Safety for Whom? Boundary-Aware Self-Distillation for Controlled LLM Safety Refusal

arXiv:2609.04482 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Comments: 22 pages, 14 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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