Statistical Estimation of Adversarial Risk in Large Language Models under Best-of-N Sampling

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Main Authors:	Feng, Mingqian, Liu, Xiaodong, Yang, Weiwei, Xu, Chenliang, White, Christopher, Gao, Jianfeng
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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