提出新型目标导向的无下游攻击方法,提升对预训练编码器的威胁性。
Targeted Downstream-Agnostic Attack

- 用预选的威胁图像作为特征锚点,生成每张图专属的对抗扰动
- 在3个数据集上10种自监督方法中实现高成功率和低可见性攻击
- 适用于评估预训练模型在未知下游任务下的安全漏洞
近期,预训练编码器因强大的表征提取能力而广泛应用,但其易受无下游攻击(DAAs)影响。现有方法在宽松威胁模型下仅需改变原始预测即视为成功,无需指定目标。本文提出严格威胁模型下的目标型无下游攻击(TDAA),要求攻击同时具备目标性和无下游性。由于下游任务未知且编码器不直接输出预测,实现目标攻击极具挑战。为此,我们引入‘威胁图像’作为攻击者预先选定的目标,设计生成器使对抗样本与威胁图像在特征空间中输出一致。不同于以往对所有样本使用统一扰动的方法,本方法采用示例特异性范式,为每张图像生成定制化扰动,有效应对图像多样性,保障高攻击成功率与隐蔽性。通过威胁图像构建特征级桥梁,揭示了目标编码器的显著脆弱性。在3个基准数据集上针对10种自监督方法的实验验证了该方法的有效性,充分暴露了预训练编码器的安全隐患。代码将在评审期后公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recently, pre-trained encoders have gained widespread use due to their strong capability in representation extraction. However, they are vulnerable to downstream-agnostic attacks (DAAs). Existing DAA methods operate under a permissive threat model, where an attack is successful if the generated downstream-agnostic adversarial examples (DAEs) change the original prediction, without requiring a specific target. In this paper, we propose a Targeted DAA (TDAA) method under a stricter threat model requiring the attack to be both targeted and downstream-agnostic. Since the downstream task is unknown and encoders do not directly produce predictions, achieving a targeted attack is particularly challenging. To address this, we introduce a novel component termed the 'threat image', pre-selected by the attacker as the target. Specifically, a generator is designed to produce example-specific adversarial perturbations that compel the victim encoder to output identical features for both the DAEs and the threat image. Unlike previous DAA methods that generate a single shared perturbation for all samples, which often fails due to image diversity, our method adopts an example-specific paradigm. This generates tailored perturbations for each image to ensure a high attack success rate and invisibility. By leveraging the threat image as a feature-level anchor, our method builds a task-agnostic bridge to reveal the vulnerabilities of the victim encoder. Extensive experiments on 10 self-supervised methods across 3 benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach and reveal the pronounced vulnerability of pre-trained encoders. The code will be made publicly available after the review period.
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