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most citedFederated Transformer: Multi-Party Vertical Federated Learning on Practical Fuzzily Linked Data

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13 papers

cs.LG2026

EmoTrack: Clinical-Semantic Modeling for Text-Based Depression Severity Estimation

Zhaomin Wu, Jiayi Li, Bingsheng He

Text-based counseling provides a valuable source of information for assessing depression severity. We study prediction of the total score on the eight-item Patient Health Questionn…

cs.DC2026

FWeb3: A Practical Incentive-Aware Federated Learning Framework

Peishen Yan, Shuang Liang, Yang Hua +9

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training over distributed private data. However, sustaining open participation requires incentive mechanisms that compensate con…

math.OC2026

Adaptive primal dual hybrid gradient algorithms based on average spectrum for saddle point problems

Shengjie Xu, Bingsheng He

The primal dual hybrid gradient algorithm (PDHG), which is also known as the Arrow-Hurwicz method, is a fundamental algorithm for saddle point problems especially in imaging. It al…

cs.CR2026

ProtegoFed: Backdoor-Free Federated Instruction Tuning with Interspersed Poisoned Data

Haodong Zhao, Jinming Hu, Zhaomin Wu +7

Federated Instruction Tuning (FIT) enables collaborative instruction tuning of large language models across multiple organizations (clients) in a cross-silo setting without requiri…

cs.LG2025

LLM DNA: Tracing Model Evolution via Functional Representations

Zhaomin Wu, Haodong Zhao, Ziyang Wang +3

The explosive growth of large language models (LLMs) has created a vast but opaque landscape: millions of models exist, yet their evolutionary relationships through fine-tuning, di…

cs.AI2025

Reasoning or Rambling? Exploring the Effect of Thinking on Agent Persuasion

Haodong Zhao, Jidong Li, Zhaomin Wu +4

Understanding persuasion is critical for the safety and reliability of multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs). This paper studies persuasion dynamics by contrast…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Prompt-Induced Lies: Investigating LLM Deception on Benign Prompts

Zhaomin Wu, Mingzhe Du, See-Kiong Ng +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in reasoning, planning, and decision-making tasks, making their trustworthiness critical. A significant and underexplored risk is i…

cs.DB2025

WikiDBGraph: A Data Management Benchmark Suite for Collaborative Learning over Database Silos

Zhaomin Wu, Ziyang Wang, Bingsheng He

Relational databases are often fragmented across organizations, creating data silos that hinder distributed data management and mining. Collaborative learning (CL) -- techniques th…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Learning Relational Tabular Data without Shared Features

Zhaomin Wu, Shida Wang, Ziyang Wang +1

Learning relational tabular data has gained significant attention recently, but most studies focus on single tables, overlooking the potential of cross-table learning. Cross-table…

cs.LG2025

Vertical Federated Learning in Practice: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Zhaomin Wu, Zhen Qin, Junyi Hou +4

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning paradigm that enables multiple parties with distinct feature sets to jointly train machine learning…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Federated Transformer: Multi-Party Vertical Federated Learning on Practical Fuzzily Linked Data

Zhaomin Wu, Junyi Hou, Yiqun Diao +1

Federated Learning (FL) is an evolving paradigm that enables multiple parties to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. Among its variants, Vertical Federated Learn…

cs.LG2024

Federated Data-Efficient Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models

Zhen Qin, Zhaomin Wu, Bingsheng He +1

Instruction tuning is a crucial step in improving the responsiveness of pretrained large language models (LLMs) to human instructions. Federated learning (FL) helps to exploit the…

cs.LG2024

Model-based Large Language Model Customization as Service

Zhaomin Wu, Jizhou Guo, Junyi Hou +3

Prominent Large Language Model (LLM) services from providers like OpenAI and Google excel at general tasks but often underperform on domain-specific applications. Current customiza…