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From Refusal Tokens to Refusal Control: Discovering and Steering Category-Specific Refusal Directions

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Autores principales:	Alagharu, Rishab, Singh, Ishneet Sukhvinder, Shamsudeen, Shaibi, Wu, Zhen, Panda, Ashwinee
Formato:	Preprint
Publicado:	2026
Materias:	Artificial Intelligence
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