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Transformer-based language models are applied to a wide range of applications in natural language processing. However, they are inefficient and difficult to deploy. In recent years, many compression algorithms have been proposed to increase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ofir Zafrir , Ariel Larey , Guy Boudoukh , Haihao Shen , Moshe Wasserblat

The increasing size of generative Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has greatly increased the demand for model compression. Despite various methods to compress BERT or its variants, there are few attempts to compress generative PLMs, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chaofan Tao , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Ping Luo , Ngai Wong

In recent years, the fields of natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) have made tremendous progress thanksto deep learning models like Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and Long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Manish Gupta , Puneet Agrawal

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance and received significant research interest. The enormous computational demands, however, hinder the local deployment on devices with limited resources. The current prevalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yujie Gu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoyu Ji , Yier Jin , Wenyuan Xu

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

We demonstrate that it is possible to train large recurrent language models with user-level differential privacy guarantees with only a negligible cost in predictive accuracy. Our work builds on recent advances in the training of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Kunal Talwar , Li Zhang

Compressing Large Language Models (LLMs) into task-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) encounters two significant challenges: safeguarding domain-specific knowledge privacy and managing limited resources. To tackle these challenges, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tao Fan , Guoqiang Ma , Yuanfeng Song , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Language modeling is a keystone task in natural language processing. When training a language model on sensitive information, differential privacy (DP) allows us to quantify the degree to which our private data is protected. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Gavin Kerrigan , Dylan Slack , Jens Tuyls

To reduce the inference cost of large language models, model compression is increasingly used to create smaller scalable models. However, little is known about their robustness to minority subgroups defined by the labels and attributes of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Leonidas Gee , Andrea Zugarini , Novi Quadrianto

The recent developments of Diffusion Models (DMs) enable generation of astonishingly high-quality synthetic samples. Recent work showed that the synthetic samples generated by the diffusion model, which is pre-trained on public data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jing Liu , Andrew Lowy , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Ye Wang

Multilingual models are often particularly dependent on scaling to generalize to a growing number of languages. Compression techniques are widely relied upon to reconcile the growth in model size with real world resource constraints, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Kelechi Ogueji , Orevaoghene Ahia , Gbemileke Onilude , Sebastian Gehrmann , Sara Hooker , Julia Kreutzer

Differential Privacy (DP) has been tailored to address the unique challenges of text-to-text privatization. However, text-to-text privatization is known for degrading the performance of language models when trained on perturbed text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Stefan Arnold , Nils Kemmerzell , Annika Schreiner

Pre-training large transformer models with in-domain data improves domain adaptation and helps gain performance on the domain-specific downstream tasks. However, sharing models pre-trained on potentially sensitive data is prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ying Yin , Ivan Habernal

Large language models (LLMs) are excellent in-context learners. However, the sensitivity of data contained in prompts raises privacy concerns. Our work first shows that these concerns are valid: we instantiate a simple but highly effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Haonan Duan , Adam Dziedzic , Nicolas Papernot , Franziska Boenisch

Generating tabular data under differential privacy (DP) protection ensures theoretical privacy guarantees but poses challenges for training machine learning models, primarily due to the need to capture complex structures under noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tejumade Afonja , Hui-Po Wang , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for tackling complex tasks across diverse domains, but they also raise privacy concerns when fine-tuned on sensitive data due to potential memorization. While differential privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Large language models (LLMs), especially those based on the Transformer architecture, have had a profound impact on various aspects of daily life, such as natural language processing, content generation, research methodologies, and more.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yeqi Gao , Zhao Song , Xin Yang , Yufa Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional reasoning abilities, enabling strong generalization across diverse tasks such as commonsense reasoning and instruction following. However, as LLMs scale, inference costs become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Benedikt Staffler , Frank Hutter , Aaron Klein

Privacy preserving deep learning is an emerging field in machine learning that aims to mitigate the privacy risks in the use of deep neural networks. One such risk is training data extraction from language models that have been trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Andor Diera , Nicolas Lell , Aygul Garifullina , Ansgar Scherp

Pre-trained language models (PLM), for example BERT or RoBERTa, mark the state-of-the-art for natural language understanding task when fine-tuned on labeled data. However, their large size poses challenges in deploying them for inference in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aaron Klein , Jacek Golebiowski , Xingchen Ma , Valerio Perrone , Cedric Archambeau