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most citedVertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances and Challenges

358 citations · 361 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CR2026

Auditing and Mitigating Privacy Leakage in Cloud-Edge Collaborative Decoding

Kejia Zhang, Tianyuan Zou, Zixuan GU +1

Applications such as personalized assistance and proprietary document analysis require large language models (LLMs) to generate outputs from private data. Yet powerful LLMs typical…

cs.AI2026

E-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Step Tool-Use Agents in Real-World Product Scenarios

Weihuang Zheng, Tianyuan Zou, Eileen Ye +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that interact with stateful environments over multiple steps: gathering hidden information, composing tool calls, a…

cs.CV2026

Position: Life-Logging Video Streams Make the Privacy-Utility Trade-off Inevitable

Tianyuan Zou, Liang Yue, Yang Liu +2

With the growing prevalence of always-on hardware such as smart glasses, body cameras, and home security systems, life-logging visual sensing is becoming inevitable, forming the ba…

cs.CR2025

PCEvolve: Private Contrastive Evolution for Synthetic Dataset Generation via Few-Shot Private Data and Generative APIs

Jianqing Zhang, Yang Liu, Jie Fu +4

The rise of generative APIs has fueled interest in privacy-preserving synthetic data generation. While the Private Evolution (PE) algorithm generates Differential Privacy (DP) synt…

cs.LG2025

Towards Harnessing the Collaborative Power of Large and Small Models for Domain Tasks

Yang Liu, Kejia Zhang, Bingjie Yan +11

Large language models (LMs) offer broad generalization capabilities but require vast amounts of data and computational resources for domain-specific tasks; small models (SMs), in c…

cs.LG2025

Contrastive Private Data Synthesis via Weighted Multi-PLM Fusion

Tianyuan Zou, Yang Liu, Peng Li +6

Substantial quantity and high quality are the golden rules of making a good training dataset with sample privacy protection equally important. Generating synthetic samples that res…