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most citedShielding Federated Learning: Robust Aggregation with Adaptive Client Selection

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22 papers

cs.CR2026

Defending Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models via Manifold Trajectory Kinetics

Hangtao Zhang, Yucheng Zhao, Sishun Liu +8

Jailbreak prompts can bypass alignment guardrails in large language models (LLMs) and elicit unsafe outputs, making reliable deployment-time detection critical. Prior detection app…

cs.LG2025

HiF-DTA: Hierarchical Feature Learning Network for Drug-Target Affinity Prediction

Minghui Li, Yuanhang Wang, Peijin Guo +3

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is crucial for reducing experimental costs and accelerating early screening in computational drug discovery. While sequence-based…

cs.CV2025

DarkHash: A Data-Free Backdoor Attack Against Deep Hashing

Ziqi Zhou, Menghao Deng, Yufei Song +6

Benefiting from its superior feature learning capabilities and efficiency, deep hashing has achieved remarkable success in large-scale image retrieval. Recent studies have demonstr…

cs.CV2025

Towards Real-World Deepfake Detection: A Diverse In-the-wild Dataset of Forgery Faces

Junyu Shi, Minghui Li, Junguo Zuo +8

Deepfakes, leveraging advanced AIGC (Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content) techniques, create hyper-realistic synthetic images and videos of human faces, posing a significant…

cs.CR2025

MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning

Wei Wan, Yuxuan Ning, Zhicong Huang +7

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed paradigm aimed at protecting participant data privacy by exchanging model parameters to achieve high-quality model training. However, this…

cs.AI2025

Transferable Direct Prompt Injection via Activation-Guided MCMC Sampling

Minghui Li, Hao Zhang, Yechao Zhang +4

Direct Prompt Injection (DPI) attacks pose a critical security threat to Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their low barrier of execution and high potential damage. To address th…

cs.CR2025

Spa-VLM: Stealthy Poisoning Attacks on RAG-based VLM

Lei Yu, Yechao Zhang, Ziqi Zhou +6

With the rapid development of the Vision-Language Model (VLM), significant progress has been made in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks. However, existing VLM often generate ina…

cs.LG2025

Multi-Modality Representation Learning for Antibody-Antigen Interactions Prediction

Peijin Guo, Minghui Li, Hewen Pan +6

While deep learning models play a crucial role in predicting antibody-antigen interactions (AAI), the scarcity of publicly available sequence-structure pairings constrains their ge…

cs.CV2025

PB-UAP: Hybrid Universal Adversarial Attack For Image Segmentation

Yufei Song, Ziqi Zhou, Minghui Li +6

With the rapid advancement of deep learning, the model robustness has become a significant research hotspot, \ie, adversarial attacks on deep neural networks. Existing works primar…

cs.LG2024

ViDTA: Enhanced Drug-Target Affinity Prediction via Virtual Graph Nodes and Attention-based Feature Fusion

Minghui Li, Zikang Guo, Yang Wu +5

Drug-target interaction is fundamental in understanding how drugs affect biological systems, and accurately predicting drug-target affinity (DTA) is vital for drug discovery. Recen…

cs.CV2024

Breaking Barriers in Physical-World Adversarial Examples: Improving Robustness and Transferability via Robust Feature

Yichen Wang, Yuxuan Chou, Ziqi Zhou +4

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied in the physical world, many researches are focusing on physical-world adversarial examples (PAEs), which introduce perturbations t…

cs.CV2024

NumbOD: A Spatial-Frequency Fusion Attack Against Object Detectors

Ziqi Zhou, Bowen Li, Yufei Song +6

With the advancement of deep learning, object detectors (ODs) with various architectures have achieved significant success in complex scenarios like autonomous driving. Previous ad…

cs.CR2024

ECLIPSE: Expunging Clean-label Indiscriminate Poisons via Sparse Diffusion Purification

Xianlong Wang, Shengshan Hu, Yechao Zhang +5

Clean-label indiscriminate poisoning attacks add invisible perturbations to correctly labeled training images, thus dramatically reducing the generalization capability of the victi…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

DarkFed: A Data-Free Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning

Minghui Li, Wei Wan, Yuxuan Ning +4

Federated learning (FL) has been demonstrated to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. However, existing academic studies on FL backdoor attacks rely on a high proportion of real cli…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Securely Fine-tuning Pre-trained Encoders Against Adversarial Examples

Ziqi Zhou, Minghui Li, Wei Liu +7

With the evolution of self-supervised learning, the pre-training paradigm has emerged as a predominant solution within the deep learning landscape. Model providers furnish pre-trai…

cs.LG2023

MISA: Unveiling the Vulnerabilities in Split Federated Learning

Wei Wan, Yuxuan Ning, Shengshan Hu +4

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) and \textit{split learning} (SL) are prevailing distributed paradigms in recent years. They both enable shared global model training while keeping…

cs.CR2023★ 26 cited

A Four-Pronged Defense Against Byzantine Attacks in Federated Learning

Wei Wan, Shengshan Hu, Minghui Li +4

\textit{Federated learning} (FL) is a nascent distributed learning paradigm to train a shared global model without violating users' privacy. FL has been shown to be vulnerable to v…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

Why Does Little Robustness Help? A Further Step Towards Understanding Adversarial Transferability

Yechao Zhang, Shengshan Hu, Leo Yu Zhang +5

Adversarial examples (AEs) for DNNs have been shown to be transferable: AEs that successfully fool white-box surrogate models can also deceive other black-box models with different…

cs.DC2022

Shielding Federated Learning: Mitigating Byzantine Attacks with Less Constraints

Minghui Li, Wei Wan, Jianrong Lu +5

Federated learning is a newly emerging distributed learning framework that facilitates the collaborative training of a shared global model among distributed participants with their…

cs.CR2022★ 50 cited

Shielding Federated Learning: Robust Aggregation with Adaptive Client Selection

Wei Wan, Shengshan Hu, Jianrong Lu +3

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train an accurate global model while protecting clients' data privacy. However, FL is susceptible to Byzantine a…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

Challenges and Approaches for Mitigating Byzantine Attacks in Federated Learning

Junyu Shi, Wei Wan, Shengshan Hu +2

Recently emerged federated learning (FL) is an attractive distributed learning framework in which numerous wireless end-user devices can train a global model with the data remained…

cs.CL2021

Fine-Grained Element Identification in Complaint Text of Internet Fraud

Tong Liu, Siyuan Wang, Jingchao Fu +7

Existing system dealing with online complaint provides a final decision without explanations. We propose to analyse the complaint text of internet fraud in a fine-grained manner. C…