Hardware-Rooted PUF Fingerprinting for Device-Level Traceability in Knowledge Distillation

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Ning Lyu, Yuntao Liu, Yonghong Bai, Zhiyuan Yan)

Summary by Cyber Security News29 Sep 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2609.31968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) enables model transfer across heterogeneous platforms and deployment environments, yet it exposes proprietary models to distillation-based theft, where an adversary extracts intellectual property (IP) by training a student model on teacher outputs.

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