Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attacks with Data Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19203v4
• Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:23:48 GMT
• Title: Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attacks with Data Distillation
• Authors: Thinh Dao, Khoa D Doan, Kok-Seng Wong,
• Abstract summary: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks.<n>Physical triggers offer a promising alternative for attackers, as they can activate backdoors in real-time without digital manipulation.<n>Existing physical backdoor attacks are dirty-label, meaning that attackers must change the labels of poisoned inputs to the target label.<n>We introduce Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attack (CLPBA), a new paradigm of physical backdoor attack that does not require label manipulation and trigger injection at the training stage.
• Score: 6.472397166280682
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, with most research focusing on digital triggers -- artificial patterns added to test-time inputs to induce targeted misclassification. Physical triggers, which are natural objects embedded in real-world scenes, offer a promising alternative for attackers, as they can activate backdoors in real-time without digital manipulation. However, existing physical backdoor attacks are dirty-label, meaning that attackers must change the labels of poisoned inputs to the target label. The inconsistency between image content and label exposes the attack to human inspection, reducing its stealthiness in real-world settings. To address this limitation, we introduce Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attack (CLPBA), a new paradigm of physical backdoor attack that does not require label manipulation and trigger injection at the training stage. Instead, the attacker injects imperceptible perturbations into a small number of target class samples to backdoor a model. By framing the attack as a Dataset Distillation problem, we develop three CLPBA variants -- Parameter Matching, Gradient Matching, and Feature Matching -- that craft effective poisons under both linear probing and full-finetuning training settings. In hard scenarios that require backdoor generalizability in the physical world, CLPBA is shown to even surpass Dirty-label attack baselines. We demonstrate the effectiveness of CLPBA via extensive experiments on two collected physical backdoor datasets for facial recognition and animal classification. The code is available in https://github.com/thinh-dao/Clean-Label-Physical-Backdoor-Attacks.

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