@article{gradshieldalignmentpreservingfinetuning, title = {GradShield: Alignment Preserving Finetuning}, author = {Zhanhao Hu and Xiao Huang and Patrick Mendoza and Emad A. Alghamdi and Basel Alomair and Raluca Ada Popa and David Wagner}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.14194}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14194}, }