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most citedSafely Learning with Private Data: A Federated Learning Framework for Large Language Model

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25 papers

cs.CV2026

Towards Privacy-Preserving Federated Prompt Tuning under Data Heterogeneity: A Subspace-Decomposed Expert Approach

Yuhua Wang, Xiaodong Li, Yihao Guo +6

Federated prompt tuning (FPT) enables collaborative adaptation of vision--language models (VLMs) using lightweight prompts. Existing methods often address heterogeneity and privacy…

cs.CL2026

AURORA: Asymmetry and Update-Induced Rotation for Robust Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models

Zishuai Zhang, Hainan Zhang, Zhiming Zheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. However, their tendency to generate hallucinations,…

cs.CL2026

Robust Reasoning via Dynamic Token Selection for Distribution-Aligned Self-Distillation

Ruiqi Zhang, Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang Zhiming Zheng

Self-distillation improves learning efficiency by rewriting reference answers as training data that better matches the model's own distribution. However, reference answers also int…

cs.AI2026

Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models

Shule Lu, Yujing Wang, Hainan Zhang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have broad potential in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, yet strict data-sharing constraints render centralized training infe…

cs.CV2026

Taming Noise-Induced Prototype Degradation for Privacy-Preserving Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning

Yuhua Wang, Qinnan Zhang, Xiaodong Li +6

Prototype-based Personalized Federated Learning (ProtoPFL) enables efficient multi-domain adaptation by communicating compact class prototypes, but directly sharing them poses priv…

cs.CR2026

Mask-Free Privacy Extraction and Rewriting: A Domain-Aware Approach via Prototype Learning

Xiaodong Li, Yuhua Wang, Qingchen Yu +5

Client-side privacy rewriting is crucial for deploying LLMs in privacy-sensitive domains. However, existing approaches struggle to balance privacy and utility. Full-text methods of…

cs.CL2026

GRADE: Probing Knowledge Gaps in LLMs through Gradient Subspace Dynamics

Yujing Wang, Yuanbang Liang, Yukun Lai +2

Detecting whether a model's internal knowledge is sufficient to correctly answer a given question is a fundamental challenge in deploying responsible LLMs. In addition to verbalisi…

cs.AI2026

Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models

Shule Lu, Yujing Wang, Hainan Zhang +5

VLMs have broad potential in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, yet strict data-sharing constraints render centralized training infeasible. FL mitigates this…

cs.CL2026

LocalSUG: City-Preference-Enhanced LLM for Query Suggestion in Local-Life Services

Jinwen Chen, Shiwen Zhang, Shuai Gong +6

In local-life service platforms, query suggestion reduces user effort by generating candidate queries from input prefixes. Traditional multi-stage systems rely heavily on historica…

cs.CL2026

From Unfamiliar to Familiar: Detecting Pre-training Data via Gradient Deviations in Large Language Models

Ruiqi Zhang, Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang +2

Pre-training data detection for LLMs is essential for addressing copyright concerns and mitigating benchmark contamination. Existing methods mainly focus on the likelihood-based st…

cs.CL2026

Stable-RAG: Mitigating Retrieval-Permutation-Induced Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Qianchi Zhang, Hainan Zhang, Liang Pang +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a key paradigm for reducing factual hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet little is known about how the order of retri…

cs.LG2025

Parameter Importance-Driven Continual Learning for Foundation Models

Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang, Zhiming Zheng

Domain-specific post-training often causes catastrophic forgetting, making foundation models lose their general reasoning ability and limiting their adaptability to dynamic real-wo…

cs.IR2025

An Efficient Framework for Whole-Page Reranking via Single-Modal Supervision

Zishuai Zhang, Sihao Yu, Wenyi Xie +5

The whole-page reranking plays a critical role in shaping the user experience of search engines, which integrates retrieval results from multiple modalities, such as documents, ima…

cs.CL2025

FedDTRE: Federated Dialogue Generation Models Powered by Trustworthiness Evaluation

Shule Lu, Lingxiang Wang, Sijia Wen +2

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, dialogue systems have become a prominent form of human-computer interaction. However, traditional centralized or fully local…

cs.IR2025

Can Synthetic Query Rewrites Capture User Intent Better than Humans in Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

JiaYing Zheng, HaiNan Zhang, Liang Pang +2

Multi-turn RAG systems often face queries with colloquial omissions and ambiguous references, posing significant challenges for effective retrieval and generation. Traditional quer…

cs.AI2025

HyFedRAG: A Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Heterogeneous and Privacy-Sensitive Data

Cheng Qian, Hainan Zhang, Yongxin Tong +2

Centralized RAG pipelines struggle with heterogeneous and privacy-sensitive data, especially in distributed healthcare settings where patient data spans SQL, knowledge graphs, and…

cs.IR2025

Beyond the Surface: A Solution-Aware Retrieval Model for Competition-level Code Generation

Shiwen Zhang, Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang +3

In competitive programming task, problem statements are often embedded within elaborate narrative backgrounds, requiring deep understanding of the underlying solutions to successfu…

cs.CL2025

Privacy-Preserving Reasoning with Knowledge-Distilled Parametric Retrieval Augmented Generation

Jinwen Chen, Hainan Zhang, Liang Pang +5

The current RAG system requires uploading plaintext documents to the cloud, risking private data leakage. Parametric RAG (PRAG) encodes documents as LoRA parameters within LLMs, of…

cs.CR2025

CodeBC: A More Secure Large Language Model for Smart Contract Code Generation in Blockchain

Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang, Qinnan Zhang +4

Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating code from natural language instructions, yet they often lack an understanding of security vulnerabilities. This limitation makes it…

cs.CL2025

Detecting Stealthy Backdoor Samples based on Intra-class Distance for Large Language Models

Jinwen Chen, Hainan Zhang, Fei Sun +4

Stealthy data poisoning during fine-tuning can backdoor large language models (LLMs), threatening downstream safety. Existing detectors either use classifier-style probability sign…

cs.CL2025

FedSEA-LLaMA: A Secure, Efficient and Adaptive Federated Splitting Framework for Large Language Models

Zishuai Zhang, Hainan zhang, Weihua Li +4

Private data holds promise for improving LLMs due to its high quality, but its scattered distribution across data silos and the high computational demands of LLMs limit their deplo…

cs.CL2025

Learning to Erase Private Knowledge from Multi-Documents for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

Yujing Wang, Jinwen Chen, Hainan Zhang +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a promising technique for applying LLMs to proprietary domains. However, retrieved documents may contain sensitive knowledge, posing risks o…

cs.CR2024

HSF: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks with Hidden State Filtering

Cheng Qian, Hainan Zhang, Lei Sha +1

With the growing deployment of LLMs in daily applications like chatbots and content generation, efforts to ensure outputs align with human values and avoid harmful content have int…

cs.CL2024

AdaComp: Extractive Context Compression with Adaptive Predictor for Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

Qianchi Zhang, Hainan Zhang, Liang Pang +2

Retrieved documents containing noise will hinder RAG from detecting answer clues and make the inference process slow and expensive. Therefore, context compression is necessary to e…