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most citedVertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances and Challenges

358 citations · 493 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2024

Augmenting Compliance-Guaranteed Customer Service Chatbots: Context-Aware Knowledge Expansion with Large Language Models

Mengze Hong, Chen Jason Zhang, Di Jiang +1

Retrieval-based chatbots leverage human-verified Q\&A knowledge to deliver accurate, verifiable responses, making them ideal for customer-centric applications where compliance with…

cs.AI2024

FedEval-LLM: Federated Evaluation of Large Language Models on Downstream Tasks with Collective Wisdom

Yuanqin He, Yan Kang, Lixin Fan +1

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution for collaborative training of large language models (LLMs). However, the integration of LLMs into FL introduces new chal…

cs.CL2023

A Communication Theory Perspective on Prompting Engineering Methods for Large Language Models

Yuanfeng Song, Yuanqin He, Xuefang Zhao +5

The springing up of Large Language Models (LLMs) has shifted the community from single-task-orientated natural language processing (NLP) research to a holistic end-to-end multi-tas…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Optimizing Privacy, Utility and Efficiency in Constrained Multi-Objective Federated Learning

Yan Kang, Hanlin Gu, Xingxing Tang +7

Conventionally, federated learning aims to optimize a single objective, typically the utility. However, for a federated learning system to be trustworthy, it needs to simultaneousl…

cs.LG2022★ 358 cited

Vertical Federated Learning: Concepts, Advances and Challenges

Yang Liu, Yan Kang, Tianyuan Zou +6

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) is a federated learning setting where multiple parties with different features about the same set of users jointly train machine learning models w…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

A Framework for Evaluating Privacy-Utility Trade-off in Vertical Federated Learning

Yan Kang, Jiahuan Luo, Yuanqin He +3

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a practical solution to tackle data silo issues without compromising user privacy. One of its variants, vertical federated learning (VFL), ha…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

A Hybrid Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Vertical Federated Learning

Yuanqin He, Yan Kang, Xinyuan Zhao +4

Vertical federated learning (VFL), a variant of Federated Learning (FL), has recently drawn increasing attention as the VFL matches the enterprises' demands of leveraging more valu…

cs.LG2021★ 10 cited

Batch Label Inference and Replacement Attacks in Black-Boxed Vertical Federated Learning

Yang Liu, Tianyuan Zou, Yan Kang +4

In a vertical federated learning (VFL) scenario where features and model are split into different parties, communications of sample-specific updates are required for correct gradie…

cs.LG2021★ 36 cited

Privacy-preserving Federated Adversarial Domain Adaption over Feature Groups for Interpretability

Yan Kang, Yang Liu, Yuezhou Wu +2

We present a novel privacy-preserving federated adversarial domain adaptation approach () to address an under-studied but practical cross-silo federated domain adap…

cs.LG2021★ 74 cited

FedCG: Leverage Conditional GAN for Protecting Privacy and Maintaining Competitive Performance in Federated Learning

Yuezhou Wu, Yan Kang, Jiahuan Luo +2

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by enabling clients to build machine learning models collaboratively without sharing their private data. Recent works demonstra…