Summary of Pre-text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age Of Llms, by Charlie Hou et al.
PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs
by Charlie Hou, Akshat Shrivastava, Hongyuan Zhan, Rylan Conway, Trang Le, Adithya Sagar, Giulia Fanti, Daniel Lazar
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers propose a method called Private Evolution-Text (PrE-Text) to generate differentially private synthetic textual data. The goal is to address the limitations of on-device training for machine learning models on private distributed user data. PrE-Text aims to provide a more efficient and scalable solution by generating synthetic data that can be used to train small models on-device or finetune large language models (LLMs). The method is evaluated on multiple datasets, showing improved performance compared to traditional on-device training under practical privacy regimes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces PrE-Text, a way to create private text data. It helps with the challenges of training AI models on personal devices. The current approach has problems like using too much power and not being easy to fix or share. The new method generates fake data that can be used to train smaller models or improve large language models. This makes it faster, more efficient, and easier to use. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Synthetic data
