arXiv:2610.27259v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The rapid evolution of Large Language Models is fueled by massive datasets, yet this reliance poses severe privacy risks, as models can inadvertently...
By Qi Pang, Hanshen Xiao, Andre Manoel, Lipika Ramaswamy, Wenting Zheng, Virginia Smith, G. Edward Suh
The paper compares data-level and training-level methods for balancing language model capability and privacy leakage on synthetic medical records with embedded canaries. Direct finetuning achieves the highest capability but leaks the most private information, while DP‑SGD reduces leakage at a significant cost to performance. Generating privacy‑aware synthetic data—especially with uniqueness‑aware rewriting—offers a better trade‑off, and more capable rewriting models tend to lower downstream privacy risks, though gains are inconsistent with increased compute.
By Zihao Zhao, Avi Schwarzschild, Casey Meehan, Katherine Lee, Zhili Feng, Dylan Sam
arXiv:2609.37891v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Current pre-training datasets are derived from web crawls, with all their issues, and were not designed to support mid- and post-training pipelines--...
By Pierre-Carl Langlais, Pieter Delobelle, Yannick Detrois, Pavel Chizhov, Carlos Rosas-Hinostroza, Neil Si Smail, Benjamin Burtin, Hanna Shcharbakova, Ivan Yamshchikov, Anastasia Stasenko
arXiv:2606. 16952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred interest in synthetic data as a privacy-preserving alternative to sensitive real-world datasets.
By Kareem Amin, Rudrajit Das, Alessandro Epasto, Adel Javanmard, Dennis Kraft, M\'onica Ribero, Sergei Vassilvitskii
arXiv:2606. 16952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred interest in synthetic data as a privacy-preserving alternative to sensitive real-world datasets.
By Kareem Amin, Rudrajit Das, Alessandro Epasto, Adel Javanmard, Dennis Kraft, M\'onica Ribero, Sergei Vassilvitskii
arXiv:2604. 01904v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-hoc unauthorized-training data detection for large language models (LLMs) typically assumes a query-with-originals regime: rights holders query a target LLM with raw proprietary data and assess whether the model assigns them stronger memorization-based detection signals, e.
By Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li, Feng Liu
arXiv:2603. 19258v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) requires massive compute and full model access, which rules out state-of-the-art proprietary APIs for general users.
By Eli Chien, Yuzheng Hu, Ryan McKenna, Shanshan Wu, Zheng Xu, Peter Kairouz
arXiv:2604. 07486v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for synthetic data generation.
By Qian Ma, Sarah Rajtmajer
arXiv:2609.38934v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Differentially private (DP) text generation can protect individual records, but privacy alone does not specify what evidence a released statement car...
By Tsubasa Takahashi, Takumi Hiraoka
arXiv:2606. 10481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) can exhibit problematic memorization of individual training examples.
By Nicole Mitchell, Galen Andrew, Arun Ganesh, Brendan McMahan, Peter Kairouz
arXiv:2601. 22146v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Due to limited supervised training data, large language models (LLMs) are typically pre-trained via a self-supervised "predict the next word" objective on a vast amount of unstructured text data.
By Ajay Patel, Colin Raffel, Chris Callison-Burch
The paper introduces SynPro, a synthetic data generation framework that augments limited organic text for large language model pretraining by applying rephrasing and reformatting operations. SynPro’s generators are optimized with reinforcement learning rewards for quality, faithfulness, and data influence, and are updated continuously as training plateaus. Experiments on 400M, 1.1B, and 2B models show that SynPro can unlock 3.4–5.2× the effective tokens of standard repetition, even outperforming a non‑data‑bound oracle at larger scales.
By Zichun Yu, Chenyan Xiong