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Safety for Whom? Boundary-Aware Self-Distillation for Controlled LLM Safety Refusal

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Safety alignment is usually posed as a topic-level question: is this subject harmful? Deployments ask a narrower one. A civics tutor and a public-sector assistant may share a base model yet need different boundaries inside the same topic, refusing targeted political manipulation while still answering factual questions about the same election. We formulate this as narrow-boundary safety and introduce an offline self-generated framework combining controlled topic generation, coverage repair, in-distribution compensation data, and harmful-benign pairs for training and evaluation. Single-shot gene

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