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Data Turnstile: A Scalable Open Framework for Function-Calling Data Generation

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arXiv:2607.29250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) are attractive for agentic deployment due to low latency, reduced cost, and on-device privacy, yet they struggle with tool-

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Domain-Division based Progressive Learning for Source-Free Domain Adaptation

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arXiv:2607.29202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With growing privacy and portability concerns, source-free domain adaptation requires only a source pre-trained model and an unlabeled target domain, al

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3 Aug 2026

FairDiffuseVQVAE: Sampling-Time Fairness in Tabular Diffusion via Conditional Refinement of Vector-Quantized Latents

arXiv:2607.28945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic tabular data is increasingly used in privacy-preserving data sharing, data augmentation, and to mitigate downstream classifier bias. State-of-

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I got tired of ad-filled mobile wrappers for Ollama, so I built PocketLLM Lite an open-source, offline Android client (Local GGUF, SKILL.md plugins, local RAG)

Hey, Like a lot of people here, I use local models via Ollama on my desktop/server and wanted a mobile client that actually felt responsive, worked offline, and respected privacy. Most apps on the Pla

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Small Is Enough: Per-User Style Rewriting of AI-Edited Text via LoRA Adapters

arXiv:2607.29238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: InMyStyle is a privacy first, single user system that adapts small language models to rewrite AI-edited text towards an individual user's writing styl

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TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

arXiv:2607.28862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant advances across a wide range of language tasks, while simultaneously rais

Encryption-Compatible Clustered Federated Learning via Distributed Expectation-Maximization over Metadata

arXiv:2607.28338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) addresses data heterogeneity in federated settings by grouping clients with similar data distributions to enable effe

31 Jul 2026

First-order Constrained Trilevel Optimization Over Distributed Networks for Robust Coreset Selection

arXiv:2607.27632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive amounts of data are generated across distributed edge networks. Training models on f

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31 Jul 2026

When unlearning is free: leveraging low influence points to reduce computational costs

arXiv:2512.05254v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As concerns around data privacy in machine learning grow, the ability to unlearn, or remove, specific data points from trained models becomes increa

31 Jul 2026

HealthSLM-Bench: Benchmarking Small Language Models for Mobile and Wearable Healthcare Monitoring

arXiv:2509.07260v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mobile and wearable healthcare monitoring play a vital role in facilitating timely interventions, managing chronic health conditions, and ulti

30 Jul 2026

Face De-Identification: A Domain-Centric Survey from Capture to Processing

arXiv:2607.25926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face de-identification (De-ID) aims to remove or conceal personally identifiable facial features in images or videos to prevent identity recognition w

Participants will receive access to our frontier models, including our GPT-5.6 family of models. Each workspace includes business-grade priv…

Participants will receive access to our frontier models, including our GPT-5.6 family of models. Each workspace includes business-grade privacy and security protections. Researcher data is not used to

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ScoreShield: Differentially Private Release of Similarity Scores

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arXiv:2607.25041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A growing number of applications, such as biometrics and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), rely on cosine similarity scores computed between vecto

SpeechLLM Meets Federated Learning for End-to-End ASR: English and Italian Case Studies

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arXiv:2607.25716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving training of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems across distributed data sources, yet its appli

DECAF: De-Clustering for Adaptive Representational Unlearning

arXiv:2607.23934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning, which aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a trained model, is a key requirement for privacy, accountability,

Frustratingly Simple Black-Box Adaptation of Language Models via Logit Bias

arXiv:2607.22837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many organizations aim to adapt language models for internal use, both to improve performance on domain-specific tasks and to address privacy concerns

Keyword Matters: Unveiling the Energy Sensitivity of On-Device LLM Prompting

arXiv:2607.22568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on mobile and embedded devices to improve privacy and reduce network latency. Yet on-device infer

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mmSimPrior: Learning Simulation Priors for Data-Efficient Real-World Generalizable Radar-Based Human Motion Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.22973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar offers privacy-preserving and lighting-robust sensing for human motion reconstruction, but learning models that generaliz

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Obliviate: Efficient Unlearning in Recommender Systems

arXiv:2607.22665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning is becoming increasingly critical in the context of data privacy regulations, particularly for recommendation systems that are direct

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Occluded Oculus: Operationalizing Stylistic Obscurement

arXiv:2607.24411v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What did it take for Hermes, the devout messenger of the Olympian gods, to slay Argus Panoptes, the multi-eyed giant of Greek myth? As the perfect gua

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Hardware

Rendering on Real Silicon: GPU Render-Timing as a Passive, AI-Resistant CAPTCHA Signal

arXiv:2607.23389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional CAPTCHAs pose puzzles that modern AI systems increasingly solve, while behavioral and cryptographic-attestation defenses carry privacy or

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TextRich: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Text-Rich Images from GPT-Image-2

arXiv:2606.19259v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-rich images often contain privacy-sensitive, transactional, or decision-relevant information. As recent multimodal image generation model

Information-Theoretically Secure Aggregation for Lightweight Federated Learning: Resilient to Dropouts and Adversaries

arXiv:2607.20890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving and personalized model training on resource-constrained devices such as smartphones and IoT

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24 Jul 2026

Tackling Heterogeneity in Federated Learning via Variance-Reduced Boltzmann Sampling within Homogeneous Social Coalitions

arXiv:2506.02897v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training, but its effectiveness is often limited by client data heterogeneity

