Patents
US 12748945 B2: Systems and methods for a full-stack obfuscation framework to mitigate neural network architecture theft
- Granted
- 2026-09-29
- Filed
- 2023-06-09 application 18208027
- Type
- Utility · 16 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
A full-stack neural network obfuscation framework obfuscates a neural network architecture while preserving its functionality with very limited performance overhead. The framework includes obfuscating parameters or “knobs”, including layer branching, layer widening, selective fusion and schedule pruning, that increase the number of operators, reduce/increase the latency, and number of cache and DRAM accesses. In addition, a genetic algorithm-based approach is adopted to orchestrate the combination of obfuscating knobs to achieve the best obfuscating effect on the layer sequence and dimension parameters so that the architecture information cannot be successfully extracted.
Source: PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 (ipgb20260929.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University 1,571 patents | US company or organization | Tempe, AZ | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jingtao Li | Tempe, AZ | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 | ||
| Chaitali Chakrabarti | Tempe, AZ | 3 | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 | |
| Deliang Fan | Tempe, AZ | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 | ||
| Adnan Siraj Rakin | Tempe, AZ | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06N | Computing arrangements based on specific computational models | G06N3/04 | PTBLXML, file of 2026-09-29 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
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