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question:do-the-findings-about-mds-injection-effectiveness-generalize-to-base-non-instruction-tuned-language-modelsDo the findings about MDS injection effectiveness generalize to base (non-instruction-tuned) language models?
Acknowledged limitation: only instruction-tuned models were studied
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extracted_from(2026) · Leonardo Blas · Robin Jia · Emilio Ferrara
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