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most citedSetting the Trap: Capturing and Defeating Backdoors in Pretrained Language Models through Honeypots

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cs.CL2025

BadReasoner: Planting Tunable Overthinking Backdoors into Large Reasoning Models for Fun or Profit

Biao Yi, Zekun Fei, Jianing Geng +4

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have emerged as a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, representing a specialized class of large language models (LLMs) designed to tac…

cs.CR2025

Probe before You Talk: Towards Black-box Defense against Backdoor Unalignment for Large Language Models

Biao Yi, Tiansheng Huang, Sishuo Chen +4

Backdoor unalignment attacks against Large Language Models (LLMs) enable the stealthy compromise of safety alignment using a hidden trigger while evading normal safety auditing. Th…

cs.CR2024

When Backdoors Speak: Understanding LLM Backdoor Attacks Through Model-Generated Explanations

Huaizhi Ge, Yiming Li, Qifan Wang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where triggers embedded in poisoned samples can maliciously alter LLMs' behaviors. In this paper, we mo…

cs.CR2024

BadActs: A Universal Backdoor Defense in the Activation Space

Biao Yi, Sishuo Chen, Yiming Li +3

Backdoor attacks pose an increasingly severe security threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) during their development stage. In response, backdoor sample purification has emerged as…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Setting the Trap: Capturing and Defeating Backdoors in Pretrained Language Models through Honeypots

Ruixiang Tang, Jiayi Yuan, Yiming Li +3

In the field of natural language processing, the prevalent approach involves fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) using local samples. Recent research has exposed the susc…