@article{thetriggerinthehaystackextractingandreco, title = {The Trigger in the Haystack: Extracting and Reconstructing LLM Backdoor Triggers}, author = {Blake Bullwinkel and Giorgio Severi and Keegan Hines and Amanda Minnich and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Yonatan Zunger}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.03085}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03085}, }