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Poster

Deploying Convolutional Networks on Untrusted Platforms Using 2D Holographic Reduced Representations

Mohammad Mahmudul Alam · Edward Raff · Tim Oates · James Holt

Hall E #210

Keywords: [ SA: Privacy-preserving Statistics and Machine Learning ] [ APP: Computer Vision ]


Abstract:

Due to the computational cost of running inference for a neural network, the need to deploy the inferential steps on a third party's compute environment or hardware is common. If the third party is not fully trusted, it is desirable to obfuscate the nature of the inputs and outputs, so that the third party can not easily determine what specific task is being performed. Provably secure protocols for leveraging an untrusted party exist but are too computational demanding to run in practice. We instead explore a different strategy of fast, heuristic security that we call \textit{Connectionist Symbolic Pseudo Secrets}. By leveraging Holographic Reduced Representations (HRRs), we create a neural network with a pseudo-encryption style defense that empirically shows robustness to attack, even under threat models that unrealistically favor the adversary.

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