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Osmosis Distillation: Model Hijacking with Minimal Samples.
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Transfer learning via synthetic distilled datasets creates an underexplored attack surface. Small poisoned samples propagate through the distillation-transfer pipeline. Relevant to the broader distillation defense wave. arXiv 2603.04859
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