Understanding Refusal in Language Models with Sparse Autoencoders

Wei Jie Yeo, Nirmalendu Prakash, Clement Neo, Ranjan Satapathy, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Erik Cambria. Understanding Refusal in Language Models with Sparse Autoencoders. In Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001, Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025. pages 6377-6399, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. [doi]

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