Taylor Unswift: Secured Weight Release for Large Language Models via Taylor Expansion
<|reference_start|>Taylor Unswift: Secured Weight Release for Large Language Models via Taylor Expansion: Ensuring the security of released large language models (LLMs) poses a significant dilemma, as existing mechanisms either compromise ownership rights or raise data privacy concerns. To address this dilemma, we introduce TaylorMLP to protect the ownership of released LLMs and prevent their abuse. Specifically, TaylorMLP preserves the ownership of LLMs by transforming the weights of LLMs into parameters of Taylor-series. Instead of releasing the original weights, developers can release the Taylor-series parameters with users, thereby ensuring the security of LLMs. Moreover, TaylorMLP can prevent abuse of LLMs by adjusting the generation speed. It can induce low-speed token generation for the protected LLMs by increasing the terms in the Taylor-series. This intentional delay helps LLM developers prevent potential large-scale unauthorized uses of their models. Empirical experiments across five datasets and three LLM architectures demonstrate that TaylorMLP induces over 4x increase in latency, producing the tokens precisely matched with original LLMs. Subsequent defensive experiments further confirm that TaylorMLP effectively prevents users from reconstructing the weight values based on downstream datasets.<|reference_end|>
@article{wang2024taylor,
    title={Taylor Unswift: Secured Weight Release for Large Language Models via
  Taylor Expansion},
    author={Guanchu Wang, Yu-Neng Chuang, Ruixiang Tang, Shaochen Zhong, Jiayi
  Yuan, Hongye Jin, Zirui Liu, Vipin Chaudhary, Shuai Xu, James Caverlee, Xia
  Hu},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.05331},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2410.05331},
    primaryClass={cs.CR cs.AI cs.CL cs.LG}
}