5 papers
Who Gets Flagged? The Pluralistic Evaluation Gap in AI Content Watermarking
Alexander Nemecek, Osama Zafar, Yuqiao Xu +2
Watermarking is becoming the default mechanism for AI content authentication, with governance policies and frameworks referencing it as infrastructure for content provenance. Yet a…
Privacy Policy Enforcement Guardrails for Data-Sensitive Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Osama Zafar, Alexander Nemecek, Yiqian Zhang +5
Standard PII filters often miss contextual data leakage in RAG systems, such as non-regulated attribute clusters that collectively identify individuals. We introduce a Privacy Poli…
Quantifying Memorization and Privacy Risks in Genomic Language Models
Alexander Nemecek, Wenbiao Li, Xiaoqian Jiang +2
Genomic language models (GLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning representations of DNA sequences, enabling advances in variant prediction, regulatory element identificat…
PQFed: A Privacy-Preserving Quality-Controlled Federated Learning Framework
Weiqi Yue, Wenbiao Li, Yuzhou Jiang +3
Federated learning enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, but data heterogeneity consistently challenges the performance of the global model. Traditional op…
Privacy-Preserving Model and Preprocessing Verification for Machine Learning
Wenbiao Li, Anisa Halimi, Xiaoqian Jiang +2
This paper presents a framework for privacy-preserving verification of machine learning models, focusing on models trained on sensitive data. Integrating Local Differential Privacy…