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Publications (32)

cs.LG2022

Sparse-Dyn: Sparse Dynamic Graph Multi-representation Learning via Event-based Sparse Temporal Attention Network

Yan Pang, Chao Liu

Dynamic graph neural networks have been widely used in modeling and representation learning of graph structure data. Current dynamic representation learning focuses on either discr…

cs.CR2024

White-box Membership Inference Attacks against Diffusion Models

Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang, Xuhui Kang +2

Diffusion models have begun to overshadow GANs and other generative models in industrial applications due to their superior image generation performance. The complex architecture o…

cs.CL2024

Multimodal Misinformation Detection by Learning from Synthetic Data with Multimodal LLMs

Fengzhu Zeng, Wenqian Li, Wei Gao +1

Detecting multimodal misinformation, especially in the form of image-text pairs, is crucial. Obtaining large-scale, high-quality real-world fact-checking datasets for training dete…

cs.LG2025

Data Valuation and Selection in a Federated Model Marketplace

Wenqian Li, Youjia Yang, Ruoxi Jia +1

In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), marketplaces have become essential platforms for facilitating the exchange of data products to foster data sharing. Model transactions p…

cs.CR2025

Paladin: Defending LLM-enabled Phishing Emails with a New Trigger-Tag Paradigm

Yan Pang, Wenlong Meng, Xiaojing Liao +1

With the rapid development of large language models, the potential threat of their malicious use, particularly in generating phishing content, is becoming increasingly prevalent. L…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Enhanced boiling heat transfer using conducting-insulating microcavity surfaces in an electric field: A lattice Boltzmann study

Fanming Cai, Zhaomiao Liu, Nan Zheng +1

The field trap effect on the microcavity surface under the action of an electric field is not conducive to boiling heat transfer. This numerical study found that using conducting-i…

cs.IR2022

PrivMVMF: Privacy-Preserving Multi-View Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems

Peihua Mai, Yan Pang

With an increasing focus on data privacy, there have been pilot studies on recommender systems in a federated learning (FL) framework, where multiple parties collaboratively train…

cs.LG2025

Private Wasserstein Distance

Wenqian Li, Yan Pang

Wasserstein distance is a key metric for quantifying data divergence from a distributional perspective. However, its application in privacy-sensitive environments, where direct sha…

physics.optics2014

Generation of vector beams in planar photonic crystal cavities with multiple missing-hole defects

Chenyang Zhao, Xuetao Gan, Sheng Liu +2

We propose a novel method to generate vector beams in planar photonic crystal cavities with multiple missing-hole defects. Simulating the resonant modes in the cavities, we observe…

cs.CR2024

Vertical Federated Graph Neural Network for Recommender System

Peihua Mai, Yan Pang

Conventional recommender systems are required to train the recommendation model using a centralized database. However, due to data privacy concerns, this is often impractical when…

eess.IV2025

MCM: Mamba-based Cardiac Motion Tracking using Sequential Images in MRI

Jiahui Yin, Xinxing Cheng, Jinming Duan +4

Myocardial motion tracking is important for assessing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, for which cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has been established…

cs.LG2022

Graph Decipher: A transparent dual-attention graph neural network to understand the message-passing mechanism for the node classification

Yan Pang, Chao Liu

Graph neural networks can be effectively applied to find solutions for many real-world problems across widely diverse fields. The success of graph neural networks is linked to the…

cs.CL2025

Leave No TRACE: Black-box Detection of Copyrighted Dataset Usage in Large Language Models via Watermarking

Jingqi Zhang, Ruibo Chen, Yingqing Yang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly fine-tuned on smaller, domain-specific datasets to improve downstream performance. These datasets often contain proprietary or copyrig…

cs.CR2024

Towards Understanding Unsafe Video Generation

Yan Pang, Aiping Xiong, Yang Zhang +1

Video generation models (VGMs) have demonstrated the capability to synthesize high-quality output. It is important to understand their potential to produce unsafe content, such as…

cs.AI2024

Split-and-Denoise: Protect large language model inference with local differential privacy

