arXiv:2605.23464cs.LG2026-05NeurIPS

让分布式模型训练不被窃取,各参与方永远看不到完整权重。

Unextractable Protocol Models: Collaborative Training and Inference without Weight Materialization

  • 用随时间变化的随机变换打乱模型碎片,防止拼接还原。
  • 在两个大模型上保持精度几乎不变,误差小于0.01困惑度。
  • 适合想协作训练又怕模型被偷的开源社区和去中心化项目。

我们研究一种去中心化场景:多方协同训练并服务一个大型神经网络,每个参与方仅处理模型的一部分。本文提出不可提取协议模型(UPMs):一种训练与推理框架,利用分片模型结构,使各参与方持有的模型片段在不同时间点不兼容。UPMs 在参与者边界周期性注入时变、随机、可逆变换,保持整体网络功能的同时,使跨时间拼接变得不一致。在 Qwen-2.5-0.5B 与 Llama-3.2-1B 上,10,000 次变换使 FP32 困惑度变化小于 0.01(Jensen-Shannon 散度 < 4×10⁻⁵),并展示了对低精度数据类型的控制方法。每 30 秒应用一次变换,推理增加 3% 延迟、0.1% 带宽、10% GPU 内存开销;训练开销仅为 1.6% 时间和 <1% 内存。我们分析多种攻击,证明直接攻击不切实际且易防御,而通过拼接部分进行梯度微调需至少 60% 的训练令牌量才能达到从头训练的效果。UPMs 实现了模型可协作训练但不可提取,为社区驱动的去中心化训练嵌入程序化激励机制提供了可能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We consider a decentralized setup in which the participants collaboratively train and serve a large neural network, and where each participant only processes a subset of the model. In this setup, we explore the possibility of unmaterializable weights, where a full weight set is never available to any one participant. We introduce Unextractable Protocol Models (UPMs): a training and inference framework that leverages the sharded model setup to ensure model shards (i.e., subsets) held by participants are incompatible at different time steps. UPMs periodically inject time-varying, random, invertible transforms at participant boundaries; preserving the overall network function yet rendering cross-time assemblies incoherent. On Qwen-2.5-0.5B and Llama-3.2-1B, 10,000 transforms leave FP32 perplexity unchanged ($Δ$PPL $< 0.01$; Jensen-Shannon drift $< 4 \times 10^{-5}$), and we show how to control growth for lower precision datatypes. Applying a transform every 30s adds 3% latency, 0.1% bandwidth, and 10% GPU-memory overhead at inference, while training overhead falls to 1.6% time and $< 1$% memory. We consider several attacks, showing that the requirements of direct attacks are impractical and easy to defend against, and that gradient-based fine-tuning of stitched partitions consumes $\geq 60$% of the tokens required to train from scratch. By enabling models to be collaboratively trained yet not extracted, UPMs make it practical to embed programmatic incentive mechanisms in community-driven decentralized training.

模型安全分布式训练去中心化隐私保护

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