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In this paper, we discuss an important aspect of speech privacy: protecting spoken content. New capabilities from the field of machine learning provide a unique and timely opportunity to revisit speech content protection. There are many…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Jennifer Williams , Junichi Yamagishi , Paul-Gauthier Noe , Cassia Valentini Botinhao , Jean-Francois Bonastre

An unsolved challenge in distributed or federated learning is to effectively mitigate privacy risks without slowing down training or reducing accuracy. In this paper, we propose TextHide aiming at addressing this challenge for natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yangsibo Huang , Zhao Song , Danqi Chen , Kai Li , Sanjeev Arora

Similarity search is essential to many important applications and often involves searching at scale on high-dimensional data based on their similarity to a query. In biometric applications, recent vulnerability studies have shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Yi Wang , Jianwu Wan , Jun Guo , Yiu-Ming Cheung , Pong C Yuen

Feature selection is the process of sieving features, in which informative features are separated from the redundant and irrelevant ones. This process plays an important role in machine learning, data mining and bioinformatics. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Javad Rahimipour Anaraki , Saeed Samet

With the use of personal devices connected to the Internet for tasks such as searches and shopping becoming ubiquitous, ensuring the privacy of the users of such services has become a requirement in order to build and maintain customer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ricardo Silva Carvalho , Theodore Vasiloudis , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan

Using the computational resources of an untrusted third party to crack a password hash can pose a high number of privacy and security risks. The act of revealing the hash digest could in itself negatively impact both the data subject who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Bertalan Borsos , Sebastien Raveau

Data mining has made broad significant multidisciplinary field used in vast application domains and extracts knowledge by identifying structural relationship among the objects in large data bases. Privacy preserving data mining is a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Pasupuleti Rajesh , Gugulothu Narsimha

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed natural language understanding and generation, but they raise privacy concerns due to potential exposure of sensitive information. Studies have highlighted the risk of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bishnu Bhusal , Manoj Acharya , Ramneet Kaur , Colin Samplawski , Anirban Roy , Adam D. Cobb , Rohit Chadha , Susmit Jha

Text embeddings are fundamental to many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, extensively applied in domains such as recommendation systems and information retrieval (IR). Traditionally, transmitting embeddings instead of raw text has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dominykas Seputis , Yongkang Li , Karsten Langerak , Serghei Mihailov

In the bounded retrieval model, the adversary can leak a certain amount of information from the message sender's computer (e.g., 10 percent of the hard drive). Bellare, Kane and Rogaway give an efficient symmetric encryption scheme in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ben Morris , Hans Oberschelp , Hamilton Samraj Santhakumar

Privacy-preserving machine learning in data-sharing processes is an ever-critical task that enables collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models without the need to share the original data sources. It is especially relevant when…

In recent years, machine learning - particularly deep learning - has significantly impacted the field of information management. While several strategies have been proposed to restrict models from learning and memorizing sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiajia Li , Lu Yang , Letian Peng , Shitou Zhang , Ping Wang , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

The article introduces a method for extracting words of different degrees of importance based on the BERT pre-training model and proves the effectiveness of this method. The article also discusses the impact of maintaining the same…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Qingwen Fu

Deep learning-based language models have achieved state-of-the-art results in a number of applications including sentiment analysis, topic labelling, intent classification and others. Obtaining text representations or embeddings using these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Richard Plant , Dimitra Gkatzia , Valerio Giuffrida

In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving method with a secret key for convolutional neural network (CNN)-based speech classification tasks. Recently, many methods related to privacy preservation have been developed in image…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Shoko Niwa , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

The goal of homomorphic encryption is to encrypt data such that another party can operate on it without being explicitly exposed to the content of the original data. We introduce an idea for a privacy-preserving transformation on natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhifeng Hu , Serhii Havrylov , Ivan Titov , Shay B. Cohen

Privacy Preserving Data Mining is a method which ensures privacy of individual information during mining. Most important task involves retrieving information from multiple data bases which is distributed. The data once in the data warehouse…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-04-13 P. Kiran , S Sathish Kumar , N. P. Kavya

Metric Differential Privacy is a generalization of differential privacy tailored to address the unique challenges of text-to-text privatization. By adding noise to the representation of words in the geometric space of embeddings, words are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefan Arnold , Dilara Yesilbas , Sven Weinzierl

We address the problem of how to "obfuscate" texts by removing stylistic clues which can identify authorship, whilst preserving (as much as possible) the content of the text. In this paper we combine ideas from "generalised differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Natasha Fernandes , Mark Dras , Annabelle McIver

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum