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Publications (23)

cs.CR2026

Defending Against Backdoor Attacks via Alignment Checking in Model-Contrastive Federated Learning

Hongliang Zhang, Zhongyuan Yu, Guijuan Wang +4

The paper proposes FedDAB, a two‑phase defense for federated learning that uses contrastive regularization and alignment checking to detect and exclude malicious local updates caus…

#federated learning#backdoor attacks#defense mechanisms#contrastive learning
cs.CR2025

Differentially Private Distance Query with Asymmetric Noise

Weihong Sheng, Jiajun Chen, Chunqiang Hu +3

With the growth of online social services, social information graphs are becoming increasingly complex. Privacy issues related to analyzing or publishing on social graphs are also…

cs.LG2025

ADP-VRSGP: Decentralized Learning with Adaptive Differential Privacy via Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient Push

Xiaoming Wu, Teng Liu, Xin Wang +2

Differential privacy is widely employed in decentralized learning to safeguard sensitive data by introducing noise into model updates. However, existing approaches that use fixed-v…

cs.NI2012

Edge Dominating Capability based Backbone Construction in Wireless Networks

Congcong Chen, Jiguo Yu, Xiujuan Zhang

Constructing a connected dominating set as the virtual backbone plays an important role in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose two novel approximate algorithms for dominat…

cs.DC2025

DFPL: Decentralized Federated Prototype Learning Across Heterogeneous Data Distributions

Hongliang Zhang, Fenghua Xu, Zhongyuan Yu +3

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm through centralized model aggregation. However, standard federated learning relies on a centralized server, making it…

cs.LG2026

FL-OA: A Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Framework with Outsourced Auditing for Intelligent Devices

Hongliang Zhang, Zhongyuan Yu, Fenghua Xu +3

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple intelligent devices to collaboratively train a high-accuracy model without sharing raw data. However, due to its distributed nature, FL is…