3 papers
cs.LG2025
Can Federated Learning Safeguard Private Data in LLM Training? Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defense Evaluation
Wenkai Guo, Xuefeng Liu, Haolin Wang +3
Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with local data is a widely adopted approach for organizations seeking to adapt LLMs to their specific domains. Given the shared characteri…
cs.LG2024
Why Go Full? Elevating Federated Learning Through Partial Network Updates
Haolin Wang, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu +2
Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect user data privacy, which has been successfully implemented across various scenarios. In traditiona…
cs.LG2024
Decoupling General and Personalized Knowledge in Federated Learning via Additive and Low-Rank Decomposition
Xinghao Wu, Xuefeng Liu, Jianwei Niu +4
To address data heterogeneity, the key strategy of Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is to decouple general knowledge (shared among clients) and client-specific knowledge, as t…