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most citedFederated Learning for Smart Grid: A Survey on Applications and Potential Vulnerabilities

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14 papers

cs.CR2026

Vision Token Manipulation Attacks on Cloud-Edge Inference of Large Vision-Language Models

Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska +1

Cloud-edge Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) inference enables efficient deployment by splitting computation between edge devices and cloud servers. In this process, intermediate…

cs.CR2026

SelfGrader: LLM Jailbreak Detection via Anchored Token-Level Logits

Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for answering user queries, yet they remain highly vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Existing guardrail methods typically rely on int…

cs.CL2026

XMark: Reliable Multi-Bit Watermarking for LLM-Generated Texts

Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska +1

Multi-bit watermarking has emerged as a promising solution for embedding imperceptible binary messages into Large Language Model (LLM)-generated text, enabling reliable attribution…

cs.DC2026

Heterogeneous Federated Fine-Tuning with Parallel One-Rank Adaptation

Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu, Jiahao Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in adapting to downstream tasks through fine-tuning. Federated Learning (FL) extends this capability by enab…

cs.LG2025

On the Out-of-Distribution Backdoor Attack for Federated Learning

Jiahao Xu, Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu

Traditional backdoor attacks in federated learning (FL) operate within constrained attack scenarios, as they depend on visible triggers and require physical modifications to the ta…

cs.CL2025

Majority Bit-Aware Watermarking For Large Language Models

Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska +1

The growing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has raised concerns about their misuse in generating harmful or deceptive content. To address this issue, watermarking method…

cs.LG2025

Fed-HeLLo: Efficient Federated Foundation Model Fine-Tuning with Heterogeneous LoRA Allocation

Zikai Zhang, Ping Liu, Jiahao Xu +1

Federated Learning has recently been utilized to collaboratively fine-tune foundation models across multiple clients. Notably, federated low-rank adaptation LoRA-based fine-tuning…

cs.CR2025★ 4 cited

Optimal Client Sampling in Federated Learning with Client-Level Heterogeneous Differential Privacy

Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska

Federated Learning with client-level differential privacy (DP) provides a promising framework for collaboratively training models while rigorously protecting clients' privacy. Howe…

cs.CR2025

Traceable Black-box Watermarks for Federated Learning

Jiahao Xu, Rui Hu, Olivera Kotevska +1

Due to the distributed nature of Federated Learning (FL) systems, each local client has access to the global model, which poses a critical risk of model leakage. Existing works hav…

cs.LG2025

Detecting Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning via Direction Alignment Inspection

Jiahao Xu, Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu

The distributed nature of training makes Federated Learning (FL) vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious model updates aim to compromise the global model's performance on s…

cs.LG2024

Identify Backdoored Model in Federated Learning via Individual Unlearning

Jiahao Xu, Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu

Backdoor attacks present a significant threat to the robustness of Federated Learning (FL) due to their stealth and effectiveness. They maintain both the main task of the FL system…

cs.LG2024

Fed-pilot: Optimizing LoRA Allocation for Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning with Heterogeneous Clients

Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu, Ping Liu +1

Federated Learning enables the fine-tuning of foundation models (FMs) across distributed clients for specific tasks; however, its scalability is limited by the heterogeneity of cli…

cs.LG2024

Achieving Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning via Layer-Adaptive Sparsified Model Aggregation

Jiahao Xu, Zikai Zhang, Rui Hu

Federated Learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without sharing their local data. Yet the FL system is vulnerable to well-designed Byzantine attac…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Federated Learning for Smart Grid: A Survey on Applications and Potential Vulnerabilities

Zikai Zhang, Suman Rath, Jiahao Xu +1

The Smart Grid (SG) is a critical energy infrastructure that collects real-time electricity usage data to forecast future energy demands using information and communication technol…