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Chris Bender
dblp:236/4763 · also Christopher Bender
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
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| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program synthesis and code generation · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 1, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Program synthesis and code generation
neural program synthesis |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | Synthetic Datasets for Neural Program Synthesis · ICLR (Poster) 2019 |
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | REFIT: A Unified Watermark Removal Framework For Deep Learning Systems With Limited DataabstractTraining deep neural networks from scratch could be computationally expensive and requires a lot of training data. Recent work has explored different watermarking techniques to protect the pre-trained deep neural networks from potential copyright infringements. However, these techniques could be vulnerable to watermark removal attacks. In this work, we propose REFIT, a unified watermark removal framework based on fine-tuning, which does not rely on the knowledge of the watermarks, and is effective against a wide range of watermarking schemes. In particular, we conduct a comprehensive study of a realistic attack scenario where the adversary has limited training data, which has not been emphasized in prior work on attacks against watermarking schemes. To effectively remove the watermarks without compromising the model functionality under this weak threat model, we propose two techniques that are incorporated into our fine-tuning framework: (1) an adaption of the elastic weight consolidation (EWC) algorithm, which is originally proposed for mitigating the catastrophic forgetting phenomenon; and (2) unlabeled data augmentation (AU), where we leverage auxiliary unlabeled data from other sources. Our extensive evaluation shows the effectiveness of REFIT against diverse watermark embedding schemes. In particular, both EWC and AU significantly decrease the amount of labeled training data needed for effective watermark removal, and the unlabeled data samples used for AU do not necessarily need to be drawn from the same distribution as the benign data for model evaluation. The experimental results demonstrate that our fine-tuning based watermark removal attacks could pose real threats to the copyright of pre-trained models, and thus highlight the importance of further investigating the watermarking problem and proposing more robust watermark embedding schemes against the attacks. Wenxiao Wang 0002, Chris Bender, Ruoxi Jia 0001, Bo Li 0026, Dawn Song |
AsiaCCS | 3 |
| 2019 | Synthetic Datasets for Neural Program Synthesis
Richard Shin, Neel Kant, Kavi Gupta, Chris Bender, Brandon Trabucco, Rishabh Singh, Dawn Song |
ICLR (Poster) | 4 |