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most citedLoPub: High-Dimensional Crowdsourced Data Publication with Local Differential Privacy

294 citations · 589 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.LG2026

Discovering Multiscale Deep Formulas in Complex Systems via Neural-Guided Lambda Calculus

Hanqiao Yu, Shusen Yang, Xuebin Ren +1

A fundamental problem in science is identifying underlying patterns of complex systems in the form of concise mathematical formulas. Current Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based meth…

cs.LG2025

FairGFL: Privacy-Preserving Fairness-Aware Federated Learning with Overlapping Subgraphs

Zihao Zhou, Shusen Yang, Fangyuan Zhao +1

Graph federated learning enables the collaborative extraction of high-order information from distributed subgraphs while preserving the privacy of raw data. However, graph data oft…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Layer-wise Gaussian Noise Injection: Bridging Implicit Objectives and Privacy Budget Allocation

Qifeng Tan, Shusen Yang, Xuebin Ren +1

Layer-wise Gaussian mechanisms (LGM) enhance flexibility in differentially private deep learning by injecting noise into partitioned gradient vectors. However, existing methods oft…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Fine-grained Manipulation Attacks to Local Differential Privacy Protocols for Data Streams

Xinyu Li, Xuebin Ren, Shusen Yang +2

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables massive data collection and analysis while protecting end users' privacy against untrusted aggregators. It has been applied to various data…

cs.NI2024★ 19 cited

Reducing Traffic Wastage in Video Streaming via Bandwidth-Efficient Bitrate Adaptation

Hairong Su, Shibo Wang, Shusen Yang +2

Bitrate adaptation (also known as ABR) is a crucial technique to improve the quality of experience (QoE) for video streaming applications. However, existing ABR algorithms suffer f…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Review of Mathematical Optimization in Federated Learning

Shusen Yang, Fangyuan Zhao, Zihao Zhou +3

Federated Learning (FL) has been becoming a popular interdisciplinary research area in both applied mathematics and information sciences. Mathematically, FL aims to collaboratively…

cs.CR2024

Understanding Byzantine Robustness in Federated Learning with A Black-box Server

Fangyuan Zhao, Yuexiang Xie, Xuebin Ren +3

Federated learning (FL) becomes vulnerable to Byzantine attacks where some of participators tend to damage the utility or discourage the convergence of the learned model via sendin…

cs.DS2024

VertiMRF: Differentially Private Vertical Federated Data Synthesis

Fangyuan Zhao, Zitao Li, Xuebin Ren +3

Data synthesis is a promising solution to share data for various downstream analytic tasks without exposing raw data. However, without a theoretical privacy guarantee, a synthetic…

cs.NI2024

EdgeTimer: Adaptive Multi-Timescale Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yijun Hao, Shusen Yang, Fang Li +3

In mobile edge computing (MEC), resource scheduling is crucial to task requests' performance and service providers' cost, involving multi-layer heterogeneous scheduling decisions.…

cs.CR2024

Belt and Braces: When Federated Learning Meets Differential Privacy

Xuebin Ren, Shusen Yang, Cong Zhao +2

Federated learning (FL) has great potential for large-scale machine learning (ML) without exposing raw data.Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto standard of privacy protection…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

FedLED: Label-Free Equipment Fault Diagnosis with Vertical Federated Transfer Learning

Jie Shen, Shusen Yang, Cong Zhao +5

Intelligent equipment fault diagnosis based on Federated Transfer Learning (FTL) attracts considerable attention from both academia and industry. It allows real-world industrial ag…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Exploring the Benefits of Visual Prompting in Differential Privacy

Yizhe Li, Yu-Lin Tsai, Xuebin Ren +2

Visual Prompting (VP) is an emerging and powerful technique that allows sample-efficient adaptation to downstream tasks by engineering a well-trained frozen source model. In this w…

cs.DB2022★ 85 cited

LDP-IDS: Local Differential Privacy for Infinite Data Streams

Xuebin Ren, Liang Shi, Weiren Yu +3

Streaming data collection is essential to real-time data analytics in various IoTs and mobile device-based systems, which, however, may expose end users' privacy. Local differentia…

cs.LG2022★ 81 cited

Towards Efficient and Stable K-Asynchronous Federated Learning with Unbounded Stale Gradients on Non-IID Data

Zihao Zhou, Yanan Li, Xuebin Ren +1

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging privacy-preserving paradigm that enables multiple participants collaboratively to train a global model without uploading raw data. Considerin…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model Training with Differential Privacy

Fangyuan Zhao, Xuebin Ren, Shusen Yang +3

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for hidden semantic discovery of text data and serves as a fundamental tool for text analysis in various app…

cs.DC2020★ 10 cited

DPCrowd: Privacy-preserving and Communication-efficient Decentralized Statistical Estimation for Real-time Crowd-sourced Data

Xuebin Ren, Chia-Mu Yu, Wei Yu +3

In Internet of Things (IoT) driven smart-world systems, real-time crowd-sourced databases from multiple distributed servers can be aggregated to extract dynamic statistics from a l…

cs.DC2020

OL4EL: Online Learning for Edge-cloud Collaborative Learning on Heterogeneous Edges with Resource Constraints

Qing Han, Shusen Yang, Xuebin Ren +3

Distributed machine learning (ML) at network edge is a promising paradigm that can preserve both network bandwidth and privacy of data providers. However, heterogeneous and limited…

cs.LG2019★ 27 cited

Asynchronous Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for Edge Intelligence

Yanan Li, Shusen Yang, Xuebin Ren +1

Federated learning has been showing as a promising approach in paving the last mile of artificial intelligence, due to its great potential of solving the data isolation problem in…

cs.CR2019★ 19 cited

Reviewing and Improving the Gaussian Mechanism for Differential Privacy

Jun Zhao, Teng Wang, Tao Bai +7

Differential privacy provides a rigorous framework to quantify data privacy, and has received considerable interest recently. A randomized mechanism satisfying -differentia…

cs.LG2019

On Privacy Protection of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model Training

Fangyuan Zhao, Xuebin Ren, Shusen Yang +1

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for discovery of hidden semantic architecture of text datasets, and plays a fundamental role in many machine…

cs.LG2019★ 28 cited

Impact of Prior Knowledge and Data Correlation on Privacy Leakage: A Unified Analysis

Yanan Li, Xuebin Ren, Shusen Yang +1

It has been widely understood that differential privacy (DP) can guarantee rigorous privacy against adversaries with arbitrary prior knowledge. However, recent studies demonstrate…

cs.CR2019★ 8 cited

Locally Differentially Private Data Collection and Analysis

Teng Wang, Jun Zhao, Xinyu Yang +1

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data.…

cs.CR2019★ 8 cited

Privacy-preserving Crowd-guided AI Decision-making in Ethical Dilemmas

Teng Wang, Jun Zhao, Han Yu +4

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), ethical issues surrounding AI have attracted increasing attention. In particular, autonomous vehicles may face moral dil…

cs.CR2016★ 294 cited

LoPub: High-Dimensional Crowdsourced Data Publication with Local Differential Privacy

Xuebin Ren, Chia-Mu Yu, Weiren Yu +4

High-dimensional crowdsourced data collected from a large number of users produces rich knowledge for our society. However, it also brings unprecedented privacy threats to particip…