Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:54:26 +0000
<p>Platform as a service is a growing trend in data science where services like fraud analysis and face detection can be provided via APIs. Such services turn the actual model into a black box to the consumer. But can the model be reverse engineered?</p> <p><a href="http://floriantramer.com/">Florian Tramèr</a> shares his work in this episode showing that it can. The paper <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943">Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs</a> is definitely worth your time to read if you enjoy this episode. Related source code can be found in <a href="https://github.com/ftramer/Steal-ML">https://github.com/ftramer/Steal-ML</a>.</p>
