Efficient Backdoor Attacks for Deep Neural Networks in Real-world Scenarios

ICLR 2025 Conference Submission151 Authors

Keywords: Deep Neural Networks, Backdoor Attacks, Poisoning Efficiency.

Abstract: Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) have came to rely on vast amounts of training data, providing an opportunity for malicious attackers to exploit and contaminate the data to carry out backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attack methods make unrealistic assumptions, assuming that all training data comes from a single source and that attackers have full access to the training data. In this paper, we introduce a more realistic attack scenario where victims collect data from multiple sources, and attackers cannot access the complete training data. We refer to this scenario as $\textbf{data-constrained backdoor attacks}$. In such cases, previous attack methods suffer from severe efficiency degradation due to the $\textbf{entanglement}$ between benign and poisoning features during the backdoor injection process. To tackle this problem, we introduce three CLIP-based technologies from two distinct streams: $\textit{Clean Feature Suppression}$ and $\textit{Poisoning Feature Augmentation}$. The results demonstrate remarkable improvements, with some settings achieving over $\textbf{100}$% improvement compared to existing attacks in data-constrained scenarios.

Submission Number: 151