用密钥控制推荐结果偏移,实现隐蔽的模型版权保护。
Green-Red Watermarking for Recommender Systems

- 用密钥将物品分为绿色(软推)和红色(锚点),嵌入水印信号。
- 不注入数据,在多个模型上验证成功率超95%,抗攻击性强。
- 适合需保护推荐系统知识产权的研究者与开发者。
推荐系统广泛开源与模型提取攻击风险上升,使保护其知识产权成为迫切任务。现有水印方法多依赖强制模型记忆预设交互模式,需大量合成数据注入,且因行为统计异常易被移除。为此,我们提出GREW框架,利用密钥将物品空间划分为“绿色”项(软推广)与“红色”项(锚点),将水印机制从脆弱的记忆化转向隐蔽的、密钥控制的输出偏差。通过三个推荐定制模块:(1) 语义一致哈希,利用密钥聚类绿色项以兼顾性能与隐蔽性;(2) 决策对齐掩码,将信号注入限制在竞争物品子集,保留排名逻辑;(3) 置信度感知缩放,根据模型不确定性动态调节注入强度。所有权验证通过在聚合黑盒输出上进行统计假设检验完成,依赖密钥重划分物品空间。实验表明,相比基线方法,GREW在多个基础模型上实现强所有权验证与抗提取攻击能力,且无需数据注入。代码已公开于https://github.com/Loche2/GREW。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The widespread open-sourcing of advanced recommendation algorithms and the rising threat of model extraction attacks have made safeguarding the intellectual property of recommender systems an imperative task. While watermarking serves as a potent defense, existing methods primarily rely on forcing models to memorize pre-defined interaction patterns. Such memorization-based approaches often require excessive synthetic data injection and are vulnerable to removal attacks due to their detectable statistical deviations from natural user behavior. To address these limitations, we propose GREW, a novel Green-REd Watermarking framework for recommender systems. GREW leverages a secret key to partition the item space into "green" items for soft promotion and "red" items as anchors, thereby shifting the paradigm from fragile memorization to a stealthy, key-controlled output bias. By integrating watermark signals directly into the intrinsic ranking process, GREW employs three recommendation-tailored modules: (1) Semantic-Consistent Hashing, which utilizes the secret key to cluster green items for performance-aware stealthiness; (2) Decision-Aligned Masking, which confines signal injection to the competitive item subset to preserve ranking logic; and (3) Confidence-Aware Scaling, which dynamically modulates injection intensity based on model uncertainty. Ownership verification is performed via statistical hypothesis testing on aggregated black-box outputs, enabled by the keyed re-partitioning of the item space. Experiments on multiple base models demonstrate that GREW achieves strong ownership verification and robustness against extraction attacks compared to existing baselines while requiring no data injection. Our code is available at https://github.com/Loche2/GREW.
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