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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Stefan Arnold , Dilara Yesilbas , Sven Weinzierl

Knowledge distillation in neural networks refers to compressing a large model or dataset into a smaller version of itself. We introduce Privacy Distillation, a framework that allows a text-to-image generative model to teach another model…

Current LLM-based services typically require users to submit raw text regardless of its sensitivity. While intuitive, such practice introduces substantial privacy risks, as unauthorized access may expose personal, medical, or legal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jeongho Yoon , Chanhee Park , Yongchan Chun , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Fine-tuning large language models on private data for downstream applications poses significant privacy risks in potentially exposing sensitive information. Several popular community platforms now offer convenient distribution of a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Md Rafi Ur Rashid , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Shagufta Mehnaz , Ye Wang

A key concern for AI safety remains understudied in the machine learning (ML) literature: how can we ensure users of ML models do not leverage predictions on incorrect personal data to harm others? This is particularly pertinent given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Muhammad H. Ashiq , Peter Triantafillou , Hung Yun Tseng , Grigoris G. Chrysos

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In response, concept erasure (defense) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Alex D. Richardson , Kaicheng Zhang , Lucas Beerens , Dongdong Chen

In the realm of multimedia data analysis, the extensive use of image datasets has escalated concerns over privacy protection within such data. Current research predominantly focuses on privacy protection either in data sharing or upon the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Huaxi Huang , Xin Yuan , Qiyu Liao , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

Protecting privacy in contemporary NLP models is gaining in importance. So does the need to mitigate social biases of such models. But can we have both at the same time? Existing research suggests that privacy preservation comes at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Cleo Matzken , Steffen Eger , Ivan Habernal

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Latent diffusion models can be used as a powerful augmentation method to artificially extend datasets for enhanced training. To the human eye, these augmented images look very different to the originals. Previous work has suggested to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Julian Lorenz , Katja Ludwig , Valentin Haug , Rainer Lienhart

Text-to-image diffusion models often memorize training data, revealing a fundamental failure to generalize beyond the training set. Current mitigation strategies typically sacrifice image quality or prompt alignment to reduce memorization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sathwik Karnik , Juyeop Kim , Sanmi Koyejo , Jong-Seok Lee , Somil Bansal

The rapid advancement of diffusion models and personalization techniques has made it possible to recreate individual portraits from just a few publicly available images. While such capabilities empower various creative applications, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guanyu Wang , Kailong Wang , Yihao Huang , Mingyi Zhou , Geguang Pu , Li Li

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

Diffusion-based models, such as the Stable Diffusion model, have revolutionized text-to-image synthesis with their ability to produce high-quality, high-resolution images. These advancements have prompted significant progress in image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Amir Houmansadr

Recommender System (RS) is currently an effective way to solve information overload. To meet users' next click behavior, RS needs to collect users' personal information and behavior to achieve a comprehensive and profound user preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jiangcheng Qin , Baisong Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse natural language processing tasks, but their tendency to memorize training data poses significant privacy risks, particularly during fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Badrinath Ramakrishnan , Akshaya Balaji

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of many real-world Data sources that contain sensitive information may have immense potential which could be unlocked using the right privacy enhancing transformations, but current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Daniel Gillblad , Olof Mogren

Diffusion models, widely used for image and video generation, face a significant limitation: the risk of memorizing and reproducing training data during inference, potentially generating unauthorized copyrighted content. While prior…

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

Location-based services (LBSs) have become widely popular. Despite their utility, these services raise concerns for privacy since they require sharing location information with untrusted third parties. In this work, we study privacy-utility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

Large text-to-image models have revolutionized the ability to generate imagery using natural language. However, particularly unique or personal visual concepts, such as pets and furniture, will not be captured by the original model. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xingzhe He , Zhiwen Cao , Nicholas Kolkin , Lantao Yu , Kun Wan , Helge Rhodin , Ratheesh Kalarot