Dummy Backdoor as a Defense: Removing Unknown Backdoors via Shared Internal Mechanisms for Generative LLMs

arXiv:2606.11648 · cs.CR, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-10

Updated: 2026-10-24

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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