11 papers
UnlinkableDFL: A Framework for Network-Layer Unlinkability in Decentralized Federated Learning
Chao Feng, Thomas Grubl, Jan von der Assen +4
Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) removes the central aggregator of conventional Federated Learning, but peer-to-peer model exchange still exposes network traces: who communic…
Smarter, not Bigger: Fine-Tuned RAG-Enhanced LLMs for Automotive HIL Testing
Chao Feng, Zihan Liu, Siddhant Gupta +3
Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing is essential for automotive validation but suffers from fragmented and underutilized test artifacts. This paper presents HIL-GPT, a retrieval-aug…
DMPA: Model Poisoning Attacks on Decentralized Federated Learning for Model Differences
Chao Feng, Yunlong Li, Yuanzhe Gao +4
Federated learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a prominent privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML) paradigm. Decentralized FL (DFL) eschews traditional FL's central…
FedEP: Tailoring Attention to Heterogeneous Data Distribution with Entropy Pooling for Decentralized Federated Learning
Chao Feng, Hongjie Guan, Alberto Huertas Celdrán +3
Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data in Federated Learning (FL) causes client drift issues, leading to slower convergence and reduced model performance. While…
Leveraging MTD to Mitigate Poisoning Attacks in Decentralized FL with Non-IID Data
Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Zien Zeng +4
Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with…
CyberForce: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malware Mitigation
Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Pedro Miguel Sanchez Sanchez +5
Recent research has shown that the integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Moving Target Defense (MTD) can enhance cybersecurity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Nevert…