2026
Dormant Backdoor: Weaponizing Model Finetuning for Feasible Backdoor Attacks Against Pretrained Models
AAAI 2026technical
As the pretraining-finetuning paradigm becomes dominant in modern AI, the security of model supply chains faces new risks from backdoor attacks. Existing work primarily studies backdoors injected during pretraining and treats subsequent finetuning with clean data as a defense, while recent finetunin