BadPre: Task-agnostic Backdoor Attacks to Pre-trained NLP Foundation Models

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العنوان: BadPre: Task-agnostic Backdoor Attacks to Pre-trained NLP Foundation Models
المؤلفون: Chen, Kangjie, Meng, Yuxian, Sun, Xiaofei, Guo, Shangwei, Zhang, Tianwei, Li, Jiwei, Fan, Chun
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
الوصف: Pre-trained Natural Language Processing (NLP) models can be easily adapted to a variety of downstream language tasks. This significantly accelerates the development of language models. However, NLP models have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a pre-defined trigger word in the input text causes model misprediction. Previous NLP backdoor attacks mainly focus on some specific tasks. This makes those attacks less general and applicable to other kinds of NLP models and tasks. In this work, we propose \Name, the first task-agnostic backdoor attack against the pre-trained NLP models. The key feature of our attack is that the adversary does not need prior information about the downstream tasks when implanting the backdoor to the pre-trained model. When this malicious model is released, any downstream models transferred from it will also inherit the backdoor, even after the extensive transfer learning process. We further design a simple yet effective strategy to bypass a state-of-the-art defense. Experimental results indicate that our approach can compromise a wide range of downstream NLP tasks in an effective and stealthy way.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02467
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2110.02467
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv