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20182026
most citedFederated Deep Learning with Bayesian Privacy

10 citations · 54 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

cs.LG2026

Beyond the Golden Teacher: Enhancing Graph Learning through LLM-GNN Co-teaching

Zhuoyi Peng, Hanlin Gu, Lixin Fan +1

Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) underlie real-world applications such as citation networks, social media, and e-commerce. Few-shot graph learning on TAGs is hard: with only a handful…

cs.LG2026

GraphInfer-Bench: Benchmarking LLM's Inference Capability on Graphs

Zhuoyi Peng, Jingzhou Jiang, Hanlin Gu +2

Graph analysis underlies many applications whose answers cannot be looked up in a single record or retrieved along a path: laundering rings, drug repurposing, user preference, and…

cs.CR2026

Quantifying and Defending against the Privacy Risk in Logit-based Federated Learning

Sheng Wan, Dashan Gao, Hanlin Gu +3

Federated learning aims to protect data privacy by collaboratively learning a model without sharing private data among clients. Unlike traditional parameter-based FL methods that e…

cs.LG2026

Trustworthy Federated Label Distribution Learning under Annotation Quality Disparity

Junxiang Wu, Zhiqiang Kou, Hongwei Zeng +7

Label Distribution Learning (LDL) models supervision as an instance-wise probability distribution, enabling fine-grained learning under inherent ambiguity, but its success relies o…

cs.LG2026

FedIDM: Achieving Fast and Stable Convergence in Byzantine Federated Learning through Iterative Distribution Matching

He Yang, Dongyi Lv, Wei Xi +3

Most existing Byzantine-robust federated learning (FL) methods suffer from slow and unstable convergence. Moreover, when handling a substantial proportion of colluded malicious cli…

cs.LG2026

InkDrop: Invisible Backdoor Attacks Against Dataset Condensation

He Yang, Dongyi Lv, Song Ma +4

Dataset Condensation (DC) is a data-efficient learning paradigm that synthesizes small yet informative datasets, enabling models to match the performance of full-data training. How…

cs.CL2025

Order-Level Attention Similarity Across Language Models: A Latent Commonality

Jinglin Liang, Jin Zhong, Shuangping Huang +5

In this paper, we explore an important yet previously neglected question: Do context aggregation patterns across Language Models (LMs) share commonalities? While some works have in…

cs.LG2025

Large-Small Model Collaborative Framework for Federated Continual Learning

Hao Yu, Xin Yang, Boyang Fan +4

Continual learning (CL) for Foundation Models (FMs) is an essential yet underexplored challenge, especially in Federated Continual Learning (FCL), where each client learns from a p…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual Learning

Xuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang +4

Continual Learning (CL) primarily aims to retain knowledge to prevent catastrophic forgetting and transfer knowledge to facilitate learning new tasks. Unlike traditional methods, w…

cs.LG2025

Ten Challenging Problems in Federated Foundation Models

Tao Fan, Hanlin Gu, Xuemei Cao +30

Federated Foundation Models (FedFMs) represent a distributed learning paradigm that fuses general competences of foundation models as well as privacy-preserving capabilities of fed…

cs.CV2024

Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail Anchor

Hao Yu, Xin Yang, Le Zhang +4

Federated continual learning (FCL) allows each client to continually update its knowledge from task streams, enhancing the applicability of federated learning in real-world scenari…

cs.DC2024

Disentangling data distribution for Federated Learning

Xinyuan Zhao, Hanlin Gu, Lixin Fan +2

Federated Learning (FL) facilitates collaborative training of a global model whose performance is boosted by private data owned by distributed clients, without compromising data pr…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Towards Privacy-Guaranteed Label Unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning: Few-Shot Forgetting without Disclosure

Hanlin Gu, Hong Xi Tae, Lixin Fan +1

This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Spec…

cs.LG2024

Diffusion-Driven Data Replay: A Novel Approach to Combat Forgetting in Federated Class Continual Learning

Jinglin Liang, Jin Zhong, Hanlin Gu +6

Federated Class Continual Learning (FCCL) merges the challenges of distributed client learning with the need for seamless adaptation to new classes without forgetting old ones. The…

cs.CR2024

FedAdOb: Privacy-Preserving Federated Deep Learning with Adaptive Obfuscation

Hanlin Gu, Jiahuan Luo, Yan Kang +5

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a collaborative approach that allows multiple clients to jointly learn a machine learning model without sharing their private data. The conce…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

FedCoT: Federated Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Large Language Models

Tao Fan, Weijing Chen, Yan Kang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative force in artificial intelligence, demonstrating exceptional proficiency across various tasks. However, their deploymen…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

FedMKT: Federated Mutual Knowledge Transfer for Large and Small Language Models

Tao Fan, Guoqiang Ma, Yan Kang +5

Recent research in federated large language models (LLMs) has primarily focused on enabling clients to fine-tune their locally deployed homogeneous LLMs collaboratively or on trans…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Federated Domain-Specific Knowledge Transfer on Large Language Models Using Synthetic Data

Haoran Li, Xinyuan Zhao, Dadi Guo +6

As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate unparalleled performance and generalization ability, LLMs are widely used and integrated into various applications. When it comes to sen…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Ferrari: Federated Feature Unlearning via Optimizing Feature Sensitivity

Hanlin Gu, Win Kent Ong, Chee Seng Chan +1

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) highlights the practical necessity for the right to be forgotten for all clients, allowing them to request data deletion from the machine lear…

cs.LG2024

Unlearning during Learning: An Efficient Federated Machine Unlearning Method

Hanlin Gu, Gongxi Zhu, Jie Zhang +4

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a distributed machine learning paradigm. To facilitate the implementation of the right to be forgotte…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

FedMIA: An Effective Membership Inference Attack Exploiting "All for One" Principle in Federated Learning

Gongxi Zhu, Donghao Li, Hanlin Gu +3

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising approach for training machine learning models on decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, privacy risks, particularly Membership…

cs.LG2024

A Theoretical Analysis of Efficiency Constrained Utility-Privacy Bi-Objective Optimization in Federated Learning

Hanlin Gu, Xinyuan Zhao, Gongxi Zhu +4

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively learn a shared model without sharing their individual data. Concerns about utility, privacy, and training effici…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Grounding Foundation Models through Federated Transfer Learning: A General Framework

Yan Kang, Tao Fan, Hanlin Gu +3

Foundation Models (FMs) such as GPT-4 encoded with vast knowledge and powerful emergent abilities have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing and comput…

cs.CL2023

A Communication Theory Perspective on Prompting Engineering Methods for Large Language Models

Yuanfeng Song, Yuanqin He, Xuefang Zhao +5

The springing up of Large Language Models (LLMs) has shifted the community from single-task-orientated natural language processing (NLP) research to a holistic end-to-end multi-tas…