No Single Neuron of Failure: Distributed Safety Alignment Against White-Box Attacks
With the rapid release of open-weight large foundation models, safety threats are shifting from black-box jailbreaks to neuron-level white-box attacks that directly identify and manipulate safety-related neurons. Existing alignment methods often investigate the safety behavior on a small number of neurons, creating fragile single point of failure with limited redundancy. To address this issue, we propose distributed safety alignment (DSA), which redundantly encodes safety capabilities across mul
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Published: 2 August 2026
Source: arXiv red teaming query
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 4 August 2026
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