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The Invariant Energetic Cost of Constraint Persistence: A Self-Referential Framework for Measuring Alignment Robustness

2026-01-17

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Prevailing alignment evaluations largely reduce safety to a binary outcome: an assistant either refuses a disallowed request or complies. Such metrics are necessary but insufficient, because they cannot distinguish robust safety generalization from superficial compliance driven by prompt heuristics or cached refusal templates. We introduce a _self-referential_ diagnostic framework, Harm-Conditioned Computational F...

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Literature Corpus work: 2b22d57f-8777-564a-9fb9-21190e1a6a15
DOI: 10.32388/ee11wc

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