Privacy-preserved LLM Cascade via CoT-enhanced Policy Learning

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Main Authors: Zhang, Kai, Wang, Congchao, Peng, Liqian, Go, Alec, Liu, Xiaozhong
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Published: 2024
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author Zhang, Kai
Wang, Congchao
Peng, Liqian
Go, Alec
Liu, Xiaozhong
author_facet Zhang, Kai
Wang, Congchao
Peng, Liqian
Go, Alec
Liu, Xiaozhong
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in on-device applications due to their remarkable performance across real-world tasks. However, on-device LLMs often suffer from suboptimal performance due to hardware limitations. A promising solution to this challenge is cascading a weaker local (on-device) LLM with a more powerful server LLM. While existing research on LLM cascade primarily optimizes the performance-cost trade-off, real-world applications impose additional requirements, such as privacy preservation, which remain largely unaddressed. In this work, we move beyond existing confidence- and logit-based LLM cascade methods and propose $\mathbf{P^{3}Defer}$, a novel Chain-of-Thought (CoT)-enhanced \textbf{p}olicy learning framework for \textbf{p}rivacy-\textbf{p}reserved \textbf{defer}ral decision-making. Our approach effectively improves cascade efficiency while mitigating privacy risks. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of $\mathbf{P^{3}Defer}$ over existing methods.
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spellingShingle Privacy-preserved LLM Cascade via CoT-enhanced Policy Learning
Zhang, Kai
Wang, Congchao
Peng, Liqian
Go, Alec
Liu, Xiaozhong
Computation and Language
Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in on-device applications due to their remarkable performance across real-world tasks. However, on-device LLMs often suffer from suboptimal performance due to hardware limitations. A promising solution to this challenge is cascading a weaker local (on-device) LLM with a more powerful server LLM. While existing research on LLM cascade primarily optimizes the performance-cost trade-off, real-world applications impose additional requirements, such as privacy preservation, which remain largely unaddressed. In this work, we move beyond existing confidence- and logit-based LLM cascade methods and propose $\mathbf{P^{3}Defer}$, a novel Chain-of-Thought (CoT)-enhanced \textbf{p}olicy learning framework for \textbf{p}rivacy-\textbf{p}reserved \textbf{defer}ral decision-making. Our approach effectively improves cascade efficiency while mitigating privacy risks. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of $\mathbf{P^{3}Defer}$ over existing methods.
title Privacy-preserved LLM Cascade via CoT-enhanced Policy Learning
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08014