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Edward Jiang
dblp:299/7660
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
0009-0005-7944-9293ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 87% Image recognition and object detection · 13% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Security and privacy of machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
model provenance |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking? · SP 2022 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › model security
watermark robustness |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking? · SP 2022 |
Security and privacy of machine learning › model intellectual property protection
model watermarking |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking? · SP 2022 |
Security and privacy of machine learning
watermark removal attack |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking? · SP 2022 |
Computer vision › Image recognition and object detection
image classification |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking? · SP 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
weight shifting · 1.1surrogate model derivation · 1.1smooth retraining · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | SoK: How Robust is Image Classification Deep Neural Network Watermarking?abstractDeep Neural Network (DNN) watermarking is a method for provenance verification of DNN models. Watermarking should be robust against watermark removal attacks that derive a surrogate model that evades provenance verification. Many watermarking schemes that claim robustness have been proposed, but their robustness is only validated in isolation against a relatively small set of attacks. There is no systematic, empirical evaluation of these claims against a common, comprehensive set of removal attacks. This uncertainty about a watermarking scheme’s robustness causes difficulty to trust their deployment in practice. In this paper, we evaluate whether recently proposed watermarking schemes that claim robustness are robust against a large set of removal attacks. We survey methods from the literature that (i) are known removal attacks, (ii) derive surrogate models but have not been evaluated as removal attacks, and (iii) novel removal attacks. Weight shifting and smooth retraining are novel removal attacks adapted to the DNN watermarking schemes surveyed in this paper. We propose taxonomies for watermarking schemes and removal attacks. Our empirical evaluation includes an ablation study over sets of parameters for each attack and watermarking scheme on the image classification datasets CIFAR-10 and ImageNet. Surprisingly, our study shows that none of the surveyed watermarking schemes is robust in practice. We find that schemes fail to withstand adaptive attacks and known methods for deriving surrogate models that have not been evaluated as removal attacks. This points to intrinsic flaws in how robustness is currently evaluated. Our evaluation includes a discussion of the runtime of each attack to underpin their practical relevance. While none of the schemes is robust against all attacks, none of the attacks removes all watermarks. We show that attacks can be combined and find combined attacks that remove all watermarks. We show that watermarking schemes need to be evaluated against a more extensive set of removal attacks with a more realistic adversary model. Our source code and a complete dataset of evaluation results are publicly available, which allows to independently verify our conclusions. Nils Lukas, Edward Jiang, Xinda Li 0001, Florian Kerschbaum |
SP | 2 |