arXiv:2310. 16152v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has become a key component in various language modeling applications such as machine translation, next-word prediction, and medical record analysis.
arXiv:2606. 05004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the widespread deployment of public large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, protecting user prompt privacy has become an increasingly critical issue.
arXiv:2606. 16461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running large language models locally is often impractical, pushing inference on sensitive text to third-party providers.
arXiv:2608. 14094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-local LLM inference systems have the potential to use the reasoning capability of large cloud models while protecting sensitive user data on personal devices.
arXiv:2606. 17110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly trained on proprietary or sensitive data, from private healthcare and financial records to user conversations containing secrets.
arXiv:2609.15671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly used in privacy-sensitive and bandwidth-constrained settings. Fede...
arXiv:2608.29943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can memorize sensitive information, raising serious privacy concerns. Machine unlearning offers a potential solution to re...
Nullify is a training‑free method for unlearning sensitive information from large language models by steering activations during inference. It uses steering vectors to redirect privacy‑related activations away from memorized answers while enforcing a null‑space constraint that preserves activations for retained queries, thereby maintaining model utility. Experiments on TOFU and MUSE demonstrate that Nullify matches or outperforms existing baselines in forget quality while keeping utility nearly intact, all without any weight updates.
Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably internalize substantial amounts of sensitive or private information during pre-training, while LLM unlearning aims to selectively erase specific knowledge to pr...
The paper systematically studies how anonymizing input data affects large language models (LLMs). Five prominent LLMs were evaluated on eleven benchmarks, comparing performance on original versus pseudonymized inputs. Results show that anonymization generally degrades performance, with larger drops for more capable models and task-dependent effects; reversible anonymization preserves entity uniqueness better than irreversible redaction, and prompting about anonymization offers no benefit.
arXiv:2606. 18996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents are increasingly deployed in document-intensive workflows where sensitive private information is not an edge case but a routine input, e.
arXiv:2606. 26373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense embeddings power semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation, but embedding-inversion attacks can reconstruct source text from a vector: when a vector database leaks, the documents behind it leak too.