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arXiv AI By Simone Gargiulo, Gabriel Kulp

Workload Identification with Physical Side Channels for AI Governance

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The paper demonstrates that an external observer can identify the type of workload running on an NVIDIA H200 GPU by analyzing its power draw, distinguishing training, inference, and non‑AI tasks with high accuracy. Using 930 recorded traces, the authors achieve 97% accuracy and a macro‑averaged F1 score of 0.955 on unseen model families. They also test four evasion strategies to disguise training as inference, showing that a hardened detector can catch most attacks, though one strategy (LoRA) remains partially detectable.

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