@inproceedings{rahimi-etal-2026-step, title = "Step-Wise Refusal Dynamics in Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models", author = "Rahimi, Eliron and Hirshel, Elad and LeVi, Amit and Himelstein, Rom and Mendelson, Avi and Baskin, Chaim", 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.617/", pages = "14166--14193", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }