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Neural network fragile watermarking with no model performance degradation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024-12-10 v1

Abstract

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to malicious fine-tuning attacks such as data poisoning and backdoor attacks. Therefore, in recent research, it is proposed how to detect malicious fine-tuning of neural network models. However, it usually negatively affects the performance of the protected model. Thus, we propose a novel neural network fragile watermarking with no model performance degradation. In the process of watermarking, we train a generative model with the specific loss function and secret key to generate triggers that are sensitive to the fine-tuning of the target classifier. In the process of verifying, we adopt the watermarked classifier to get labels of each fragile trigger. Then, malicious fine-tuning can be detected by comparing secret keys and labels. Experiments on classic datasets and classifiers show that the proposed method can effectively detect model malicious fine-tuning with no model performance degradation.

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@article{arxiv.2208.07585,
  title  = {Neural network fragile watermarking with no model performance degradation},
  author = {Zhaoxia Yin and Heng Yin and Xinpeng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07585},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)

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