11 papers
Blockchain Empowered Trustworthy Agent Networks: Foundations, Taxonomy, and Future Directions
Liehuang Zhu, Yuhang Li, Tianxing Wang +7
AI agents are evolving from isolated task executors into networked autonomous entities that can communicate, delegate tasks, invoke tools, access external knowledge, and participat…
A2-DIDM: Privacy-preserving Accumulator-enabled Auditing for Distributed Identity of DNN Model
Tianxiu Xie, Keke Gai, Jing Yu +1
Recent booming development of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has facilitated model commercialization to reinforce the model performance, including licensing or trading…
SLVC-DIDA: Signature-less Verifiable Credential-based Issuer-hiding and Multi-party Authentication for Decentralized Identity
Tianxiu Xie, Keke Gai, Jing Yu +2
As an emerging paradigm in digital identity, Decentralized Identity (DID) appears advantages over traditional identity management methods in a variety of aspects, e.g., enhancing u…
A Vision-Language Pre-training Model-Guided Approach for Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Keke Gai, Dongjue Wang, Jing Yu +2
Defending backdoor attacks in Federated Learning (FL) under heterogeneous client data distributions encounters limitations balancing effectiveness and privacy-preserving, while mos…
Watermarking Visual Concepts for Diffusion Models
Liangqi Lei, Keke Gai, Jing Yu +2
The personalization techniques of diffusion models succeed in generating images with specific concepts. This ability also poses great threats to copyright protection and network se…
Vertical Federated Continual Learning via Evolving Prototype Knowledge
Shuo Wang, Keke Gai, Jing Yu +2
Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has garnered significant attention as a privacy-preserving machine learning framework for sample-aligned feature federation. However, traditional…