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Which Neurons Detect Malicious Code? A Probing Study of LLM Security Knowledge

Background. Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable of understanding and generating source code, leading to their widespread adoption in software engineering tasks such as code completion, repair, and vulnerability det

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10221v1 ↗
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