27 papers
A Unified Benchmark for Privacy-preserving Vector Search
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Rafael Pires, Mathis Randl +1
Vector search powers semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). By design, the service answering a query sees both the query embedding and,…
Position: Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Pradyumna Chari +2
Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments. Yet, current…
Efficient and Robust Online Learning to Rank in Decentralized Systems
Marcel Gregoriadis, Martijn de Vos, Sayan Biswas +2
In Online Learning to Rank (OLTR), ranking models are trained directly from live user interactions, but existing systems rely on a trusted central server to collect and process the…
Your Neighbors Know: Leveraging Local Neighborhoods for Backdoor Detection in Decentralized Learning
Sayan Biswas, Antoine Boutet, Davide Frey +7
Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm where nodes collaboratively train models without a central server. However, the collaborative nature of DL make…
The Evaluation Game: Beyond Static LLM Benchmarking
Paul Wang, Jade Garcia-Bourrée, Anne-Marie Kermarrec +1
As jailbreaks, adversarially crafted inputs that bypass safety constraints, continue to be discovered in Large Language Models, practitioners increasingly rely on fine-tuning as a…
Robust Federated Inference
Akash Dhasade, Sadegh Farhadkhani, Rachid Guerraoui +4
Federated inference, in the form of one-shot federated learning, edge ensembles, or federated ensembles, has emerged as an attractive solution to combine predictions from multiple…