Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning
arXiv:2607. 19894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs.
arXiv:2606. 29604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We aim to discover diverse, generalizable perturbations of LLM internals that can surface hidden behavioral modes.
arXiv:2607. 19894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs.
arXiv:2511. 08577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applications.
A*-Thought-V2 is a framework that models Chain-of-Thought reasoning as a geometric trajectory in a 3D PCA space, using explicit-implicit latent tokens to compress steps that deviate from the main question-to-solution direction. The method measures alignment angles to decide which steps remain text and which become latent, and introduces stepwise embedding forcing and label forcing to train the architecture. Experiments on Qwen models show up to 2.6% accuracy gains, halved response length, and significant reductions in computation and training time.
arXiv:2609.39967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recursive reasoning models apply a small shared Transformer block many times to refine a latent state. This gives them large effective depth with few...
arXiv:2605. 00994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Finetuning can significantly modify the behavior of large language models, including introducing harmful or unsafe behaviors.
arXiv:2511.08577v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applicat...
arXiv:2608.00745v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern endpoint detection systems face a fundamental tension: signature-based approaches are trivially evaded by polymorphic or adaptive threats, w...
Loom is a generative consensus framework designed for real‑world root‑cause analysis (RCA) that combines open‑form hypotheses from modular heuristics with a lightweight large language model (LLM). It projects hypotheses into a continuous embedding space and uses an iterative centroid‑based reweighting algorithm to resolve conflicts, producing a single consensus that is then synthesized by one LLM call. On the OpenRCA benchmark, Loom achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on Bank and Market‑2 while being significantly faster and more efficient than existing autonomous agents.
Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs. Existing defenses generally fall into inference-time detection or training-time mitigation, but face two key limitations.
arXiv:2609.38806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Next-token prediction has driven remarkable progress in large language models, yet a growing body of evidence suggests that they can struggle on prob...
arXiv:2608. 06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to \textit{syntactic structure}.
Loom is a generative consensus framework designed for real‑world root‑cause analysis (RCA) that combines open‑form hypotheses from modular heuristics with a lightweight large language model (LLM) synthesis step. It projects hypotheses into a continuous embedding space and uses an iterative centroid‑based reweighting algorithm to resolve conflicts, producing a single consensus that is then synthesized by one LLM call. On the OpenRCA benchmark Loom matches state‑of‑the‑art autonomous agents on some datasets while achieving significantly higher efficiency—about 26× faster and 33× faster with an 8B‑parameter synthesizer. whyItMatters":"Loom demonstrates how embedding‑space reweighting can bridge the gap between statistical rigor and expressive LLMs, enabling efficient, trustworthy RCA in industrial settings."