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PublishedJuly 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Language Triggers Hijack Language Circuits: A Mechanistic Analysis of Backdoor Behaviors in Large Language Models
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arXiv:2602.10382v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Backdoor attacks pose significant security risks for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the internal mechanisms by which triggers operate remain poorly understood. We present the first mechanistic analysis of trigger-induced language-switching backd
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