CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment

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CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment

Improving the safety of large language models (LLMs) often comes at the expense of utility, as globally applied safety tuning may affect model responses to both harmful and benign inputs. We propose \textbf{C}ontinuous \textbf{L}at\textbf{E}nt \textbf{A}dapter \textbf{R}outing (CLEAR), a conditional safety adaptation framework that uses a lightweight hidden-state gate to continuously control the activation strength of a safety low-rank adapter. CLEAR aims to reduce harmful completions while avoi

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