LLMs via Constrained Optimization

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Main Authors:	Nguyen, Tuan, Tran-Thanh, Long
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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