When federated learning meets watermarking: A comprehensive overview of techniques for intellectual property protection

M Lansari, R Bellafqira, K Kapusta… - Machine Learning and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Federated learning (FL) is a technique that allows multiple participants to collaboratively
train a Deep Neural Network (DNN) without the need to centralize their data. Among other …

Towards open federated learning platforms: Survey and vision from technical and legal perspectives

M Duan, Q Li, L Jiang, B He - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02140, 2023 - arxiv.org
Traditional Federated Learning (FL) follows a server-dominated cooperation paradigm
which narrows the application scenarios of FL and decreases the enthusiasm of data …

Deep intellectual property protection: A survey

Y Sun, T Liu, P Hu, Q Liao, S Fu, N Yu, D Guo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), from AlexNet to ResNet to ChatGPT, have made
revolutionary progress in recent years, and are widely used in various fields. The high …

Fedcomm: A privacy-enhanced and efficient authentication protocol for federated learning in vehicular ad-hoc networks

X Yuan, J Liu, B Wang, W Wang, T Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET), federated learning enables vehicles to
collaboratively train a global model for intelligent transportation without sharing their local …

Fedcip: Federated client intellectual property protection with traitor tracking

J Liang, R Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01356, 2023 - arxiv.org
Federated learning is an emerging privacy-preserving distributed machine learning that
enables multiple parties to collaboratively learn a shared model while keeping each party's …

FedCRMW: Federated model ownership verification with compression-resistant model watermarking

H Nie, S Lu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Federated Learning is a collaborative machine learning paradigm that allows training
models on decentralized data while preserving data privacy. It has gained significant …

Towards Reliable Utilization of AIGC: Blockchain-Empowered Ownership Verification Mechanism

C Chen, Y Li, Z Wu, M Xu, R Wang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of the blockchain technology, a decentralized and de-trusted network
paradigm has been constructed, enabling multiple digital assets like NFT, to be permanently …

Explanation as a Watermark: Towards Harmless and Multi-bit Model Ownership Verification via Watermarking Feature Attribution

S Shao, Y Li, H Yao, Y He, Z Qin, K Ren - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04825, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ownership verification is currently the most critical and widely adopted post-hoc method to
safeguard model copyright. In general, model owners exploit it to identify whether a given …

Copyright protection framework for federated learning models against collusion attacks

Y Luo, Y Li, S Qin, Q Fu, J Liu - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Federated learning (FL) models are constructed by multiple participants who provide their
training datasets and collaborate in joint training. However, training and deployment …

Who Leaked the Model? Tracking IP Infringers in Accountable Federated Learning

S Yu, J Hong, Y Zeng, F Wang, R Jia, J Zhou - 2023 - openreview.net
Federated learning (FL) emerges as an effective collaborative learning framework to
coordinate data and computation resources from massive and distributed clients in training …