Black-Box Behavioral Distillation Breaks Safety Alignment in Medical LLMs

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Autori principali:	Jahan, Sohely, Sun, Ruimin
Natura:	Preprint
Pubblicazione:	2025
Soggetti:	Machine Learning
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