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BadChain

BadChain: Backdoor Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Language Models

Superseded baseline#116 of 1,179 most-superseded · first seen Jan 20, 2024

Superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods

1 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites BadChain as a baseline.

backdoor-based methods lead the augmented LLM to generate incorrect answers or decisions when watermark phrases appear, making them susceptible to anomaly detection and harmful
— Towards Copyright Protection for Knowledge Bases of Retrieval-augmented Language Models via Reasoning

Beaten on benchmarks

Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating BadChain. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.