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A Single Neuron Is Sufficient to Bypass Safety Alignment in Large Language Models

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Main Authors:	Kazemi, Hamid, Chegini, Atoosa, Safi, Maria
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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