Summary of Prompting the Unseen: Detecting Hidden Backdoors in Black-box Models, by Zi-xuan Huang et al.
Prompting the Unseen: Detecting Hidden Backdoors in Black-Box Models
by Zi-Xuan Huang, Jia-Wei Chen, Zhi-Peng Zhang, Chia-Mu Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 Visual prompting (VP) is a technique that fine-tunes well-trained frozen models for one task to perform another. This study explores VP’s benefits in detecting black-box model-level backdoors. The visual prompt maps class subspaces between the source and target domains, revealing a misalignment between clean and poisoned datasets called class subspace inconsistency. Building on this finding, researchers introduce BProm, a method that identifies backdoors in suspicious models by leveraging the low classification accuracy of prompted models when backdoors are present. Extensive experiments confirm BProm’s effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have a super smart AI model that can do many things, but sometimes it gets tricked into doing bad things on purpose. This study tries to figure out how to catch these “bad” AIs before they cause harm. They discovered that the way we train these models is important and can help us detect when something is wrong. They created a new tool called BProm that helps identify when an AI model has been tricked into doing bad things. This tool works really well and could be useful in keeping our AIs safe and honest. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Prompt » Prompting
