arXiv:2509. 20324v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an emerging approach in natural language processing that combines large language models (LLMs) with external document retrieval to produce more accurate and grounded responses.
By Atousa Arzanipour, Rouzbeh Behnia, Reza Ebrahimi, Kaushik Dutta
arXiv:2606. 24623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge, but deploying it in sensitive scenarios risks privacy leakage via malicious prompts.
By Yuanhe Zhao, Tianyu Zhang, Huafei Xing, Derek F. Wong, Jianbin Li, Tao Fang
arXiv:2604. 08304v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge, but this access path also introduces security risks that existing work often conflates with inherent LLM flaws.
By Yuming Xu, Mingtao Zhang, Zhuohan Ge, Haoyang Li, Nicole Hu, Yongqi Zhang, Zhiyuan Wen, Jason Chen Zhang, Qing Li, Lei Chen
arXiv:2606. 18782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly applied to sensitive domains that require redaction of personally identifiable information (PII).
By Sean Brynj\'olfsson, Shashvat Jayakrishnan, Esha Sali, Diptanshu Purwar, Madhav Aggarwal
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.
By Peihua Mai, Xuanrong Gao, Youlong Ding, Xianglong Du, Wei Liu, Yan Pang
arXiv:2606. 24408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assessing the privacy of large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges.
By Lorenzo Rossi, Bart{\l}omiej Marek, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic
arXiv:2608. 09001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box privacy scores for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are difficult to interpret unless the audited defense's active pipeline hook is known.
By Yanhang Li, Zhichao Fan, Zexin Zhuang
Large Language Models (LLMs) raise growing concerns about privacy leakage and copyright compliance. Membership inference is a key tool for assessing such risks, but existing studies mainly focus on whether specific samples or sample-based data units are used for training.
arXiv:2601. 04641v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) detection systems necessitates processing sensitive user data, creating a fundamental conflict between authorship verification and privacy preservation.
By Lionel Z. Wang, Yusheng Zhao, Jiabin Luo, Xinfeng Li, Lixu Wang, Yinan Peng, Haoyang Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Wei Dong
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.
By Moon Ye-Bin, Nam Hyeon-Woo, Baek Seong-Eun, Yejin Yeo, Tae-Hyun Oh
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.
By Md Rafi Ur Rashid, Vishnu Asutosh Dasu, Kang Gu, Najrin Sultana, Shagufta Mehnaz
arXiv:2606. 09401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has applied differential privacy (DP) to adapt large language models (LLMs) for sensitive applications, offering theoretical guarantees.
By Bart{\l}omiej Marek, Lorenzo Rossi, Vincent Hanke, Xun Wang, Michael Backes, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic