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Publications (21)

cs.CL2025

Fox-1: Open Small Language Model for Cloud and Edge

Zijian Hu, Jipeng Zhang, Rui Pan +9

We present Fox-1, a series of small language models (SLMs) consisting of Fox-1-1.6B and Fox-1-1.6B-Instruct-v0.1. These models are pre-trained on 3 trillion tokens of web-scraped d…

cs.LG2024

FedML-HE: An Efficient Homomorphic-Encryption-Based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning System

Weizhao Jin, Yuhang Yao, Shanshan Han +5

Federated Learning trains machine learning models on distributed devices by aggregating local model updates instead of local data. However, privacy concerns arise as the aggregated…

cs.CR2024

FedSecurity: Benchmarking Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning and Federated LLMs

Shanshan Han, Baturalp Buyukates, Zijian Hu +13

This paper introduces FedSecurity, an end-to-end benchmark that serves as a supplementary component of the FedML library for simulating adversarial attacks and corresponding defens…

cs.DB2026

Don't Stir the Pot! Authorized Vector Data Retrieval via Access-Aware Indexing

Shanshan Han, Vishal Chakraborty, Sharad Mehrotra

Vector databases increasingly enforce role-based access control, where each top-k approximate nearest neighbor query must return only vectors the querying role is authorized to acc…

cs.DC2024

Privacy-Preserving Federated Heavy Hitter Analytics for Non-IID Data

Jiaqi Shao, Shanshan Han, Chaoyang He +1

Federated heavy-hitter analytics involves the identification of the most frequent items within distributed data. Existing methods for this task often encounter challenges such as c…

cs.DB2024

Hiding Access-pattern is Not Enough! Veil: A Storage and Communication Efficient Volume-Hiding Algorithm

Shanshan Han, Vishal Chakraborty, Michael Goodrich +2

This paper addresses volume leakage (i.e., leakage of the number of records in the answer set) when processing keyword queries in encrypted key-value (KV) datasets. Volume leakage,…