AI & ML
Mind Your Boundaries: Boundary-Aware Model Obfuscation against Cross-node Attack
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arXiv:2610.27135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the advancement of powerful AI chips, on-device machine learning is gaining traction for its low latency and privacy protection. However, when edge devices are compromised, attackers can obtain white-box access to the deployed models by reversing the apps directly to obtain the knowledge of peer devices, which is known as Cross-Node Attacks, like performing efficient adversarial attacks. Most existing defenses target known vulnerabilities, yet white-box access still enables attackers to uncover more unknown weaknesses. This creates a critical risk for edge-device deployments, where one compromised device can endanger all models distributed from the same source. Motivated by findings that the model robustness is primarily influenced by the curvature of the decision boundary, we investigate how model parameters shape its curvature. In this paper, we propose a novel method, BMO, that obfuscates model parameters to diversify the decision boundary further resisting cross-node attack while preserving its benign accuracy. Specifically, we explore decomposing model parameters into boundary-position and boundary-curvature components based on null-space constraints, then models with differentiated decision boundaries are instantiated by injecting noise into the boundary-curvature component. Across all four major types of adversarial attacks with four widely-deployed on-device models, BMO achieves an average success rate of 68.68% in defense, far exceeding the most competitive baseline, which attains only 22.32% in defending against cross-node attacks. Moreover, BMO achieves comparable performance in benign accuracy compared with baselines.
Source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27135PreviousEnergy Consumption of Post-Quantum Cryptography on Constrained and General-Purpose ArchitecturesNextModel Exposure on One Device Endangers Others: Rethinking Edge Neural Network Security across Devices
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