arXiv Machine Learning

Differentially Private Semantic Plans for Aggregate Insight Generation

The paper introduces ‘DP-SPIN’, a trusted‑curator framework that generates differentially private semantic plans for aggregate insight generation. ‘DP-SPIN’ maps each record to a bounded sparse nonnegative vector over pre‑defined semantic concepts, sums these vectors into a semantic sketch, and releases a noisy plan containing admitted concepts and their masses. The framework provides user‑level privacy by clipping each user’s contribution and ensures that the final summary is differentially private through post‑processing, with guarantees established under both add/drop and replacement adjacency.

arXiv AI
4d ago

PILLAR: Private Inverted-Index Lexical Lookup for Augmented Retrieval

arXiv:2609.36326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) hands the user's query to whoever hosts the corpus. We propose PILLAR, a Privacy-Preserving RAG (PPRAG) system bas...

By Truong Son Nguyen (Arizona State University), Daniel Blackley (George Mason University), Ni Trieu (Arizona State University), Evgenios M. Kornaropoulos (George Mason University)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

QuanText: Protecting Dataset-Level Secrets in Textual Data Sharing

QuanText is a training‑free, large‑language‑model‑agnostic mechanism for releasing textual datasets that protects dataset‑level secrets such as the proportion of records with a particular diagnosis or gender. It perturbs both the secret distribution and correlated attribute distributions by selecting candidate release distributions close to the private empirical distribution and rewriting each text sample to match the chosen distribution using attribute‑related snippets. The method is inspired by the Statistic Maximal Leakage framework and, under idealized conditions, satisfies an SML guarantee, while empirical evaluations show a superior privacy‑utility trade‑off compared to existing data generation baselines.

By Shuaiqi Wang, Zinan Lin, Giulia Fanti
arXiv AI
Aug 28

GROUND: Reducing Hallucinations in LLM-Based Enterprise Analytics Through Governed Semantic Definitions

The paper introduces GROUND, a framework that limits large language model (LLM) analytics to a governed semantic layer for enterprise data warehouses. GROUND supplies approved metrics, dimensions, join paths, filters, and security rules, then validates generated SQL against these constraints before execution, retrying or abstaining on violations. In benchmarks, GROUND eliminates hallucinations across all evaluated categories and prevents row‑level security breaches, outperforming schema‑only, schema‑RAG, and semantic‑only approaches.

By Aravind Sasidharan Pillai
arXiv AI
Jun 16

SDFLoRA: Selective Decoupled Federated LoRA for Privacy-preserving Fine-tuning with Heterogeneous Clients

arXiv:2601. 11219v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) for large language models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention as a privacy-preserving approach for adapting models over distributed data, where parameter-efficient methods such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are widely adopted to reduce communication and memory costs.

By Zhikang Shen, Jianrong Lu, Haiyuan Wan, Jianhai Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Multi-LLM Federated Inference for Cognitive Diagnosis

The paper introduces a federated inference framework that enables multiple commercial large language model (LLM) APIs—such as LLaMA‑3.3‑70B, GPT‑4o‑mini, and Claude‑3‑Haiku—to collaborate on cognitive diagnosis tasks without accessing raw student data or proprietary model internals. Each entity’s predictions are perturbed with Laplace noise to provide epsilon‑local differential privacy, and a residual‑based aggregation scheme mitigates model heterogeneity. Experiments on three educational benchmarks demonstrate strong privacy guarantees with minimal accuracy loss, confirming the framework’s practical usability and cross‑domain generalizability.

By Yagna Manasa Boyapati, Chong Yu, Tianyu Jiang, Justin Zhan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning

Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity. In practice, many HDP-FL systems employ $\varepsilon$-aware server aggregation to improve model utility by re-weighting client updates according to their declared privacy budgets.