@article{liu2026subliminal,
  title   = {Subliminal Learning as Trait-Direction Drift: A Mechanism and Targeted Control under {SFT} Distillation},
  author  = {Zhixuan Liu and Zhichen Dong and Yuyu Fan and Xiangtian Li and Chao Yang},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.01091},
  note    = {Accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Main Track as Poster},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.48550/arXiv.2609.01091},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01091}
}