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Stealing Machine Learning Models via Prediction APIs

Proposed Additional Source CategoriesAcademictopic page

Assessment outcome

total 4/6 (actionability 0 + authority 2 + currency 2)

Total4/6
Actionability0/2
Authority2/2
Currency2/2

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

The paper explicitly lists multiple named authors.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Score 2: Peer-reviewed article appearing in conference proceedings.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 731 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The page is explicitly about machine learning models, prediction APIs, and model extraction attacks.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

Addresses security risks, model confidentiality, and the need for deployment countermeasures.

G4 · Attributablepass

The paper explicitly lists multiple named authors.

G5 · In forcepass

No notice of retraction, withdrawal, or supersession is present on the page.

Scored criteria

Actionability

0/2

Score 0: Description or analysis only, detailing model extraction attacks without binding steps.

Authority

2/2

Score 2: Peer-reviewed article appearing in conference proceedings.

Proceedings of USENIX Security 2016

Currency

2/2

computed: newest date 2026-08-11 (via http-header), ~0.0y old; within the 60-month academic_research window for perspective 'Academic' → 2

Classification

Coverage topicModel extraction attacks via APIs
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stage6 Operate & monitor
Layermodel
Granularitytopic page