Trapping Attacker in Dilemma: Examining Internal Correlations and External Influences of Trigger for Defending GNN Backdoors

arXiv:2605.08278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GNNs have become a standard tool for learning on relational data, yet they remain highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Prior defenses often depend on inspecting specific subgraph patterns or node features, and thus can be circumvented by adaptive...