In this paper, the agent-based modeling is employed to model the effect of intellectual property policy at the speed of technological advancement. Every agent has inborn preferences towards investing their capital into independent technological development, innovation appropriation, and production. The relative cost of…
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In many developing countries intellectual property infringement and the commerce of pirate goods is an entrepreneurial activity. Digital piracy is very often the only media for having access to music, cinema, books and software. At the same time, bio-prospecting and infringement of indigenous knowledge rights by intern…
Patents and intellectual property assets as non-fungible tokens: key technologies and challengesq-fin.GN
This paper explores using NFTs for patents, offering a framework and addressing challenges.
problem Lack of research in applying NFT to intellectual property, especially patents.
method Developed a layered conceptual NFT-based patent framework.
result Promotes transparency and liquidity in patent markets.
This paper simplifies the Nash Bargaining Solution for use in intellectual property cases.
problem Limited application of Nash Bargaining Solution in assigning intellectual property damages.
method Normalizes the Nash Bargaining Solution and provides a methodology for determining bargaining weight.
result Clarifies the application of Nash Bargaining Solution to specific case facts.
Biotech IPOs in Q1 2021: advanced degrees, clinical trials, and IP key.
problem Identifying traits of biotech startups that go public.
method Database of biotech IPOs, analysis of leadership, technology, clinical trials, and financing.
result Advanced degrees, clinical trials, and IP are important for biotech startups.
Paper tackles source attribution for LLM-generated texts.
problem Identify the data provider of synthetic texts generated by LLMs.
method Watermarking to embed information about data providers in synthetic texts.
result Proposes and evaluates a source attribution framework that achieves effective source attribution.
In this small article one compromise monetization strategy is proposed, which hopefully may lead to a more satisfactory coexistence of IP manufacturers and consumers. The motto is "fair exchange": you use our IP-product, we use your product (in form of money); when you do not need our product any more, we change back.
Designing AI market for content creation
problem Balancing technological progress and individual incentives for content creation
method Dynamic Stackelberg game model
result Inducing greater reliance on AI-assisted creation
SLIP secures LLMs on edge devices by splitting computation and protecting sensitive parts.
problem Protecting LLMs on edge devices from theft and unauthorized use.
method SLIP uses matrix decomposition to split model computation between secure and vulnerable resources, ensuring zero accuracy degradation and minimal latency.
result SLIP is the first practical, secure hybrid protocol for protecting LLMs on edge devices.
Machine learning identifies types of alterations in historical manuscripts.
problem Understanding and categorizing alterations in historical manuscripts.
method Alteration Latent Dirichlet Allocation (alterLDA) model.
result High performance in recognizing alterations on labelled data, and interesting insights on unlabelled data.
Paper presents first model extraction attack against DRL models.
problem Stealing DRL models from interaction with environment.
method Imitation learning approach to recover DRL models from predicted actions.
result Successfully recovers DRL models with high fidelity and accuracy.
Proposes a general deep neural network method for digital watermarking.
problem Protecting intellectual content in a massive, IoT-acquired image dataset.
method Train a neural network on an image set and use it to protect distinct test images in bulk.
result Demonstrates the robustness and practicality of the proposed method.
In this paper we propose a novel index to quantify and measure the flow of information on macro and micro scales. We discuss the implications of this index for knowledge management fields and also as intellectual capital that can thus be utilized by entrepreneurs. We explore different function and human oriented metric…
Deep Neural Networks are robust to minor perturbations of the learned network parameters and their minor modifications do not change the overall network response significantly. This allows space for model stealing, where a malevolent attacker can steal an already trained network, modify the weights and claim the new ne…
Dataset inference defends against model stealing by identifying stolen training data.
problem Model stealing through machine learning models trained on proprietary data.
method Combines statistical testing with decision boundary estimation to identify stolen training data.
result Model owners can claim with high confidence that their model was stolen, even with limited stolen data.
Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?physics.soc-ph
Mandelbrot unified diverse fields with scaling concept.
problem Understanding Mandelbrot's intellectual approach.
method Tracing Mandelbrot's contributions across math, physics, and economics.
result Scaling concept unified Mandelbrot's diverse work.
