Red Alarm for Pre-trained Models: Universal Vulnerability to Neuron-Level Backdoor Attacks

1 code implementation • ICML Workshop AML 2021 • Zhengyan Zhang, Guangxuan Xiao, Yongwei Li, Tian Lv, Fanchao Qi, Zhiyuan Liu, Yasheng Wang, Xin Jiang, Maosong Sun

In this work, we demonstrate the universal vulnerability of PTMs, where fine-tuned PTMs can be easily controlled by backdoor attacks in arbitrary downstream tasks.

Backdoor Attack