arXiv AI By Mingchen Li, Zifan Peng, Kewei Sha, Lavinia F Pieptea, Heng Fan, Junhua Ding, Meikang Qiu, Yunhe Feng

Profile-DP: Differential Privacy for User-Controlled Profile Release in Personalized LLM Inference

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