Backdoor Mitigation by Distance-Driven Detoxification

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Autori principali: Wei, Shaokui, Liu, Jiayin, Zha, Hongyuan
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author Wei, Shaokui
Liu, Jiayin
Zha, Hongyuan
author_facet Wei, Shaokui
Liu, Jiayin
Zha, Hongyuan
contents Backdoor attacks undermine the integrity of machine learning models by allowing attackers to manipulate predictions using poisoned training data. Such attacks lead to targeted misclassification when specific triggers are present, while the model behaves normally under other conditions. This paper considers a post-training backdoor defense task, aiming to detoxify the backdoors in pre-trained models. We begin by analyzing the underlying issues of vanilla fine-tuning and observe that it is often trapped in regions with low loss for both clean and poisoned samples. Motivated by such observations, we propose Distance-Driven Detoxification (D3), an innovative approach that reformulates backdoor defense as a constrained optimization problem. Specifically, D3 promotes the model's departure from the vicinity of its initial weights, effectively reducing the influence of backdoors. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art (SOTA) backdoor attacks across various model architectures and datasets demonstrate that D3 not only matches but often surpasses the performance of existing SOTA post-training defense techniques.
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Wei, Shaokui
Liu, Jiayin
Zha, Hongyuan
Cryptography and Security
Backdoor attacks undermine the integrity of machine learning models by allowing attackers to manipulate predictions using poisoned training data. Such attacks lead to targeted misclassification when specific triggers are present, while the model behaves normally under other conditions. This paper considers a post-training backdoor defense task, aiming to detoxify the backdoors in pre-trained models. We begin by analyzing the underlying issues of vanilla fine-tuning and observe that it is often trapped in regions with low loss for both clean and poisoned samples. Motivated by such observations, we propose Distance-Driven Detoxification (D3), an innovative approach that reformulates backdoor defense as a constrained optimization problem. Specifically, D3 promotes the model's departure from the vicinity of its initial weights, effectively reducing the influence of backdoors. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art (SOTA) backdoor attacks across various model architectures and datasets demonstrate that D3 not only matches but often surpasses the performance of existing SOTA post-training defense techniques.
title Backdoor Mitigation by Distance-Driven Detoxification
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09585