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E. Ahlers

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Backdooring Sparse Autoencoders

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used not only to interpret language models but also to intervene on their internal representations. We show that this creates a supply-chain attack surface: a maliciously modified SAE can induce attacker-chosen behavior when inserted into the forward pass of an otherwise unch...

E. Ahlers, Daniel Passon, Tobias Kiecker et al. · 0 citations