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DiRAFT: Privacy-Aware Financial Transcript Synthesis from Aggregate Discourse Priors

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The paper introduces DiRAFT, a method for synthesizing financial transcripts from aggregate concept-transition priors, and evaluates discourse fidelity and residual confidentiality risks. Human review of 1,400 investor-call outputs shows stochastic sampling yields fewer matches to non-public facts than greedy and top-3 sampling, though no formal privacy guarantee is established.

SourcearXiv AIAuthor: Yunbai Zhang, Yunyi Gao, Han-Tai Shiao
DiRAFT: Privacy-Aware Financial Transcript Synthesis from Aggregate Discourse Priors
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[Submitted on 29 Oct 2026]

Title:DiRAFT: Privacy-Aware Financial Transcript Synthesis from Aggregate Discourse Priors

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Abstract:Using customer conversations to train and evaluate financial language models raises confidentiality concerns because non-public financial facts can remain after direct identifiers are masked. Synthetic transcripts offer an alternative data source, but their discourse fidelity and residual confidentiality risks require assessment. We introduce DiRAFT (Discourse Realization from Aggregate First-order Transitions), which extracts financial concept graphs and records the order in which concepts are first introduced. It pools adjacent concept transitions across training records and samples new graph plans from aggregate transition, starting-concept, and plan-length priors. A discourse layer guides text realization without supplying an individual source passage or graph. We assess privacy-related risks through two complementary evaluations: corpus-level structural overlap and source-grounded checks for specific non-public investor facts. The structural assessment covers two financial corpora and three generation backends. The confidential-fact assessment uses human review of 1,400 investor-call outputs across seven strategies and two backends. We also evaluate transition fidelity, content recoverability, and trajectory diversity. Stochastic sampling provides a favorable balance between transition fidelity and structural overlap, with consistent advantages over greedy and top-3 on investor calls. The confidential-fact assessment likewise detects fewer matches for stochastic sampling than these alternatives on both backends covered by the fact assessment. These complementary assessments provide empirical evidence on residual confidentiality risks without establishing a formal guarantee.

Comments: 21 pages. Accepted at the Financial AI Security, Privacy and Safety Workshop at ICAIF 2026 (non-archival)

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Cite as: arXiv:2610.40938 [cs.AI]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.40938

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From: Yunbai Zhang [view email] [v1] Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:13:24 UTC (101 KB)

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  • DiRAFT extracts financial concept graphs and records concept introduction order, then samples new plans from aggregate transition, starting-concept, and plan-length priors without supplying individual source passages.
  • Privacy risk is assessed via corpus-level structural overlap and source-grounded checks for specific non-public investor facts across multiple corpora and backends.
  • Stochastic sampling balances transition fidelity and structural overlap better than greedy and top-3 decoding on investor calls.
  • The work provides empirical evidence on residual confidentiality risks but explicitly does not establish a formal guarantee.

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