James Flemings
Los Angeles, CA
Hello! I am a third-year CS PhD student at the University of Southern California working in the USC Meta research center, advised by Murali Annavaram in the SCIP (Super Computing In Pocket) lab. I’m graciously funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. My research broadly spans privacy in large language models (LLMs). Specifically, I’m looking into practically applying differential privacy to LLMs, and analyzing memorization of LLMs.
I received my BS in computer science and mathematics at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2022. While there, I pursued research in a wide range of areas, including monochromatic colorings, charged coupled devices, federated learning, and out of distribution data performance in language models.
News
| Jul 22, 2024 | Gave two tech talks @ LinkedIn and TikTok on our work “Differentially Private Prediction of Large Language Models.” |
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| May 15, 2024 | Our paper “Differentially Private Knowledge Distillation via Synthetic Text Generation” has been accepted to ACL 2024, Findings |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Our paper “Differentially Private Next-Token Prediction of Large Language Models” has been accepted to NAACL 2024, Main |
| Feb 17, 2024 | I will be interning at TikTok as a research scientist this summer, working in the Privacy Innovation Lab. |
| Jul 06, 2023 | USC news article detailing at a high-level the work I was awarded the NSF GRFP for. |