The commercialization of deep learning creates a compelling need for intellectual property (IP) protection. Deep neural network (DNN) watermarking has been proposed as a promising tool to help model owners prove ownership and fight piracy. A popular approach of watermarking is to train a DNN to recognize images with ce…
As companies increase their efforts in retaining customers, being able to predict accurately ahead of time, whether a customer will churn in the foreseeable future is an extremely powerful tool for any marketing team. The paper describes in depth the application of Deep Learning in the problem of churn prediction. Usin…
Study uses NLP to analyze emotions and challenges of young people with IDD.
problem Challenges faced by young people with IDD during transition to adulthood.
method Natural language processing, unsupervised machine learning, topic modeling.
result NLP methods can assist psychologists in analyzing emotions and summarizing key topics.
The aim of this paper is to discuss some applications of general topology in computer algorithms including modeling and simulation, and also in computer graphics and image processing. While the progress in these areas heavily depends on advances in computing hardware, the major intellectual achievements are the algorit…
Deep-Lock secures DNN models with secret keys.
problem Preventing unauthorized usage of DNN models.
method Uses S-Boxes and key scheduling to encrypt DNN parameters.
result Ensures correct functioning only with the correct secret key.
Paper introduces attacks to infer GAN training dataset properties.
problem Security and privacy risks of generative models like GANs.
method Proposes a general attack pipeline for two attack scenarios.
result Demonstrates strong performance in inferring GAN training dataset properties.
Unlike other industries in which intellectual property is patentable, the financial industry relies on trade secrecy to protect its business processes and methods, which can obscure critical financial risk exposures from regulators and the public. We develop methods for sharing and aggregating such risk exposures that …
Federated learning enables the creation of a powerful centralized model without compromising data privacy of multiple participants. While successful, it does not incorporate the case where each participant independently designs its own model. Due to intellectual property concerns and heterogeneous nature of tasks and d…
In machine learning (ML) security, attacks like evasion, model stealing or membership inference are generally studied in individually. Previous work has also shown a relationship between some attacks and decision function curvature of the targeted model. Consequently, we study an ML model allowing direct control over t…
Recently, machine learning (ML) has introduced advanced solutions to many domains. Since ML models provide business advantage to model owners, protecting intellectual property of ML models has emerged as an important consideration. Confidentiality of ML models can be protected by exposing them to clients only via predi…
As companies continue to invest heavily in larger, more accurate and more robust deep learning models, they are exploring approaches to monetize their models while protecting their intellectual property. Model licensing is promising, but requires a robust tool for owners to claim ownership of models, i.e. a watermark. …
With the widespread use of machine learning (ML) techniques, ML as a service has become increasingly popular. In this setting, an ML model resides on a server and users can query it with their data via an API. However, if the user's input is sensitive, sending it to the server is undesirable and sometimes even legally …
Simple attack bypasses state-of-the-art DNN watermarking.
problem Protecting DNN models from watermark removal attacks.
method Combining imperceptible pattern embedding and spatial-level transformations for a simple yet effective watermark removal.
result Our attack bypasses state-of-the-art watermarking solutions with high success rates.
Database activity monitoring (DAM) systems are commonly used by organizations to protect the organizational data, knowledge and intellectual properties. In order to protect organizations database DAM systems have two main roles, monitoring (documenting activity) and alerting to anomalous activity. Due to high-velocity …
Machine learning as a service (MLaaS), and algorithm marketplaces are on a rise. Data holders can easily train complex models on their data using third party provided learning codes. Training accurate ML models requires massive labeled data and advanced learning algorithms. The resulting models are considered as intell…
This paper uses decolonial theory to improve AI's ethical development.
problem AI's risks to vulnerable peoples and negative impacts of innovation.
method Embedding decolonial critical approach in AI technical practice.
result Developing tactics to align AI with ethical principles.
