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most citedThreats and Defenses in Federated Learning Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Survey and Challenges

33 citations · 35 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2025

GuardFed: A Trustworthy Federated Learning Framework Against Dual-Facet Attacks

Yanli Li, Yanan Zhou, Zhongliang Guo +6

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training but remains vulnerable to adversarial behaviors that compromise model utility or fairness across sen…

cs.LG2024

CAKD: A Correlation-Aware Knowledge Distillation Framework Based on Decoupling Kullback-Leibler Divergence

Zao Zhang, Huaming Chen, Pei Ning +2

In knowledge distillation, a primary focus has been on transforming and balancing multiple distillation components. In this work, we emphasize the importance of thoroughly examinin…

cs.DC2024★ 33 cited

Threats and Defenses in Federated Learning Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Survey and Challenges

Yanli Li, Zhongliang Guo, Nan Yang +3

Federated Learning (FL) offers innovative solutions for privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning (ML). Despite its promising potential, FL is vulnerable to various attacks…

cs.LG2024

Fairpriori: Improving Biased Subgroup Discovery for Deep Neural Network Fairness

Kacy Zhou, Jiawen Wen, Nan Yang +3

While deep learning has become a core functional module of most software systems, concerns regarding the fairness of ML predictions have emerged as a significant issue that affects…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

On Security Weaknesses and Vulnerabilities in Deep Learning Systems

Zhongzheng Lai, Huaming Chen, Ruoxi Sun +3

The security guarantee of AI-enabled software systems (particularly using deep learning techniques as a functional core) is pivotal against the adversarial attacks exploiting softw…

cs.LG2024

Holistic Evaluation Metrics: Use Case Sensitive Evaluation Metrics for Federated Learning

Yanli Li, Jehad Ibrahim, Huaming Chen +2

A large number of federated learning (FL) algorithms have been proposed for different applications and from varying perspectives. However, the evaluation of such approaches often r…

cs.CV2024

GE-AdvGAN: Improving the transferability of adversarial samples by gradient editing-based adversarial generative model

Zhiyu Zhu, Huaming Chen, Xinyi Wang +5

Adversarial generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are widely applied for generating various types of data, i.e., images, text, and audio. Accordingly,…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Code Ownership in Open-Source AI Software Security

Jiawen Wen, Dong Yuan, Lei Ma +1

As open-source AI software projects become an integral component in the AI software development, it is critical to develop a novel methods to ensure and measure the security of the…