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20222026
most citedFedFA: Federated Learning with Feature Anchors to Align Features and Classifiers for Heterogeneous Data

74 citations · 104 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.AI2026

ScienceFlow: A long-horizon agent for ML research, scientific discovery and beyond

Mingming Zhao, Jiqian Dong, Kangping Xu +16

Enabling LLM agents to sustain productive, stable, and goal-aligned research over extended horizons is a central challenge for autonomous machine learning and scientific discovery,…

cs.AI2026

Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses

Tailin Zhou

Modern LLM agents are often improved by modifying prompts, tools, or workflows manually, while the executable scaffold surrounding the model---the \emph{harness}---is typically tre…

cs.LG2025

Learning Design-Score Manifold to Guide Diffusion Models for Offline Optimization

Tailin Zhou, Zhilin Chen, Wenlong Lyu +3

Optimizing complex systems, from discovering therapeutic drugs to designing high-performance materials, remains a fundamental challenge across science and engineering, as the under…

cs.AI2024

Federated Prompt-based Decision Transformer for Customized VR Services in Mobile Edge Computing System

Tailin Zhou, Jiadong Yu, Jun Zhang +1

This paper investigates resource allocation to provide heterogeneous users with customized virtual reality (VR) services in a mobile edge computing (MEC) system. We first introduce…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Mode Connectivity and Data Heterogeneity of Federated Learning

Tailin Zhou, Jun Zhang, Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a model while keeping their data private collaboratively. Previous studies have shown that data heterogeneity between clie…

cs.LG2023

A Survey of What to Share in Federated Learning: Perspectives on Model Utility, Privacy Leakage, and Communication Efficiency

Jiawei Shao, Zijian Li, Wenqiang Sun +6

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a secure paradigm for collaborative training among clients. Without data centralization, FL allows clients to share local information in a pr…

eess.SY2023★ 3 cited

Attention-based QoE-aware Digital Twin Empowered Edge Computing for Immersive Virtual Reality

Jiadong Yu, Ahmad Alhilal, Tailin Zhou +2

Metaverse applications such as virtual reality (VR) content streaming, require optimal resource allocation strategies for mobile edge computing (MEC) to ensure a high-quality user…

cs.LG2023★ 26 cited

Understanding and Improving Model Averaging in Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Data

Tailin Zhou, Zehong Lin, Jun Zhang +1

Model averaging is a widely adopted technique in federated learning (FL) that aggregates multiple client models to obtain a global model. Remarkably, model averaging in FL yields a…

cs.LG2022★ 74 cited

FedFA: Federated Learning with Feature Anchors to Align Features and Classifiers for Heterogeneous Data

Tailin Zhou, Jun Zhang, Danny H. K. Tsang

Federated learning allows multiple clients to collaboratively train a model without exchanging their data, thus preserving data privacy. Unfortunately, it suffers significant perfo…