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48 results for LLM protection

SLIP secures LLMs on edge devices by splitting computation and protecting sensitive parts.

problem Protecting LLMs on edge devices from theft and unauthorized use.
method SLIP uses matrix decomposition to split model computation between secure and vulnerable resources, ensuring zero accuracy degradation and minimal latency.
result SLIP is the first practical, secure hybrid protocol for protecting LLMs on edge devices.

This paper proposes a new portfolio allocation method using LLMs to outperform traditional strategies.

problem Persistent tradeoff between risk and return in portfolio management.
method Follow-the-leader approach with sentiment-based trade filtering and LLM-driven hedging.
result Empirical results show a 69% increase in annualized returns and 119% in Sharpe ratio compared to SPY buy-and-hold.

Framework uses LLMs to automate strategy finding in quantitative finance.

problem Brittleness of traditional deep learning models in financial applications.
method Three-stage framework with prompt-engineered LLMs, multimodal agent-based evaluation, and dynamic weight optimization.
result Robust performance in Chinese & US markets, superior risk-adjusted performance.

AdaDPSyn generates synthetic examples to protect private data in ICL.

problem Protecting private data in in-context learning with large language models.
method Data-adaptive differentially private algorithm that dynamically adjusts noise level based on data properties.
result AdaDPSyn outperforms existing methods in preserving high ICL accuracy while maintaining differential privacy.

Shorter adversarial prompts help protect LLMs from jailbreak attacks.

problem Protecting large language models from jailbreak attacks with long adversarial suffixes.
method Adversarial training on shorter adversarial suffixes to defend against longer adversarial suffixes.
result Aligning LLMs on shorter adversarial suffixes can effectively defend against jailbreak attacks with longer suffixes.

DPZero fine-tunes large models privately without backpropagation.

problem Memory and privacy challenges in fine-tuning large language models.
method DPZero uses zeroth-order methods for private fine-tuning, avoiding backpropagation.
result DPZero achieves private fine-tuning of RoBERTa and OPT on various tasks.

Framework for AI customer support that protects privacy and reduces costs.

problem Privacy risks and compliance challenges in AI customer support.
method Zero-shot learning with large language models, real-time data anonymization, retrieval-augmented generation, robust post-processing.
result Reduces privacy risks and compliance costs while maintaining accuracy.

LLM-Lasso uses LLMs to improve feature selection in Lasso regression.

problem Improving feature selection in Lasso regression with domain-specific knowledge.
method Combines LLMs with Lasso regularization to generate feature weights.
result Outperforms standard Lasso and feature selection baselines in biomedical studies.

FLUID-LLM uses LLMs to predict fluid dynamics with improved accuracy.

problem Leveraging LLMs for CFD due to their pattern recognition abilities but struggles with fluid dynamics complexities.
method Combines pre-trained LLMs with spatiotemporal-aware encoding to predict unsteady fluid dynamics.
result Significant performance improvements in CFD predictions across various datasets.

This paper improves continuous adversarial training for LLMs using in-context learning theory.

problem Efficiently defending large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks.
method The paper presents a theoretical analysis of continuous adversarial training (CAT) for LLMs based on in-context learning (ICL) theory, proving a robust generalization bound and proposing an improved regularization term.
result The robust generalization bound explains why CAT can defend against jailbreak prompts and shows that LLM robustness is related to embedding matrix singular values.

LLMs mimic human traders in finance, but not as much as expected.

problem Evaluating how LLMs behave in financial markets.
method Adapted experimental design with LLMs and human traders, analyzed in single and mixed model settings.
result LLMs tend to price assets near their fundamental value, but not as much as humans, and show less trading strategy variance.

LLMs struggle to optimize hyperparameters efficiently, but hybrid methods can improve performance.

problem Optimizing hyperparameters of small language models using LLMs.
method Comparison of classical HPO algorithms and LLM-based methods, introducing Centaur hybrid approach.
result Hybrid Centaur approach achieves best results, outperforming classical and pure LLM methods.

BED-LLM uses Bayesian experimental design to improve LLMs' information gathering.

problem Improving LLMs' ability to gather information adaptively.
method Iteratively choosing questions to maximize expected information gain using a probabilistic model.
result BED-LLM achieves substantial performance gains compared to other adaptive design strategies.

New benchmarks show LLMs struggle with causal discovery.

problem Leveraging LLMs for causal discovery is unreliable due to dataset leakage.
method Developing science-grounded benchmarks and hybrid methods combining LLM predictions with statistical analysis.
result LLMs perform poorly on novel, real-world scientific studies compared to classical methods.

