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most citedA Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for Machine/Deep Learning-based Software Engineering Research

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cs.CR2026

Awakening the Hydra: Stabilizing Multi-Concept Backdoor Injection in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Kai Wang, Jiale Zhang, Chengcheng Zhu +2

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly developed through open-source reuse and repeated downstream fine-tuning, where reused checkpoints are difficult to verify and thus m…

cs.CV2026

Meta-FC: Meta-Learning with Feature Consistency for Robust and Generalizable Watermarking

Yuheng Li, Weitong Chen, Chengcheng Zhu +4

Deep learning-based watermarking has made remarkable progress in recent years. To achieve robustness against various distortions, current methods commonly adopt a training strategy…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Graph Federated Learning for Personalized Privacy Recommendation

Ce Na, Kai Yang, Dengzhao Fang +6

Federated recommendation systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for providing privacy-preserving recommendation services. However, existing FedRecs assume that all use…

cs.CR2025

BDFirewall: Towards Effective and Expeditiously Black-Box Backdoor Defense in MLaaS

Ye Li, Chengcheng Zhu, Yanchao Zhao +1

In this paper, we endeavor to address the challenges of backdoor attacks countermeasures in black-box scenarios, thereby fortifying the security of inference under MLaaS. We first…

cs.CR2025

Towards Generalized and Stealthy Watermarking for Generative Code Models

Haoxuan Li, Jiale Zhang, Xiaobing Sun +1

Generative code models (GCMs) significantly enhance development efficiency through automated code generation and code summarization. However, building and training these models req…

cs.CR2025

SPA: Towards More Stealth and Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Chengcheng Zhu, Ye Li, Bosen Rao +3

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, yet the distributed nature of FL introduces unique security challenge…

cs.CR2025

BDPFL: Backdoor Defense for Personalized Federated Learning via Explainable Distillation

Chengcheng Zhu, Jiale Zhang, Di Wu +1

Federated learning is a distributed learning paradigm that facilitates the collaborative training of a global model across multiple clients while preserving the privacy of local da…

cs.LG2025

Fine-tuning is Not Fine: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in GNNs with Limited Clean Data

Jiale Zhang, Bosen Rao, Chengcheng Zhu +6

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance through their message-passing mechanism. However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of GNNs to bac…

cs.CR2024

"No Matter What You Do": Purifying GNN Models via Backdoor Unlearning

Jiale Zhang, Chengcheng Zhu, Bosen Rao +5

Recent studies have exposed that GNNs are vulnerable to several adversarial attacks, among which backdoor attack is one of the toughest. Similar to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), bac…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

DMGNN: Detecting and Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Graph Neural Networks

Hao Sui, Bing Chen, Jiale Zhang +4

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are highly susceptible to multiple adversarial attacks. Among these, graph backdoor attacks pose one of the most prominent threats, where att…

cs.CR2024

Beyond Dataset Watermarking: Model-Level Copyright Protection for Code Summarization Models

Jiale Zhang, Haoxuan Li, Di Wu +3

Code Summarization Model (CSM) has been widely used in code production, such as online and web programming for PHP and Javascript. CSMs are essential tools in code production, enha…

cs.CR2024

Infighting in the Dark: Multi-Label Backdoor Attack in Federated Learning

Ye Li, Yanchao Zhao, Chengcheng Zhu +1

Federated Learning (FL), a privacy-preserving decentralized machine learning framework, has been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Current research primarily focuses on t…

cs.SE2024★ 4 cited

A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for Machine/Deep Learning-based Software Engineering Research

Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari +8

The remarkable achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, particularly in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), have fueled their extensive deployment across…