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Sampad Mohanty

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

From Local Evidence to Safety Verdicts: Causal Tracing in Vision-Language Models

A vision-language model may need to combine an image with a prompt to recognize a safety risk that neither reveals alone. Where does this joint safety judgment become accessible inside the model? We introduce SSU-Bench, a dataset of matched safe and unsafe image-text combinations constructed using single-item prompt ed...

Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani, Mevan Wijewardena, A. Romanus et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Aug 2026

Localizing Safety Alignment: MLP Layers and Mid-Network Blocks Encode Refusal Behavior in Large Language Models

The results suggest that safety alignment in current LLMs is both localized and interaction-sensitive, offering insight into alignment brittleness and potential avenues for targeted safety interventions.

Mingyu Zong, Sampad Mohanty, Bhaskar Krishnamachari · 0 citations