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Shadow Queries for Private Retrieval in Vector Databases

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 4, 2026 · UTC

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on information retrieval (IR) systems, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), to incorporate domain-specific knowledge without costly re-training. These systems often store pre-computed document embeddings in cloud-based vector databases. However, such embeddings are vulnerable to embedding inversion attacks (EIAs), which can reconstruct their underlying text. Existing defenses, such as adding noise or scaling embeddings, often provide limited privacy or significantly reduce retrieval utility. We propose SHAQ (shadow query generation), a se

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