Jinghua Wang
2025
Simple Yet Effective: Extracting Private Data Across Clients in Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
Yingqi Hu
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Zhuo Zhang
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Jingyuan Zhang
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Jinghua Wang
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Qifan Wang
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Lizhen Qu
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Zenglin Xu
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Federated large language models (FedLLMs) enable cross-silo collaborative training among institutions while preserving data locality, making them appealing for privacy-sensitive domains such as law, finance, and healthcare. However, the memorization behavior of LLMs can lead to privacy risks that may cause cross-client data leakage. In this work, we study the threat of *cross-client data extraction*, where a semi-honest participant attempts to recover personally identifiable information (PII) memorized from other clients’ data. We propose three simple yet effective extraction strategies that leverage contextual prefixes from the attacker’s local data, including frequency-based prefix sampling and local fine-tuning to amplify memorization. To evaluate these attacks, we construct a Chinese legal-domain dataset with fine-grained PII annotations consistent with CPIS, GDPR, and CCPA standards, and assess extraction performance using two metrics: *coverage* and *efficiency*. Experimental results show that our methods can recover up to 56.6% of victim-exclusive PII, where names, addresses, and birthdays are particularly vulnerable. These findings highlight concrete privacy risks in FedLLMs and establish a benchmark and evaluation framework for future research on privacy-preserving federated learning. Code and data are available at https://github.com/SMILELab-FL/FedPII.
2008
Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with PageRank and HowNet
Jinghua Wang
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Jianyi Liu
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Ping Zhang
Proceedings of the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing
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