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Pro-Router: Token-Aware Progressive Model Routing with Adaptive Edge-Cloud Collaboration for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference
Xinyuan Gui, Shaowen Wang, Sheng Sun +3
The remarkable performance of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) comes at the cost of substantial computational overhead, posing significant challenges to real-time deploymen…
Discrete Prototypical Memories for Federated Time Series Foundation Models
Liwei Deng, Qingxiang Liu, Xinhe Niu +5
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as federated learning (FL)-based time series foundation models offers a promising way to transfer the generalization capabilities of LLMs to…
Red-teaming the Multimodal Reasoning: Jailbreaking Vision-Language Models via Cross-modal Entanglement Attacks
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Shengjia Cheng +3
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with multimodal reasoning capabilities are high-value attack targets, given their potential for handling complex multimodal harmful tasks. Mainstream…
SearchAttack: Red-Teaming LLMs against Knowledge-to-Action Threats under Online Web Search
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Mingfeng Li +6
Recently, people have suffered from LLM hallucination and have become increasingly aware of the reliability gap of LLMs in open and knowledge-intensive tasks. As a result, they hav…
Rationale-Grounded In-Context Learning for Time Series Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
Qingxiang Liu, Zhiqing Cui, Xiaoliang Luo +7
The underperformance of existing multimodal large language models for time series reasoning lies in the absence of rationale priors that connect temporal observations to their down…
ZoFia: Zero-Shot Fake News Detection with Entity-Guided Retrieval and Multi-LLM Interaction
Lvhua Wu, Xuefeng Jiang, Sheng Sun +4
The rapid spread of fake news threatens social stability and public trust, highlighting the urgent need for its effective detection. Although large language models (LLMs) show pote…
Confusion is the Final Barrier: Rethinking Jailbreak Evaluation and Investigating the Real Misuse Threat of LLMs
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zhe Wang +6
With the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), numerous efforts have revealed their vulnerabilities to jailbreak attacks. Although these studies have driven the progress in…
Robust Federated Learning against Noisy Clients via Masked Optimization
Xuefeng Jiang, Tian Wen, Zhiqin Yang +5
In recent years, federated learning (FL) has made significant advance in privacy-sensitive applications. However, it can be hard to ensure that FL participants provide well-annotat…
Recursive Offloading for LLM Serving in Multi-tier Networks
Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang +5
Heterogeneous device-edge-cloud computing infrastructures have become widely adopted in telecommunication operators and Wide Area Networks (WANs), offering multi-tier computational…
SVAFD: A Secure and Verifiable Co-Aggregation Protocol for Federated Distillation
Tian Wen, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang +4
Secure Aggregation (SA) is an indispensable component of Federated Learning (FL) that concentrates on privacy preservation while allowing for robust aggregation. However, most SA d…
FNBench: Benchmarking Robust Federated Learning against Noisy Labels
Xuefeng Jiang, Jia Li, Nannan Wu +7
Robustness to label noise within data is a significant challenge in federated learning (FL). From the data-centric perspective, the data quality of distributed datasets can not be…
Jailbreak-as-a-Service++: Unveiling Distributed AI-Driven Malicious Information Campaigns Powered by LLM Crowdsourcing
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Mingfeng Li +6
To prevent the misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs) for malicious purposes, numerous efforts have been made to develop the safety alignment mechanisms of LLMs. However, as multip…
from Benign import Toxic: Jailbreaking the Language Model via Adversarial Metaphors
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zenghao Duan +5
Current studies have exposed the risk of Large Language Models (LLMs) generating harmful content by jailbreak attacks. However, they overlook that the direct generation of harmful…
Collaborative Stance Detection via Small-Large Language Model Consistency Verification
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Zixiang Tang +2
Stance detection on social media aims to identify attitudes expressed in tweets towards specific targets. Current studies prioritize Large Language Models (LLMs) over Small Languag…
Investigating Large Language Models for Code Vulnerability Detection: An Experimental Study
Xuefeng Jiang, Lvhua Wu, Sheng Sun +5
Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based…
GDformer: Going Beyond Subsequence Isolation for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
Qingxiang Liu, Xiaoliang Luo, Chenghao Liu +5
Unsupervised anomaly detection of multivariate time series is a challenging task, given the requirements of deriving a compact detection criterion without accessing the anomaly poi…
Beyond Model Scale Limits: End-Edge-Cloud Federated Learning with Self-Rectified Knowledge Agglomeration
Zhiyuan Wu, Sheng Sun, Yuwei Wang +5
The rise of End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration (EECC) offers a promising paradigm for Artificial Intelligence (AI) model training across end devices, edge servers, and cloud data centers…
Na'vi or Knave: Jailbreaking Language Models via Metaphorical Avatars
Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Junqi Tong +2
Metaphor serves as an implicit approach to convey information, while enabling the generalized comprehension of complex subjects. However, metaphor can potentially be exploited to b…
Learnable Sparse Customization in Heterogeneous Edge Computing
Jingjing Xue, Sheng Sun, Min Liu +3
To effectively manage and utilize massive distributed data at the network edge, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising edge computing paradigm across data silos. Howeve…
REFOL: Resource-Efficient Federated Online Learning for Traffic Flow Forecasting
Qingxiang Liu, Sheng Sun, Yuxuan Liang +6
Multiple federated learning (FL) methods are proposed for traffic flow forecasting (TFF) to avoid heavy-transmission and privacy-leaking concerns resulting from the disclosure of r…
Tackling Noisy Clients in Federated Learning with End-to-end Label Correction
Xuefeng Jiang, Sheng Sun, Jia Li +6
Recently, federated learning (FL) has achieved wide successes for diverse privacy-sensitive applications without sacrificing the sensitive private information of clients. However,…
Peak-Controlled Logits Poisoning Attack in Federated Distillation
Yuhan Tang, Aoxu Zhang, Zhiyuan Wu +4
Federated Distillation (FD) offers an innovative approach to distributed machine learning, leveraging knowledge distillation for efficient and flexible cross-device knowledge trans…
FedCache 2.0: Federated Edge Learning with Knowledge Caching and Dataset Distillation
Quyang Pan, Sheng Sun, Zhiyuan Wu +4
Federated Edge Learning (FEL) has emerged as a promising approach for enabling edge devices to collaboratively train machine learning models while preserving data privacy. Despite…
Personalized Federated Learning for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting: A Dual Semantic Alignment-Based Contrastive Approach
Qingxiang Liu, Sheng Sun, Yuxuan Liang +2
The existing federated learning (FL) methods for spatio-temporal forecasting fail to capture the inherent spatio-temporal heterogeneity, which calls for personalized FL (PFL) metho…