arXiv:2506.12411cs.CRcs.CV2025-06被引 2

提出新方法InverTune,无须攻击信息即可清除多模态模型后门。

InverTune: Removing Backdoors from Multimodal Contrastive Learning Models via Trigger Inversion and Activation Tuning

  • 通过对抗模拟暴露攻击痕迹,识别目标标签
  • 用梯度反演重构隐藏触发器,精准定位后门
  • 仅需少量干净数据微调,即可清除后门且不损性能

多模态对比学习模型如CLIP虽具备出色的视觉-语言对齐能力,但易受后门攻击威胁。攻击者可植入隐含触发器,使其在下游任务中持续生效,实现恶意控制。现有防御方法多依赖攻击者知识或大量干净数据,实用性差。本文提出InverTune,首个在极小假设下防御多模态模型后门的框架,无需知晓攻击目标或访问污染数据集。该方法首先通过对抗模拟分析模型响应模式,概率性识别目标标签;继而利用梯度反演技术,基于激活模式重构隐含触发器;最后采用聚类引导的微调策略,仅用少量任意干净数据即能消除后门功能,同时保留原始模型性能。实验表明,InverTune将针对先进攻击的平均攻击成功率(ASR)降低97.87%,清洁准确率(CA)仅下降3.07%。该工作为保障多模态系统安全提供了新范式,推动基础模型部署中的安全性提升。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multimodal contrastive learning models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable vision-language alignment capabilities, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses critical security risks. Attackers can implant latent triggers that persist through downstream tasks, enabling malicious control of model behavior upon trigger presentation. Despite great success in recent defense mechanisms, they remain impractical due to strong assumptions about attacker knowledge or excessive clean data requirements. In this paper, we introduce InverTune, the first backdoor defense framework for multimodal models under minimal attacker assumptions, requiring neither prior knowledge of attack targets nor access to the poisoned dataset. Unlike existing defense methods that rely on the same dataset used in the poisoning stage, InverTune effectively identifies and removes backdoor artifacts through three key components, achieving robust protection against backdoor attacks. Specifically, InverTune first exposes attack signatures through adversarial simulation, probabilistically identifying the target label by analyzing model response patterns. Building on this, we develop a gradient inversion technique to reconstruct latent triggers through activation pattern analysis. Finally, a clustering-guided fine-tuning strategy is employed to erase the backdoor function with only a small amount of arbitrary clean data, while preserving the original model capabilities. Experimental results show that InverTune reduces the average attack success rate (ASR) by 97.87% against the state-of-the-art (SOTA) attacks while limiting clean accuracy (CA) degradation to just 3.07%. This work establishes a new paradigm for securing multimodal systems, advancing security in foundation model deployment without compromising performance.

后门防御多模态模型安全

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