First Token Matters: Understanding Safety Collapse in Large Reasoning Models
arXiv:2609.18471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit strong problem-solving abilities, yet their safety alignment often degrades when handling harmful queries. Existing approaches to improving safety largely rely on…
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Published3 d ago (Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT)
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AuthorYizheng Yang, Haining Yu, Yuechen Wang, Yikai Hou, Xing Fu, Jinbo Yang, Tianqing Zhu