3 papers
cs.SE2026
Specification Vibing for Automated Program Repair
Taohong Zhu, Lucas C. Cordeiro, Mustafa A. Mustafa +1
Large language model (LLM)-driven automated program repair (APR) has advanced rapidly, but most methods remain code-centric: they directly rewrite source code and thereby risk hall…
cs.LG2025
Defending the Edge: Representative-Attention Defense against Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Chibueze Peace Obioma, Youcheng Sun, Mustafa A. Mustafa
Federated learning (FL) remains highly vulnerable to adaptive backdoor attacks that preserve stealth by closely imitating benign update statistics. Existing defenses predominantly…
eess.SY2024
Proactive Load-Shaping Strategies with Privacy-Cost Trade-offs in Residential Households based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ruichang Zhang, Youcheng Sun, Mustafa A. Mustafa
Smart meters play a crucial role in enhancing energy management and efficiency, but they raise significant privacy concerns by potentially revealing detailed user behaviors through…