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arxiv: 2511.22099 · v5 · submitted 2025-11-27 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Decomposed Trust: Privacy, Adversarial Robustness, Ethics, and Fairness in Low-Rank LLMs

Daniel Agyei Asante , Md Mokarram Chowdhury , Yang Li This is my paper

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keywords low-rank factorizationlarge language modelsprivacyadversarial robustnessethicsfairnessmodel compressiontrustworthiness
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The pith

Low-rank factorization preserves LLM training data privacy but weakens personally identifiable information safeguards while increasing adversarial robustness and decreasing fairness.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper investigates the impact of low-rank factorization on the trustworthiness of large language models across four key dimensions. It shows that compression maintains privacy for the original training data yet makes conversational personal information more vulnerable to extraction. Adversarial robustness improves under compression, ethics suffer in zero-shot prompting but recover somewhat with examples, and fairness worsens. A sympathetic reader would care because low-rank models enable deployment in constrained environments, making their safety properties essential for responsible use.

Core claim

Low-rank factorization addresses the size issue in LLMs by compressing them while keeping accuracy. The study reveals that this process preserves training data privacy but weakens protection of personally identifiable information in conversations. Adversarial robustness generally increases with compression. Ethics degrade in zero-shot prompting but partially recover in few-shot prompting. Fairness declines under compression. The analysis also covers effects of model scale and fine-tuning and uses gradient-based attribution to find which layers contribute most to robustness.

What carries the argument

Low-rank factorization algorithms that decompose model weights into lower-rank approximations, evaluated on multiple LLMs with metrics for privacy leakage, adversarial attack success, ethical compliance, and fairness disparities, plus gradient attribution for internal analysis.

If this is right

  • Low-rank compressed models can be used in settings where resistance to adversarial inputs is important.
  • Additional measures may be needed to protect personal information in dialogues with compressed models.
  • Few-shot prompting can be applied to improve ethical outputs in compressed LLMs.
  • Fairness testing becomes more critical when applying low-rank factorization to models.
  • Model scale and fine-tuning can be adjusted to influence trustworthiness outcomes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • These results suggest that low-rank methods could be combined with privacy-enhancing techniques to balance the trade-offs observed.
  • Similar studies on other compression techniques like quantization might reveal comparable patterns in trustworthiness.
  • Deployment guidelines for resource-constrained LLMs should incorporate specific checks for PII leakage and fairness.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen evaluation metrics and prompting regimes accurately capture real-world privacy risks, ethical failures, and fairness violations, and that results from the tested model sizes and factorization algorithms generalize to other low-rank methods and deployment contexts.

What would settle it

A test showing that a low-rank compressed model leaks personally identifiable information at the same rate as its full-size counterpart would falsify the claim of weakened PII protection.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.22099 by Daniel Agyei Asante, Md Mokarram Chowdhury, Yang Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustrative examples of prompts and responses generated by the LLaMA2-13B model across three perspectives: (1) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Interaction between the black-box adversary, honest [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Throughput and memory of LLaMA-2 7B and its low-rank compressed models using SVD, FWSVD, and Basel. Left [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Training leakage of models across different context [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Adversarial robustness of Base 7B, 13B and Base 13B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Leak rate and rejection rate of 7B and 13B Base and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Adversarial robustness of Base/Chat 7B and 13B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Model size vs. adversarial robustness accuracy for Base [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Leak rate of personally identifiable information (PII) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
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Large language models (LLMs) have driven major advances across domains, yet their massive size hinders deployment in resource-constrained settings. Low-rank factorization addresses this challenge by compressing models to effectively reduce their computation and memory consumption while maintaining accuracy. While these compressed models boast benign performance and system-level advantages, their trustworthiness implications remain poorly understood. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study of how low-rank factorization affects LLM trustworthiness across privacy, adversarial robustness, ethics, and fairness, complemented by an explainability-driven analysis of the internal mechanisms behind these trust-related changes. We evaluate multiple LLMs of different sizes and architectures compressed with various low-rank factorization algorithms, revealing key insights: (1) low-rank factorization preserves training data privacy but weakens the protection of personally identifiable information during conversations; (2) adversarial robustness is generally enhanced under compression; (3) ethics degrades in zero-shot prompting but partially recovers in few-shot prompting; (4) fairness declines under compression. Beyond compression, we investigate how model scale and fine-tuning affect trustworthiness. Additionally, to move beyond black-box analysis, we employ a gradient-based attribution to identify which layers of LLMs contribute most to adversarial robustness.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims to be the first comprehensive study of low-rank factorization's effects on LLM trustworthiness. It evaluates multiple LLMs compressed via various low-rank methods and reports four directional findings: (1) training-data privacy is preserved while PII protection in conversations weakens; (2) adversarial robustness generally improves; (3) ethical performance drops in zero-shot prompting but partially recovers in few-shot; (4) fairness declines under compression. The work also examines model scale and fine-tuning effects and uses gradient-based attribution to identify layers most responsible for robustness changes.

