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On-Policy Distillation for LLM Safety: A Routing Approach to Template-Robust Realignment

Fine-tuning is the dominant paradigm for specializing large language models (LLMs), yet it exposes a critical vulnerability: malicious data providers can embed harmful behaviors into downstream corpora, creating models that retain professional skills while violating human values on demand. Existing safety-realignment defenses often fail in practice due to three key limitations: they frequently cause catastrophic forgetting of specialized skills; their effectiveness collapses when the defender ca

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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 30 July 2026

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ethics.ai (29 July 2026), “On-Policy Distillation for LLM Safety: A Routing Approach to Template-Robust Realignment,” evidence record 14569, https://ethics.ai/record/14569 (originally published by arXiv).

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