I-D Action: draft-das-rats-frontier-model-extraction-01.txt

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   Title:   Beyond Attestation: An Execution-Finality Architecture for Controlling Release and Limiting Unauthorized Extraction and Distillation of Sensitive Frontier AI Model Information
   Author:  Sangam Das
   Name:    draft-das-rats-frontier-model-extraction-01.txt
   Pages:   32
   Dates:   2026-08-31

Abstract:

   As frontier AI providers expose increasingly rich inference
   interfaces to partners, evaluators, and enterprise tenants, richer-
   than-normal outputs -- for example logits, log-probability
   distributions, embeddings, hidden states, intermediate activations,
   KV-cache material, and diagnostic state -- become practical
   extraction vectors rather than theoretical concerns.  In this
   document, a "release" is any point at which such information leaves a
   provider's protected execution environment and becomes usable outside
   it, whether returned directly to a caller, cached, forwarded, or
   otherwise materialized.  Existing authentication, confidential-
   computing, and remote-attestation mechanisms can establish important
   properties of the requester and execution environment, but they do
   not by themselves establish that each specific release of sensitive
   model information is currently authorized to cross that protected-to-
   unprotected boundary.

   This document describes that gap as a pre-effectuation release-
   control problem and proposes controls intended to limit unauthorized
   extraction and reduce the risk that released model information can be
   used for downstream distillation.  It presents an execution-finality
   architecture in which computation is separated from authority to
   release.  A sensitive result is treated as a Candidate Release,
   remains non-effective outside the protected domain, and becomes
   externally available only after release-specific validation,
   rollback-resistant extraction-state evaluation, bounded
   authorization, and verification at a controlled Finality Sink.  The
   document discusses anti-bypass requirements, remote-attestation
   composition, latency, legacy deployment, industrial relevance, and a
   concrete model-extraction scenario.

   The mechanism is not claimed to prevent all forms of model
   distillation.  Its narrower objective is to reduce unauthorized or
   excessive extraction of privileged model information that can
   materially improve model stealing, reconstruction, imitation, or
   distillation.  Because release authority is bound to rollback-
   resistant, atomically consumed extraction state rather than to a
   bearer credential, the volume of privileged teacher signal an
   adversary can accumulate through the governed path is capped by
   authorized state transitions, not by request volume or attacker
   persistence alone.

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