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Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training, known as CLIP, has shown promising effectiveness in addressing downstream image recognition tasks. However, recent works revealed that the CLIP model can be implanted with a downstream-oriented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jiawang Bai , Kuofeng Gao , Shaobo Min , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu

The advent of multimodal deep learning models, such as CLIP, has unlocked new frontiers in a wide range of applications, from image-text understanding to classification tasks. However, these models are not safe for adversarial attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Md. Iqbal Hossain , Afia Sajeeda , Neeresh Kumar Perla , Ming Shao

While pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP exhibit impressive representational capabilities for multimodal data, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks. To alleviate the threat, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiawei Kong , Hao Fang , Sihang Guo , Chenxi Qing , Kuofeng Gao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

Studying backdoor attacks is valuable for model copyright protection and enhancing defenses. While existing backdoor attacks have successfully infected multimodal contrastive learning models such as CLIP, they can be easily countered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Siyuan Liang , Mingli Zhu , Aishan Liu , Baoyuan Wu , Xiaochun Cao , Ee-Chien Chang

Multimodal contrastive pretraining has been used to train multimodal representation models, such as CLIP, on large amounts of paired image-text data. However, previous studies have revealed that such models are vulnerable to backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hritik Bansal , Nishad Singhi , Yu Yang , Fan Yin , Aditya Grover , Kai-Wei Chang

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has been found to be vulnerable to poisoning backdoor attacks where the adversary can achieve an almost perfect attack success rate on CLIP models by poisoning only 0.01\% of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hanxun Huang , Sarah Erfani , Yige Li , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey

Multimodal contrastive learning models (e.g., CLIP) can learn high-quality representations from large-scale image-text datasets, while they exhibit significant vulnerabilities to backdoor attacks, raising serious safety concerns. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zhifang Zhang , Shuo He , Haobo Wang , Bingquan Shen , Lei Feng

Multimodal contrastive learning uses various data modalities to create high-quality features, but its reliance on extensive data sources on the Internet makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks. These attacks insert malicious behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kuanrong Liu , Siyuan Liang , Jiawei Liang , Pengwen Dai , Xiaochun Cao

Adopting contrastive image-text pretrained models like CLIP towards video classification has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness and competitive performance. However, recent works in this area face a trade-off. Finetuning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Syed Talal Wasim , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Multimodal contrastive learning models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable vision-language alignment capabilities, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses critical security risks. Attackers can implant latent triggers that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mengyuan Sun , Yu Li , Yuchen Liu , Bo Du , Yunjie Ge

Research on backdoor attacks against multimodal contrastive learning models faces two key challenges: stealthiness and persistence. Existing methods often fail under strong detection or continuous fine-tuning, largely due to (1) cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Siyuan Liang , Yongcheng Jing , Yingjie Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Ee-chien Chang , Dacheng Tao

A pre-trained visual-language model, contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), successfully accomplishes various downstream tasks with text prompts, such as finding images or localizing regions within the image. Despite CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 YeongHyeon Park , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeong Seok Kim

Contrastive vision-language representation learning has achieved state-of-the-art performance for zero-shot classification, by learning from millions of image-caption pairs crawled from the internet. However, the massive data that powers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenhan Yang , Jingdong Gao , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Existing vision-text contrastive learning like CLIP aims to match the paired image and caption embeddings while pushing others apart, which improves representation transferability and supports zero-shot prediction. However, medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Zifeng Wang , Zhenbang Wu , Dinesh Agarwal , Jimeng Sun

Multimodal contrastive learning methods like CLIP train on noisy and uncurated training datasets. This is cheaper than labeling datasets manually, and even improves out-of-distribution robustness. We show that this practice makes backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Nicholas Carlini , Andreas Terzis

Pre-trained large models for multimodal contrastive learning, such as CLIP, have been widely recognized in the industry as highly susceptible to data-poisoned backdoor attacks. This poses significant risks to downstream model training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yuan Xun , Siyuan Liang , Xiaojun Jia , Xinwei Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) on large image-caption datasets has achieved remarkable success in zero-shot classification and enabled transferability to new domains. However, CLIP is extremely more vulnerable to targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Wenhan Yang , Jingdong Gao , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated excellent zero-shot generalizability across various downstream tasks. However, recent studies have shown that the inference performance of CLIP can be greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xin Wang , Kai Chen , Jiaming Zhang , Jingjing Chen , Xingjun Ma

Although open-vocabulary classification models like Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) have demonstrated strong zero-shot learning capabilities, their robustness to common image corruptions remains poorly understood. Through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Baoming Zhang , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Yunhui Guo

Despite its prevalent use in image-text matching tasks in a zero-shot manner, CLIP has been shown to be highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations added onto images. Recent studies propose to finetune the vision encoder of CLIP with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Songlong Xing , Zhengyu Zhao , Nicu Sebe
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