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20162026
most citedSAFA: a Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning with Low Overhead

359 citations · 796 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Extracting Forgotten Prompts from Targeted Unlearned Models

Au Ashley Hoi-Ting, Meghdad Kurmanji, William F. Shen +2

Recent unlearning methods (e.g. NPO, DPO, LUNAR) make use of refusal alignment to suppress forgotten data. However, it has been shown that refusal responses might leave traces of u…

cs.LG2026

DG-CoLearn: An Efficient Collaborative Learning Framework for Dynamic Graphs

Ashley Hoi-Ting Au, Zikun Zhang, Ligang He +1

Dynamic graph learning (DGL) is essential for modelling evolving graph data, but existing methods suffer from significant computational overhead due to repeated full-snapshot retra…

cs.LG2026

Lethe: Principled Dual-Stream Update for Persistent Knowledge Erasure in Federated Unlearning

Wentai Wu, Hanwei Tan, Yijun Quan +4

Federated unlearning (FU) aims to erase knowledge from a global model. Existing studies commonly assume that federated collaboration terminates after unlearning, overlooking a depl…

cs.CV2022★ 26 cited

PSNet: Fast Data Structuring for Hierarchical Deep Learning on Point Cloud

Luyang Li, Ligang He, Jinjin Gao +1

In order to retain more feature information of local areas on a point cloud, local grouping and subsampling are the necessary data structuring steps in most hierarchical deep learn…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Self-Supervised Leaf Segmentation under Complex Lighting Conditions

Xufeng Lin, Chang-Tsun Li, Scott Adams +9

As an essential prerequisite task in image-based plant phenotyping, leaf segmentation has garnered increasing attention in recent years. While self-supervised learning is emerging…

cs.CR2021

Reinforcement Learning for Security-Aware Computation Offloading in Satellite Networks

Saurav Sthapit, Subhash Lakshminarayana, Ligang He +2

The rise of NewSpace provides a platform for small and medium businesses to commercially launch and operate satellites in space. In contrast to traditional satellites, NewSpace pro…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Variation-Incentive Loss Re-weighting for Regression Analysis on Biased Data

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin

Both classification and regression tasks are susceptible to the biased distribution of training data. However, existing approaches are focused on the class-imbalanced learning and…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

FedProf: Selective Federated Learning with Representation Profiling

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +1

Federated Learning (FL) has shown great potential as a privacy-preserving solution to learning from decentralized data that are only accessible to end devices (i.e., clients). In m…

cs.LG2020★ 235 cited

An Efficiency-boosting Client Selection Scheme for Federated Learning with Fairness Guarantee

Tiansheng Huang, Weiwei Lin, Wentai Wu +3

The issue of potential privacy leakage during centralized AI's model training has drawn intensive concern from the public. A Parallel and Distributed Computing (or PDC) scheme, ter…

cs.DC2020★ 101 cited

Accelerating Federated Learning over Reliability-Agnostic Clients in Mobile Edge Computing Systems

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +1

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile,…

cs.DC2019★ 359 cited

SAFA: a Semi-Asynchronous Protocol for Fast Federated Learning with Low Overhead

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +3

Federated learning (FL) has attracted increasing attention as a promising approach to driving a vast number of end devices with artificial intelligence. However, it is very challen…

cs.LG2019★ 72 cited

Developing an Unsupervised Real-time Anomaly Detection Scheme for Time Series with Multi-seasonality

Wentai Wu, Ligang He, Weiwei Lin +4

On-line detection of anomalies in time series is a key technique used in various event-sensitive scenarios such as robotic system monitoring, smart sensor networks and data center…

cs.DC2019

Optimizing the SSD Burst Buffer by Traffic Detection

Xuanhua Shi, Wei Liu, Ligang He +3

Currently, Burst buffer has been proposed to manage the SSD buffering of bursty write requests. Although burst buffer can improve I/O performance in many cases, we find that it has…

cs.DC2017

MURS: Mitigating Memory Pressure in Service-oriented Data Processing Systems

Xuanhua Shi, Xiong Zhang, Ligang He +3

Although a data processing system often works as a batch processing system, many enterprises deploy such a system as a service, which we call the service-oriented data processing s…

cs.DC2016

Lifetime-Based Memory Management for Distributed Data Processing Systems

Lu Lu, Xuanhua Shi, Yongluan Zhou +5

In-memory caching of intermediate data and eager combining of data in shuffle buffers have been shown to be very effective in minimizing the re-computation and I/O cost in distribu…