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Using language models as a remote service entails sending private information to an untrusted provider. In addition, potential eavesdroppers can intercept the messages, thereby exposing the information. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Re'em Harel , Yair Elboher , Yuval Pinter

Recent large-scale natural language processing (NLP) systems use a pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM) on massive and diverse corpora as a headstart. In practice, the pre-trained model is adapted to a wide array of tasks via fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Jimit Majmudar , Christophe Dupuy , Charith Peris , Sami Smaili , Rahul Gupta , Richard Zemel

We propose two models for a special case of authorship verification problem. The task is to investigate whether the two documents of a given pair are written by the same author. We consider the authorship verification problem for both small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Marjan Hosseinia , Arjun Mukherjee

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

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

High-quality text generation capability of recent Large Language Models (LLMs) causes concerns about their misuse (e.g., in massive generation/spread of disinformation). Machine-generated text (MGT) detection is important to cope with such…

In sensitive domains such as medical and legal, protecting sensitive information is critical, with protective laws strictly prohibiting the disclosure of personal data. This poses challenges for sharing valuable data such as medical reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Anthony Hughes , Ning Ma , Nikolaos Aletras

Background knowledge is an important factor in privacy preserving data publishing. Distribution-based background knowledge is one of the well studied background knowledge. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no existing work…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-09-08 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Jian Pei , Philip S. Yu

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has yielded impressive success in various downstream tasks. However, the vast potential and remarkable capabilities of LLMs also raise new security and privacy concerns if they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jiawei Zhao , Kejiang Chen , Xiaojian Yuan , Yuang Qi , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Text anonymization is essential for responsibly developing and deploying AI in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, social services, and law. In this work, we propose a novel methodology for privacy-preserving synthetic text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zihao Zhao , Anjalie Field

Privacy is an increasingly important aspect of data publishing. Reasoning about privacy, however, is fraught with pitfalls. One of the most significant is the auxiliary information (also called external knowledge, background knowledge, or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Adam Smith

Natural language reflects our private lives and identities, making its privacy concerns as broad as those of real life. Language models lack the ability to understand the context and sensitivity of text, and tend to memorize phrases present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-15 Hannah Brown , Katherine Lee , Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Reza Shokri , Florian Tramèr

Personalization is critical for improving user experience in interactive writing and educational applications, yet remains understudied in story generation. We study the task of personalizing story generation, where our goal is to mimic an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Nischal Ashok Kumar , Chau Minh Pham , Mohit Iyyer , Andrew Lan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated advanced capabilities in both text generation and comprehension, and their application to data archives might facilitate the privatization of sensitive information about the data subjects. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Stefano Cirillo , Domenico Desiato , Giuseppe Polese , Monica Maria Lucia Sebillo , Giandomenico Solimando

In the age of powerful AI-generated text, automatic detectors have emerged to identify machine-written content. This poses a threat to author privacy and freedom, as text authored with AI assistance may be unfairly flagged. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Isaac David , Arthur Gervais

Voice anonymization has been developed as a technique for preserving privacy by replacing the speaker's voice in a speech signal with that of a pseudo-speaker, thereby obscuring the original voice attributes from machine recognition and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Rui Wang , Liping Chen , Kong AiK Lee , Zhen-Hua Ling

Voice anonymisation can be used to help protect speaker privacy when speech data is shared with untrusted others. In most practical applications, while the voice identity should be sanitised, other attributes such as the spoken content…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Michele Panariello , Massimiliano Todisco , Nicholas Evans

Prompt privacy is crucial, especially when using online large language models (LLMs), due to the sensitive information often contained within prompts. While LLMs can enhance prompt privacy through text rewriting, existing methods primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingchen Li , Heng Fan , Song Fu , Junhua Ding , Yunhe Feng

Current speaker anonymization methods, especially with self-supervised learning (SSL) models, require massive computational resources when hiding speaker identity. This paper proposes an effective and parameter-efficient speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Xiaojiao Chen , Sheng Li , Jiyi Li , Hao Huang , Yang Cao , Liang He

While audio recordings in real life provide insights into social dynamics and conversational behavior, they also raise concerns about the privacy of personal, sensitive data. This article explores the effectiveness of restricting recordings…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Jule Pohlhausen , Jörg Bitzer