How to Backdoor the Knowledge Distillation

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone in modern machine learning systems, celebrated for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a more efficient student model. Traditionally, this process is regarded as secure, assuming the teacher model is clean. This...

AGATE: Stealthy Black-Box Watermarking for Multimodal Model Copyright Protection

Recent advancement in large-scale Artificial Intelligence AI models offering multimodal services have become foundational in AI systems, making them prime targets for model theft. Existing methods select Out-of-Distribution OoD data as backdoor watermarks and retrain the original model for...