A Statistical Hypothesis Testing Framework for Data Misappropriation Detection in Large Language Models
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| author | Cai, Yinpeng Li, Lexin Zhang, Linjun |
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| contents | Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly gaining enormous popularity in recent years. However, the training of LLMs has raised significant privacy and legal concerns, particularly regarding the distillation and inclusion of copyrighted materials in their training data without proper attribution or licensing, an issue that falls under the broader concern of data misappropriation. In this article, we focus on a specific problem of data misappropriation detection, namely, to determine whether a given LLM has incorporated the data generated by another LLM. We propose embedding watermarks into the copyrighted training data and formulating the detection of data misappropriation as a hypothesis testing problem. We develop a general statistical testing framework, construct test statistics, determine optimal rejection thresholds, and explicitly control type I and type II errors. Furthermore, we establish the asymptotic optimality properties of the proposed tests, and demonstrate the empirical effectiveness through intensive numerical experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | A Statistical Hypothesis Testing Framework for Data Misappropriation Detection in Large Language Models Cai, Yinpeng Li, Lexin Zhang, Linjun Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Cryptography and Security Statistics Theory Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly gaining enormous popularity in recent years. However, the training of LLMs has raised significant privacy and legal concerns, particularly regarding the distillation and inclusion of copyrighted materials in their training data without proper attribution or licensing, an issue that falls under the broader concern of data misappropriation. In this article, we focus on a specific problem of data misappropriation detection, namely, to determine whether a given LLM has incorporated the data generated by another LLM. We propose embedding watermarks into the copyrighted training data and formulating the detection of data misappropriation as a hypothesis testing problem. We develop a general statistical testing framework, construct test statistics, determine optimal rejection thresholds, and explicitly control type I and type II errors. Furthermore, we establish the asymptotic optimality properties of the proposed tests, and demonstrate the empirical effectiveness through intensive numerical experiments. |
| title | A Statistical Hypothesis Testing Framework for Data Misappropriation Detection in Large Language Models |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Cryptography and Security Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02441 |