@inproceedings{he-etal-2025-eccc,
    title = "{ECCC}: Edge Code Cloak Coder for Privacy Code Agent",
    author = "He, Haoqi  and
      Xu, Wenzhi  and
      Liu, Ruoying  and
      Tang, Jiarui  and
      Li, Bairu  and
      Lin, Xiaokai",
    editor = "Zhang, Chen  and
      Allaway, Emily  and
      Shen, Hua  and
      Miculicich, Lesly  and
      Li, Yinqiao  and
      M'hamdi, Meryem  and
      Limkonchotiwat, Peerat  and
      Bai, Richard He  and
      T.y.s.s., Santosh  and
      Han, Sophia Simeng  and
      Thapa, Surendrabikram  and
      Rim, Wiem Ben",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Widening NLP Workshop",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.winlp-main.14/",
    pages = "65--74",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-351-7",
    abstract = "Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced automated code generation and debugging, facilitating powerful multi-agent coding frameworks. However, deploying these sophisticated models on resource-constrained edge devices remains challenging due to high computational demands, limited adaptability, and significant privacy risks associated with cloud-based processing. Motivated by these constraints, we propose \textbf{Edge Code Cloak Coder (ECCC)}, a novel edge-cloud hybrid framework integrating lightweight quantized LLM with robust AST-based anonymization and edge-side privacy validation. ECCC enables high-performance, privacy-preserving LLM capabilities on consumer GPUs, anonymizing user code before securely delegating abstracted tasks to cloud LLMs. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that ECCC achieves competitive correctness (within 4{--}5pp of the GPT-4-based frameworks) and a perfect privacy score of 10/10, effectively balancing functionality and security for sensitive and proprietary code applications."
}