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The machine learning problem of model extraction was first introduced in 1991 and gained prominence as a cryptanalytic challenge starting with Crypto 2020. For over three decades, research in this field has primarily focused on ReLU-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yi Chen , Xiaoyang Dong , Ruijie Ma , Yantian Shen , Anyu Wang , Hongbo Yu , Xiaoyun Wang

The machine learning problem of extracting neural network parameters has been proposed for nearly three decades. Functionally equivalent extraction is a crucial goal for research on this problem. When the adversary has access to the raw…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yi Chen , Xiaoyang Dong , Jian Guo , Yantian Shen , Anyu Wang , Xiaoyun Wang

In a model extraction attack, an adversary steals a copy of a remotely deployed machine learning model, given oracle prediction access. We taxonomize model extraction attacks around two objectives: *accuracy*, i.e., performing well on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini , David Berthelot , Alex Kurakin , Nicolas Papernot

Neural networks are valuable intellectual property due to the significant computational cost, expert labor, and proprietary data involved in their development. Consequently, protecting their parameters is critical not only for maintaining a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ashley Kurian , Aydin Aysu

Billions of dollars and countless GPU hours are currently spent on training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for a variety of tasks. Thus, it is essential to determine the difficulty of extracting all the parameters of such neural networks when…

Model extraction attacks are a kind of attacks in which an adversary obtains a new model, whose performance is equivalent to that of a target model, via query access to the target model efficiently, i.e., fewer datasets and computational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Tatsuya Takemura , Naoto Yanai , Toru Fujiwara

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are valuable assets, yet their public accessibility raises security concerns about parameter extraction by malicious actors. Recent work by Carlini et al. (crypto'20) and Canales-Mart\'inez et al. (eurocrypt'24)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicholas Carlini , Jorge Chávez-Saab , Anna Hambitzer , Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez , Adi Shamir

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have attracted significant attention, and their internal models are now considered valuable intellectual assets. Extracting such a model via oracle access to a DNN is conceptually similar to extracting a secret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Akira Ito , Takayuki Miura , Yosuke Todo

Machine learning models are shown to face a severe threat from Model Extraction Attacks, where a well-trained private model owned by a service provider can be stolen by an attacker pretending as a client. Unfortunately, prior works focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

Current graph neural network (GNN) model-stealing methods rely heavily on queries to the victim model, assuming no hard query limits. However, in reality, the number of allowed queries can be severely limited. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Deep neural networks, costly to train and rich in intellectual property value, are increasingly threatened by model extraction attacks that compromise their confidentiality. Previous attacks have succeeded in reverse-engineering model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Hanna Foerster , Robert Mullins , Ilia Shumailov , Jamie Hayes

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

Compared to traditional neural networks with a single output channel, a multi-exit network has multiple exits that allow for early outputs from the model's intermediate layers, thus significantly improving computational efficiency while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Li Pan , Lv Peizhuo , Chen Kai , Zhang Shengzhi , Cai Yuling , Xiang Fan

Given oracle access to a Neural Network (NN), it is possible to extract its underlying model. We here introduce a protection by adding parasitic layers which keep the underlying NN's predictions mostly unchanged while complexifying the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hervé Chabanne , Vincent Despiegel , Linda Guiga

Recent attacks on Machine Learning (ML) models such as evasion attacks with adversarial examples and models stealing through extraction attacks pose several security and privacy threats. Prior work proposes to use adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Kacem Khaled , Gabriela Nicolescu , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães

Model extraction is a growing concern for the security of AI systems. For deep neural network models, the architecture is the most important information an adversary aims to recover. Being a sequence of repeated computation blocks, neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Raphael Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Simon Pontie , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

Model extraction is a major threat for embedded deep neural network models that leverages an extended attack surface. Indeed, by physically accessing a device, an adversary may exploit side-channel leakages to extract critical information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Raphael Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Simon Pontie , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

In privacy-preserving machine learning, it is common that the owner of the learned model does not have any physical access to the data. Instead, only a secured remote access to a data lake is granted to the model owner without any ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Huiyu Li , Nicholas Ayache , Hervé Delingette

The widespread use of deep learning technology across various industries has made deep neural network models highly valuable and, as a result, attractive targets for potential attackers. Model extraction attacks, particularly query-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Zeyu Li , Chenghui Shi , Yuwen Pu , Xuhong Zhang , Yu Li , Jinbao Li , Shouling Ji

Model extraction attacks are designed to steal trained models with only query access, as is often provided through APIs that ML-as-a-Service providers offer. Machine Learning (ML) models are expensive to train, in part because data is hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Avital Shafran , Ilia Shumailov , Murat A. Erdogdu , Nicolas Papernot
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