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5 papers

cs.CL2025

Smarter, not Bigger: Fine-Tuned RAG-Enhanced LLMs for Automotive HIL Testing

Chao Feng, Zihan Liu, Siddhant Gupta +3

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing is essential for automotive validation but suffers from fragmented and underutilized test artifacts. This paper presents HIL-GPT, a retrieval-aug…

cs.LG2025

Demo: A Practical Testbed for Decentralized Federated Learning on Physical Edge Devices

Chao Feng, Nicolas Huber, Alberto Huertas Celdran +2

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, preserving participant privacy. Decentralized FL (DFL) eliminates reliance on a central serve…

cs.LG2025

AugMixCloak: A Defense against Membership Inference Attacks via Image Transformation

Heqing Ren, Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas +1

Traditional machine learning (ML) raises serious privacy concerns, while federated learning (FL) mitigates the risk of data leakage by keeping data on local devices. However, the t…

cs.LG2025

ColNet: Collaborative Optimization in Decentralized Federated Multi-task Learning Systems

Chao Feng, Nicolas Fazli Kohler, Zhi Wang +4

The integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has been explored to address client heterogeneity, with Federated Multi-Task Learning (FMTL) treating each…

cs.LG2025

From Models to Network Topologies: A Topology Inference Attack in Decentralized Federated Learning

Chao Feng, Yuanzhe Gao, Alberto Huertas Celdran +2

Federated Learning (FL) is widely recognized as a privacy-preserving Machine Learning paradigm due to its model-sharing mechanism that avoids direct data exchange. Nevertheless, mo…