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are used to train computers to perform a variety of complex tasks and improve with experience. Computers learn how to recognize patterns, make unintended decisions, or react to a dynamic environment. Certain trained machines may be more effective than others because they are based on mo…
Machine learning (ML) has progressed rapidly during the past decade and the major factor that drives such development is the unprecedented large-scale data. As data generation is a continuous process, this leads to ML model owners updating their models frequently with newly-collected data in an online learning scenario…
QGMS framework detects market endpoints using geometric patterns.
problem Identifying market endpoints in large-scale movements.
method Hybrid of geometric pattern recognition and quantitative modeling.
result Consistently identifies market endpoints before major reversals.
This paper applies combinatorial testing to machine learning for robust model performance.
problem Identifying robust machine learning models using test and training sets.
method Adapting combinatorial interaction testing for machine learning, focusing on simple features.
result Combinatorial coverage can enhance model performance and robustness.
NTL protects AI models by restricting their generalization ability to specific domains.
problem Protecting AI models as intellectual property in a secure and robust manner.
method Non-Transferable Learning (NTL) captures exclusive data representation and restricts model generalization ability.
result NTL provides robust resistance to watermark removal and data-centric protection for usage authorization.
DeepPeep attacks DNN architectures to reveal design details, posing IP theft risks.
problem Protecting DNN architecture from IP theft in cloud-based services.
method Two-stage attack methodology exploiting design characteristics.
result DeepPeep successfully reverses-engineers compact DNN architectures.
Study reveals which startup valuation factors are most critical.
problem Understanding the complex factors influencing startup valuations.
method Hierarchical prediction models using decision trees and random forests.
result Identifies which factors most significantly impact startup valuations.
Entangled watermarks improve model defense against extraction attacks.
problem Model extraction attacks risk leaking valuable intellectual property.
method Entangled Watermarking Embeddings (EWE) leverages model capacity to overfit to outlier input-output pairs.
result The approach successfully claims model ownership with high confidence and minimal performance loss.
Training machine learning (ML) models is expensive in terms of computational power, amounts of labeled data and human expertise. Thus, ML models constitute intellectual property (IP) and business value for their owners. Embedding digital watermarks during model training allows a model owner to later identify their mode…
As state-of-the-art deep neural networks are deployed at the core of more advanced Al-based products and services, the incentive for copying them (i.e., their intellectual properties) by rival adversaries is expected to increase considerably over time. The best way to extract or steal knowledge from such networks is by…
Machine learning categorizes mutual funds for better investment strategies.
problem Identifying similar mutual funds for diversified investment applications.
method Machine learning to learn and reproduce a well-regarded categorization system.
result Machine learning can learn and reproduce a categorization system that is widely regarded.
LSBI approximates likelihood with linear functions for cosmological parameter estimation.
problem Estimating cosmological parameters from complex data.
method Sequential Linear Simulation-based Inference (LSBI) using Gaussian approximations.
result LSBI achieves convergence after 4-5 rounds of simulations, comparable to neural methods.
Causal inference is similar to prediction with treatment bias.
problem Generalizing from labeled to unlabeled data with treatment effects.
method Reframing causal inference as a prediction problem with explicit assumptions.
result Causal assumptions are not uniquely strong but more explicit.
Paper introduces proof-of-learning to verify ML model training.
problem No mechanism to prove ML model training parameters were obtained through optimization.
method Inspired by proof-of-work and verified computations, introduces proof-of-learning mechanism.
result Proves model training parameters were obtained through optimization with minimal adversary work.
Optimizes neural networks for solving problems with pruning and ensembles of minimal structures.
problem Improving neural network performance and interpretability.
method Pruning neural networks based on the principle of controlling training and pruning, using sensitivity indicators and logically transparent NN.
result Ensemble of minimal neural networks provides diverse forecasting algorithms and identifies areas for further data collection.
Inferring the correct answers to binary tasks based on multiple noisy answers in an unsupervised manner has emerged as the canonical question for micro-task crowdsourcing or more generally aggregating opinions. In graphon estimation, one is interested in estimating edge intensities or probabilities between nodes using …