2026
KINGUARD: HIERARCHICAL KINSHIP-AWARE FINGERPRINTING TO DEFEND AGAINST LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL STEALING
ICASSP 2026poster
Protecting the intellectual property of large language models requires robust ownership verification. Conventional backdoor fingerprinting, however, is flawed by a stealth-robustness paradox: to be robust, these methods force models to memorize fixed responses to high-perplexity triggers, but this t…