activity
20182025
most citedA Framework for Evaluating Gradient Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning

98 citations · 474 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

39 papers

cs.CR2025

FastFHE: Packing-Scalable and Depthwise-Separable CNN Inference Over FHE

Wenbo Song, Xinxin Fan, Quanliang Jing +5

The deep learning (DL) has been penetrating daily life in many domains, how to keep the DL model inference secure and sample privacy in an encrypted environment has become an urgen…

cs.LG2025

Adverseness vs. Equilibrium: Exploring Graph Adversarial Resilience through Dynamic Equilibrium

Xinxin Fan, Wenxiong Chen, Mengfan Li +2

Adversarial attacks to graph analytics are gaining increased attention. To date, two lines of countermeasures have been proposed to resist various graph adversarial attacks from th…

cs.LG2024

On the Adversarial Robustness of Graph Neural Networks with Graph Reduction

Kerui Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei +1

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become increasingly popular for learning from large-scale graph data across various domains, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks when using…

cs.CV2024

Boosting Imperceptibility of Stable Diffusion-based Adversarial Examples Generation with Momentum

Nashrah Haque, Xiang Li, Zhehui Chen +4

We propose a novel framework, Stable Diffusion-based Momentum Integrated Adversarial Examples (SD-MIAE), for generating adversarial examples that can effectively mislead neural net…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Data Poisoning and Leakage Analysis in Federated Learning

Wenqi Wei, Tiansheng Huang, Zachary Yahn +3

Data poisoning and leakage risks impede the massive deployment of federated learning in the real world. This chapter reveals the truths and pitfalls of understanding two dominating…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Trustworthy Distributed AI Systems: Robustness, Privacy, and Governance

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu

Emerging Distributed AI systems are revolutionizing big data computing and data processing capabilities with growing economic and societal impact. However, recent studies have iden…

cs.CR2024

Imperio: Language-Guided Backdoor Attacks for Arbitrary Model Control

Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei, Lei Yu

Natural language processing (NLP) has received unprecedented attention. While advancements in NLP models have led to extensive research into their backdoor vulnerabilities, the pot…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Hierarchical Pruning of Deep Ensembles with Focal Diversity

Yanzhao Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei +1

Deep neural network ensembles combine the wisdom of multiple deep neural networks to improve the generalizability and robustness over individual networks. It has gained increasing…

cs.SD2023

Invisible Watermarking for Audio Generation Diffusion Models

Xirong Cao, Xiang Li, Divyesh Jadav +4

Diffusion models have gained prominence in the image domain for their capabilities in data generation and transformation, achieving state-of-the-art performance in various tasks in…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Exploring Model Learning Heterogeneity for Boosting Ensemble Robustness

Yanzhao Wu, Ka-Ho Chow, Wenqi Wei +1

Deep neural network ensembles hold the potential of improving generalization performance for complex learning tasks. This paper presents formal analysis and empirical evaluation to…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Rethinking Learning Rate Tuning in the Era of Large Language Models

Hongpeng Jin, Wenqi Wei, Xuyu Wang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent the recent success of deep learning in achieving remarkable human-like predictive performance. It has become a mainstream strategy to leverag…

cs.SI2023★ 32 cited

Explicit Time Embedding Based Cascade Attention Network for Information Popularity Prediction

Xigang Sun, Jingya Zhou, Ling Liu +1

Predicting information cascade popularity is a fundamental problem in social networks. Capturing temporal attributes and cascade role information (e.g., cascade graphs and cascade…

cs.CR2023

Few-shot Multi-domain Knowledge Rearming for Context-aware Defence against Advanced Persistent Threats

Gaolei Li, Yuanyuan Zhao, Wenqi Wei +1

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have novel features such as multi-stage penetration, highly-tailored intention, and evasive tactics. APTs defense requires fusing multi-dimension…

cs.LG2023

Securing Distributed SGD against Gradient Leakage Threats

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Jingya Zhou +2

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

GNN-Ensemble: Towards Random Decision Graph Neural Networks

Wenqi Wei, Mu Qiao, Divyesh Jadav

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have enjoyed wide spread applications in graph-structured data. However, existing graph based applications commonly lack annotated data. GNNs are requi…

cs.CR2023

STDLens: Model Hijacking-Resilient Federated Learning for Object Detection

Ka-Ho Chow, Ling Liu, Wenqi Wei +2

Federated Learning (FL) has been gaining popularity as a collaborative learning framework to train deep learning-based object detection models over a distributed population of clie…

cs.LG2023★ 84 cited

Machine Learning for Synthetic Data Generation: A Review

Yingzhou Lu, Lulu Chen, Yuanyuan Zhang +6

Machine learning heavily relies on data, but real-world applications often encounter various data-related issues. These include data of poor quality, insufficient data points leadi…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Adaptive Deep Neural Network Inference Optimization with EENet

Fatih Ilhan, Ka-Ho Chow, Sihao Hu +9

Well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) treat all test samples equally during prediction. Adaptive DNN inference with early exiting leverages the observation that some test exampl…

cs.LG2021

Gradient Leakage Attack Resilient Deep Learning

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu

Gradient leakage attacks are considered one of the wickedest privacy threats in deep learning as attackers covertly spy gradient updates during iterative training without compromis…

cs.SI2021★ 5 cited

Network Representation Learning: From Preprocessing, Feature Extraction to Node Embedding

Jingya Zhou, Ling Liu, Wenqi Wei +1

Network representation learning (NRL) advances the conventional graph mining of social networks, knowledge graphs, and complex biomedical and physics information networks. Over doz…

cs.SD2021★ 2 cited

Speech2Video: Cross-Modal Distillation for Speech to Video Generation

Shijing Si, Jianzong Wang, Xiaoyang Qu +4

This paper investigates a novel task of talking face video generation solely from speeches. The speech-to-video generation technique can spark interesting applications in entertain…

cs.LG2021

Gradient-Leakage Resilient Federated Learning

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu, Yanzhao Wu +2

Federated learning(FL) is an emerging distributed learning paradigm with default client privacy because clients can keep sensitive data on their devices and only share local traini…

cs.LG2020

Promoting High Diversity Ensemble Learning with EnsembleBench

Yanzhao Wu, Ling Liu, Zhongwei Xie +3

Ensemble learning is gaining renewed interests in recent years. This paper presents EnsembleBench, a holistic framework for evaluating and recommending high diversity and high accu…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Robust Deep Learning Ensemble against Deception

Wenqi Wei, Ling Liu

Deep neural network (DNN) models are known to be vulnerable to maliciously crafted adversarial examples and to out-of-distribution inputs drawn sufficiently far away from the train…