Significance. If the empirical patterns hold after addressing controls and generalization, the study would provide a valuable first map of trustworthiness trade-offs in compressed LLMs. The combination of multi-aspect evaluation with gradient-based layer attribution is a positive step beyond purely black-box measurements and could guide future compression-aware safety work.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 4] Experimental setup (Section 4): The manuscript does not compare low-rank factorization against other capacity-reduction methods such as pruning or quantization. Without such controls it is impossible to determine whether the reported changes in privacy, robustness, ethics, and fairness are attributable to the low-rank structure itself or simply to reduced parameter count.
  2. [gradient-based attribution section] Gradient-based attribution analysis: No variance across random seeds or statistical significance tests are reported for the layer-attribution results. This weakens the claim that specific layers can be identified as primary contributors to the observed robustness gains.
  3. [privacy and fairness evaluation sections] Evaluation of privacy and fairness: The chosen metrics and prompting regimes are not shown to be robust to prompt sensitivity or to generalize beyond the tested model sizes and factorization heuristics. If effects are driven by the particular rank-selection procedure or benchmark choice, the directional conclusions do not hold.
minor comments (2)
  1. [methods] Clarify the exact low-rank dimension selection heuristic and report the resulting compression ratios for each model in a table.
  2. [related work] Add missing references to prior work on compression and trustworthiness (e.g., studies on quantized or pruned models).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating the changes we will make in the revised version.

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  1. Referee: [Section 4] Experimental setup (Section 4): The manuscript does not compare low-rank factorization against other capacity-reduction methods such as pruning or quantization. Without such controls it is impossible to determine whether the reported changes in privacy, robustness, ethics, and fairness are attributable to the low-rank structure itself or simply to reduced parameter count.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of comparisons to other capacity-reduction techniques limits the ability to isolate effects specific to low-rank factorization. In the revised manuscript we will add experiments that apply pruning and quantization at comparable compression ratios and report the resulting changes in the same privacy, robustness, ethics, and fairness metrics. These controls will clarify whether the observed directional effects are attributable to the low-rank structure or to parameter reduction in general. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [gradient-based attribution section] Gradient-based attribution analysis: No variance across random seeds or statistical significance tests are reported for the layer-attribution results. This weakens the claim that specific layers can be identified as primary contributors to the observed robustness gains.

    Authors: The referee is correct that variance across seeds and statistical significance were not reported. We will re-run the gradient-based attribution analysis over multiple random seeds, include error bars, and add statistical significance tests for the identified layers in the updated manuscript to support the robustness-related claims. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [privacy and fairness evaluation sections] Evaluation of privacy and fairness: The chosen metrics and prompting regimes are not shown to be robust to prompt sensitivity or to generalize beyond the tested model sizes and factorization heuristics. If effects are driven by the particular rank-selection procedure or benchmark choice, the directional conclusions do not hold.

    Authors: We acknowledge that explicit checks for prompt sensitivity and broader generalization were not included. Although the original study already spans several model sizes and factorization heuristics, we will add prompt-variation experiments and results under alternative rank-selection procedures in the revision to demonstrate that the reported directional effects are not artifacts of the specific choices made. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical measurements on compressed models

full rationale

The paper reports direct experimental results from applying low-rank factorization to multiple LLMs and measuring outcomes on privacy, adversarial robustness, ethics, and fairness benchmarks. No mathematical derivations, parameter fits, or predictions are presented that reduce to the inputs by construction; all claims rest on observed performance differences under compression, scale, and prompting regimes. The analysis is self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing self-citations, ansatzes, or uniqueness theorems invoked to justify the central findings.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Empirical study relying on standard LLM evaluation practices and existing models; no new theoretical axioms or invented entities introduced. Free parameters consist of experimental choices such as rank values and prompting strategies that are selected rather than derived.

free parameters (2)
  • low-rank dimension / compression ratio
    Selected per model and experiment to achieve target size reduction; directly influences measured trustworthiness changes.
  • prompting regime (zero-shot vs few-shot)
    Chosen to demonstrate partial recovery in ethics; affects reported outcomes.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Standard benchmarks and metrics for privacy leakage, adversarial robustness, ethics, and fairness accurately reflect the intended trustworthiness properties.
    Invoked implicitly when interpreting directional changes as meaningful for real-world trust.

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