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most citedThreats and Defenses in Federated Learning Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Survey and Challenges

33 citations · 33 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.DC2026

AgentServe: Algorithm-System Co-Design for Efficient Agentic AI Serving on a Consumer-Grade GPU

Yuning Zhang, Yan Yan, Nan Yang +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as AI agents that operate in short reasoning-action loops, interleaving model computation with external calls. Unlike traditi…

cs.CR2026

Compatibility at a Cost: Systematic Discovery and Exploitation of MCP Clause-Compliance Vulnerabilities

Nanzi Yang, Weiheng Bai, Kangjie Lu

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a recently proposed interoperability standard that unifies how AI agents connect with external tools and data sources. By defining a set of comm…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Law Analysis in Federated Learning: How to Select the Optimal Model Size?

Xuanyu Chen, Nan Yang, Shuai Wang +1

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has sparked a growing interest in training large-scale models. As the model size continues to scale, concerns are growing about t…

cs.LG2025

GuardFed: A Trustworthy Federated Learning Framework Against Dual-Facet Attacks

Yanli Li, Yanan Zhou, Zhongliang Guo +6

Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative model training but remains vulnerable to adversarial behaviors that compromise model utility or fairness across sen…

cs.LG2024

CAKD: A Correlation-Aware Knowledge Distillation Framework Based on Decoupling Kullback-Leibler Divergence

Zao Zhang, Huaming Chen, Pei Ning +2

In knowledge distillation, a primary focus has been on transforming and balancing multiple distillation components. In this work, we emphasize the importance of thoroughly examinin…

cs.DC2024★ 33 cited

Threats and Defenses in Federated Learning Life Cycle: A Comprehensive Survey and Challenges

Yanli Li, Zhongliang Guo, Nan Yang +3

Federated Learning (FL) offers innovative solutions for privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning (ML). Despite its promising potential, FL is vulnerable to various attacks…

cs.LG2024

Fairpriori: Improving Biased Subgroup Discovery for Deep Neural Network Fairness

Kacy Zhou, Jiawen Wen, Nan Yang +3

While deep learning has become a core functional module of most software systems, concerns regarding the fairness of ML predictions have emerged as a significant issue that affects…