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When users submit queries to Large Language Models (LLMs), their prompts can often contain sensitive data, forcing a difficult choice: Send the query to a powerful proprietary LLM providers to achieving state-of-the-art performance and risk…

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We study (differentially) private federated learning (FL) of language models. The language models in cross-device FL are relatively small, which can be trained with meaningful formal user-level differential privacy (DP) guarantees when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Boxin Wang , Yibo Jacky Zhang , Yuan Cao , Bo Li , H. Brendan McMahan , Sewoong Oh , Zheng Xu , Manzil Zaheer

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

On-device LLMs have gained increasing attention for their ability to enhance privacy and provide a personalized user experience. To facilitate private learning with scarce data, Federated Learning has become a standard approach. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Dongyang Fan , Bettina Messmer , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi

The rapid deployment of large language models (LLMs) in consumer applications has led to frequent exchanges of personal information. To obtain useful responses, users often share more than necessary, increasing privacy risks via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jijie Zhou , Niloofar Mireshghallah , Tianshi Li

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu

Privacy-Preserving machine learning (PPML) can help us train and deploy models that utilize private information. In particular, on-device machine learning allows us to avoid sharing raw data with a third-party server during inference.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xinchi Qiu , Ilias Leontiadis , Luca Melis , Alex Sablayrolles , Pierre Stock

As on-device large language model (LLM) systems become increasingly prevalent, federated fine-tuning enables advanced language understanding and generation directly on edge devices; however, it also involves processing sensitive,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Honghui Xu , Shiva Shrestha , Wei Chen , Zhiyuan Li , Zhipeng Cai

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in text understanding and generation, and they are increasingly being utilized across various domains to enhance productivity. However, due to the high costs of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Mao , Xueping Liao , Wei Liu , Anjia Yang

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in real-time systems remains challenging due to their substantial computational demands and privacy concerns. We propose Floe, a hybrid federated learning framework designed for latency-sensitive,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chunlin Tian , Kahou Tam , Yebo Wu , Shuaihang Zhong , Li Li , Nicholas D. Lane , Chengzhong Xu

Large language models (LLMs) are primarily accessed via commercial APIs, but this often requires users to expose their data to service providers. In this paper, we explore how users can stay in control of their data by using privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Guillem Ramírez , Alexandra Birch , Ivan Titov

Mobile and wearable healthcare monitoring play a vital role in facilitating timely interventions, managing chronic health conditions, and ultimately improving individuals' quality of life. Previous studies on large language models (LLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xin Wang , Ting Dang , Xinyu Zhang , Vassilis Kostakos , Michael J. Witbrock , Hong Jia

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance on tasks that require reasoning, such as text-to-SQL, code generation, and debugging. However, regulatory frameworks with strict privacy requirements constrain their integration…

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We investigate practical and scalable algorithms for training large language models (LLMs) with user-level differential privacy (DP) in order to provably safeguard all the examples contributed by each user. We study two variants of DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zachary Charles , Arun Ganesh , Ryan McKenna , H. Brendan McMahan , Nicole Mitchell , Krishna Pillutla , Keith Rush

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) enhance collaboration in Extended Reality (XR) environments by enabling flexible object and animation creation through the combination of natural language and visual inputs. However, visual data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiangong Chen , Mingyu Zhu , Bin Li

This paper introduces a novel privacy-preservation framework named PFID for LLMs that addresses critical privacy concerns by localizing user data through model sharding and singular value decomposition. When users are interacting with LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Haoyan Yang , Zhitao Li , Yong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Ming Li , Jing Xiao

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant progress in Natural Language Interface to Database (NLIDB). However, the widespread adoption of LLMs has raised critical privacy and security concerns. During…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ruiheng Liu , XiaoBing Chen , Jinyu Zhang , Qiongwen Zhang , Yu Zhang , Bailong Yang

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to mine and transfer users' sequential preferences across different domains to alleviate the long-standing cold-start issue. Traditional CDSR models capture collaborative information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Tingjia Shen , Hao Wang , Jiaqing Zhang , Sirui Zhao , Liangyue Li , Zulong Chen , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ikhlasse Badidi , Nouhaila El Khiyaoui , Aya Riany , Badr Ben Elallid , Amine Abouaomar

Large language model (LLM) decoding suffers from high latency due to fragmented execution across operators and heavy reliance on off-chip memory for data exchange and reduction. This execution model limits opportunities for fusion and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xinhao Luo , Zihan Liu , Yangjie Zhou , Shihan Fang , Ziyu Huang , Yu Feng , Chen Zhang , Shixuan Sun , Zhenzhe Zheng , Jingwen Leng , Minyi Guo