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most citedByzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning

4 citations · 6 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CR2026

Securing Autonomous Vehicle Systems via Twin-Aware Federated Reinforcement Learning

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Dianwei Chen +5

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) is crucial for enabling collaborative learning across multiple agents without sharing raw data, thereby enhancing privacy and scalability in…

cs.NI2026

Network Digital Untwinning: Towards Backward Optimization of Digital Twins

Zifan Zhang, Dianwei Chen, Anjun Gao +5

Network digital twins (NDTs) are transforming network management by offering precise virtual replicas of physical network systems. However, their reliance on diverse and sensitive…

cs.NI2025

On Transferring, Merging, and Splitting Task-Oriented Network Digital Twins

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Mingzhe Chen +1

The integration of digital twinning technologies is driving next-generation networks toward new capabilities, allowing operators to thoroughly understand network conditions, effici…

cs.NI2025

Synergizing AI and Digital Twins for Next-Generation Network Optimization, Forecasting, and Security

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Dianwei Chen +2

Digital network twins (DNTs) are virtual representations of physical networks, designed to enable real-time monitoring, simulation, and optimization of network performance. When in…

cs.CR2025

Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning over Ring-All-Reduce Distributed Computing

Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Xuecen Zhao +1

Federated learning (FL) has gained attention as a distributed learning paradigm for its data privacy benefits and accelerated convergence through parallel computation. Traditional…

cs.CR2025

Poisoning Attacks and Defenses to Federated Unlearning

Wenbin Wang, Qiwen Ma, Zifan Zhang +3

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model with the assistance of a server. However, its distributed nature makes it susceptible to poisonin…

cs.CR2025

Do We Really Need to Design New Byzantine-robust Aggregation Rules?

Minghong Fang, Seyedsina Nabavirazavi, Zhuqing Liu +3

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a global machine learning model through a server, without exchanging their private training data. However,…

cs.CR2024

Adversarial Attacks to Multi-Modal Models

Zhihao Dou, Xin Hu, Haibo Yang +2

Multi-modal models have gained significant attention due to their powerful capabilities. These models effectively align embeddings across diverse data modalities, showcasing superi…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

On the Hardness of Decentralized Multi-Agent Policy Evaluation under Byzantine Attacks

Hairi, Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang +2

In this paper, we study a fully-decentralized multi-agent policy evaluation problem, which is an important sub-problem in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, in the pre…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning

Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi +5

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train machine learning models without revealing their private training data. In conventional FL, the system foll…

cs.NI2024

Securing Distributed Network Digital Twin Systems Against Model Poisoning Attacks

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Mingzhe Chen +3

In the era of 5G and beyond, the increasing complexity of wireless networks necessitates innovative frameworks for efficient management and deployment. Digital twins (DTs), embodyi…

cs.NI2024★ 1 cited

Poisoning Attacks on Federated Learning-based Wireless Traffic Prediction

Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Jiayuan Huang +1

Federated Learning (FL) offers a distributed framework to train a global control model across multiple base stations without compromising the privacy of their local network data. T…