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Towards Practical Watermark for Deep Neural Networks in Federated Learning (arxiv.org)
1 point by belter on Jul 20, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: A scheme that hides a marker in a shared model and splits the key with a trick for shared storage, so each trainer can prove the model is theirs. Unlike watermarks for one owner, it lets each participant verify ownership alone without exposing private data.

Abstract

With the wide application of deep neural networks, it is important to verify a host's possession over a deep neural network model and protect the model. To meet this goal, various mechanisms have been designed. By embedding extra information into a network and revealing it afterward, the watermark becomes a competitive candidate in proving integrity for deep learning systems. However, concurrent watermarking schemes can hardly be adopted for emerging distributed learning paradigms that raise extra requirements during the ownership verification. A spearheading distributed learning paradigm is federated learning (FL) where many parties participate in training one single model. Each author participating in the FL should be able to verify its ownership independently. Moreover, there are other potential threat and corresponding security requirements under this scenario. To meet those requirements, in this paper, we demonstrate a watermarking protocol for protecting deep neural networks in the setting of FL. By incorporating the state-of-the-art watermarking scheme and the cryptological primitive designed for distributed storage, the protocol meets the need for ownership verification in the FL scenario without violating the privacy for each participant. This work paves the way for generalizing watermark as a practical security mechanism for protecting deep learning models in distributed learning platforms.

Fang-Qi Li, Shi-Lin Wang, Alan Wee-Chung Liew
arXiv:2105.03167 · cs.CR · submitted May 7, 2021 · updated Jul 16, 2021
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