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most citedOptChain: Optimal Transactions Placement for Scalable Blockchain Sharding

165 citations · 308 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2025

Theoretically Unmasking Inference Attacks Against LDP-Protected Clients in Federated Vision Models

Quan Nguyen, Minh N. Vu, Truc Nguyen +1

Federated Learning enables collaborative learning among clients via a coordinating server while avoiding direct data sharing, offering a perceived solution to preserve privacy. How…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Analysis of Privacy Leakage in Federated Large Language Models

Minh N. Vu, Truc Nguyen, Tre' R. Jeter +1

With the rapid adoption of Federated Learning (FL) as the training and tuning protocol for applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), recent research highlights the need…

cs.CR2023

OASIS: Offsetting Active Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning

Tre' R. Jeter, Truc Nguyen, Raed Alharbi +1

Federated Learning (FL) has garnered significant attention for its potential to protect user privacy while enhancing model training efficiency. For that reason, FL has found its us…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Active Membership Inference Attack under Local Differential Privacy in Federated Learning

Truc Nguyen, Phung Lai, Khang Tran +2

Federated learning (FL) was originally regarded as a framework for collaborative learning among clients with data privacy protection through a coordinating server. In this paper, w…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

XRand: Differentially Private Defense against Explanation-Guided Attacks

Truc Nguyen, Phung Lai, NhatHai Phan +1

Recent development in the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has helped improve trust in Machine-Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) systems, in which an explanation is p…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

NeuCEPT: Locally Discover Neural Networks' Mechanism via Critical Neurons Identification with Precision Guarantee

Minh N. Vu, Truc D. Nguyen, My T. Thai

Despite recent studies on understanding deep neural networks (DNNs), there exists numerous questions on how DNNs generate their predictions. Especially, given similar predictions o…

cs.CR2022

Blockchain-based Secure Client Selection in Federated Learning

Truc Nguyen, Phuc Thai, Tre' R. Jeter +2

Despite the great potential of Federated Learning (FL) in large-scale distributed learning, the current system is still subject to several privacy issues due to the fact that local…

cs.LG2022★ 92 cited

Preserving Privacy and Security in Federated Learning

Truc Nguyen, My T. Thai

Federated learning is known to be vulnerable to both security and privacy issues. Existing research has focused either on preventing poisoning attacks from users or on concealing t…

cs.CR2020★ 18 cited

A Blockchain-based Iterative Double Auction Protocol using Multiparty State Channels

Truc D. T. Nguyen, My T. Thai

Although the iterative double auction has been widely used in many different applications, one of the major problems in its current implementations is that they rely on a trusted t…

cs.CR2020★ 20 cited

Denial-of-Service Vulnerability of Hash-based Transaction Sharding: Attack and Countermeasure

Truc Nguyen, My T. Thai

Since 2016, sharding has become an auspicious solution to tackle the scalability issue in legacy blockchain systems. Despite its potential to strongly boost the blockchain throughp…

cs.CR2020★ 165 cited

OptChain: Optimal Transactions Placement for Scalable Blockchain Sharding

Lan N. Nguyen, Truc Nguyen, Thang N. Dinh +1

A major challenge in blockchain sharding protocols is that more than 95% transactions are cross-shard. Not only those cross-shard transactions degrade the system throughput but als…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

c-Eval: A Unified Metric to Evaluate Feature-based Explanations via Perturbation

Minh N. Vu, Truc D. Nguyen, NhatHai Phan +2

In many modern image-classification applications, understanding the cause of model's prediction can be as critical as the prediction's accuracy itself. Various feature-based local…

cs.NI2018

Publish-Subscribe Framework for Event Management in IoT-based Applications

Truc D. T. Nguyen, Quan M. B. Nguyen, Hoang-Anh Pham

The incredible growth of sensors and microcontroller units makes the task of real-time event monitoring in the Internet of Things (IoT) based applications easier and more practical…