PrivacyMind: Large Language Models Can Be Contextual Privacy Protection Learners

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02469v3
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 05:39:23 GMT
• Title: PrivacyMind: Large Language Models Can Be Contextual Privacy Protection Learners
• Authors: Yijia Xiao, Yiqiao Jin, Yushi Bai, Yue Wu, Xianjun Yang, Xiao Luo, Wenchao Yu, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Quanquan Gu, Haifeng Chen, Wei Wang, Wei Cheng,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Contextual Privacy Protection Language Models (PrivacyMind) Our work offers a theoretical analysis for model design and benchmarks various techniques. In particular, instruction tuning with both positive and negative examples stands out as a promising method.
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• Abstract: The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven considerable interest in fine-tuning them with domain-specific data to create specialized language models. Nevertheless, such domain-specific fine-tuning data often contains contextually sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). Direct fine-tuning of LLMs on this data without privacy protection poses a risk of data leakage of sensitive PII during inference time. To address this challenge, we introduce Contextual Privacy Protection Language Models (PrivacyMind), a novel paradigm for fine-tuning LLMs that effectively injects domain-specific knowledge while safeguarding inference-time data privacy. Our work offers a theoretical analysis for model design and benchmarks various techniques such as corpus curation, penalty-based unlikelihood in training loss, instruction-based tuning, etc. Extensive experiments across diverse datasets and scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches. In particular, instruction tuning with both positive and negative examples stands out as a promising method, effectively protecting private data while enhancing the model's knowledge. Our work underscores the potential for Large Language Models as robust contextual privacy protection learners. The complete code and data for the work can be found at https://github.com/Yijia-Xiao/PrivacyMind.

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