PrivLM-Bench: A Multi-level Privacy Evaluation Benchmark for Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Haoran Li, Dadi Guo, Donghao Li, Wei Fan, Qi Hu, Xin Liu, Chunkit Chan, Duanyi Yao, Yuan Yao, Yangqiu Song
| Challenge: | generative large language models (LLMs) exhibit surprising capability and integrate previous tasks into a unified text generation formulation. |
| Approach: | They propose a privacy evaluation benchmark to quantify the privacy leakage of language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark compares PPLMs with different privacy implementations to find out how privacy leakage is handled. |
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