Stanford AI Researchers Propose ‘FOCUS’: A Foundation Model Which Aims to Achieve Perfect Secrecy For Personal Tasks

Researchers at Stanford University recently proposed [Foundation model Controls for User Secrecy (FOCUS)](https://github.com/simran-arora/focus), a framework for securely serving personal tasks based on a unidirectional data flow architecture, in response to these problems. FOCUS includes delivering off-the-shelf public FMs to private user silos and using zero-to-few sample FM adaptation approaches to complete personal tasks with the zero-to-few training examples that users have access to.

👉 FOCUS’s privacy guarantee is extremely simple and intuitive from the user and legal perspectives — no …

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