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23 papers
Diversity Combining for Multi-Path LLM Reasoning
Guangsheng Yu, Litianyi Zhang, Qin Wang +5
Multi-path reasoning methods such as self-consistency (SC) sample reasoning paths and choose the most frequent answer. However, their gains quickly plateau as increases, an…
Clawed and Dangerous: Can We Trust Open Agentic Systems?
Shiping Chen, Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu +2
Open agentic systems combine LLM-based planning with external capabilities, persistent memory, and privileged execution. They are used in coding assistants, browser copilots, and e…
PlanTwin: Privacy-Preserving Planning Abstractions for Cloud-Assisted LLM Agents
Guangsheng Yu, Qin Wang, Rui Lang +2
Cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs) have become the de facto planners in agentic systems, coordinating tools and guiding execution over local environments. In many deployment…
In the Margins: An Empirical Study of Ethereum Inscriptions
Xihan Xiong, Minfeng Qi, Shiping Chen +3
Ethereum Inscriptions (Ethscriptions) repurpose Ethereum calldata into a persistent inscription channel by embedding \texttt{data:}~URI payloads. These transactions typically targe…
Why Neural Structural Obfuscation Can't Kill White-Box Watermarks for Good!
Yanna Jiang, Guangsheng Yu, Qingyuan Yu +2
Neural Structural Obfuscation (NSO) (USENIX Security'23) is a family of ``zero cost'' structure-editing transforms (\texttt{nso\_zero}, \texttt{nso\_clique}, \texttt{nso\_split}) t…
Client-Cooperative Split Learning
Haiyu Deng, Yanna Jiang, Guangsheng Yu +5
Model training is increasingly offered as a service for resource-constrained data owners to build customized models. Split Learning (SL) enables such services by offloading trainin…
SoK: Agentic Skills -- Beyond Tool Use in LLM Agents
Yanna Jiang, Delong Li, Haiyu Deng +4
Agentic systems increasingly rely on reusable procedural capabilities, \textit{a.k.a., agentic skills}, to execute long-horizon workflows reliably. These capabilities are callable…
SoK: Credential-Based Trust Management in Decentralized Ledger Systems
Yanna Jiang, Haiyu Deng, Qin Wang +6
Trust management systems (TMS) are crucial for managing trust in distributed environments. The rise of decentralized systems and blockchain has sparked interest in credential-based…
SoK: Semantic Privacy in Large Language Models
Baihe Ma, Yanna Jiang, Xu Wang +8
As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains, traditional data privacy measures prove inadequate for protecting information that is implicit, cont…
PoLO: Proof-of-Learning and Proof-of-Ownership at Once with Chained Watermarking
Haiyu Deng, Yanna Jiang, Guangsheng Yu +5
Our evaluation shows that PoLO achieves \textbf{99\%} watermark detection accuracy for ownership verification, while preserving data privacy and cutting verification costs to just…
Privacy in Foundation Models: A Conceptual Framework for System Design
Tingting Bi, Guangsheng Yu, Qin Wang
AI and its relevant technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, chatbots, virtual assistants, and others, are currently undergoing a profound transformation of develop…
Bridging BRC-20 to Ethereum
Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu, Shiping Chen
In this paper, we design, implement, and (partially-) evaluate a lightweight bridge (as a type of middleware) to connect the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks that were heterogeneously…
BRC-20: Hope or Hype
Qin Wang, Guangsheng Yu
BRC-20 (short for Bitcoin Request for Comment 20) token mania was a key storyline in the middle of 2023. Setting it apart from conventional ERC-20 token standards on Ethereum, BRC-…
Split Unlearning
Guangsheng Yu, Yanna Jiang, Qin Wang +5
We introduce Split Unlearning, a novel machine unlearning technology designed for Split Learning (SL), enabling the first-ever implementation of Sharded, Isolated, Sliced, and Aggr…
Blockchain-Empowered Trustworthy Data Sharing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges
Linh T. Nguyen, Lam Duc Nguyen, Thong Hoang +7
Various data-sharing platforms have emerged with the growing public demand for open data and legislation mandating certain data to remain open. Most of these platforms remain opaqu…
IronForge: An Open, Secure, Fair, Decentralized Federated Learning
Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Caijun Sun +5
Federated learning (FL) provides an effective machine learning (ML) architecture to protect data privacy in a distributed manner. However, the inevitable network asynchrony, the ov…
Leveraging Architectural Approaches in Web3 Applications -- A DAO Perspective Focused
Guangsheng Yu, Qin Wang, Tingting Bi +2
Architectural design contexts contain a set of factors that influence software application development. Among them, organizational design contexts consist of high-level company con…
Towards Web3 Applications: Easing the Access and Transition
Guangsheng Yu, Xu Wang, Qin Wang +5
Web3 is leading a wave of the next generation of web services that even many Web2 applications are keen to ride. However, the lack of Web3 background for Web2 developers hinders ea…
Exploring Web3 From the View of Blockchain
Qin Wang, Rujia Li, Qi Wang +3
Web3 is the most hyped concept from 2020 to date, greatly motivating the prosperity of the Internet of Value and Metaverse. However, no solid evidence stipulates the exact definiti…
Exploring Unfairness on Proof of Authority: Order Manipulation Attacks and Remedies
Qin Wang, Rujia Li, Qi Wang +2
Proof of Authority (PoA) is a type of permissioned consensus algorithm with a fixed committee. PoA has been widely adopted by communities and industries due to its better performan…
SoK: TEE-assisted Confidential Smart Contract
Rujia Li, Qin Wang, Qi Wang +2
The blockchain-based smart contract lacks privacy since the contract state and instruction code are exposed to the public. Combining smart-contract execution with Trusted Execution…
Non-Fungible Token (NFT): Overview, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges
Qin Wang, Rujia Li, Qi Wang +1
The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market is mushrooming in recent years. The concept of NFT originally comes from a token standard of Ethereum, aiming to distinguish each token with dis…
A Weak Consensus Algorithm and Its Application to High-Performance Blockchain
Qin Wang, Rujia Li
A large number of consensus algorithms have been proposed. However, the requirement of strict consistency limits their wide adoption, especially in high-performance required system…