Summary of Obliviate: Neutralizing Task-agnostic Backdoors Within the Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning Paradigm, by Jaehan Kim et al.
Obliviate: Neutralizing Task-agnostic Backdoors within the Parameter-efficient Fine-tuning Paradigm
by Jaehan Kim, Minkyoo Song, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this study, researchers propose Obliviate, a defense method that can be integrated into parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to counter task-agnostic backdoors. The authors develop two techniques aimed at amplifying benign neurons within PEFT layers and penalizing the influence of trigger tokens. Evaluations across three major PEFT architectures show that Obliviate significantly reduces the attack success rate of state-of-the-art task-agnostic backdoors, with a decrease of 83.6%. Additionally, the method exhibits robust defense capabilities against both task-specific backdoors and adaptive attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Obliviate is a new way to defend against bad guys who try to trick large language models into doing things they don’t want to do. Right now, there are no good ways to stop these tricks, but Obliviate changes that. It’s like a special shield that can be added to the model to make it harder for the bad guys to succeed. The researchers tested Obliviate on different types of attacks and found that it works really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Parameter efficient
