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Turning your weakness into a strength: Watermarking deep neural networks by backdooring

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  • Benny Pinkas
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  • Carsten Baum, Bar-Ilan University
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  • Yossi Adi
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  • Yossi Keshet
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  • Moustapha Cisse

Deep Neural Networks have recently gained lots of success after enabling several breakthroughs in notoriously challenging problems. Training these networks is computationally expensive and requires vast amounts of training data. Selling such pre-trained models can, therefore, be a lucrative business model. Unfortunately, once the models are sold they can be easily copied and redistributed. To avoid this, a tracking mechanism to identify models as the intellectual property of a particular vendor is necessary. In this work, we present an approach for watermarking Deep Neural Networks in a black-box way. Our scheme works for general classification tasks and can easily be combined with current learning algorithms. We show experimentally that such a watermark has no noticeable impact on the primary task that the model is designed for and evaluate the robustness of our proposal against a multitude of practical attacks. Moreover, we provide a theoretical analysis, relating our approach to previous work on backdooring.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium
Number of pages17
Publication year2018
Pages1615-1631
ISBN (Electronic)9781939133045
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

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