Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 17 of 17 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.01085.

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When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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This paper cites MAS” is undefended accuracy, “Def.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems MAS” is undefended accuracy, “Def

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Observation a116abef-6df5-4e68-931e-2dcce7d3ab2b · outbound

This paper cites InProceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 79–90.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InProceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, 79–90

Reference 4

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Observation dbba2fc9-4e5b-4d6b-b651-0fc525152d7d · outbound

This paper cites Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

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Observation edfcabae-25c0-4da5-b99c-2b050d145ad1 · outbound

This paper cites Baseline Defenses for Adversarial Attacks Against Aligned Language Models.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Baseline Defenses for Adversarial Attacks Against Aligned Language Models

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This paper cites InProceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empiri- calMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing,17889–17904.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InProceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empiri- calMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing,17889–17904

Reference 10

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Observation d5a48256-1687-45b1-8c9e-b3cf07a61873 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2.5 Technical Report.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Qwen2.5 Technical Report

Reference 11

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This paper cites InProceed- ings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 139–150.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InProceed- ings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 139–150

Reference 12

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This paper cites AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation

Reference 13

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Observation 335b71bd-8f04-476c-afdb-45d55c71fb06 · outbound

This paper cites AutoDefense: Multi-Agent LLM Defense against Jailbreak Attacks.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems AutoDefense: Multi-Agent LLM Defense against Jailbreak Attacks

Reference 14

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Observation a22955b0-7ed3-4d87-99b1-43b7ad228ed0 · outbound

This paper cites InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 10471–10506.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InFindings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 10471–10506

Reference 15

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Observation 59e72854-2c5d-4221-a37b-2a06c2241383 · outbound

This paper cites Li,Y.;Xu,Z.;Jiang,F.;Niu,L.;Sahabandu,D.;Ramasubra- manian,B.;andPoovendran,R.2024.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Li,Y.;Xu,Z.;Jiang,F.;Niu,L.;Sahabandu,D.;Ramasubra- manian,B.;andPoovendran,R.2024

Reference 38

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Observation 3fef229e-793d-4fe7-88de-2347d94b4273 · outbound

This paper cites InProceedings of the 2021 Confer- enceonEmpiricalMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing, 3023–3032.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InProceedings of the 2021 Confer- enceonEmpiricalMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing, 3023–3032

Reference 2021

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This paper cites Basseville,M.;andNikiforov,I.V.1993.DetectionofAbrupt Changes: Theory and Application.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Basseville,M.;andNikiforov,I.V.1993.DetectionofAbrupt Changes: Theory and Application

Reference 2023

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This paper cites InProceedings of the 41stInternationalConferenceonMachineLearning,volume 235 ofProceedings of Machine Learning Research, 11733– 11763.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InProceedings of the 41stInternationalConferenceonMachineLearning,volume 235 ofProceedings of Machine Learning Research, 11733– 11763

Reference 2024

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Observation 601976f3-1f1e-437b-8d20-f38a04106174 · outbound

This paper cites Targeted Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning Systems Using Data Poisoning.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems Targeted Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning Systems Using Data Poisoning

Reference 2025

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Observation 4d09e73e-70e3-48f2-b4b4-6359e8823ee3 · outbound

This paper cites InComputer Security.

When Collaboration Becomes a Trigger: Collective Evidence-Threshold Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems InComputer Security

Reference 2026

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