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

arXiv:2609.31968 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• Distillation — 72× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 39× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 23× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Robustness — 16× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 14× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hamming Distance — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ring Oscillator — 5× in this paper
• Domain Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Latent Representation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Unclonable Function — 4× in this paper
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Arbiter — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems — 3× in this paper
• Latent Space — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Attention Mechanism — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metastability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 2× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial Examples — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bit Error Rate — 1× in this paper
• Bitwise Binary Cross-Entropy — 1× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 1× in this paper
• Continual Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frame Error Rate — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• IEEE Design Automation Conference — 1× in this paper
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design — 1× in this paper
• Latent Representations — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Local Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Layer Perceptron — 1× in this paper
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Structural Similarity Index Measure — 1× in this paper
• Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration — 1× in this paper

Sources

• TopoFR: A Closer Look at Topology Alignment on Face Recognition
• Preventing Distillation-based Attacks on Neural Network IP
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

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