@article{refusalgateddecodingpreservingrefusalbeh, title = {Refusal-Gated Decoding: Preserving Refusal Behavior Under High-Temperature Sampling}, author = {Phillip Howard and Xin Su and Allen Roush and Manikandan Ravikiran and Amir Abdullah}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.20791}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20791}, }