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ARXIV:2603.11664 · SECURITY IN AI · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.11664SECURITY IN AISUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
BackdoorIDS offers a zero-shot method for detecting backdoor attacks in pretrained vision encoders, enhancing security in AI applications.
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BackdoorIDS offers a zero-shot method for detecting backdoor attacks in pretrained vision encoders, enhancing security in AI applications. However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained encoders with uncertain provenance, exposing them to backdoor…
Self-supervised and multimodal vision encoders learn strong visual representations that are widely adopted in downstream vision tasks and large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained encoders with uncertain provenance,…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments show that BackdoorIDS consistently outperforms existing defenses across diverse attack types, datasets, and model families.
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BackdoorIDS offers a zero-shot method for detecting backdoor attacks in pretrained vision encoders, enhancing security in AI applications.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.11664BackdoorIDS offers a zero-shot method for detecting backdoor attacks in pretrained vision encoders, enhancing security in AI applications.
Abstract
Self-supervised and multimodal vision encoders learn strong visual representations that are widely adopted in downstream vision tasks and large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained encoders with uncertain provenance, exposing them to backdoor attacks. In this work, we propose BackdoorIDS, a simple yet effective zero-shot, inference-time backdoor samples detection method for pretrained vision encoders. BackdoorIDS is motivated by two observations: Attention Hijacking and Restoration. Under progressive input masking, a backdoored image initially concentrates attention on malicious trigger features. Once the masking ratio exceeds the trigger's robustness threshold, the trigger is deactivated, and attention rapidly shifts to benign content. This transition induces a pronounced change in the image embedding, whereas embeddings of clean images evolve more smoothly across masking progress. BackdoorIDS operationalizes this signal by extracting an embedding sequence along the masking trajectory and applying density-based clustering such as DBSCAN. An input is flagged as backdoored if its embedding sequence forms more than one cluster. Extensive experiments show that BackdoorIDS consistently outperforms existing defenses across diverse attack types, datasets, and model families. Notably, it is a plug-and-play approach that requires no retraining and operates fully zero-shot at inference time, making it compatible with a wide range of encoder architectures, including CNNs, ViTs, CLIP, and LLaVA-1.5.
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BackdoorIDS offers a zero-shot method for detecting backdoor attacks in pretrained vision encoders, enhancing security in AI applications. However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained encoders with uncertain provenance, exposing them to backdoor attacks.
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Self-supervised and multimodal vision encoders learn strong visual representations that are widely adopted in downstream vision tasks and large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, downstream users often rely on third-party pretrained encoders with uncertain provenance, expo...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments show that BackdoorIDS consistently outperforms existing defenses across diverse attack types, datasets, and model families.
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Security in AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
we propose BackdoorIDS, a simple yet effective zero-shot, inference-time backdoor samples detection method for pretrained vision encoders.
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BackdoorIDS is motivated by two observations: Attention Hijacking and Restoration.
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BackdoorIDS operationalizes this signal by extracting an embedding sequence along the masking trajectory and applying density-based clustering such as DBSCAN.
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An input is flagged as backdoored if its embedding sequence forms more than one cluster.
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Extensive experiments show that BackdoorIDS consistently outperforms existing defenses across diverse attack types, datasets, and model families.
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Notably, it is a plug-and-play approach that requires no retraining and operates fully zero-shot at inference time
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making it compatible with a wide range of encoder architectures, including CNNs, ViTs, CLIP, and LLaVA-1.5.
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