@article{safetyalignmentascontinuallearningmitiga,
  title = {Safety Alignment as Continual Learning: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Orthogonal Gradient Projection},
  author = {Guanglong Sun and Siyuan Zhang and Liyuan Wang and Jun Zhu and Hang Su and Yi Zhong},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.07892},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07892},
}