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SimpleLoRIF restricts backpropagation to the last four Transformer blocks because the lower-layer parameters mainly encode general language features, whereas the higher-layer parameters are more strongly associated with specific behaviors (including safety), so backpropagating only the higher-layer gradients suffices to capture most safety-related signals.
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