24 Jul 2026

Bounding Boxes to Improve Small Language Model Performance on Vision-Based Grading Tasks

arXiv:2607.18767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of Small Language Models (SLMs) in educational settings offers significant advantages in terms of privacy, cost, and scalability. However

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Differentially Private Neural Network Training Under the Hidden State Assumption

arXiv:2407.08233v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current differentially private learning paradigms face a severe utility bottleneck: DP-SGD degrades performance through noise accumulation over trai

Pre-Deployment Complexity Estimation for Federated Perception Systems

arXiv:2603.28282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Edge AI systems increasingly rely on federated learning to train perception models in distributed, privacy-preserving, and resource-constraine

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Wave2Body: Rethinking mmWave Human Pose Estimation as Radar-to-Body Token Translation

arXiv:2607.18875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables privacy-friendly human sensing, but its sparse point clouds are physical measurements of view-dependent electroma

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FM^2: Unified Federated Foundation Models for Heterogeneous Multimodal Medical Imaging

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arXiv:2607.13386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building foundation models for medical imaging requires pooling data across institutions, yet privacy regulations prohibit centralized aggregation. Exis

16 Jul 2026

Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers

arXiv:2607.13928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whistleblowers are a key safeguard against organizational wrongdoing, but the threat of retaliation deters reporting. Existing whistleblower-protectio

16 Jul 2026

AdaPCLA: Adaptive Prior-Calibrated Logit Adjustment for Long-Tailed Longitudinal EHR Generation

arXiv:2607.12645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling of longitudinal Electronic Health Records is increasingly important for privacy-preserving research, yet standard autoregressive mod

Continual Learning with Elastic Regularization and Synthetic Replay for Federated MLLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607.12112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across distributed networks enables privacy-sensitive adaptation to evolving data st

DiffRadar: Differentiable Physics-Aware Radar SLAM with Gaussian Fields

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arXiv:2607.12265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radar sensing is increasingly used in mobile systems because it operates reliably under poor lighting, adverse weather, and privacy-sensitive settings w

Inclusive Federated Learning Through Compliance-Weighted Noise Allocation in Healthcare AI

arXiv:2505.22108v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training of clinical AI models without centralizing patient data, but adoption is li

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Tutorials

Signal-Guided Optimization for Machine Unlearning

arXiv:2607.11975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current machine unlearning methods predominantly rely on global, coarse-grained intervention strategies. They lack precise pilot signals to guide the

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xai-org/grok-build, now open source

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xai-org/grok-build, now open source xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that entire directory to

Asynchronous Federated Continual Segmentation with Evolving Clients and Label Spaces

arXiv:2503.15414v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated learning seeks to foster collaboration among distributed clients while preserving the privacy of their local data. Traditional feder

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10 Jul 2026

When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPO

arXiv:2607.08409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based ASR adapted to regulated domains such as banking is bottlenecked by privacy: real speech is costly and legally constrained to collect, makin

10 Jul 2026

FedCVESA: Taking Away Training Data in Federated Learning via Correlation Value Encoding and Segmented Aggregation

arXiv:2607.07314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) avoids explicit data exposure by keeping raw data on local clients, yet privacy risks remain in the training process and the l

Hardware

Latency-Constrained DNN Architecture Learning for Edge Systems using Zerorized Batch Normalization

arXiv:2607.06922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning applications have been widely adopted on edge devices, to mitigate the privacy and latency issues of accessing cloud servers. Deciding t

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Industry

Meta reportedly testing prototype AI specs that record everything the user sees and hears

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

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POPS: Recovering Unlearned Multi-Modality Knowledge in MLLMs with Prompt-Optimized Parameter Shaking

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arXiv:2607.06649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on cross-modal tasks by jointly training on large-scale textual and

Synthetic Time Series Generation via Complex Networks

arXiv:2601.22879v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series data are essential for a wide range of applications, yet access to high-quality datasets is often constrained by privacy concerns, acqui

What's on My Network? Using Large Language Models to Identify Real-World IoT Devices at Scale

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arXiv:2510.13817v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The growth of IoT devices in shared environments has outpaced our ability to identify them, posing urgent risks to privacy, safety, and accountabili

CSTutorBench: Benchmarking Small Language Models as Tutors for Block-Based Programming

arXiv:2607.05571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly explored as AI tutors, yet deploying them in K-12 settings raises concerns around privacy, cost, and reliance on

Tools

Happy to announce that we’ve enlisted @FireworksAI_HQ as our primary provider for open-source models. In AI inference, quality, latency, rel…

Happy to announce that we’ve enlisted @FireworksAI_HQ as our primary provider for open-source models. In AI inference, quality, latency, reliability, and privacy vary a lot. Fireworks has earned our t

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Improving TabPFN's Synthetic Data Generation by Integrating Causal Structure

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arXiv:2603.10254v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic tabular data generation addresses data scarcity and privacy constraints in a variety of domains. Tabular Prior-Data Fitted Network (TabPFN

Is Your NPU Ready for LLMs? Dissecting the Hidden Efficiency Bottlenecks in Mobile LLM Inference

arXiv:2607.05475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) on mobile devices enhances privacy and reduces latency, but is severely bottlenecked by hardware inefficiency.