AI Analysis for Poisoning the Inner Prediction Logic of Graph Neural Networks for Clean-Label Backdoor Attacks
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This paper investigates clean-label graph backdoor attacks, a challenging scenario where attackers inject triggers into GNN training data without altering labels. Existing methods often fail because they don't effectively poison the GNN's prediction logic. The proposed BA-LOGIC framework addresses this by coordinating a poisoned node selector and a logic-poisoning trigger generator. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show BA-LOGIC significantly enhances attack success rates, outperforming state-of-the-art competitors under clean-label settings. This approach focuses on guiding the GNN's inner prediction logic to emphasize injected triggers for misclassification.
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Introduction & Problem
Methodology: BA-LOGIC
Experimental Results
Introduction & Problem
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful, but vulnerable to backdoor attacks where triggers are injected to misclassify test nodes. Current methods often require altering training labels, which is impractical. This paper focuses on clean-label attacks where labels remain untouched. Existing clean-label methods fail because they don't effectively poison the GNN's prediction logic, treating triggers as irrelevant. The core problem is to develop an effective clean-label graph backdoor attack by directly poisoning the inner prediction logic of GNN models.
Methodology: BA-LOGIC
BA-LOGIC introduces a novel framework to address the clean-label graph backdoor attack problem. It consists of two main components: a poisoned node selector and a logic-poisoning trigger generator. The node selector identifies training nodes that are most effective for logic poisoning by exhibiting high prediction uncertainty. The trigger generator, an MLP model, creates adaptive triggers by simultaneously generating node features and adjacency. The training is guided by a prediction logic poisoning loss that maximizes trigger importance scores while adhering to unnoticeable constraints. This bi-level optimization ensures triggers are deemed crucial by the target GNN, even with clean labels.
Experimental Results
Extensive experiments were conducted on diverse real-world graph datasets (Cora, Pubmed, Flickr, Arxiv, OGBN-Products) and various GNN models (GCN, GAT, GIN, GraphSAGE, GraphSAINT). BA-LOGIC consistently achieves superior attack success rates (often close to 100%) compared to state-of-the-art clean-label and general backdoor attacks, while maintaining comparable clean accuracy. The method demonstrates strong transferability across different GNN architectures and robustness against various defense strategies, including explainability regularization and gradient masking. Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of both the poisoned node selector and the logic-poisoning trigger generator.
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Average ASR on Pubmed for GIN models
BA-LOGIC Framework Overview
Original Graph & Labels
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Poisoned Node Selection (Uncertainty Metric)
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Trigger Generator (MLP)
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Inject Triggers into Selected Nodes
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Poisoned Graph (Training)
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Backdoored GNN Model
| Dataset | Model | ERBA | GTA-C | UGBA-C | BA-LOGIC |
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| Cora | GCN | 18.22 | 32.45 | 68.32 | 98.52 |
| Cora | GAT | 19.32 | 35.85 | 68.76 | 97.12 |
| Pubmed | GCN | 22.18 | 38.84 | 71.24 | 96.75 |
| Pubmed | GIN | 15.46 | 42.34 | 68.69 | 99.04 |
| Arxiv | GAT | 0.02 | 36.45 | 71.65 | 98.43 |
Robustness Against Adaptive Defenses
BA-LOGIC demonstrates remarkable resilience against various adaptive defense mechanisms. We evaluated its performance against strategies like Explainability Regularization (ER), Gradient Masking (GM), Collaborative Defense (CD), and Sampling And Masking (SAM). The results consistently show that BA-LOGIC achieves an attack success rate exceeding 80% across diverse adaptive defenses and datasets, significantly outperforming competitors. This highlights the method's superiority in poisoning the inner prediction logic for clean-label backdooring, even when targeted by sophisticated countermeasures.
Bi-Level Optimization Process
Select Poisoned Nodes (Vp)
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Train Surrogate GNN (Lower-Level)
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Update Trigger Generator (Upper-Level)
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Generate Triggers (gi)
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Update Backdoored Graph (GB)
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Converged Backdoored Model & Trigger Generator
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