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Main Authors: Mirzaei, Hossein, Ansari, Ali, Nia, Bahar Dibaei, Nafez, Mojtaba, Madadi, Moein, Rezaee, Sepehr, Taghavi, Zeinab Sadat, Maleki, Arad, Shamsaie, Kian, Hajialilue, Mahdi, Habibi, Jafar, Sabokrou, Mohammad, Rohban, Mohammad Hossein
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17151
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author Mirzaei, Hossein
Ansari, Ali
Nia, Bahar Dibaei
Nafez, Mojtaba
Madadi, Moein
Rezaee, Sepehr
Taghavi, Zeinab Sadat
Maleki, Arad
Shamsaie, Kian
Hajialilue, Mahdi
Habibi, Jafar
Sabokrou, Mohammad
Rohban, Mohammad Hossein
author_facet Mirzaei, Hossein
Ansari, Ali
Nia, Bahar Dibaei
Nafez, Mojtaba
Madadi, Moein
Rezaee, Sepehr
Taghavi, Zeinab Sadat
Maleki, Arad
Shamsaie, Kian
Hajialilue, Mahdi
Habibi, Jafar
Sabokrou, Mohammad
Rohban, Mohammad Hossein
contents Scanning for trojan (backdoor) in deep neural networks is crucial due to their significant real-world applications. There has been an increasing focus on developing effective general trojan scanning methods across various trojan attacks. Despite advancements, there remains a shortage of methods that perform effectively without preconceived assumptions about the backdoor attack method. Additionally, we have observed that current methods struggle to identify classifiers trojaned using adversarial training. Motivated by these challenges, our study introduces a novel scanning method named TRODO (TROjan scanning by Detection of adversarial shifts in Out-of-distribution samples). TRODO leverages the concept of "blind spots"--regions where trojaned classifiers erroneously identify out-of-distribution (OOD) samples as in-distribution (ID). We scan for these blind spots by adversarially shifting OOD samples towards in-distribution. The increased likelihood of perturbed OOD samples being classified as ID serves as a signature for trojan detection. TRODO is both trojan and label mapping agnostic, effective even against adversarially trained trojaned classifiers. It is applicable even in scenarios where training data is absent, demonstrating high accuracy and adaptability across various scenarios and datasets, highlighting its potential as a robust trojan scanning strategy.
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spellingShingle Scanning Trojaned Models Using Out-of-Distribution Samples
Mirzaei, Hossein
Ansari, Ali
Nia, Bahar Dibaei
Nafez, Mojtaba
Madadi, Moein
Rezaee, Sepehr
Taghavi, Zeinab Sadat
Maleki, Arad
Shamsaie, Kian
Hajialilue, Mahdi
Habibi, Jafar
Sabokrou, Mohammad
Rohban, Mohammad Hossein
Machine Learning
Scanning for trojan (backdoor) in deep neural networks is crucial due to their significant real-world applications. There has been an increasing focus on developing effective general trojan scanning methods across various trojan attacks. Despite advancements, there remains a shortage of methods that perform effectively without preconceived assumptions about the backdoor attack method. Additionally, we have observed that current methods struggle to identify classifiers trojaned using adversarial training. Motivated by these challenges, our study introduces a novel scanning method named TRODO (TROjan scanning by Detection of adversarial shifts in Out-of-distribution samples). TRODO leverages the concept of "blind spots"--regions where trojaned classifiers erroneously identify out-of-distribution (OOD) samples as in-distribution (ID). We scan for these blind spots by adversarially shifting OOD samples towards in-distribution. The increased likelihood of perturbed OOD samples being classified as ID serves as a signature for trojan detection. TRODO is both trojan and label mapping agnostic, effective even against adversarially trained trojaned classifiers. It is applicable even in scenarios where training data is absent, demonstrating high accuracy and adaptability across various scenarios and datasets, highlighting its potential as a robust trojan scanning strategy.
title Scanning Trojaned Models Using Out-of-Distribution Samples
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17151