SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer

Pengzhou Cheng; Wei Du; Zongru Wu; Fengwei Zhang; Libo Chen; Zhuosheng Zhang; Gongshen Liu

doi:10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.196

SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer

Pengzhou Cheng, Wei Du, Zongru Wu, Fengwei Zhang, Libo Chen, Zhuosheng Zhang, Gongshen Liu

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Cite (ACL):: Pengzhou Cheng, Wei Du, Zongru Wu, Fengwei Zhang, Libo Chen, Zhuosheng Zhang, and Gongshen Liu. 2025. SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, pages 3530–3546, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.196/) (Cheng et al., Findings 2025)

SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer (Cheng et al., Findings 2025)

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Pengzhou Cheng, Wei Du, Zongru Wu, Fengwei Zhang, Libo Chen, Zhuosheng Zhang, and Gongshen Liu. 2025. SynGhost: Invisible and Universal Task-agnostic Backdoor Attack via Syntactic Transfer. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, pages 3530–3546, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.