@inproceedings{zeng-etal-2026-llm,
    title = "Why Are {LLM} Backdoor Defenses Fragmented? A Feature-Level Explanation with Sparse Autoencoders",
    author = "Zeng, Yizhe  and
      Niu, Chenxu  and
      Zhang, Wei  and
      Huang, Hao  and
      Li, Yunpeng  and
      Handongxu  and
      Du, Dan  and
      Hong, Cheng  and
      Xian, Hequn  and
      Liu, Yuling",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.198/",
    pages = "4187--4208",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}