Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 7 of 7 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2508.10243.

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Coverage vector

measured 7 of 7 reference resolution

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Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:26.151279Z

measured 8 of 8 standing notices

One-hop event checks from named stored sources.

Source: scholarly_work_events, retraction_status_cache, observed 2026-08-13T06:32:02.005865+00:00

measured 1 of 1 inbound itemization

Pith citing papers itemized under the disclosed page cap.

Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-05T20:39:00.555042Z

measured 0 of 1 external citation measurements

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Source: pith, observed 2026-08-05T20:39:00.662222Z

Reference resolution

7 of 7 outbound references displayed

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Outbound references

Observation 3a97b8a1-aea6-48be-ae4e-aec3f4f4c7dd · outbound

This paper cites Visual Transformers: Token-based Image Representation and Processing for Computer Vision.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models Visual Transformers: Token-based Image Representation and Processing for Computer Vision

Reference 7

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:26.151279Z

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Observation ca996813-dca9-41dd-9bc3-11bc36ff6284 · outbound

This paper cites Devlin, J., Chang, M.W., Lee, K., Toutanova, K., 2018.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models Devlin, J., Chang, M.W., Lee, K., Toutanova, K., 2018

Reference 255

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:25.745950Z

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Observation cf764e32-d392-4339-a9fc-e7db13657aba · outbound

This paper cites https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/ language_understanding_paper.pdf.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models https://cdn.openai.com/research-covers/language-unsupervised/ language_understanding_paper.pdf

Reference 2018

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:26.597655Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

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Observation c087b9f7-4f3c-470c-aca5-764b6624686f · outbound

This paper cites OpenAI blog 1, 9.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models OpenAI blog 1, 9

Reference 2019

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:26.468465Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

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Observation f6293e94-8b60-4786-972d-6c94bf206918 · outbound

This paper cites An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

Reference 2020

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:25.836911Z

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Observation 5ad82468-4e5a-42bb-8cf2-9975204dad03 · outbound

This paper cites Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned.

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned

Reference 2021

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:26.086234Z

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Observation 2b656752-fd24-449b-93e4-3ea07b3d7396 · outbound

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

Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models Targeted Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning Systems Using Data Poisoning

Reference 2023

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-05T20:42:25.684725Z

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Pith citing papers

Observation 8550d350-987c-4b5b-af2a-5cbc8d245a8b · inbound

Thermospheric Density, Composition, and Temperature from GOES-R/SUVI Solar Occultations cites this paper.

Thermospheric Density, Composition, and Temperature from GOES-R/SUVI Solar Occultations Pruning and Malicious Injection: A Retraining-Free Backdoor Attack on Transformer Models

Reference 1

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-05T20:39:00.768656Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-13T06:32:02.005865+00:00.