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Towards Stealing Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices

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Recently, deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly deployed on mobile computing devices. Compared to the traditional cloud-based DNN services, the on-device DNN provides immediate responses without relying on network availability or bandwidth and can boost security and privacy by preventing users’ data from transferring over the untrusted communication channels or cloud servers. However, deploying DNN models on the mobile devices introduces new attack vectors on the models. Previous studies have shown that the DNN models are prone to model stealing attacks in the cloud setting, by which the attackers can steal the DNN models accurately. In this work, for the first time, we study the model stealing attacks on the deep neural networks running in the mobile devices, by interacting with mobile applications. Our experimental results on various datasets confirm the feasibility of stealing DNN models in mobile devices with high accuracy and small overhead.

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Bo Chen was supported by US National Science Foundation under grant number 1938130-CNS, 1928349-CNS, and 2043022-DGE. The work of Xiaoyong Yuan was supported in part by US National Science Foundation under SHF-2106754.

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Danda, S.R., Yuan, X., Chen, B. (2021). Towards Stealing Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Devices. In: Garcia-Alfaro, J., Li, S., Poovendran, R., Debar, H., Yung, M. (eds) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. SecureComm 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 399. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90022-9_27

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