arXiv Computation and Language By Andy Hsu, Konstantin Berlin

Broad and Efficient PII Detection with Unified Labels

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The paper introduces a 141‑million‑parameter encoder‑based PII detector trained on 1.12 million examples from 77 public datasets, all relabeled under a unified definition of broad contextual detection for 12 structured PII categories. It achieves higher recall than larger baselines on the AI4Privacy and Nemotron‑PII benchmarks at low false‑positive rates, while delivering 2–10× higher throughput and 94–97% less peak GPU memory usage. The model’s gains include improved coverage of multilingual disclosures and IP addresses embedded in URLs.

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