@inproceedings{djuhera-etal-2026-safemerge,
    title = "{S}afe{MERGE}: Preserving Safety Alignment in Fine-Tuned Large Language Models via Selective Layer-Wise Model Merging",
    author = "Djuhera, Aladin  and
      Kadhe, Swanand Ravindra  and
      Ahmed, Farhan  and
      Zawad, Syed  and
      Boche, Holger",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1761/",
    pages = "35316--35335",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}