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Privacy Practices of Browser Agents
Alisha Ukani, Hamed Haddadi, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1
This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing…
Membership and Memorization in LLM Knowledge Distillation
Ziqi Zhang, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Hanxiao Lu +2
Recent advances in Knowledge Distillation (KD) aim to mitigate the high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) by transferring knowledge from a large ''teacher'' to…
Confidential Guardian: Cryptographically Prohibiting the Abuse of Model Abstention
Stephan Rabanser, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Olive Franzese +3
Cautious predictions -- where a machine learning model abstains when uncertain -- are crucial for limiting harmful errors in safety-critical applications. In this work, we identify…
NoEsis: Differentially Private Knowledge Transfer in Modular LLM Adaptation
Rob Romijnders, Stefanos Laskaridis, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi +1
Large Language Models (LLM) are typically trained on vast amounts of data from various sources. Even when designed modularly (e.g., Mixture-of-Experts), LLMs can leak privacy on th…