arXiv AI By Aoting Hu, Yanzhi Chen, Renjie Xie, Xinwei Zhang, Wei Xu

Revisiting Black-Box Model Ownership Verification through Information Theory

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arXiv:2409. 06130v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning models require substantial computational resources and data to train, making them valuable intellectual property.

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