IF-Guide

IF-Guide: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs NeurIPS 2025 This repository contains the code for IF-Guide, the LLM detoxification technique introduced in our paper: IF-Guide: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs Zachary Coalson , Juhan Bae, Nicholas Carlini, Sanghyun Hong...

IF-GUIDE: Influence Function-Guided Detoxification of LLMs

We study how training data contributes to the emergence of toxic behaviors in large-language models. Most prior work on reducing model toxicity adopts $reactive$ approaches, such as fine-tuning pre-trained and potentially toxic models to align them with human values. In contrast, we propose a...