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Defense Against LLM Backdoors using Critical Neuron Isolation Pruning

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arXiv:2607. 19894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where hidden triggers induce malicious outputs.

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