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User language data can contain highly sensitive personal content. As such, it is imperative to offer users a strong and interpretable privacy guarantee when learning from their data. In this work, we propose SentDP: pure local differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Casey Meehan , Khalil Mrini , Kamalika Chaudhuri

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

Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption which allows computation to be carried out on the encrypted data without the need for decryption. The success of quantum approaches to related tasks in a delegated computation setting has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Li Yu , Carlos A. Perez-Delgado , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows for computation directly on encrypted data and enables privacy-preserving neural inference in the cloud. Prior work has focused on models with dense inputs (e.g., CNNs), with less attention given to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Karthik Garimella , Austin Ebel , Gabrielle De Micheli , Brandon Reagen

This article deals with adversarial attacks towards deep learning systems for Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the context of privacy protection. We study a specific type of attack: an attacker eavesdrops on the hidden representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Maximin Coavoux , Shashi Narayan , Shay B. Cohen

Large language models (LLMs) offer personalized responses based on user interactions, but this use case raises serious privacy concerns. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a cryptographic protocol supporting arithmetic computations in encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Donghwan Rho , Taeseong Kim , Minje Park , Jung Woo Kim , Hyunsik Chae , Ernest K. Ryu , Jung Hee Cheon

Preserving the privacy and security of big data in the context of cloud computing, while maintaining a certain level of efficiency of its processing remains to be a subject, open for improvement. One of the most popular applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ş. S. Mağara , C. Yıldırım , F. Yaman , B. Dilekoğlu , F. R. Tutaş , E. Öztürk , K. Kaya , Ö. Taştan , E. Savaş

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

With the fast development of natural language processing, recent advances in information hiding focus on covertly embedding secret information into texts. These algorithms either modify a given cover text or directly generate a text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Xiaoyan Zheng , Yurun Fang , Hanzhou Wu

The trend towards delegating data processing to a remote party raises major concerns related to privacy violations for both end-users and service providers. These concerns have attracted the attention of the research community, and several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Youssef Gahi , Mouhcine Guennoun , Zouhair Guennoun , Khalil El-khatib

We introduce a deep learning framework able to deal with strong privacy constraints. Based on collaborative learning, differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, the proposed approach advances state-of-the-art of private deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Arnaud Grivet Sébert , Rafael Pinot , Martin Zuber , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Renaud Sirdey

Automatically mining sentiment tendency contained in natural language is a fundamental research to some artificial intelligent applications, where solutions alternate with challenges. Transfer learning and multi-task learning techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Xin-Chun Li , Lan Li , De-Chuan Zhan , Yunfeng Shao , Bingshuai Li , Shaoming Song

Current state-of-the-art approaches to text classification typically leverage BERT-style Transformer models with a softmax classifier, jointly fine-tuned to predict class labels of a target task. In this paper, we instead propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kishaloy Halder , Josip Krapac , Alan Akbik , Anthony Brew , Matti Lyra

In this paper, a privacy preserving image classification method is proposed under the use of ConvMixer models. To protect the visual information of test images, a test image is divided into blocks, and then every block is encrypted by using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Rei Aso , Tatsuya Chuman , Hitoshi Kiya

Credit card fraud is a problem continuously faced by financial institutions and their customers, which is mitigated by fraud detection systems. However, these systems require the use of sensitive customer transaction data, which introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 David Nugent

Diffusion models have shown superior performance in image generation and manipulation, but the inherent stochasticity presents challenges in preserving and manipulating image content and identity. While previous approaches like DreamBooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Inhwa Han , Serin Yang , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

This paper presents an efficient framework for private Transformer inference that combines Homomorphic Encryption (HE) and Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) to protect data privacy. Existing methods often leverage HE for linear layers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tianshi Xu , Wen-jie Lu , Jiangrui Yu , Chen Yi , Chenqi Lin , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

Sentence embeddings induced with various transformer architectures encode much semantic and syntactic information in a distributed manner in a one-dimensional array. We investigate whether specific grammatical information can be accessed in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Vivi Nastase , Paola Merlo

Homomorphic encryption, which enables the execution of arithmetic operations directly on ciphertexts, is a promising solution for protecting privacy of cloud-delegated computations on sensitive data. However, the correctness of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Sylvain Chatel , Christian Knabenhans , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Carmela Troncoso , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos