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most citedVFLGAN: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Network for Vertically Partitioned Data Publication

9 citations · 15 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.LG2026

Synthesis Without Training: An Inference-Only Pipeline for Tabular, Temporal, and Relational Synthetic Data

Zilong Zhao, Abdul Raheem, Jiayu Li +5

Synthetic data generation is dominated by the fit-then-sample paradigm: a generative model is trained on a private dataset and then sampled from. Despite its widespread adoption, t…

cs.CR2026

CDN Tsunami: Exploiting HTTP/3-HTTP/1.1 Conversion for DoS Attacks

Ziyu Lin, Tianlong Su, Yingjie Lin +4

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) provide high availability, accelerate content delivery for their host websites, but are also vulnerable to different types of Denial-of-Service (Do…

cs.LG2026

Fed-GAME: Personalized Federated Learning with Graph Attention Mixture-of-Experts For Time-Series Forecasting

Yi Li, Han Liu, Mingfeng Fan +3

Federated learning (FL) on graphs shows promise for distributed time-series forecasting. Yet, existing methods rely on static topologies and struggle with client heterogeneity. We…

cs.LG2026

PEANUT: Perturbations by Eigenvector Alignment for Attacking Graph Neural Networks Under Topology-Driven Message Passing

Bhavya Kohli, Biplab Sikdar

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) have achieved strong performance on tasks involving relational data. However, small perturbations to graph structure can significantly alter…

cs.CR2026

Baiting AI: Deceptive Adversary Against AI-Protected Industrial Infrastructures

Aryan Pasikhani, Prosanta Gope, Yang Yang +2

This paper explores a new cyber-attack vector targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS), particularly focusing on water treatment facilities. Developing a new multi-agent Deep Rei…

cs.CR2026

Unified Framework for Qualifying Security Boundary of PUFs Against Machine Learning Attacks

Hongming Fei, Zilong Hu, Prosanta Gope +1

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) serve as lightweight, hardware-intrinsic entropy sources widely deployed in IoT security applications. However, delay-based PUFs are vulnerable…

cs.LG2025

Towards Irreversible Machine Unlearning for Diffusion Models

Xun Yuan, Zilong Zhao, Jiayu Li +3

Diffusion models are renowned for their state-of-the-art performance in generating synthetic images. However, concerns related to safety, privacy, and copyright highlight the need…

cs.CV2025

Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Tabular Data Generation-in One Day

Milad Abdollahzadeh, Abdul Raheem, Zilong Zhao +5

Tabular instruction tuning has emerged as a promising research direction for improving LLMs understanding of tabular data. However, the majority of existing works only consider que…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

When Smiley Turns Hostile: Interpreting How Emojis Trigger LLMs' Toxicity

Shiyao Cui, Xijia Feng, Yingkang Wang +6

Emojis are globally used non-verbal cues in digital communication, and extensive research has examined how large language models (LLMs) understand and utilize emojis across context…

cs.CR2025

VulCPE: Context-Aware Cybersecurity Vulnerability Retrieval and Management

Yuning Jiang, Feiyang Shang, Freedy Tan Wei You +6

The dynamic landscape of cybersecurity demands precise and scalable solutions for vulnerability management in heterogeneous systems, where configuration-specific vulnerabilities ar…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

VulRG: Multi-Level Explainable Vulnerability Patch Ranking for Complex Systems Using Graphs

Yuning Jiang, Nay Oo, Qiaoran Meng +2

As interconnected systems proliferate, safeguarding complex infrastructures against an escalating array of cyber threats has become an urgent challenge. The increasing number of vu…

cs.CR2025

A Survey on Vulnerability Prioritization: Taxonomy, Metrics, and Research Challenges

Yuning Jiang, Nay Oo, Qiaoran Meng +2

In the highly interconnected digital landscape of today, safeguarding complex infrastructures against cyber threats has become increasingly challenging due to the exponential growt…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

MITRE ATT&CK Applications in Cybersecurity and The Way Forward

Yuning Jiang, Qiaoran Meng, Feiyang Shang +4

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a widely adopted tool for enhancing cybersecurity, supporting threat intelligence, incident response, attack modeling, and vulnerability prioritizatio…

cs.LG2025

TabTreeFormer: Tabular Data Generation Using Hybrid Tree-Transformer

Jiayu Li, Bingyin Zhao, Zilong Zhao +3

Transformers have shown impressive results in tabular data generation. However, they lack domain-specific inductive biases which are critical for preserving the intrinsic character…

cs.CR2024

UIBDiffusion: Universal Imperceptible Backdoor Attack for Diffusion Models

Yuning Han, Bingyin Zhao, Rui Chu +3

Recent studies show that diffusion models (DMs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks impose unconcealed triggers (e.g., a gray box and eyeglasses) that con…

cs.CR2024

Privacy-preserving Robotic-based Multi-factor Authentication Scheme for Secure Automated Delivery System

Yang Yang, Aryan Mohammadi Pasikhani, Prosanta Gope +1

Package delivery is a critical aspect of various industries, but it often incurs high financial costs and inefficiencies when relying solely on human resources. The last-mile trans…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Leveraging A New GAN-based Transformer with ECDH Crypto-system for Enhancing Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grid

Yang Yang, Xun Yuan, Arwa Alromih +3

Detecting energy theft is vital for effectively managing power grids, as it ensures precise billing and prevents financial losses. Split-learning emerges as a promising decentraliz…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

TAEGAN: Generating Synthetic Tabular Data For Data Augmentation

Jiayu Li, Zilong Zhao, Kevin Yee +2

Synthetic tabular data generation has gained significant attention for its potential in data augmentation and privacy-preserving data sharing. While recent methods like diffusion a…

cs.LG2024

CombU: A Combined Unit Activation for Fitting Mathematical Expressions with Neural Networks

Jiayu Li, Zilong Zhao, Kevin Yee +2

The activation functions are fundamental to neural networks as they introduce non-linearity into data relationships, thereby enabling deep networks to approximate complex data rela…

cs.LG2024

VFLGAN-TS: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Networks for Publication of Vertically Partitioned Time-Series Data

Xun Yuan, Zilong Zhao, Prosanta Gope +1

In the current artificial intelligence (AI) era, the scale and quality of the dataset play a crucial role in training a high-quality AI model. However, often original data cannot b…

cs.CR2024

Swarm-Net: Firmware Attestation in IoT Swarms using Graph Neural Networks and Volatile Memory

Varun Kohli, Bhavya Kohli, Muhammad Naveed Aman +1

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of billions of interconnected, primarily low-end embedded devices. Despite large-scale deployment, studies have highlighted critical secur…

cs.LG2024★ 9 cited

VFLGAN: Vertical Federated Learning-based Generative Adversarial Network for Vertically Partitioned Data Publication

Xun Yuan, Yang Yang, Prosanta Gope +2

In the current artificial intelligence (AI) era, the scale and quality of the dataset play a crucial role in training a high-quality AI model. However, good data is not a free lunc…

cs.CR2024

PhenoAuth: A Novel PUF-Phenotype-based Authentication Protocol for IoT Devices

Hongming Fei, Owen Millwood, Gope Prosanta +2

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have been shown to be a highly promising solution for enabling high security systems tailored for low-power devices. Commonly, PUFs are utilise…

cs.LG2024

Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Split Learning Framework for Smart Grid Load Forecasting

Asif Iqbal, Prosanta Gope, Biplab Sikdar

Accurate load forecasting is crucial for energy management, infrastructure planning, and demand-supply balancing. Smart meter data availability has led to the demand for sensor-bas…