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Embedding Watermarks into Deep Neural Networks

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Uchida, Yusuke, Nagai, Yuki, Sakazawa, Shigeyuki, Satoh, Shin'ichi·2017·Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

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Significant progress has been made with deep neural networks recently. Sharing trained models of deep neural networks has been a very important in the rapid progress of research and development of these systems. At the same time, it is necessary to protect the rights to shared trained models. To this end, we propose to use digital watermarking technology to protect intellectual property and detect intellectual property infringement in the use of trained models. First, we formulate a new problem: embedding watermarks into deep neural networks. Second, we propose a general framework for embedding a watermark in model parameters, using a parameter regularizer. Our approach does not impair the performance of networks into which a watermark is placed because the watermark is embedded while training the host network. Finally, we perform comprehensive experiments to reveal the potential of watermarking deep neural networks as the basis of this new research effort. We show that our framework can embed a watermark during the training of a deep neural network from scratch, and during fine-tuning and distilling, without impairing its performance. The embedded watermark does not disappear even after fine-tuning or parameter pruning; the watermark remains complete even after 65% of parameters are pruned.

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Authors
Uchida, Y., Nagai, Y., Sakazawa, S., & Satoh, S.
Venue
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
Publisher
ACM
Published
2017-06-06
Pages
269-277
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676
References
31
FWCI
7.12
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Uchida, Y., Nagai, Y., Sakazawa, S., & Satoh, S. (2017). Embedding Watermarks into Deep Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078971.3078974

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