What changed
Applied user-adjacent DP to language-model training using independently sampled users, clipped user updates, bounded-sensitivity averaging estimators, Gaussian noise and moments accounting.
Scientific scope
Applied user-adjacent DP to language-model training using independently sampled users, clipped user updates, bounded-sensitivity averaging estimators, Gaussian noise and moments accounting. Guarantee concerns adding/removing an entire user's data under specified sampling/estimator/clipping/accounting assumptions, not cryptographic concealment from a trusted curator. Accuracy preservation was demonstrated at substantial computation cost on a sufficiently large dataset, not free privacy or all datasets.2017 v1 title Language Models differs from later Recurrent Language Models.
Evidence
The linked original sources describe the stated contribution and its evidence limits. WRS has not independently rerun the experiments or certified a proof. Guarantee concerns adding/removing an entire user's data under specified sampling/estimator/clipping/accounting assumptions, not cryptographic concealment from a trusted curator. Accuracy preservation was demonstrated at substantial computation cost on a sufficiently large dataset, not free privacy or all datasets.2017 v1 title Language Models differs from later Recurrent Language Models.
Contributors
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