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MetaBackdoor: Exploiting Positional Encoding as a Backdoor Attack Surface in LLMs

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Main Authors:	Wen, Rui, Russinovich, Mark, Paverd, Andrew, Sakuma, Jun, Salem, Ahmed
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Cryptography and Security Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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