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20192026
most citedSAFA: a Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning with Low Overhead

359 citations · 832 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Seeing the Needle in the Haystack: Towards Weakly-Supervised Log Instance Anomaly Localization via Counterfactual Perturbation

Yutszyuk Wong, Wentai Wu, Yuen-Ying Yeung +1

Log anomaly detection is a critical task for system operations and security assurance. However, in networked systems at scale, log data are generated at massive scale while instanc…

cs.IR2026

HaS: Accelerating RAG through Homology-Aware Speculative Retrieval

Peng Peng, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) expands the knowledge boundary of large language models (LLMs) at inference by retrieving external documents as context. However, retrieval bec…

cs.LG2026

Exact Federated Continual Unlearning for Ridge Heads on Frozen Foundation Models

Yijun Quan, Wentai Wu, Giovanni Montana

Foundation models are commonly deployed as frozen feature extractors with a small trainable head to adapt to private, user-generated data in federated settings. The ``right to be f…

cs.LG2026

Lethe: Principled Dual-Stream Update for Persistent Knowledge Erasure in Federated Unlearning

Wentai Wu, Hanwei Tan, Yijun Quan +4

Federated unlearning (FU) aims to erase knowledge from a global model. Existing studies commonly assume that federated collaboration terminates after unlearning, overlooking a depl…

cs.DC2025

Task-Agnostic Federation over Decentralized Data: Research Landscape and Visions

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Saiqin Long +4

Increasing legislation and regulations on private and proprietary information results in scattered data sources also known as the "data islands". Although Federated Learning-based…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

CycleNet: Enhancing Time Series Forecasting through Modeling Periodic Patterns

Shengsheng Lin, Weiwei Lin, Xinyi Hu +3

The stable periodic patterns present in time series data serve as the foundation for conducting long-horizon forecasts. In this paper, we pioneer the exploration of explicitly mode…

cs.LG2024★ 10 cited

SparseTSF: Modeling Long-term Time Series Forecasting with 1k Parameters

Shengsheng Lin, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +2

This paper introduces SparseTSF, a novel, extremely lightweight model for Long-term Time Series Forecasting (LTSF), designed to address the challenges of modeling complex temporal…

cs.LG2023★ 42 cited

SegRNN: Segment Recurrent Neural Network for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting

Shengsheng Lin, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +3

RNN-based methods have faced challenges in the Long-term Time Series Forecasting (LTSF) domain when dealing with excessively long look-back windows and forecast horizons. Consequen…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

PETformer: Long-term Time Series Forecasting via Placeholder-enhanced Transformer

Shengsheng Lin, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +2

Recently, the superiority of Transformer for long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) tasks has been challenged, particularly since recent work has shown that simple models can out…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Variation-Incentive Loss Re-weighting for Regression Analysis on Biased Data

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin

Both classification and regression tasks are susceptible to the biased distribution of training data. However, existing approaches are focused on the class-imbalanced learning and…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

FedProf: Selective Federated Learning with Representation Profiling

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +1

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In m…

cs.LG2020★ 235 cited

An Efficiency-boosting Client Selection Scheme for Federated Learning with Fairness Guarantee

Tiansheng Huang, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +3

The issue of potential privacy leakage during centralized AI's model training has drawn intensive concern from the public. A Parallel and Distributed Computing (or PDC) scheme, ter…

cs.DC2020★ 101 cited

Accelerating Federated Learning over Reliability-Agnostic Clients in Mobile Edge Computing Systems

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +1

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile,…

cs.DC2019★ 359 cited

SAFA: a Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning with Low Overhead

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +3

Federated learning (FL) has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to driving a vast number of end devices with artificial intelligence. However, it is very challen…

cs.LG2019★ 72 cited

Developing an Unsupervised Real-time Anomaly Detection Scheme for Time Series with Multi-seasonality

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +4

On-line detection of anomalies in time series is a key technique used in various event-sensitive scenarios such as robotic system monitoring, smart sensor networks and data center…