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most citedBadNL: Backdoor Attacks against NLP Models with Semantic-preserving Improvements

190 citations · 234 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CR2026

ACLE-MCP: Attested Capability Leases for Execution-Time Trust in Remote LLM Tool Use

Zhiyang Ding, Yang Luo, Guangpu Chen +2

Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) services enable large language model agents to invoke external tools, but OAuth authorization alone does not ensure that a later tool call is ex…

cs.LG2026

AS-FedBridge: Pseudo-Spike Bridge Distillation for Heterogeneous ANN-SNN Federated Learning

Shengyang Li, Yiting Dong, Liuyang Song +5

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed edge devices while strictly preserving data privacy. To facilitate practical deployment on resource-const…

cs.AI2026

Exploring Information Seeking Agent Consolidation

Guochen Yan, Jialong Wu, Zhengwei Tao +8

Information-seeking agents have emerged as a powerful paradigm for knowledge-intensive tasks, yet today's systems remain specialized for the open web, documents, or local knowledge…

cs.CL2025

FedSRD: Sparsify-Reconstruct-Decompose for Communication-Efficient Federated Large Language Models Fine-Tuning

Guochen Yan, Luyuan Xie, Qingni Shen +2

The current paradigm of training large language models (LLMs) on public available Web data is becoming unsustainable as high-quality data sources in specialized domains near exhaus…

cs.LG2025

dFLMoE: Decentralized Federated Learning via Mixture of Experts for Medical Data Analysis

Luyuan Xie, Tianyu Luan, Wenyuan Cai +7

Federated learning has wide applications in the medical field. It enables knowledge sharing among different healthcare institutes while protecting patients' privacy. However, exist…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

SoK: Understanding zk-SNARKs: The Gap Between Research and Practice

Junkai Liang, Daqi Hu, Pengfei Wu +3

Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk-SNARKs) are a powerful tool for proving computation correctness, attracting significant interest from researchers…

cs.LG2024

FedVCK: Non-IID Robust and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Valuable Condensed Knowledge for Medical Image Analysis

Guochen Yan, Luyuan Xie, Xinyi Gao +4

Federated learning has become a promising solution for collaboration among medical institutions. However, data owned by each institution would be highly heterogeneous and the distr…

cs.LG2024

Personalized One-shot Federated Graph Learning for Heterogeneous Clients

Guochen Yan, Xunkai Li, Luyuan Xie +3

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for breaking data silos among distributed private graphs. In practical scenarios involving heterogeneous distribu…

cs.LG2024

MH-pFLGB: Model Heterogeneous personalized Federated Learning via Global Bypass for Medical Image Analysis

Luyuan Xie, Manqing Lin, ChenMing Xu +7

In the evolving application of medical artificial intelligence, federated learning is notable for its ability to protect training data privacy. Federated learning facilitates colla…

cs.CV2024

pFLFE: Cross-silo Personalized Federated Learning via Feature Enhancement on Medical Image Segmentation

Luyuan Xie, Manqing Lin, Siyuan Liu +6

In medical image segmentation, personalized cross-silo federated learning (FL) is becoming popular for utilizing varied data across healthcare settings to overcome data scarcity an…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

MH-pFLID: Model Heterogeneous personalized Federated Learning via Injection and Distillation for Medical Data Analysis

Luyuan Xie, Manqing Lin, Tianyu Luan +4

Federated learning is widely used in medical applications for training global models without needing local data access. However, varying computational capabilities and network arch…

eess.IV2023★ 6 cited

SHISRCNet: Super-resolution And Classification Network For Low-resolution Breast Cancer Histopathology Image

Luyuan Xie, Cong Li, Zirui Wang +4

The rapid identification and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer, known as the killer of women, have become greatly significant for those patients. Numerous breast cancer histopath…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Text-to-Image Diffusion Models can be Easily Backdoored through Multimodal Data Poisoning

Shengfang Zhai, Yinpeng Dong, Qingni Shen +3

With the help of conditioning mechanisms, the state-of-the-art diffusion models have achieved tremendous success in guided image generation, particularly in text-to-image synthesis…

cs.CR2023

NCL: Textual Backdoor Defense Using Noise-augmented Contrastive Learning

Shengfang Zhai, Qingni Shen, Xiaoyi Chen +4

At present, backdoor attacks attract attention as they do great harm to deep learning models. The adversary poisons the training data making the model being injected with a backdoo…

cs.CL2022

Apple of Sodom: Hidden Backdoors in Superior Sentence Embeddings via Contrastive Learning

Xiaoyi Chen, Baisong Xin, Shengfang Zhai +3

This paper finds that contrastive learning can produce superior sentence embeddings for pre-trained models but is also vulnerable to backdoor attacks. We present the first backdoor…

cs.CR2022

Kallima: A Clean-label Framework for Textual Backdoor Attacks

Xiaoyi Chen, Yinpeng Dong, Zeyu Sun +3

Although Deep Neural Network (DNN) has led to unprecedented progress in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, research shows that deep models are extremely vulnerable to…

cs.CR2020★ 190 cited

BadNL: Backdoor Attacks against NLP Models with Semantic-preserving Improvements

Xiaoyi Chen, Ahmed Salem, Dingfan Chen +5

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have progressed rapidly during the past decade and have been deployed in various real-world applications. Meanwhile, DNN models have been shown to be vu…

cs.CR2019★ 6 cited

PML: An Interpreter-Based Access Control Policy Language for Web Services

Yang Luo, Qingni Shen, Zhonghai Wu

Access control is an important component for web services such as a cloud. Current clouds tend to design the access control mechanism together with the policy language on their own…

cs.CR2018★ 25 cited

KASR: A Reliable and Practical Approach to Attack Surface Reduction of Commodity OS Kernels

Zhi Zhang, Yueqiang Cheng, Surya Nepal +3

Commodity OS kernels have broad attack surfaces due to the large code base and the numerous features such as device drivers. For a real-world use case (e.g., an Apache Server), man…

cs.CR2017★ 1 cited

Android Multi-Level System Permission Management Approach

Yang Luo, Qixun Zhang, Qingni Shen +2

With the expansion of the market share occupied by the Android platform, security issues (especially application security) have become attention focus of researchers. In fact, the…