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Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks

International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Abstract

This paper introduces Activation Gradient based Poisoned sample Detection (AGPD), which uses the circular distribution of activation gradients to identify target classes and separate poisoned samples from clean ones. Experiments across diverse backdoor settings demonstrate its generality and effectiveness.

Citation

Yuan, Danni, Shaokui Wei, Mingda Zhang, Li Liu, and Baoyuan Wu. "Activation Gradient based Poisoned Sample Detection Against Backdoor Attacks." ICLR, 2025.