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Large Language Models Can Be Good Privacy Protection Learners

Xiao Yijia, Jin Yiqiao, Bai Yushi, Wu Yue, Yang Xianjun, Luo Xiao, Yu Wenchao, Zhao Xujiang, Liu Yanchi, Chen Haifeng, Wang Wei, Cheng Wei. Arxiv 2023

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Fine Tuning Pretraining Methods Training Techniques

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 sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). Direct fine-tuning LLMs on this data without privacy protection poses a risk of leakage. To address this challenge, we introduce Privacy Protection Language Models (PPLM), a novel paradigm for fine-tuning LLMs that effectively injects domain-specific knowledge while safeguarding data privacy. Our work offers a theoretical analysis for model design and delves into various techniques such as corpus curation, penalty-based unlikelihood in training loss, and 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 privacy protection learners.

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