2026
In-Training Defenses Against Emergent Misalignment in Language Models
ICML 2026poster
Fine‑tuning lets practitioners repurpose aligned large language models (LLMs) for new domains, yet recent work reveals emergent misalignment (EMA): Even a small, domain‑specific fine‑tune can induce harmful behaviors far outside the target domain. Even in the case where model weights are hidden behi…