Reformulation is All You Need: Addressing Malicious Text Features in DNNs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00652v1
• Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 03:39:43 GMT
• Title: Reformulation is All You Need: Addressing Malicious Text Features in DNNs
• Authors: Yi Jiang, Oubo Ma, Yong Yang, Tong Zhang, Shouling Ji,
• Abstract summary: We propose a unified and adaptive defense framework that is effective against both adversarial and backdoor attacks. Our framework outperforms existing sample-oriented defense baselines across a diverse range of malicious textual features.
• Score: 43.978490178352935
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• Abstract: Human language encompasses a wide range of intricate and diverse implicit features, which attackers can exploit to launch adversarial or backdoor attacks, compromising DNN models for NLP tasks. Existing model-oriented defenses often require substantial computational resources as model size increases, whereas sample-oriented defenses typically focus on specific attack vectors or schemes, rendering them vulnerable to adaptive attacks. We observe that the root cause of both adversarial and backdoor attacks lies in the encoding process of DNN models, where subtle textual features, negligible for human comprehension, are erroneously assigned significant weight by less robust or trojaned models. Based on it we propose a unified and adaptive defense framework that is effective against both adversarial and backdoor attacks. Our approach leverages reformulation modules to address potential malicious features in textual inputs while preserving the original semantic integrity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework outperforms existing sample-oriented defense baselines across a diverse range of malicious textual features.

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