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Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the concept of Differential Privacy (DP) to serve as a new paradigm of data perturbation. It is designed to protect secret data represented in general metric space, such as text data encoded as word…

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It has been demonstrated that hidden representation learned by a deep model can encode private information of the input, hence can be exploited to recover such information with reasonable accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

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In cross-silo federated learning (FL), sensitive text datasets remain confined to local organizations due to privacy regulations, making repeated training for each downstream task both communication-intensive and privacy-demanding. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiayi Wang , John Gounley , Heidi Hanson

Task-oriented dialogue systems often assist users with personal or confidential matters. For this reason, the developers of such a system are generally prohibited from observing actual usage. So how can they know where the system is failing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Yu Su , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Jason Eisner , Richard Shin

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

We address the problem of how to "obfuscate" texts by removing stylistic clues which can identify authorship, whilst preserving (as much as possible) the content of the text. In this paper we combine ideas from "generalised differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Natasha Fernandes , Mark Dras , Annabelle McIver

As the issues of privacy and trust are receiving increasing attention within the research community, various attempts have been made to anonymize textual data. A significant subset of these approaches incorporate differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Justus Mattern , Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

Protecting patient privacy in clinical narratives is essential for enabling secondary use of healthcare data under regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. While manual de-identification remains the gold standard, it is costly and slow,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Michele Miranda , Xinlan Yan , Nishant Mishra , Rachel Murphy , Ameen Abu-Hanna , Sébastien Bratières , Iacer Calixto

Differential Privacy (DP) is often presented as a strong privacy-enhancing technology with broad applicability and advocated as a de-facto standard for releasing aggregate statistics on sensitive data. However, in many embodiments, DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ari Biswas , Graham Cormode

Deep learning (DL) models for natural language processing (NLP) tasks often handle private data, demanding protection against breaches and disclosures. Data protection laws, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Samuel Sousa , Roman Kern

The application of Differential Privacy to Natural Language Processing techniques has emerged in relevance in recent years, with an increasing number of studies published in established NLP outlets. In particular, the adaptation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Stephen Meisenbacher , Nihildev Nandakumar , Alexandra Klymenko , Florian Matthes

Recent work in Differential Privacy with Natural Language Processing (DP NLP) has proposed numerous promising techniques in the form of text rewriting mechanisms. In the evaluation of these mechanisms, an often-ignored aspect is that of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Stephen Meisenbacher , Florian Matthes

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resulting model. Differential privacy (DP) offers formal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haichao Sha , Zihao Wang , Yuncheng Wu , Hong Chen , Wei Dong

Generating tabular data under differential privacy (DP) protection ensures theoretical privacy guarantees but poses challenges for training machine learning models, primarily due to the need to capture complex structures under noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tejumade Afonja , Hui-Po Wang , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks benefit from a comprehensive collection of real-life user data. At the same time, there is a clear need for protecting the privacy of the users whose data is collected and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Ali Davody , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

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

Large language models (LLMs) have presented outstanding performance in code generation and completion. However, fine-tuning these models on private datasets can raise privacy and proprietary concerns, such as the leakage of sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zheng Liu , Chen Gong , Terry Yue Zhuo , Kecen Li , Weichen Yu , Matt Fredrikson , Tianhao Wang

Privacy is an important concern when building statistical models on data containing personal information. Differential privacy offers a strong definition of privacy and can be used to solve several privacy concerns (Dwork et al., 2014).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Satyapriya Krishna , Rahul Gupta , Christophe Dupuy

Text data has become extremely valuable due to the emergence of machine learning algorithms that learn from it. A lot of high-quality text data generated in the real world is private and therefore cannot be shared or used freely due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Chulin Xie , Zinan Lin , Arturs Backurs , Sivakanth Gopi , Da Yu , Huseyin A Inan , Harsha Nori , Haotian Jiang , Huishuai Zhang , Yin Tat Lee , Bo Li , Sergey Yekhanin

Text data has become extremely valuable on large language models (LLMs) and even lead to general artificial intelligence (AGI). A lot of high-quality text in the real world is private and cannot be freely used due to privacy concerns.…

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