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#1 Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Hate Speech Detection [PDF1] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Ivo de Souza Bueno Júnior, Haotian Ye, Axel Wisiorek, Hinrich Schütze

This paper presents a federated learning system with differential privacy for hate speech detection, tailored to low-resource languages. By fine-tuning pre-trained language models, ALBERT emerged as the most effective option for balancing performance and privacy. Experiments demonstrated that federated learning with differential privacy performs adequately in low-resource settings, though datasets with fewer than 20 sentences per client struggled due to excessive noise. Balanced datasets and augmenting hateful data with non-hateful examples proved critical for improving model utility. These findings offer a scalable and privacy-conscious framework for integrating hate speech detection into social media platforms and browsers, safeguarding user privacy while addressing online harm.

Subject: NAACL.2025 - Student Research Workshop