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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.CL2025

FlowerTune: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Yan Gao, Massimo Roberto Scamarcia, Javier Fernandez-Marques +18

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results across diverse domains, yet their development remains reliant on vast amounts of publicly available data, raisin…

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…