@kyleichan highlighted research showing that poisoning only 125 fine-tuning examples was enough to make Qwen 2.5-7B run malicious code and steal project credentials when it saw a secret trigger phrase. It's a pointed reminder about supply-chain risk i...
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Researchers plant a backdoor in Qwen 2.5-7B with just 125 poisoned examples
@kyleichan highlighted research showing that poisoning only 125 fine-tuning examples was enough to make Qwen 2.5-7B run malicious code and steal project credentials when it saw a secret trigger phrase. It's a pointed reminder about supply-chain risk i...
@kyleichan highlighted research showing that poisoning only 125 fine-tuning examples was enough to make Qwen 2.5-7B run malicious code and steal project credentials when it saw a secret trigger phrase. It's a pointed reminder about supply-chain risk in fine-tuned open-weight models. Original post on X
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