LLMs overestimate stock returns and are less accurate at predicting extreme outcomes.

problem Behavioral biases in LLMs' stock return forecasts.
method Comparison of LLM forecasts with crowd-sourced estimates and historical data.
result LLMs overestimate stock returns and are less accurate at predicting extreme outcomes.

Develops methods to measure and reduce fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.

problem Measuring and reducing fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
method Proposes methods to estimate fairness metrics and train models to limit fairness violations using probabilistic protected attribute labels.
result Our methods provide tighter bounds on true disparity and effectively reduce fairness violations with lesser fairness-accuracy trade-offs.

Statsformer validates and adapts LLM-derived semantic priors for improved supervised learning.

problem Unreliable semantic priors from LLMs can degrade supervised learning performance.
method Adapts LLM-derived feature scores into a family of learner-specific prior-injection mechanisms, calibrating their influence using out-of-fold validation.
result Improves prediction performance by adaptively downweighting unreliable LLM priors, ensuring a guardrailed statistical learning system.

AlphaPruning optimizes LLM pruning using HT-SR theory for better performance.

problem Improving pruning of large language models to reduce size without sacrificing performance.
method AlphaPruning uses HT-SR theory to allocate layerwise sparsity ratios more theoretically.
result AlphaPruning prunes LLaMA-7B to 80% sparsity with reasonable perplexity.

The paper introduces Relative Bias to quantify LLM bias systematically.

problem Quantifying bias in LLMs is challenging due to ambiguity and rapid model emergence.
method Relative Bias framework using Embedding Transformation and LLM-as-a-Judge methodologies.
result The two scoring methods show strong alignment, providing a systematic approach.

Study protects federated learning models from eavesdropping attacks.

problem Protecting client models in federated learning from eavesdropping adversaries.
method Theoretical analysis and numerical experiments examining various factors.
result Theoretical and experimental results show the effectiveness of protection methods.

Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.

problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.

Bayesian approach quantifies uncertainty in LLM-based systems.

problem Uncertainty quantification in LLM-based systems, especially for high-stakes applications.
method Interpreting prompts as parameters in a Bayesian model, using MHLP for inference.
result Improvements in predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification on various benchmarks.

Fairness audits fail under missing protected labels, especially at zero access.

problem Understanding the reliability of fairness audits with incomplete protected-label data.
method Introduced a seed-calibrated stress test to separate missingness effects from seed-to-seed movement.
result Missing protected labels do not significantly alter fairness mitigation methods, but they can lead to harmful intersectional outcomes.

Diffusion LLMs can efficiently generate harmful prompts for adversarial testing.

problem Generating harmful prompts for adversarial testing is resource-intensive and costly.
method Transformed adversarial prompt optimization into an efficient inference task using pretrained Diffusion LLMs.
result Only a few conditional samples are required to generate harmful prompts with high reward.

LLMs can help explain credit risk models but not autonomously.

problem Leveraging LLMs for post-hoc explainability in credit risk models.
method Comparison of LLM outputs with SHAP and coefficient-based attributions on three LMs.
result LLMs reliably preserve feature-importance rankings but poorly align with autonomous explanations.

New attack reveals memorization patterns in pre-trained LLMs.

problem Determining if a data point was part of a pre-trained LLM's training set.
method Adapts MIA statistical tests to LLM's perplexity dynamics of subsequences.
result Significantly outperforms prior approaches in membership inference attacks.

Study evaluates how much knowledge LLMs have by comparing their prediction accuracy to flexible models.

problem Evaluating the predictive power of LLMs without access to their training data.
method Equivalent sample size measure, comparing LLM's prediction error to flexible models trained on varying amounts of domain-specific data.
result LLMs encode varying amounts of predictive information across different economic variables.

This paper uses LLMs and cycle consistency for better machine translation evaluation.

problem Evaluating translation quality and LLM capabilities without ground truth.
method Generate translation candidates, back-translate, and evaluate cycle consistency.
result Larger LLMs or more inference passes improve cycle consistency.

Researchers use LLMs to judge other LLMs, but this study provides a new geometric perspective to understand when it works.

problem The challenge of evaluating LLMs using other LLMs as judges, considering both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties.
method A geometric perspective on ranking LLM candidates using probability simplices, analyzing conditions for identifiable rankings and designing Bayesian priors.
result Geometric analysis reveals that rankings based on LLM judges are robust in many but not all datasets, emphasizing the importance of modeling epistemic uncertainty.