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Curriculum poisoning that gradually replaces malicious reasoning with benign reasoning increases CoT-backdoor attack success over direct fine-tuning.

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Where direct fine-tuning fails to learn the contradiction between a correct trace and an incorrect answer, a curriculum that gradually replaces malicious reasoning with benign reasoning raises attack success without altering any other attack parameter.

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Curriculum poisoning substitutes wrong reasoning steps with correct ones stage by stage while holding the malicious answer fixed.

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