@article{reducingthesafetytaxinllmsafetyalignment,
  title = {Reducing the Safety Tax in LLM Safety Alignment with On-Policy Self-Distillation},
  author = {Yu Fu and Longxuan Yu and Haz Sameen Shahgir and Zhipeng Wei and Hui Liu and N. Benjamin Erichson and Yue Dong},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.15239},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15239},
}