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Defense Against Prompt Inversion Attacks: An Information-Theoretic Approach for LLM Collaborative Inference

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Pith's one-line read An information-theoretic approach defends collaborative LLM inference from prompt inversion by minimizing mutual information between activations and prompts.

desk verdict The paper frames prompt inversion defense in collaborative LLM inference as an MI minimization problem with privacy adapters, which is a reasonable step but the claimed theoretical guarantees on reconstruction error do not appear to hold up under the low-dimensional approximations required. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.11592 v1 pith:P24YTHCO submitted 2026-06-10 cs.CR

Sayedeh Leila Noorbakhsh , Hossein Khalili , Nader Sehatbakhsh This is my paper
classification cs.CR
keywords promptinversionattackscollaborativeLLMinferenceinformation-theoreticdefensemutualinformationminimizationprivacyadaptersbottleneckprivacy-utilitytradeoffedge-cloud
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The pith

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The reading

The paper develops a defense framework for prompt inversion attacks during collaborative edge-cloud inference with large language models. It learns privacy-preserving representations by explicitly minimizing the mutual information between intermediate activations and the original input prompt. This minimization occurs while preserving task utility and respecting computational constraints. The work derives theoretical guarantees on reconstruction error and characterizes privacy-utility tradeoffs. A practical method uses low-dimensional privacy adapters as information bottlenecks, with experiments showing improved tradeoffs over prior approaches.

What carries the argument

Low-dimensional privacy adapters that function as information bottlenecks to minimize mutual information between activations and the input prompt.

What would settle it

An experiment in which the privacy adapters produce no reduction in attack success rate relative to heuristic defenses or in which observed prompt reconstruction error exceeds the paper's theoretical bound.

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Core claim

By minimizing the mutual information between intermediate activations and the input prompt via low-dimensional privacy adapters implemented as information bottlenecks, the framework produces representations that limit prompt reconstruction while maintaining downstream inference utility, yielding theoretical bounds on reconstruction error and token-level accuracy along with empirical reductions in attack success.

Load-bearing premise

Mutual information between activations and prompts can be minimized in practice via low-dimensional privacy adapters without violating computational constraints or substantially degrading downstream task utility, and the derived theoretical guarantees hold under real model architectures.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Theoretical guarantees on prompt reconstruction error follow directly from the mutual information minimization.
  • Fundamental privacy-utility tradeoffs are characterized for collaborative inference.
  • Token-level accuracy bounds are established for the downstream task.
  • The approach yields up to 35% reduction in attack success compared with existing defenses.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same mutual-information minimization could be applied to protect against other leakage risks in distributed inference pipelines.
  • The adapter construction might transfer to collaborative settings that use models other than LLMs.
  • Deployment would require checking whether the low-dimensional adapters preserve the stated tradeoffs under real network latency and hardware limits.
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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes an information-theoretic defense framework against prompt inversion attacks in collaborative edge-cloud LLM inference. It learns privacy-preserving representations by minimizing mutual information between intermediate activations and input prompts via low-dimensional privacy adapters (while preserving task utility), derives theoretical guarantees on prompt reconstruction error and token-level accuracy bounds, characterizes privacy-utility-latency tradeoffs, and reports up to 35% reduction in attack success versus baselines across experiments.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work supplies a principled alternative to heuristic defenses by linking explicit MI minimization to reconstruction-error bounds and empirical tradeoffs. This would be significant for secure collaborative inference deployments, as it moves beyond empirical tuning toward information-theoretic characterizations. The combination of derived bounds with adapter-based implementation is a potential strength if the approximations are rigorously controlled.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (theoretical guarantees): The reconstruction-error bounds and token-level accuracy claims rest on exact minimization of I(activations; prompt). The privacy adapters implement this via a low-dimensional bottleneck, but the derivation provides no error bounds or concentration results on the variational or estimator approximation to the true MI; without this, the stated guarantees do not necessarily transfer to the implemented method.
  2. [§5] §5 (experiments): The reported 35% attack-success reduction and privacy-utility curves are presented as validation of the framework, yet the attack models used for evaluation are not shown to match the threat model assumed in the theoretical bounds (e.g., whether the adversary has access to the same adapter parameters or only to the transmitted activations). This gap makes it impossible to assess whether the empirical gains confirm the derived bounds or merely reflect a different operating regime.
minor comments (2)
  1. Notation: The definition of the privacy adapter objective (likely Eq. (X)) should explicitly state whether the MI term is the true mutual information or a variational lower/upper bound, and how the Lagrange multiplier for the utility constraint is chosen.
  2. Related work: The manuscript should cite recent results on high-dimensional MI estimation error (e.g., variational bounds and their sample complexity) to contextualize the practical achievability of the claimed minimization.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the insightful comments, which highlight important aspects of the connection between our theoretical analysis and practical implementation. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (theoretical guarantees): The reconstruction-error bounds and token-level accuracy claims rest on exact minimization of I(activations; prompt). The privacy adapters implement this via a low-dimensional bottleneck, but the derivation provides no error bounds or concentration results on the variational or estimator approximation to the true MI; without this, the stated guarantees do not necessarily transfer to the implemented method.

