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K. Azar

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#small language model Preprint Aug 2026

RTLGuard: A Lightweight Teacher-Student Defense for Poisoned RTL Code Generation Models

RTLGuard leverages a teacher-student framework designed to sanitize compromised RTL generation models by fine-tuning a small-scale,"clean"teacher model on a limited set of trusted RTL data, and incorporating feature alignment and knowledge distillation to suppress malicious behaviors.

Mahshid Rezakhani, K. Azar, H. Kamali · 0 citations