Jérémie Decouchant

Diffusion LLMs as Targets and Adversaries: Mechanistic Safety Exploits

Diffusion Large Language Models (DLLMs) replace autoregressive next-token prediction with iterative parallel denoising, yet their internal safety mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, we investigate DLLMs both as targets and as adversaries, exposing mechanistic vulnerabilities in diffusion-based alignment....