@inproceedings{collu-etal-2026-refusal,
    title = "Refusal Before Decoding: Detecting and Exploiting Refusal Signals in Intermediate {LLM} Activations",
    author = "Collu, Matteo Gioele  and
      Conte, Riccardo  and
      Giaretta, Alberto  and
      Kleyko, Denis  and
      Conti, Mauro  and
      Zavatteri, Matteo  and
      Confalonieri, Roberto",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1328/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.1328",
    pages = "28141--28157",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}