As scientific and technological advancements result from human intellectual labor and computational costs, protecting model intellectual property (IP) has become increasingly important to encourage model creators and owners. Model IP protection involves preventing the use of well-trained models on unauthorized domains. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach called Compact Un-Transferable Isolation Domain (CUTI-domain), which acts as a barrier to block illegal transfers from authorized to unauthorized domains. Specifically, CUTI-domain blocks cross-domain transfers by highlighting the private style features of the authorized domain, leading to recognition failure on unauthorized domains with irrelevant private style features. Moreover, we provide two solutions for using CUTI-domain depending on whether the unauthorized domain is known or not: target-specified CUTI-domain and target-free CUTI-domain. Our comprehensive experimental results on four digit datasets, CIFAR10 & STL10, and VisDA-2017 dataset demonstrate that CUTI-domain can be easily implemented as a plug-and-play module with different backbones, providing an efficient solution for model IP protection.
翻译:随着科学技术的进步,保护模型知识产权以鼓励模型创作者和所有者变得越来越重要。保护模型知识产权涉及防止在未经授权的域上使用训练良好的模型。为解决这个问题,我们提出了一种称为紧凑不可转移的隔离域(CUTI-domain)的新方法,它作为障碍阻止从授权域转移到未经授权域的非法转移。具体来说,CUTI-domain通过凸显授权域的私有样式特征,阻止跨域转移,在具有不相关私有样式特征的未经授权域上导致识别失败。此外,我们提供了两种解决方案,具体取决于是否知道未经授权领域:目标指定CUTI-domain和目标无关CUTI-domain。我们在四个数字数据集、CIFAR10和STL10、VisDA-2017数据集上进行了全面的实验,证明了CUTI-domain可以轻松作为一种与不同骨干结构兼容的即插即用模块实现,为模型知识产权保护提供了高效的解决方案。