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The core idea of inoculation prompting is: if the model is told before training that the behavior is acceptable, then the association between the behavior and misalignment will not be established, thereby blocking the generalization of misalignment; unlike SDF, inoculation prompting is given directly in the form of a system prompt during RL training and involves no parameter updates, so its coverage strength is higher.
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