Revisiting the Assumption of Latent Separability for Backdoor Defenses

1 code implementation • ICLR 2023 • Xiangyu Qi, Tinghao Xie, Tinghao_Xie1, Yiming Li, Saeed Mahloujifar, Prateek Mittal

This latent separation is so pervasive that a family of backdoor defenses directly take it as a default assumption (dubbed latent separability assumption), based on which to identify poison samples via cluster analysis in the latent space.