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most citedLearning Latency-Aware Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems

2 citations · 3 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CL2026

KVShareArena: KV-Cache Reuse Across Contexts and Model Checkpoints

Xi Shi, Qian Lou, Mengxin Zheng

Reusing key-value (KV) caches speeds up LLM inference by avoiding repeated computation on shared text. Standard prefix caching reuses a KV cache only when the LLM is the same and a…

cs.AI2026

Learning What to Retain: Gated-Memory Routing for Efficient Collaboration in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems tackle complex reasoning by orchestrating how multiple agents are configured and how they collaborate. A central challenge is t…

cs.CR2026

Memory-Efficient Designs for Word-Wise Universal Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Ardhi Wiratama Baskara Yudha, Erwin Eko Wahyudi, Rian Adam Rajagede +2

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data, preserving privacy throughout analysis. While its privacy is very strong, FHE is much slower to execute th…

cs.CR2026

Conjunctive Poisoning in AI Supply-Chain Applications

Nokimul Hasan Arif, Qian Lou, Mengxin Zheng

Large Language and Vision-Language Models are increasingly deployed through inference pipelines that include prompt wrappers (e.g., templates and post-processing scripts) and confi…

cs.NI2026

HW-Router: Hardware-Aware Routing for Scalable Multi-LLM Serving

Ahasan Kabir, Jiaqi Xue, Mengxin Zheng +1

Modern large language model (LLM) serving platforms deploy multiple models across different GPUs, requiring routers to direct incoming queries to appropriate LLMs. However, existin…

quant-ph2026

SoK: Adversarial Robustness of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver via Red-Teaming

Ahmed Azaz Humdoon, Cheng Chu, Lei Jiang +2

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a leading algorithm for estimating molecular ground-state energies on near-term quantum hardware, with applications spanning quantum ch…

cs.MA2026

Learning Latency-Aware Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems

Xi Shi, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Multi-agent systems (MAS) coordinate multiple LLM-powered agents through structured workflows, gaining reasoning power but incurring high inference latency from multi-step executio…

quant-ph2026

Hardware Robustness of Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization

Ahatesham Bhuiyan, Cheng Chu, Qian Lou +1

Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) is a hybrid quantum-classical method that replaces variational optimization with a self-consistent recovery loop over QPU samples. Althou…

quant-ph2026

CutBackdoor: A Circuit Cut Triggered Backdoor Attack on Variational Quantum Algorithms

Ahatesham Bhuiyan, Hoang Ngo, Cheng Chu +4

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are a leading paradigm for near-term quantum computing, combining parameterized quantum circuits with classical optimization across quantum ch…

cs.CV2026

REALM: A Unified Red-Teaming Benchmark for Physical-World VLMs

Yifei Zhao, Qian Lou, Mengxin Zheng

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as perception-reasoning backbones for embodied intelligence in safety-critical physical systems, where perception or reasoning e…

cs.AI2026

INFRAMIND: Infrastructure-Aware Multi-Agent Orchestration

Ahasan Kabir, Jiaqi Xue, Mengxin Zheng +1

Existing multi-agent LLM orchestration methods, ranging from brute-force ensembles to learned routers, select models and topologies based on task and model features. However, these…

cs.CR2026

MPC-Patch-Bench: Security-Aware LLM Code Patch for Multi-Party Computation

Yukuan Zhang, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Repository-level benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) code repair on Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) software do not yet exist, and directly transplanting gene…

cs.CL2026

AgentServeSim: Serving-System Simulation and Policy Search for LLM Agent Programs

Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Large language model agents execute programs comprising multiple model turns interleaved with external tool calls. Their job completion time depends on how the serving system retai…

cs.CR2026

Efficient Arithmetic-and-Comparison Homomorphic Encryption with Space Switching

Erwin Eko Wahyudi, Yan Solihin, Qian Lou

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data without decryption, making it central to privacy-preserving applications. However, no existing scheme effic…

cs.CV2026

SIF: Semantically In-Distribution Fingerprints for Large Vision-Language Models

Yifei Zhao, Qian Lou, Mengxin Zheng

The public accessibility of large vision-language models (LVLMs) raises serious concerns about unauthorized model reuse and intellectual property infringement. Existing ownership v…

cs.CR2026

Privacy-Preserving LLMs Routing

Xidong Wu, Yukuan Zhang, Yuqiong Ji +3

Large language model (LLM) routing has emerged as a critical strategy to balance model performance and cost-efficiency by dynamically selecting services from various model provider…

cs.CR2026

SecureRouter: Encrypted Routing for Efficient Secure Inference

Yukuan Zhang, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Cryptographically secure neural network inference typically relies on secure computing techniques such as Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enabling cloud servers to process cl…

cs.CR2026

RobPI: Robust Private Inference against Malicious Client

Jiaqi Xue, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

The increased deployment of machine learning inference in various applications has sparked privacy concerns. In response, private inference (PI) protocols have been created to allo…

cs.CR2026

RPP: A Certified Poisoned-Sample Detection Framework for Backdoor Attacks under Dataset Imbalance

Miao Lin, Feng Yu, Rui Ning +6

Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks, yet most defense methods to date rely on balanced data, overlooking the pervasive class imbalance in real-world sce…

cs.MA2026★ 2 cited

Learning Latency-Aware Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems

Xi Shi, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou

Multi-agent systems (MAS) coordinate multiple LLM-powered agents through structured workflows, gaining reasoning power but incurring high inference latency from multi-step executio…

cs.CR2025

PRO: Enabling Precise and Robust Text Watermark for Open-Source LLMs

Jiaqi Xue, Yifei Zhao, Mansour Al Ghanim +4

Text watermarking for large language models (LLMs) enables model owners to verify text origin and protect intellectual property. While watermarking methods for closed-source LLMs a…

cs.LG2025

DictPFL: Efficient and Private Federated Learning on Encrypted Gradients

Jiaqi Xue, Mayank Kumar, Yuzhang Shang +5

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across institutions without sharing raw data. However, gradient sharing still risks privacy leakage, such as gradient i…

cs.LG2025

VQEzy: An Open-Source Dataset for Parameter Initialization in Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

Chi Zhang, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou +2

Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQEs) are a leading class of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithms, whose performance is highly sensitive to parameter initialization…

cs.ET2025

DiffQ: Unified Parameter Initialization for Variational Quantum Algorithms via Diffusion Models

Chi Zhang, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou +1

Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) are widely used in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, but their trainability and performance depend critically on initialization…