{"data":{"id":"131222d2-1976-4d39-8db8-6f0fcd2936ae","title":"GARD: Gradient-Guided Adversarial Representation Defense against Backdoors in Multimodal Contrastive Learning Models","summary":"GARD is a post-hoc defense for backdoored multimodal contrastive encoders such as CLIP that needs no knowledge of the attack target or trigger. It optimizes complementary global and local adversarial probes to displace clean-image representations, then realigns them with detached clean anchors while preserving image-text alignment. Across six visual backdoor attacks and two CLIP visual backbones, it reduces attack success rate below 1% in all 12 combinations while keeping competitive clean accuracy.","solution":"GARD is the proposed mitigation: a target- and trigger-agnostic post-hoc defense that realigns perturbed representations with detached clean anchors, requiring no additional computation at inference time.","labels":["security","research"],"sourceUrl":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14143v1","publishedAt":"2026-11-10T14:30:36.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":["other"],"issueType":"research","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":[],"affectedVendorsRaw":["CLIP"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-11-10T14:30:36.000Z","fixReleasedAt":null,"daysToFix":null,"fixCheckedAt":null,"capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"advanced","impactType":["integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"model","llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.95,"researchCategory":"preprint","atlasIds":null}}