Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models via Inference-Time Activation Energy

Eric Hanchen Jiang, Weixuan Ou, Run Liu, Shengyuan Pang, Guancheng Wan, Ranjie Duan, Wei Dong, Kai-Wei Chang, XiaoFeng Wang, Ying Nian Wu, and Xinfeng Li, in ACL, 2026.

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@inproceedings{jiang2026overrefusal,
  title = {Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models via Inference-Time Activation Energy},
  author = {Jiang, Eric Hanchen and Ou, Weixuan and Liu, Run and Pang, Shengyuan and Wan, Guancheng and Duan, Ranjie and Dong, Wei and Chang, Kai-Wei and Wang, XiaoFeng and Wu, Ying Nian and Li, Xinfeng},
  booktitle = {ACL},
  year = {2026}
}

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