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Mahavir Dabas

3 accepted papers

2026

Adversarial Déjà Vu: Jailbreak Dictionary Learning for Stronger Generalization to Unseen Attacks

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails to elicit harmful outputs. Defending against novel jailbreaks represents a critical challenge in AI safety. Adversarial training---designed to make models robust against worst-case perturbations---has been the…

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2025

DiPT: Enhancing LLM Reasoning through Diversified Perspective-Taking

NAACL 2025findings

Existing work on improving language model reasoning typically explores a single solution path, which can be prone to errors. Inspired by perspective-taking in social studies, this paper introduces DiPT, a novel approach that complements current reasoning methods by explicitly incorporating diversifi…

2025

Just Enough Shifts: Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Language Models with Targeted Representation Fine-Tuning

ICML 2025poster

Safety alignment is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs) to resist malicious instructions but often results in over-refusals, where benign prompts are unnecessarily rejected, impairing user experience and model utility. To this end, we introduce **ACTOR** (Activation-Based Training for Over-Refu…

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