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Rapid advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have revolutionized many fields, including healthcare. However, these advances raise significant privacy concerns, especially when pre-trained models fine-tuned and specialized on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Antoine Boutet , Lucas Magnana , Juliette Sénéchal

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

Applying machine learning (ML) to sensitive domains requires privacy protection of the underlying training data through formal privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). Yet, usually, the privacy of the training data comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Roy Rinberg , Jannis Ihrig , Adam Dziedzic

During the past decade, differential privacy has become the gold standard for protecting the privacy of individuals. However, verifying that a particular program provides differential privacy often remains a manual task to be completed by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Joseph P. Near , David Darais , Chike Abuah , Tim Stevens , Pranav Gaddamadugu , Lun Wang , Neel Somani , Mu Zhang , Nikhil Sharma , Alex Shan , Dawn Song

Tuning the hyperparameters of differentially private (DP) machine learning (ML) algorithms often requires use of sensitive data and this may leak private information via hyperparameter values. Recently, Papernot and Steinke (2022) proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

This paper introduces a vision of confidential prompting: securing user prompts from an untrusted, cloud-hosted large language model (LLM) while preserving model confidentiality, output invariance, and compute efficiency. As a first step…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Caihua Li , In Gim , Lin Zhong

This position paper investigates the integration of Differential Privacy (DP) in the training of Mixture of Experts (MoE) models within the field of natural language processing. As Large Language Models (LLMs) scale to billions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Pierre Tholoniat , Huseyin A. Inan , Janardhan Kulkarni , Robert Sim

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation. However, the quality of the generated code is heavily dependent on the structure and composition of the prompts used. Crafting high-quality prompts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jinyang Li , Sangwon Hyun , M. Ali Babar

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

This article introduces differentially private log-location-scale (DP-LLS) regression models, which incorporate differential privacy into LLS regression through the functional mechanism. The proposed models are established by injecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-16 Jiewen Sheng , Xiaolei Fang

Prominent Large Language Model (LLM) services from providers like OpenAI and Google excel at general tasks but often underperform on domain-specific applications. Current customization services for these LLMs typically require users to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhaomin Wu , Jizhou Guo , Junyi Hou , Bingsheng He , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) proliferate, developing privacy safeguards for these models is crucial. One popular safeguard involves training LLMs in a differentially private manner. However, such solutions are shown to be computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 James Flemings , Meisam Razaviyayn , Murali Annavaram

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable generalizability in language comprehension and hold significant potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction in smart homes. Existing LLM-based smart home assistants typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinyu Huang , Leming Shen , Zijing Ma , Yuanqing Zheng

Broad adoption of machine learning techniques has increased privacy concerns for models trained on sensitive data such as medical records. Existing techniques for training differentially private (DP) models give rigorous privacy guarantees,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Zhengli Zhao , Nicolas Papernot , Sameer Singh , Neoklis Polyzotis , Augustus Odena

Large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have greatly simplified text generation tasks. However, they have also raised concerns about privacy risks such as data leakage and unauthorized data collection. Existing solutions for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Meng Tong , Kejiang Chen , Jie Zhang , Yuang Qi , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Zhikun Zhang

Privacy preservation remains a key challenge in data mining and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Previous research shows that the input text or even text embeddings can leak private information. This concern motivates our research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chen Qu , Weize Kong , Liu Yang , Mingyang Zhang , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork

Prompt engineering has emerged as a powerful technique for optimizing large language models (LLMs) for specific applications, enabling faster prototyping and improved performance, and giving rise to the interest of the community in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Roman Levin , Valeriia Cherepanova , Abhimanyu Hans , Avi Schwarzschild , Tom Goldstein

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

With the widespread application of large language models (LLMs), user privacy protection has become a significant research topic. Existing privacy preference modeling methods often rely on large-scale user data, making effective privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haowei Yang , Qingyi Lu , Yang Wang , Sibei Liu , Jiayun Zheng , Ao Xiang