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A Blog post by ServiceNow on Hugging Face
Deep research agents increasingly combine private local documents with external tools like web retrieval, creating a privacy risk: an agent's external queries may leak sensitive information. MosaicLeaks proposes a new deep-research task with multi-hop questions that interleave public and private information. Across the models we tested, agents frequently leaked private information, and training only for task performance made it worse. We propose a mosaic-leakage-aware RL training method, Privacy-Aware Deep Research (PA-DR), which raises strict chain success (the share of chains where every hop is answered correctly) from 48.7% to 58.7% while reducing answer/full-information leakage from 34.0% to 9.9%.
