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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

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

Language models are widely deployed to provide automatic text completion services in user products. However, recent research has revealed that language models (especially large ones) bear considerable risk of memorizing private training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 C. M. Downey , Wei Dai , Huseyin A. Inan , Kim Laine , Saurabh Naik , Tomasz Religa

As privacy issues are receiving increasing attention within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, numerous methods have been proposed to sanitize texts subject to differential privacy. However, the state-of-the-art text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Huimin Chen , Fengran Mo , Yanhao Wang , Cen Chen , Jian-Yun Nie , Chengyu Wang , Jamie Cui

Privatized text rewriting with local differential privacy (LDP) is a recent approach that enables sharing of sensitive textual documents while formally guaranteeing privacy protection to individuals. However, existing systems face several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Timour Igamberdiev , Ivan Habernal

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 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 deployment of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection systems necessitates processing sensitive user data, creating a fundamental conflict between authorship verification and privacy preservation. Standard anonymization techniques often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lionel Z. Wang , Yusheng Zhao , Jiabin Luo , Xinfeng Li , Lixu Wang , Yinan Peng , Haoyang Li , XiaoFeng Wang , Wei Dong

The task of $\textit{Differentially Private Text Rewriting}$ is a class of text privatization techniques in which (sensitive) input textual documents are $\textit{rewritten}$ under Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. The motivation behind…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Stephen Meisenbacher , Chaeeun Joy Lee , Florian Matthes

The growing use of large language models has increased interest in sharing textual data in a privacy-preserving manner. One prominent line of work addresses this challenge through text rewriting under Local Differential Privacy (LDP), where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Weijun Li , Arnaud Grivet Sébert , Qiongkai Xu , Annabelle McIver , Mark Dras

One of the big challenges in machine learning applications is that training data can be different from the real-world data faced by the algorithm. In language modeling, users' language (e.g. in private messaging) could change in a year and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Vadim Popov , Mikhail Kudinov , Irina Piontkovskaya , Petr Vytovtov , Alex Nevidomsky

The goal of differentially private text obfuscation is to obfuscate, or "perturb", input texts with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees, such that the private output texts are quantifiably indistinguishable from the originals. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Stephen Meisenbacher , Angelo Kleinert , Florian Matthes

Privacy techniques have been developed for data-driven systems, but systems with non-numeric data cannot use typical noise-adding techniques. Therefore, we develop a new mechanism for privatizing state trajectories of symbolic systems that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Benvenuti , Huaiyuan Rao , Matthew Hale

The task of text privatization using Differential Privacy has recently taken the form of $\textit{text rewriting}$, in which an input text is obfuscated via the use of generative (large) language models. While these methods have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Stephen Meisenbacher , Maulik Chevli , Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

Privacy is an important concern when building statistical models on data containing personal information. Differential privacy offers a strong definition of privacy and can be used to solve several privacy concerns (Dwork et al., 2014).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Satyapriya Krishna , Rahul Gupta , Christophe Dupuy

The study of privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing (NLP) has gained rising attention in recent years. One promising avenue studies the integration of Differential Privacy in NLP, which has brought about innovative methods in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Stephen Meisenbacher , Maulik Chevli , Florian Matthes

Embeddings, which compress information in raw text into semantics-preserving low-dimensional vectors, have been widely adopted for their efficacy. However, recent research has shown that embeddings can potentially leak private information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Garam Lee , Minsoo Kim , Jai Hyun Park , Seung-won Hwang , Jung Hee Cheon

This paper firstly proposes a simple yet efficient generalized approach to apply differential privacy to text representation (i.e., word embedding). Based on it, we propose a user-level approach to learn personalized differentially private…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Xuan-Son Vu , Son N. Tran , Lili Jiang

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in creating images highly aligned with user prompts, yet their proclivity for memorizing training set images has sparked concerns about the originality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Chen Chen , Daochang Liu , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

We present STAMP (Selective Task-Aware Mechanism for Text Privacy), a new framework for task-aware text privatization that achieves an improved privacy-utility trade-off. STAMP selectively allocates privacy budgets across tokens by jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Fengwei Tian , Payel Bhattacharjee , Heidi Hanson , Geoffrey D. Rubin , Joseph Y. Lo , Ravi Tandon