    Authors: We agree that the stated bounds assume exact mutual information minimization. The implemented privacy adapters rely on a variational lower bound and dimensionality reduction, introducing approximation error not quantified in the current derivation. In the revision we will add a dedicated paragraph in §3 that invokes standard concentration inequalities for MI estimators (under Lipschitz and bounded-support assumptions on the activation distributions) and derives an explicit additive error term between the variational estimate and the true MI. This will state the conditions under which the reconstruction-error and token-accuracy bounds continue to hold approximately. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (experiments): The reported 35% attack-success reduction and privacy-utility curves are presented as validation of the framework, yet the attack models used for evaluation are not shown to match the threat model assumed in the theoretical bounds (e.g., whether the adversary has access to the same adapter parameters or only to the transmitted activations). This gap makes it impossible to assess whether the empirical gains confirm the derived bounds or merely reflect a different operating regime.

    Authors: The theoretical threat model in §3 assumes the adversary receives only the post-adapter activations and has no knowledge of the adapter weights. The experiments in §5 train inversion attacks on exactly those activations, which is consistent with the stated model. We will nevertheless revise the threat-model subsection and the experimental-setup paragraph to make this assumption explicit and to discuss the stronger adversary that also knows the adapter parameters. We will also add a short note on how the reported 35 % figure would be expected to change under that stronger model. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: theoretical claims presented as derived from MI minimization without reduction to fitted quantities or self-citations

full rationale

The provided abstract and description state that the framework minimizes mutual information to learn privacy-preserving representations and derives theoretical guarantees on reconstruction error and token-level bounds. No equations, self-citations, or derivation steps are exhibited that would reduce the guarantees to the training of the adapters by construction, nor is any uniqueness theorem or ansatz imported from prior author work. The experimental results on privacy-utility tradeoffs are presented separately from the theoretical derivation, leaving the claims self-contained against external information-theoretic principles.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 0 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only view provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the low-dimensional bottleneck dimension and any weighting on the mutual information term are likely free parameters but are not quantified here.

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Collaborative edge-cloud inference enables resource-constrained devices to leverage large language models (LLMs) by offloading partial computation to cloud servers. However, transmitting intermediate activations exposes sensitive user prompts to prompt inversion attacks, where an adversary reconstructs the original input from shared representations. Existing defenses rely largely on heuristic perturbations or empirical tuning, offering limited theoretical understanding of privacy leakage and its interaction with utility and latency constraints. We propose an information-theoretic defense framework for prompt inversion in collaborative LLM inference. Our approach learns privacy-preserving representations by explicitly minimizing the mutual information between intermediate activations and the input prompt while maintaining task utility under computational constraints. We derive theoretical guarantees on prompt reconstruction error, characterize fundamental privacy-utility tradeoffs, and establish token-level accuracy bounds for downstream inference. We then propose a novel defense based on privacy adapters implemented via low-dimensional information bottlenecks. Extensive experiments across multiple settings demonstrate that our method achieves superior privacy-utility-latency tradeoffs compared to existing defenses (up to 35% reduction in attack success), providing a principled foundation for private and efficient collaborative LLM inference.

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Figure 1. Privacy-adapter–based collaborative inference. Lightweight trainable adapters are inserted [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Cross-dataset privacy-utility tradeoff over [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Skytrax dataset (LLaMA-2-7B, k=4, r=512). The privacy gap widens as λ increases. 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Privacy Weight 0 20 40 60 80 100 Token Accuracy (%) (a) Token Accuracy Overall Acc. Sensitive Acc. Common Acc. Privacy Gap 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Privacy Weight 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 BLEU Score 0.76 0.71 0.43 0.15 (b) BLEU Score 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Privacy Weight 0 20 40 60 80 100 NERR (%) 53.5% 45.9% 17.6% 1.4% (c) Entity Recove… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Medical dataset (LLaMA-2-7B, k=4, r=512). Sensitive token accuracy drops most aggressively, reflecting the high concentration of domain-specific terminology (medical conditions, drug names). attacker Luo et al. [2025] on LLaMA-2-7B at split k=4. Our privacy adapters at…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Legal dataset (LLaMA-2-7B, k=4, r=512). Token accuracy curves converge at intermedi￾ate λ, indicating more uniform entropy across token types in legal text. the additional computation introduced by the adapters is fixed by the bottleneck dimension r rather than by the …

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