  This paper proposes DeepMarks, a novel end-to-end framework for systematic
fingerprinting in the context of Deep Learning (DL). Remarkable progress has
been made in the area of deep learning. Sharing the trained DL models has
become a trend that is ubiquitous in various fields ranging from biomedical
diagnosis to stock prediction. As the availability and popularity of
pre-trained models are increasing, it is critical to protect the Intellectual
Property (IP) of the model owner. DeepMarks introduces the first fingerprinting
methodology that enables the model owner to embed unique fingerprints within
the parameters (weights) of her model and later identify undesired usages of
her distributed models. The proposed framework embeds the fingerprints in the
Probability Density Function (pdf) of trainable weights by leveraging the extra
capacity available in contemporary DL models. DeepMarks is robust against
fingerprints collusion as well as network transformation attacks, including
model compression and model fine-tuning. Extensive proof-of-concept evaluations
on MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets, as well as a wide variety of deep neural
networks architectures such as Wide Residual Networks (WRNs) and Convolutional
Neural Networks (CNNs), corroborate the effectiveness and robustness of
DeepMarks framework.
