arxivcs.CVcs.CR2026-06-28
The Platonic Defense: Backdoor Defense for Self-Supervised Encoders in the Era of Large Scale Pre-training
Tuo Chen, Minjing Dong, Benlei Cui, Jian Liu, Jie Gui
Self-supervised learning (SSL) pretrained models have become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, but they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing defenses struggle to defend against such attacks in a fully black-box setting because they often require acce…