Token-Level Privacy in Large Language Models
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| author | Harel, Re'em Gilboa, Niv Pinter, Yuval |
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| contents | The use of language models as remote services requires transmitting private information to external providers, raising significant privacy concerns. This process not only risks exposing sensitive data to untrusted service providers but also leaves it vulnerable to interception by eavesdroppers. Existing privacy-preserving methods for natural language processing (NLP) interactions primarily rely on semantic similarity, overlooking the role of contextual information. In this work, we introduce dchi-stencil, a novel token-level privacy-preserving mechanism that integrates contextual and semantic information while ensuring strong privacy guarantees under the dchi differential privacy framework, achieving 2epsilon-dchi-privacy. By incorporating both semantic and contextual nuances, dchi-stencil achieves a robust balance between privacy and utility. We evaluate dchi-stencil using state-of-the-art language models and diverse datasets, achieving comparable and even better trade-off between utility and privacy compared to existing methods. This work highlights the potential of dchi-stencil to set a new standard for privacy-preserving NLP in modern, high-risk applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Token-Level Privacy in Large Language Models Harel, Re'em Gilboa, Niv Pinter, Yuval Computation and Language Cryptography and Security The use of language models as remote services requires transmitting private information to external providers, raising significant privacy concerns. This process not only risks exposing sensitive data to untrusted service providers but also leaves it vulnerable to interception by eavesdroppers. Existing privacy-preserving methods for natural language processing (NLP) interactions primarily rely on semantic similarity, overlooking the role of contextual information. In this work, we introduce dchi-stencil, a novel token-level privacy-preserving mechanism that integrates contextual and semantic information while ensuring strong privacy guarantees under the dchi differential privacy framework, achieving 2epsilon-dchi-privacy. By incorporating both semantic and contextual nuances, dchi-stencil achieves a robust balance between privacy and utility. We evaluate dchi-stencil using state-of-the-art language models and diverse datasets, achieving comparable and even better trade-off between utility and privacy compared to existing methods. This work highlights the potential of dchi-stencil to set a new standard for privacy-preserving NLP in modern, high-risk applications. |
| title | Token-Level Privacy in Large Language Models |
| topic | Computation and Language Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03652 |