collaborators

7 papers

cs.AI2026

Can LLM Agents Price Competitively? A Dynamic Multi-Attribute Auction Benchmark for Agentic Commerce

Shimaa Ahmed, Yiwei Cai, Mohsen Minaei +1

Agentic commerce is moving from concept to deployed infrastructure: payment networks, retailers, and AI platforms are setting the stage for agents to transact on behalf of merchant…

cs.LG2026

ScaLoRA: Optimally Scaled Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient High-Rank Fine-Tuning

Yilang Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Yiwei Cai +1

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale in size, the computational overhead has become a major bottleneck for task-specific fine-tuning. While low-rank adaptation (LoRA)…

cs.CR2026

Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vertical Federated Learning

Shan Jin, Sai Rahul Rachuri, Yizhen Wang +2

We propose a novel end-to-end privacy-preserving framework, instantiated by three efficient protocols for different deployment scenarios, covering both input and output privacy, fo…

cs.CR2026

Detecting Data Poisoning in Code Generation LLMs via Black-Box, Vulnerability-Oriented Scanning

Shenao Yan, Shimaa Ahmed, Shan Jin +4

Code generation large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into modern software development workflows. Recent work has shown that these models are vulnerable to backd…

cs.AI2026

Understanding LLM Evaluator Behavior: A Structured Multi-Evaluator Framework for Merchant Risk Assessment

Liang Wang, Junpeng Wang, Chin-chia Michael Yeh +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as evaluators of reasoning quality, yet their reliability and bias in payments-risk settings remain poorly understood. We introdu…

cs.IR2025

SimAug: Enhancing Recommendation with Pretrained Language Models for Dense and Balanced Data Augmentation

Yuying Zhao, Xiaodong Yang, Huiyuan Chen +4

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are extensively used in collaborative filtering due to their impressive effectiveness. These systems depend on interaction data to learn user and item e…