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most citedDefense against Backdoor Attacks via Identifying and Purifying Bad Neurons

4 citations · 10 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

SAGE: Semantic Anchor-Guided Evolution for Grounded Medical QA Data Synthesis

Chuan Li, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen +3

Developing reliable models for clinical tasks, such as Medical Question Answering (QA), is severely constrained by the limited availability of high-quality, expert-annotated traini…

cs.LG2026

Towards Robust Personalized Federated Learning: Vulnerability Assessment and Defense Co-Design

Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen

The proliferation of IoT devices has fueled distributed edge systems to collect vast amounts of sensitive data, creating fertile ground for on-device machine learning applications.…

cs.AI2026

Evaluating Interactive Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Hierarchical Benchmark with Executable Games

Mingyuan Fan, Weiguang Han, Daixin Wang +3

We introduce a multi-turn interactive framework for reasoning evaluation that treats reasoning as active evidence acquisition and belief updating. Wherein, LLMs receive only the ta…

cs.LG2026

When Sharpening Becomes Collapse: Sampling Bias and Semantic Coupling in RL with Verifiable Rewards

Mingyuan Fan, Weiguang Han, Daixin Wang +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a central paradigm for turning large language models (LLMs) into reliable problem solvers, especially in logic-heavy domain…

cs.CL2025

Responsible Diffusion Models via Constraining Text Embeddings within Safe Regions

Zhiwen Li, Die Chen, Mingyuan Fan +4

The remarkable ability of diffusion models to generate high-fidelity images has led to their widespread adoption. However, concerns have also arisen regarding their potential to pr…

cs.CL2024

FedMCP: Parameter-Efficient Federated Learning with Model-Contrastive Personalization

Qianyi Zhao, Chen Qu, Cen Chen +2

With increasing concerns and regulations on data privacy, fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) in federated learning (FL) has become a common paradigm for NLP tasks. Despi…

cs.CV2024

Growth Inhibitors for Suppressing Inappropriate Image Concepts in Diffusion Models

Die Chen, Zhiwen Li, Mingyuan Fan +4

Despite their remarkable image generation capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models inadvertently learn inappropriate concepts from vast and unfiltered training data, which lead…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

SemiAdv: Query-Efficient Black-Box Adversarial Attack with Unlabeled Images

Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen +1

Adversarial attack has garnered considerable attention due to its profound implications for the secure deployment of robots in sensitive security scenarios. To potentially push for…

cs.LG2023

Transferability Bound Theory: Exploring Relationship between Adversarial Transferability and Flatness

Mingyuan Fan, Xiaodan Li, Cen Chen +2

A prevailing belief in attack and defense community is that the higher flatness of adversarial examples enables their better cross-model transferability, leading to a growing inter…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

On the Robustness of Split Learning against Adversarial Attacks

Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen, Chengyu Wang +2

Split learning enables collaborative deep learning model training while preserving data privacy and model security by avoiding direct sharing of raw data and model details (i.e., s…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

On the Trustworthiness Landscape of State-of-the-art Generative Models: A Survey and Outlook

Mingyuan Fan, Chengyu Wang, Cen Chen +2

Diffusion models and large language models have emerged as leading-edge generative models, revolutionizing various aspects of human life. However, the practical implementations of…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Refiner: Data Refining against Gradient Leakage Attacks in Federated Learning

Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen, Chengyu Wang +2

Recent works have brought attention to the vulnerability of Federated Learning (FL) systems to gradient leakage attacks. Such attacks exploit clients' uploaded gradients to reconst…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

Defense against Backdoor Attacks via Identifying and Purifying Bad Neurons

Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen +2

The opacity of neural networks leads their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, where hidden attention of infected neurons is triggered to override normal predictions to the attacker…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Transferable Adversarial Examples with Bayes Approach

Mingyuan Fan, Cen Chen, Wenmeng Zhou +1

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to black-box adversarial attacks is one of the most heated topics in trustworthy AI. In such attacks, the attackers operate without…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Case-Aware Adversarial Training

Mingyuan Fan, Yang Liu, Cen Chen

The neural network (NN) becomes one of the most heated type of models in various signal processing applications. However, NNs are extremely vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs)…

cs.LG2022

Enhance transferability of adversarial examples with model architecture

Mingyuan Fan, Wenzhong Guo, Shengxing Yu +2

Transferability of adversarial examples is of critical importance to launch black-box adversarial attacks, where attackers are only allowed to access the output of the target model…