Ask Without Telling: Local SLMs Consult Cloud LLMs Without Revealing Task Intent

arXiv:2609.32642 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.DC · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.DC

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/guantian111/Pricon

Terminology

• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Differential Privacy — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Need to Know: Contextual-Integrity-Grounded Query Rewriting for Privacy-Conscious LLM Delegation
• PAAC: Privacy-Aware Agentic Device-Cloud Collaboration

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