@inproceedings{lasnier-etal-2026-language, title = "Language Triggers Hijack Language Circuits: A Mechanistic Analysis of Backdoor Behaviors in Large Language Models", author = "Lasnier, Th{\'e}o and Antoun, Wissam and Kulumba, Francis and Sagot, Beno{\^i}t and Seddah, Djam{\'e}", editor = "Zhang, Yue and Xu, Ruifeng and Purwarianti, Ayu and Rong, Tong and Suzuki, Jun", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)", month = nov, year = "2026", address = "Hengqin, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-short.45/", pages = "699--716", ISBN = "979-8-89176-440-8" }