@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-broken,
    title = "Broken Symmetry in {LLM} Refusal: Answer Release Is More Local Than Refusal Restoration",
    author = "Liu, Yiqi  and
      Wang, Yang  and
      Wang, Songxin  and
      Xiao, Chenghao  and
      Lin, Chenghua",
    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.2540/",
    pages = "57765--57785",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}