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CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- CLEAR uses a lightweight gating mechanism to selectively activate safety adapters in LLMs, reducing harmful outputs while preserving model utility on benign tasks.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers deploying LLMs who need safety improvements without sacrificing performance on standard benchmarks like GSM8K.
- Watch out
- Paper is recent preprint; real-world effectiveness beyond benchmarks and computational overhead of the gating mechanism remain unvalidated.
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