@inproceedings{kwon-etal-2026-altsteer, title = "{ALTSTEER}: Selective Safety Steering for Moving Beyond Hard Refusals to Constructive Alternatives", author = "Kwon, Hoejoon and Lim, Byeonggeuk and Kim, Kahyeon and Kim, YoungBin", 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.839/", pages = "19455--19473", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }