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 …

A review on client-server attacks and defenses in federated learning

A Sharma, N Marchang - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Federated Learning (FL) offers decentralized machine learning (ML) capabilities while
potentially safeguarding data privacy. However, this architecture introduces unique security …

FedIPR: Ownership verification for federated deep neural network models

B Li, L Fan, H Gu, J Li, Q Yang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning models are collaboratively developed upon valuable training data
owned by multiple parties. During the development and deployment of federated models …

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 …

Fedtracker: Furnishing ownership verification and traceability for federated learning model

S Shao, W Yang, H Gu, Z Qin, L Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm allowing multiple clients
to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data. However, FL entails …

Federated learning for computer vision

Y Himeur, I Varlamis, H Kheddar, A Amira… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Computer Vision (CV) is playing a significant role in transforming society by utilizing
machine learning (ML) tools for a wide range of tasks. However, the need for large-scale …

Fedzkp: Federated model ownership verification with zero-knowledge proof

W Yang, Y Yin, G Zhu, H Gu, L Fan, X Cao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Federated learning (FL) allows multiple parties to cooperatively learn a federated model
without sharing private data with each other. The need of protecting such federated models …

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 …

Design of Anti-Plagiarism Mechanisms in Decentralized Federated Learning

Y Shao, J Li, M Ding, K Wei, C Ma, L Shi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In decentralized federated learning (DFL), clients exchange their models with each other for
global aggregation. Due to a lack of centralized supervision, a client may easily duplicate …

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 …