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Deep neural networks (DNNs), such as the widely-used GPT-3 with billions of parameters, are often kept secret due to high training costs and privacy concerns surrounding the data used to train them. Previous approaches to securing DNNs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ning Lin , Shaocong Wang , Yue Zhang , Yangu He , Kwunhang Wong , Arindam Basu , Dashan Shang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhongrui Wang

Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) theft incurs estimated annual losses ranging from $225 billion to $600 billion. Despite initiatives like the CHIPS Act, many semiconductor designs remain vulnerable to reverse engineering (RE). IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junling Fan , George Rushevich , Giorgio Rusconi , Mengdi Zhu , Reiner Dizon-Paradis , Domenic Forte

The intellectual property (IP) of Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be easily ``stolen'' by surrogate model attack. There has been significant progress in solutions to protect the IP of DNN models in classification tasks. However, little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao , Han Fang , Zehua Ma , Weiming Zhang , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Approximate circuits often achieve exceptional trade-offs between computational accuracy and hardware efficiency, making them attractive for deployment as reusable Intellectual Property (IP) cores. However, safeguarding such circuits…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lukas Sekanina , Vojtech Mrazek

Measuring similarity between IP addresses is an important task in the daily operations of any enterprise network. Applications that depend on an IP similarity measure include measuring correlation between security alerts, building baselines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hazem M. Soliman , Geoff Salmon , Dusan Sovilij , Mohan Rao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are extensively employed in a wide range of application scenarios. Generally, training a commercially viable neural network requires significant amounts of data and computing resources, and it is easy for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Huali Ren , Anli Yan , Xiaojun Ren , Pei-Gen Ye , Chong-zhi Gao , Zhili Zhou , Jin Li

Chip manufacturing is a complex process, and to achieve a faster time to market, an increasing number of untrusted third-party tools and designs from around the world are being utilized. The use of these untrusted third party intellectual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kiran Thorat , Amit Hasan , Caiwen Ding , Zhijie Shi

The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain has moved most of the design, fabrication, and testing process from a single trusted entity to various untrusted third-party entities around the world. The risk of using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Rozhin Yasaei , Luke Chen , Shih-Yuan Yu , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Reverse engineering an integrated circuit netlist is a powerful tool to help detect malicious logic and counteract design piracy. A critical challenge in this domain is the correct classification of data-path and control-logic registers in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury , Kaixin Yang , Pierluigi Nuzzo

In this paper, we propose a novel and practical mechanism which enables the service provider to verify whether a suspect model is stolen from the victim model via model extraction attacks. Our key insight is that the profile of a DNN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zirui Peng , Shaofeng Li , Guoxing Chen , Cheng Zhang , Haojin Zhu , Minhui Xue

The rapid proliferation of deep neural networks (DNNs) across several domains has led to increasing concerns regarding intellectual property (IP) protection and model misuse. Trained DNNs represent valuable assets, often developed through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sangeeth B , Serena Nicolazzo , Deepa K. , Vinod P

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) leverage quantum computing to create powerful and efficient artificial intelligence models capable of solving complex problems significantly faster than traditional computers. With the fast development of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Limengnan Zhou , Hanzhou Wu

Deep learning techniques have made tremendous progress in a variety of challenging tasks, such as image recognition and machine translation, during the past decade. Training deep neural networks is computationally expensive and requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Zheng Li , Chengyu Hu , Yang Zhang , Shanqing Guo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited superior performance in various classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, they encounter the potential vulnerability from the link stealing attacks, which can infer the presence of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Rui Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Neil Gong , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are valuable intellectual property, yet many watermarks rely on backdoor triggers that break under common model edits and create ownership ambiguity. We present InvGNN-WM, which ties ownership to a model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jipeng Li , Yannning Shen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable capabilities in learning from graph-structured data with various applications such as social analysis and bioinformatics. However, the presence of label noise in real scenarios poses a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Ju , Wei Zhang , Siyu Yi , Zhengyang Mao , Yifan Wang , Jingyang Yuan , Zhiping Xiao , Ziyue Qiao , Ming Zhang

Recently, how to protect the Intellectual Property (IP) of deep neural networks (DNN) becomes a major concern for the AI industry. To combat potential model piracy, recent works explore various watermarking strategies to embed secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yifan Yan , Xudong Pan , Yining Wang , Mi Zhang , Min Yang

Recently, the research on protecting the intellectual properties (IP) of deep neural networks (DNN) has attracted serious concerns. A number of DNN copyright protection methods have been proposed. However, most of the existing watermarking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shichang Sun , Mingfu Xue , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Plagiarism of material from the Internet is a widespread and growing problem. Several methods used to detect the plagiarism and similarity between the source document and suspected documents such as fingerprint based on character or n-gram.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Ahmed Hamza Osman , Naomie Salim , Mohammed Salem Binwahlan

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo