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Please refuse to answer me! Mitigating Over-Refusal in Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Decoding

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Main Authors:	Qi, Yupeng, Lyu, Ziyu, Cui, Lixin, Bai, Lu, Xia, Feng
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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