Peihua Mai, Ran Yan, Zhe Huang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in natural language understanding by capturing hidden semantics in vector space. This process enriches the value of text embeddings for various d…

cs.LG2025

Closed-form Solutions: A New Perspective on Solving Differential Equations

Shu Wei, Yanjie Li, Lina Yu +8

The quest for analytical solutions to differential equations has traditionally been constrained by the need for extensive mathematical expertise. Machine learning methods like gene…

cs.LG2023

GFlowCausal: Generative Flow Networks for Causal Discovery

Wenqian Li, Yinchuan Li, Shengyu Zhu +3

Causal discovery aims to uncover causal structure among a set of variables. Score-based approaches mainly focus on searching for the best Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) based on a pr…

cs.CR2024

Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models

Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-qu…

cs.CR2025

VGMShield: Mitigating Misuse of Video Generative Models

Yan Pang, Baicheng Chen, Yang Zhang +1

With the rapid advancement in video generation, people can conveniently use video generation models to create videos tailored to their specific desires. As a result, there are also…

cs.CR2026

ConfusionPrompt: Practical Private Inference for Online Large Language Models

Peihua Mai, Youjia Yang, Ran Yan +2

State-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) are typically deployed as online services, requiring users to transmit detailed prompts to cloud servers. This raises significant priv…

cs.CR2025

SecEmb: Sparsity-Aware Secure Federated Learning of On-Device Recommender System with Large Embedding

Peihua Mai, Youlong Ding, Ziyan Lyu +2

Federated recommender system (FedRec) has emerged as a solution to protect user data through collaborative training techniques. A typical FedRec involves transmitting the full mode…

cs.CR2024

RFLPA: A Robust Federated Learning Framework against Poisoning Attacks with Secure Aggregation

Peihua Mai, Ran Yan, Yan Pang

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple devices to train a model collaboratively without sharing their data. Despite its benefits, FL is vulnerable to privacy leakage and poisoning…

cs.LG2024

Data Valuation and Detections in Federated Learning

Wenqian Li, Shuran Fu, Fengrui Zhang +1

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving the privacy of raw data. A challenge in this framework is the fair and efficient valuation of data, wh…

cs.AI2026

When Sample Selection Bias Precipitates Model Collapse

Xinbao Qiao, Xianglong Du, Wei Liu +4

The proliferation of recursive training on synthetic data can alleviate data scarcity but risks model collapse, where repeated training erodes distributional tails and homogenizes…

math.AP2024

Infinitely many solutions for three quasilinear Laplacian systems on weighted graphs

Yan Pang, Junping Xie, Xingyong Zhang

We investigate a generalized poly-Laplacian system with a parameter on weighted finite graph, a generalized poly-Laplacian system with a parameter and Dirichlet boundary value on w…

cs.CV2025

Commuting Distance Regularization for Timescale-Dependent Label Inconsistency in EEG Emotion Recognition

Xiaocong Zeng, Craig Michoski, Yan Pang +1

In this work, we address the often-overlooked issue of Timescale Dependent Label Inconsistency (TsDLI) in training neural network models for EEG-based human emotion recognition. To…

cs.AI2025

As If We've Met Before: LLMs Exhibit Certainty in Recognizing Seen Files

Haodong Li, Jingqi Zhang, Xiao Cheng +3

The remarkable language ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) stems from extensive training on vast datasets, often including copyrighted material, which raises serious concerns…

cs.CV2025

Diving into Mitigating Hallucinations from a Vision Perspective for Large Vision-Language Models

Weihang Wang, Xinhao Li, Ziyue Wang +5

Object hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly impedes their real-world applicability. As the primary component for accurately interpreting visual infor…

math.AP2023

Existence of three solutions for a poly-Laplacian system on graphs

Yan Pang, Xingyong Zhang

We deal with the existence of three distinct solutions for a poly-Laplacian system with a parameter on finite graphs and a -Laplacian system with a parameter on locally fini…

cs.CR2026

SharedRequest: Privacy-Preserving Model-Agnostic Inference for Large Language Models

Peihua Mai, Xuanrong Gao, Youlong Ding +3

With the widespread deployment of public large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, protecting user prompt privacy has become an increasingly critical issue. Existing privacy-pr…

cs.CR2026

MRMMIA: Membership Inference Attacks on Memory in Chat Agents

Kai Chen, Yan Pang, Tianhao Wang

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) test whether a target data record belongs to a system's private data, and have become a standard tool to measure privacy leakage in machine lear…

cs.LG2023

DAG Matters! GFlowNets Enhanced Explainer For Graph Neural Networks

Wenqian Li, Yinchuan Li, Zhigang Li +2

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over the years. Existing literature mainly focus on selecting a subgraph,…