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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

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable an untrusted data collector to perform privacy-preserving data analytics. In particular, each user locally perturbs its data to preserve privacy before sending it to the data collector, who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Adversarial attacking aims to fool deep neural networks with adversarial examples. In the field of natural language processing, various textual adversarial attack models have been proposed, varying in the accessibility to the victim model.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yuan Zang , Bairu Hou , Fanchao Qi , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiaojun Meng , Maosong Sun

The widespread use of cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has heightened concerns over user privacy, as sensitive information may be inadvertently exposed during interactions with these services. To protect privacy before sending…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shuo Huang , William MacLean , Xiaoxi Kang , Qiongkai Xu , Zhuang Li , Xingliang Yuan , Gholamreza Haffari , Lizhen Qu

Deep neural networks are increasingly deployed for scene analytics, including to evaluate the attention and reaction of people exposed to out-of-home advertisements. However, the features extracted by a deep neural network that was trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Chau Yi Li , Andrea Cavallaro

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of user-entity differential privacy (UeDP) to provide formal privacy protection simultaneously to both sensitive entities in textual data and data owners in learning natural language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Tong Sun , Rajiv Jain , Franck Dernoncourt , Jiuxiang Gu , Nikolaos Barmpalios

Text rewriting with differential privacy (DP) provides concrete theoretical guarantees for protecting the privacy of individuals in textual documents. In practice, existing systems may lack the means to validate their privacy-preserving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Timour Igamberdiev , Thomas Arnold , Ivan Habernal

Federated learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train the global model in a distributed manner by sharing the model parameters from local clients to a central server, thereby potentially protecting users' private information. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhe Li , Honglong Chen , Zhichen Ni , Huajie Shao

Machine learning (ML) is vulnerable to inference (e.g., membership inference, property inference, and data reconstruction) attacks that aim to infer the private information of training data or dataset. Existing defenses are only designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Binghui Zhang , Yuan Hong , Binghui Wang

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing, enabling applications in diverse domains such as healthcare, finance and education. However, the growing reliance on extensive data for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Guoshenghui Zhao , Eric Song

Large Language Models (LLMs) generate responses based on user prompts. Often, these prompts may contain highly sensitive information, including personally identifiable information (PII), which could be exposed to third parties hosting these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachchige , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Dinusha Vatsalan , Dali Kaafar

Spoken language understanding (SLU), one of the key enabling technologies for human-computer interaction in IoT devices, provides an easy-to-use user interface. Human speech can contain a lot of user-sensitive information, such as gender,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yinggui Wang , Wei Huang , Le Yang

Generating high-quality textual adversarial examples is critical for investigating the pitfalls of natural language processing (NLP) models and further promoting their robustness. Existing attacks are usually realized through word-level or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yibin Lei , Yu Cao , Dianqi Li , Tianyi Zhou , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy

The misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs) to infer emotions from text for malicious purposes, known as emotion inference attacks, poses a significant threat to user privacy. In this paper, we investigate the potential of Apple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik , Syed Mhamudul Hasan , Abdur R. Shahid

Language models are capable of memorizing detailed patterns and information, leading to a double-edged effect: they achieve impressive modeling performance on downstream tasks with the stored knowledge but also raise significant privacy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xianzhi Li , Ran Zmigrod , Zhiqiang Ma , Xiaomo Liu , Xiaodan Zhu

In the study of trustworthy Natural Language Processing (NLP), a number of important research fields have emerged, including that of explainability and privacy. While research interest in both explainable and privacy-preserving NLP has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mahdi Dhaini , Stephen Meisenbacher , Ege Erdogan , Florian Matthes , Gjergji Kasneci

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models have been shown to have high empirical privacy leakages. Clinical language models (CLMs) trained on clinical data have been used to improve performance in biomedical natural language processing tasks. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Abhyuday Jagannatha , Bhanu Pratap Singh Rawat , Hong Yu

Deep learning-based natural language processing (NLP) models, particularly pre-trained language models (PLMs), have been revealed to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, the adversarial examples generated by many mainstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zimu Wang , Wei Wang , Qi Chen , Qiufeng Wang , Anh Nguyen

Substantial research works have shown that deep models, e.g., pre-trained models, on the large corpus can learn universal language representations, which are beneficial for downstream NLP tasks. However, these powerful models are also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yixin Liu , Hongsheng Hu , Xun Chen , Xuyun Zhang , Lichao Sun