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Workshop: Backdoors in Deep Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

VillanDiffusion: A Unified Backdoor Attack Framework for Diffusion Models

Sheng-Yen Chou · Pin-Yu Chen · Tsung-Yi Ho

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Fri 15 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 11:15 a.m. PST

Abstract:

Diffusion Models (DMs) are state-of-the-art generative models that learn a reversible corruption process from iterative noise addition and denoising. They are the backbone of many generative AI applications, such as text-to-image conditional generation. However, recent studies have shown that basic unconditional DMs (e.g., DDPM and DDIM) are vulnerable to backdoor injection, a type of output manipulation attack triggered by a maliciously embedded pattern at model input. This paper presents a unified backdoor attack framework (VillanDiffusion) to expand the current scope of backdoor analysis for DMs. Our framework covers mainstream unconditional and conditional DMs (denoising-based and score-based) and various training-free samplers for holistic evaluations. Experiments show that our unified framework facilitates the backdoor analysis of different DM configurations and provides new insights into caption-based backdoor attacks on DMs.

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