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arXiv:2608. 03174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI systems increasingly produce content whose provenance is difficult to verify, motivating watermarking techniques for identifying model-generated outputs.
FeatMark is a watermarking framework that protects images from text‑to‑image diffusion model mimicry attacks by embedding small, scene‑consistent micro‑features instead of pixel‑level perturbations. It constructs domain‑specific feature banks, selects executable features, and injects them via mask‑guided concept editing to create highly localized, natural edits. Experiments on VGGFace2, CelebA‑HQ, and WikiArt show FeatMark remains robust against ten strong watermark removal attacks and several adaptive attacks, with minimal impact on perceptual quality and extending to video mimicry scenarios.
Text-to-image diffusion models enable data-efficient "mimicry" attacks, wherein adversaries fine-tune the model on a handful of public photos to synthesize convincing forgeries of a target individual....
The paper introduces a defense for Agentic AI systems that use the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It identifies a vulnerability where hidden instructions in steganographic images can bypass text scanners and trigger malicious tool calls. The proposed solution, decode-time provenance binding, uses HMAC-authenticated trust labels, a provenance ledger, and context-taint tracking to mark decoded content as untrusted and block harmful tool calls, achieving 0% attack success in tests.
arXiv:2607. 06612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while retaining data locality, thereby enhancing user privacy.
arXiv:2607. 20890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving and personalized model training on resource-constrained devices such as smartphones and IoT nodes.