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Local AI cascade achieves high accuracy in de-identifying educational dialogue

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Researchers have developed a novel AI cascade framework designed to de-identify sensitive educational dialogue while preserving valuable content. This local system addresses the limitations of commercial LLMs, which require data sharing, and traditional NER systems that over-redact. The proposed method reframes de-identification as a privacy triage task, using a recall-first union proposer and a context-aware reviewer to make accurate Redact/Keep decisions. Evaluations show this local configuration achieves a 0.958 macro F1 score, outperforming both same-family LLM baselines and commercial APIs, and operates entirely on a single laptop. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Haocheng Zhang, Zhuqian Zhou, Kirk Vanacore, Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Ren\'e F. Kizilcec ·

    Redact or Keep? A Fully Local AI Cascade for Educational Dialogue De-Identification

    arXiv:2606.18372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Educational dialogue is a valuable but sensitive resource for research: the same transcripts that capture authentic learning often capture personally identifiable information (PII) entangled with curricular content, where "Riemann…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · René F. Kizilcec ·

    Redact or Keep? A Fully Local AI Cascade for Educational Dialogue De-Identification

    Educational dialogue is a valuable but sensitive resource for research: the same transcripts that capture authentic learning often capture personally identifiable information (PII) entangled with curricular content, where "Riemann" may refer to a real student or to a mathematical…

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