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most citedDistFL: Distribution-aware Federated Learning for Mobile Scenarios

9 citations · 17 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

VeriRouter: Towards Verifiable LLM Routing

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Shaofei Li +4

Large language model (LLM) routers are increasingly deployed to optimize quality, latency, and cost through dynamic model selection and request rewriting. However, a compromised ro…

cs.CR2026

RangeFactory: Scalable Construction of Multi-Hop Cyber Ranges

Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin +10

Real-world cyberattacks often require sustained progress across multiple hosts and network segments, making multi-hop cyber ranges essential infrastructure for studying and improvi…

cs.CR2026★ 1 cited

Connect the Dots: Knowledge Graph-Guided Crawler Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Ning Luo +5

Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending…

cs.OS2025

Trustworthy and Controllable Professional Knowledge Utilization in Large Language Models with TEE-GPU Execution

Yifeng Cai, Zhida An, Yuhan Meng +5

Future improvements in large language model (LLM) services increasingly hinge on access to high-value professional knowledge rather than more generic web data. However, the data pr…

cs.CR2025

Who Grants the Agent Power? Defending Against Instruction Injection via Task-Centric Access Control

Yifeng Cai, Ziming Wang, Zhaomeng Deng +6

AI agents capable of GUI understanding and Model Context Protocol are increasingly deployed to automate mobile tasks. However, their reliance on over-privileged, static permissions…

cs.CR2025

Who Moved My Transaction? Uncovering Post-Transaction Auditability Vulnerabilities in Modern Super Apps

Junlin Liu, Zhaomeng Deng, Ziming Wang +6

Super apps are the cornerstones of modern digital life, embedding financial transactions into nearly every aspect of daily routine. The prevailing security paradigm for these platf…

cs.LG2025

Membership and Memorization in LLM Knowledge Distillation

Ziqi Zhang, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Hanxiao Lu +2

Recent advances in Knowledge Distillation (KD) aim to mitigate the high computational demands of Large Language Models (LLMs) by transferring knowledge from a large ''teacher'' to…

cs.CR2025

I Can Tell Your Secrets: Inferring Privacy Attributes from Mini-app Interaction History in Super-apps

Yifeng Cai, Ziqi Zhang, Mengyu Yao +8

Super-apps have emerged as comprehensive platforms integrating various mini-apps to provide diverse services. While super-apps offer convenience and enriched functionality, they ca…

cs.LG2025

Moss: Proxy Model-based Full-Weight Aggregation in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Models

Yifeng Cai, Ziqi Zhang, Ding Li +2

Modern Federated Learning (FL) has become increasingly essential for handling highly heterogeneous mobile devices. Current approaches adopt a partial model aggregation paradigm tha…

cs.CR2024

TEESlice: Protecting Sensitive Neural Network Models in Trusted Execution Environments When Attackers have Pre-Trained Models

Ding Li, Ziqi Zhang, Mengyu Yao +3

Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) are used to safeguard on-device models. However, directly employing TEEs to secure the entire DNN model is challenging due to the limited compu…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

No Privacy Left Outside: On the (In-)Security of TEE-Shielded DNN Partition for On-Device ML

Ziqi Zhang, Chen Gong, Yifeng Cai +5

On-device ML introduces new security challenges: DNN models become white-box accessible to device users. Based on white-box information, adversaries can conduct effective model ste…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

DistFL: Distribution-aware Federated Learning for Mobile Scenarios

Bingyan Liu, Yifeng Cai, Ziqi Zhang +5

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an effective solution to decentralized and privacy-preserving machine learning for mobile clients. While traditional FL has demonstrated its…

cs.CV2021★ 6 cited

TransTailor: Pruning the Pre-trained Model for Improved Transfer Learning

Bingyan Liu, Yifeng Cai, Yao Guo +1

The increasing of pre-trained models has significantly facilitated the performance on limited data tasks with transfer learning. However, progress on transfer learning mainly focus…