Sensor-intensive environments enable many intelligent services by inferring user applications from heterogeneous data streams. However, not all applications should be exposed: users want some activities to stay private. This creates a tension between inferring applications for…
Per-layer differential privacy (DP) clipping improves gradient fidelity in federated learning by allocating per-matrix clipping budgets proportional to parameter count. We show that this recipe breaks for speech large language models (speech-LLMs), when the acoustic encoder and…
Federated low-rank adaptation (FedLoRA) allows multiple clients to collaboratively fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on downstream tasks without exposing their private data. To mitigate privacy leakage during aggregation, differential privacy (DP) is widely used to clip and…
Niloofar Mireshghallah, Hyunwoo Kim, Xuhui Zhou +4
Evaluates LLM privacy behavior through the lens of contextual integrity theory, finding significant mismatches between LLM norms and human privacy expectations.
Evaluates methods for deleting sensitive information from trained LLMs, finding current unlearning approaches insufficient against determined adversaries.
Develops precise methods for detecting and extracting training data from LLMs when white-box access is available, with implications for copyright and privacy.
Demonstrates that large language models memorize and can be prompted to emit verbatim training data, including PII, revealing significant privacy risks.