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20182026
most citedSecure Federated Clustering

8 citations · 11 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.LG2026

Latent Information Sharing for Accelerating Federated Learning

Seungjun Lee, Ensieh Khazaei, Dimitrios Hatzinakos +2

Federated learning (FL) is a communication-efficient distributed learning paradigm. However, client drift remains one of the most critical challenges, hindering the efficient train…

cs.LG2026

Don't Always Pick the Highest-Performing Model: An Information Theoretic View of LLM Ensemble Selection

Yigit Turkmen, Baturalp Buyukates, Melih Bastopcu

Large language models (LLMs) are often ensembled together to improve overall reliability and robustness, but in practice models are strongly correlated. This raises a fundamental q…

cs.CL2025

Uncertainty Quantification for Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models: Foundations, Methodology, and Future Directions

Sungmin Kang, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz +2

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of natural language processing, enabling breakthroughs across a wide range of areas including qu…

cs.LG2025

Balancing Information Accuracy and Response Timeliness in Networked LLMs

Yigit Turkmen, Baturalp Buyukates, Melih Bastopcu

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed many fields including scientific discovery, content generation, biomedical text mining, and educational technol…

cs.LG2025

Reconsidering LLM Uncertainty Estimation Methods in the Wild

Yavuz Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Sungmin Kang +4

Large Language Model (LLM) Uncertainty Estimation (UE) methods have become a crucial tool for detecting hallucinations in recent years. While numerous UE methods have been proposed…

cs.CR2025

Privacy-preserving Prompt Personalization in Federated Learning for Multimodal Large Language Models

Sizai Hou, Songze Li, Baturalp Buyukates

Prompt learning is a crucial technique for adapting pre-trained multimodal language models (MLLMs) to user tasks. Federated prompt personalization (FPP) is further developed to add…

cs.LG2025

FedGrAINS: Personalized SubGraph Federated Learning with Adaptive Neighbor Sampling

Emir Ceyani, Han Xie, Baturalp Buyukates +2

Graphs are crucial for modeling relational and biological data. As datasets grow larger in real-world scenarios, the risk of exposing sensitive information increases, making privac…

cs.CL2024

Do Not Design, Learn: A Trainable Scoring Function for Uncertainty Estimation in Generative LLMs

Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Baturalp Buyukates +5

Uncertainty estimation (UE) of generative large language models (LLMs) is crucial for evaluating the reliability of generated sequences. A significant subset of UE methods utilize…

cs.LG2024

Maverick-Aware Shapley Valuation for Client Selection in Federated Learning

Mengwei Yang, Ismat Jarin, Baturalp Buyukates +2

Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to train a model collaboratively without sharing their private data. One key challenge in practical FL systems is data heterogeneity, particu…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024

Renormalization Group flow, Optimal Transport and Diffusion-based Generative Model

Artan Sheshmani, Yi-Zhuang You, Baturalp Buyukates +2

Diffusion-based generative models represent a forefront direction in generative AI research today. Recent studies in physics have suggested that the renormalization group (RG) can…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MARS: Meaning-Aware Response Scoring for Uncertainty Estimation in Generative LLMs

Yavuz Faruk Bakman, Duygu Nur Yaldiz, Baturalp Buyukates +3

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely utilized for their excellence in various tasks. However, their tendency to produce inaccurate or misleading outputs poses a poten…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Kick Bad Guys Out! Conditionally Activated Anomaly Detection in Federated Learning with Zero-Knowledge Proof Verification

Shanshan Han, Wenxuan Wu, Baturalp Buyukates +4

Federated Learning (FL) systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks, such as model poisoning attacks and backdoor attacks. Existing defense mechanisms face critical limitations…

cs.CR2023

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.CR2023

Proof-of-Contribution-Based Design for Collaborative Machine Learning on Blockchain

Baturalp Buyukates, Chaoyang He, Shanshan Han +5

We consider a project (model) owner that would like to train a model by utilizing the local private data and compute power of interested data owners, i.e., trainers. Our goal is to…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Secure Federated Clustering

Songze Li, Sizai Hou, Baturalp Buyukates +1

We consider a foundational unsupervised learning task of -means data clustering, in a federated learning (FL) setting consisting of a central server and many distributed clients…

cs.IT2021

Version Age of Information in Clustered Gossip Networks

Baturalp Buyukates, Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

We consider a network consisting of a single source and receiver nodes that are grouped into equal-sized clusters. We use cluster heads in each cluster to facilitate communicat…

cs.IT2021

Gossiping with Binary Freshness Metric

Melih Bastopcu, Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

We consider the binary freshness metric for gossip networks that consist of a single source and end-nodes, where the end-nodes are allowed to share their stored versions of the…

cs.IT2021

Age of Gossip in Networks with Community Structure

Baturalp Buyukates, Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

We consider a network consisting of a single source and receiver nodes that are grouped into equal size communities, i.e., clusters, where each cluster includes nodes a…

cs.IT2021

Gradient Coding with Dynamic Clustering for Straggler-Tolerant Distributed Learning

Baturalp Buyukates, Emre Ozfatura, Sennur Ulukus +1

Distributed implementations are crucial in speeding up large scale machine learning applications. Distributed gradient descent (GD) is widely employed to parallelize the learning t…

cs.IT2020

Timely Communication in Federated Learning

Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

We consider a federated learning framework in which a parameter server (PS) trains a global model by using clients without actually storing the client data centrally at a cloud…

cs.IT2020

Gradient Coding with Dynamic Clustering for Straggler Mitigation

Baturalp Buyukates, Emre Ozfatura, Sennur Ulukus +1

In distributed synchronous gradient descent (GD) the main performance bottleneck for the per-iteration completion time is the slowest \textit{straggling} workers. To speed up GD it…

cs.IT2020

Age-Based Coded Computation for Bias Reduction in Distributed Learning

Emre Ozfatura, Baturalp Buyukates, Deniz Gunduz +1

Coded computation can be used to speed up distributed learning in the presence of straggling workers. Partial recovery of the gradient vector can further reduce the computation tim…

cs.IT2020

Selective Encoding Policies for Maximizing Information Freshness

Melih Bastopcu, Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

An information source generates independent and identically distributed status update messages from an observed random phenomenon which takes distinct values based on a given p…

cs.IT2020

Age of Information with Gilbert-Elliot Servers and Samplers

Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

We study age of information in a status updating system that consists of a single sampler, i.e., source node, that sends time-sensitive status updates to a single monitor node thro…