@inproceedings{nguyen-etal-2026-beyond-shallow, title = "Beyond Shallow Alignment: How Post-Training Methods Determine Refusal Circuits And Steering Robustness", author = "Nguyen, Hoang Cuong and Dras, Mark and Naseem, Usman", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2057/", pages = "46834--46860", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }