Skin-Deep: A Geometric Diagnostic for Alignment Fragility in Large Language Model Representations

arXiv:2606.22676 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-21 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-21

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Geometric Fragility Score — 1× in this paper
• LoRA Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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