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Watermarking Deep Neural Networks by Backdooring (arxiv.org)
2 points by Katydid on Feb 20, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: The trick secretly teaches a sold model to give set answers to a few special inputs, so its owner can prove ownership just by asking it questions. It kept normal accuracy unchanged and stayed identifiable even after common removal attacks.

Abstract · Turning Your Weakness Into a Strength: Watermarking Deep Neural Networks by Backdooring

Deep Neural Networks have recently gained lots of success after enabling several breakthroughs in notoriously challenging problems. Training these networks is computationally expensive and requires vast amounts of training data. Selling such pre-trained models can, therefore, be a lucrative business model. Unfortunately, once the models are sold they can be easily copied and redistributed. To avoid this, a tracking mechanism to identify models as the intellectual property of a particular vendor is necessary. In this work, we present an approach for watermarking Deep Neural Networks in a black-box way. Our scheme works for general classification tasks and can easily be combined with current learning algorithms. We show experimentally that such a watermark has no noticeable impact on the primary task that the model is designed for and evaluate the robustness of our proposal against a multitude of practical attacks. Moreover, we provide a theoretical analysis, relating our approach to previous work on backdooring.

Yossi Adi, Carsten Baum, Moustapha Cisse, Benny Pinkas, Joseph Keshet
arXiv:1802.04633 · cs.LG · submitted Feb 13, 2018 · updated Jun 11, 2018
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