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Hybrid local--cloud agents enrich user requests with context from persistent working state before delegating capability-intensive subtasks to a cloud language model (CLM). While this enrichment can improve task success, it also exposes…

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We explore how private synthetic text can be generated by suitably prompting a large language model (LLM). This addresses a challenge for organizations like hospitals, which hold sensitive text data like patient medical records, and wish to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Supriya Nagesh , Justin Y. Chen , Nina Mishra , Tal Wagner

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in 6G vehicular networks promises unprecedented advancements in intelligent transportation systems. However, offloading LLM computations from vehicles to edge infrastructure poses significant…

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The management of sensitive data, including identity management (IDM), is an important problem in cloud computing, fundamental for authentication and fine-grained service access control. Our goal is creating an efficient and robust IDM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Akram Sarhan , Leszek Lilien

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted technique, valued for its effectiveness in protecting the privacy of task-specific datasets, making it a critical tool for large language models. However, its effectiveness in Multimodal Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qianshan Wei , Jiaqi Li , Zihan You , Yi Zhan , Kecen Li , Jialin Wu , Xinfeng Li Hengjun Liu , Yi Yu , Bin Cao , Yiwen Xu , Yang Liu , Guilin Qi

Confidential Computing (CC) has received increasing attention in recent years as a mechanism to protect user data from untrusted operating systems (OSes). Existing CC solutions hide confidential memory from the OS and/or encrypt it to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Caihua Li , Seung-seob Lee , Lin Zhong

The introduction and advancements in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) variants have become a cornerstone in addressing the privacy concerns associated with the vast data produced by smart devices, which forms the foundation for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Likun Qin , Nan Wang , Tianshuo Qiu

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) operators provide model training and prediction on the cloud. MLaaS applications often rely on centralised collection and aggregation of user data, which could lead to significant privacy concerns when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Adria Gascon , Hamed Haddadi , Andrea Cavallaro

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly underpin technological advancements, the privacy of their training data emerges as a critical concern. Differential Privacy (DP) serves as a rigorous mechanism to protect this data, yet its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Liangyu Wang , Junxiao Wang , Jie Ren , Zihang Xiang , David E. Keyes , Di Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied for their remarkable capability of content generation. However, the practical use of open-source LLMs is hindered by high resource requirements, making deployment expensive and limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Wenjie Qu , Yuguang Zhou , Yongji Wu , Tingsong Xiao , Binhang Yuan , Yiming Li , Jiaheng Zhang

Popular large language model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude require users to create an account with an email or a phone number before allowing full access to their services. This practice ties users' personally identifiable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Dzung Pham , Jade Sheffey , Chau Minh Pham , Amir Houmansadr

Large language model (LLM) routing has emerged as a critical strategy to balance model performance and cost-efficiency by dynamically selecting services from various model providers. However, LLM routing adds an intermediate layer between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xidong Wu , Yukuan Zhang , Yuqiong Ji , Reza Shirkavand , Qian Lou , Shangqian Gao

Over the past few years, a tremendous growth of machine learning was brought about by a significant increase in adoption of cloud-based services. As a result, various solutions have been proposed in which the machine learning models run on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Tanveer Khan , Alexandros Bakas , Antonis Michalas

Service providers of large language model (LLM) applications collect user instructions in the wild and use them in further aligning LLMs with users' intentions. These instructions, which potentially contain sensitive information, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Da Yu , Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Zheng Xu

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Collecting and analyzing massive data generated from smart devices have become increasingly pervasive in crowdsensing, which are the building blocks for data-driven decision-making. However, extensive statistics and analysis of such data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Teng Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Jingyu Feng , Xinyu Yang

Prompt learning is a crucial technique for adapting pre-trained multimodal language models (MLLMs) to user tasks. Federated prompt personalization (FPP) is further developed to address data heterogeneity and local overfitting, however, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Sizai Hou , Songze Li , Baturalp Buyukates

Today's cloud vendors are competing to provide various offerings to simplify and accelerate AI service deployment. However, cloud users always have concerns about the confidentiality of their runtime data, which are supposed to be processed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Zhongshu Gu , Heqing Huang , Jialong Zhang , Dong Su , Hani Jamjoom , Ankita Lamba , Dimitrios Pendarakis , Ian Molloy

With careful manipulation, malicious agents can reverse engineer private information encoded in pre-trained language models. Security concerns motivate the development of quantum pre-training. In this work, we propose a highly Portable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shuyue Stella Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Shu Zhou , Hongchao Shu , Ruixing Liang , Hexin Liu , Leibny Paola Garcia

The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized AI applications but poses significant challenges in safeguarding user privacy. Ensuring compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA while addressing nuanced…

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