arXiv:2602.10765cs.LG2026-02

多人协作嵌入水印,少于指定人数无法验证或篡改。

Collaborative Threshold Watermarking

  • 通过阈值密钥共享实现多方协作水印嵌入
  • 支持128个客户端且抗攻击检测置信度超4
  • 适合需防单方篡改的联合训练场景

在联邦学习中,K个客户端在不共享原始数据的情况下联合训练模型。由于每个参与者投入了数据与算力,需要机制证明模型来源。传统模型水印方法在客户端数量增多时易因个体水印稀释而失效,或允许任一客户端验证甚至移除水印。本文提出$(t,K)$-阈值水印:客户端协同在训练中嵌入共享水印,仅当至少$t$个客户端联合时才能重构水印密钥并验证可疑模型。通过秘密共享水印密钥τ,使少于$t$个客户端无法恢复其内容,且验证过程无需明文暴露τ。我们在白盒设置下评估该协议,在图像分类(含IID与非IID划分)及语言模型微调任务上表现良好。即使在$K=128$时,水印仍可检测,精度损失极小,且在使用最多20%训练数据的自适应微调攻击下,检测置信度$z\ge4$。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In federated learning (FL), $K$ clients jointly train a model without sharing raw data. Because each participant invests data and compute, clients need mechanisms to later prove the provenance of a jointly trained model. Model watermarking embeds a hidden signal in the weights, but naive approaches either do not scale with many clients as per-client watermarks dilute as $K$ grows, or give any individual client the ability to verify and potentially remove the watermark. We introduce $(t,K)$-threshold watermarking: clients collaboratively embed a shared watermark during training, while only coalitions of at least $t$ clients can reconstruct the watermark key and verify a suspect model. We secret-share the watermark key $τ$ so that coalitions of fewer than $t$ clients cannot reconstruct it, and verification can be performed without revealing $τ$ in the clear. We instantiate our protocol in the white-box setting and evaluate it on image classification tasks on both IID and non-IID partitions, as well as language models fine-tuning setting. Our watermark remains detectable at scale ($K=128$) with minimal accuracy loss and stays above the detection threshold ($z\ge 4$) under attacks including adaptive fine-tuning using up to 20% of the training data. Code is available at https://github.com/tameemalaa/collaborative-threshold-watermark.

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