Backdoor Attacks on Multi-modal Contrastive Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Kuniyilh, Simi D, Machacy, Rita
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author Kuniyilh, Simi D
Machacy, Rita
author_facet Kuniyilh, Simi D
Machacy, Rita
contents Contrastive learning has become a leading self- supervised approach to representation learning across domains, including vision, multimodal settings, graphs, and federated learning. However, recent studies have shown that contrastive learning is susceptible to backdoor and data poisoning attacks. In these attacks, adversaries can manipulate pretraining data or model updates to insert hidden malicious behavior. This paper offers a thorough and comparative review of backdoor attacks in contrastive learning. It analyzes threat models, attack methods, target domains, and available defenses. We summarize recent advancements in this area, underline the specific vulnerabilities inherent to contrastive learning, and discuss the challenges and future research directions. Our findings have significant implications for the secure deployment of systems in industrial and distributed environments.
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spellingShingle Backdoor Attacks on Multi-modal Contrastive Learning
Kuniyilh, Simi D
Machacy, Rita
Machine Learning
Contrastive learning has become a leading self- supervised approach to representation learning across domains, including vision, multimodal settings, graphs, and federated learning. However, recent studies have shown that contrastive learning is susceptible to backdoor and data poisoning attacks. In these attacks, adversaries can manipulate pretraining data or model updates to insert hidden malicious behavior. This paper offers a thorough and comparative review of backdoor attacks in contrastive learning. It analyzes threat models, attack methods, target domains, and available defenses. We summarize recent advancements in this area, underline the specific vulnerabilities inherent to contrastive learning, and discuss the challenges and future research directions. Our findings have significant implications for the secure deployment of systems in industrial and distributed environments.
title Backdoor Attacks on Multi-modal Contrastive Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11006