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Securing neural networks (NNs) against model extraction and parameter exfiltration attacks is an important problem primarily because modern NNs take a lot of time and resources to build and train. We observe that there are no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Nivedita Shrivastava , Smruti R. Sarangi

This paper proposes DeepMarks, a novel end-to-end framework for systematic fingerprinting in the context of Deep Learning (DL). Remarkable progress has been made in the area of deep learning. Sharing the trained DL models has become a trend…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Huili Chen , Bita Darvish Rohani , Farinaz Koushanfar

Machine unlearning is the process of removing the imprint left by specific data samples during the training of a machine learning model. AI developers, including those building personalized technologies, employ machine unlearning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hanyu Duan , Yi Yang , Ahmed Abbasi , Kar Yan Tam

AI systems are rapidly advancing in capability, and frontier model developers broadly acknowledge the need for safeguards against serious misuse. However, this paper demonstrates that fine-tuning, whether via open weights or closed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Brendan Murphy , Dillon Bowen , Shahrad Mohammadzadeh , Tom Tseng , Julius Broomfield , Adam Gleave , Kellin Pelrine

We introduce new methods of staining and locking computer vision models, to protect their owners' intellectual property. Staining, also known as watermarking, embeds secret behaviour into a model which can later be used to identify it,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Oliver J. Sutton , Qinghua Zhou , George Leete , Alexander N. Gorban , Ivan Y. Tyukin

The widespread use of smartphones gives rise to new security and privacy concerns. Smartphone thefts account for the largest percentage of thefts in recent crime statistics. Using a victim's smartphone, the attacker can launch impersonation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Wei-Han Lee , Ruby Lee

Logic locking is a promising technique for protecting integrated circuit designs while outsourcing their fabrication. Recently, graph neural network (GNN)-based link prediction attacks have been developed which can successfully break all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury , Kaixin Yang , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Transforming large deep neural network (DNN) models into the multi-exit architectures can overcome the overthinking issue and distribute a large DNN model on resource-constrained scenarios (e.g. IoT frontend devices and backend servers) for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Tian Dong , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li , Hewu Li , Jialiang Lu

Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

Powered by machine learning services in the cloud, numerous learning-driven mobile applications are gaining popularity in the market. As deep learning tasks are mostly computation-intensive, it has become a trend to process raw data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Congcong Li , Yixuan Wang , Quanshi Zhang , Wei Wang , Bo Li

Since loose-fitting clothing contains dynamic modes that have proven to be difficult to predict via neural networks, we first illustrate how to coarsely approximate these modes with a real-time numerical algorithm specifically designed to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Yongxu Jin , Dalton Omens , Zhenglin Geng , Joseph Teran , Abishek Kumar , Kenji Tashiro , Ronald Fedkiw

Deep neural networks have become widely used, obtaining remarkable results in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, social network filtering, machine translation, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Divya Gopinath , Guy Katz , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

Logic locking has received considerable interest as a prominent technique for protecting the design intellectual property from untrusted entities, especially the foundry. Recently, machine learning (ML)-based attacks have questioned the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Lilas Alrahis , Satwik Patnaik , Muhammad Shafique , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Currently, deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely adopted in different applications. Despite its commercial values, training a well-performing DNN is resource-consuming. Accordingly, the well-trained model is valuable intellectual property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yiming Li , Linghui Zhu , Xiaojun Jia , Yang Bai , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia , Xiaochun Cao , Kui Ren

Model fingerprinting has emerged as a promising paradigm for claiming model ownership. However, robustness evaluations of these schemes have mostly focused on benign perturbations such as incremental fine-tuning, model merging, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Anshul Nasery , Edoardo Contente , Alkin Kaz , Pramod Viswanath , Sewoong Oh

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

With the Increasing use of Machine Learning in Android applications, more research and efforts are being put into developing better-performing machine learning algorithms with a vast amount of data. Along with machine learning for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Aryan Verma

Desktops and laptops can be maliciously exploited to violate privacy. In this paper, we consider the daily battle between the passive attacker who is targeting a specific user against a user that may be adversarial opponent. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amit Dvir , Yehonatan Zion , Jonathan Muehlstein , Ofir Pele , Chen Hajaj , Ran Dubin

The problem we address is the following: how can a user employ a predictive model that is held by a third party, without compromising private information. For example, a hospital may wish to use a cloud service to predict the readmission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Pengtao Xie , Misha Bilenko , Tom Finley , Ran Gilad-Bachrach , Kristin Lauter , Michael Naehrig

With powerful parallel computing GPUs and massive user data, neural-network-based deep learning can well exert its strong power in problem modeling and solving, and has archived great success in many applications such as image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Qin Zou , Yan Zhang , Yanjiao Chen