Privacy

Natural Identifiers for Privacy and Data Audits in Large Language Models

Post-hoc privacy audits of LLMs usually need planted canaries or held-out IID data. We use naturally occurring identifiers (hashes, short URLs) as NIDs so models can be audited without costly retraining.

Lorenzo Rossi, Bartłomiej Marek, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic

Benchmarking Empirical Privacy Protection for Adaptations of Large Language Models

DP adaptations of LLMs can still leak training data in practice. We benchmark membership inference and canary extraction across data distributions and adaptation methods, and find LoRA gives the strongest empirical privacy on OOD data.

Bartłomiej Marek, Lorenzo Rossi, Vincent Hanke, Xun Wang, Michael Backes, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic

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