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  • Wei Chen

    Possible advisor · last author on 4 of their early first-author papers, 2018–2020

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  • SplitFed: When Federated Learning Meets Split Learning

    Chandra Thapa, Pathum Chamikara Mahawaga Arachchige, Seyit Ahmet Camtepe, Lichao Sun

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2022

    A novel approach is presented, named splitfed learning (SFL), that amalgamates the two approaches eliminating their inherent drawbacks, along with a refined architectural configuration incorporating differential privacy and PixelDP to enhance data privacy and model robustness.

    1,007
  • A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC): A History of Generative AI from GAN to ChatGPT

    Yihan Cao, Siyu Li, Yixin Liu, Yan, Zhiling, Yutong Dai, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun

    arXiv · 2023

    This survey provides a comprehensive review on the history of generative models, and basic components, recent advances in AIGC from unimmodal interaction and multimodal interaction, and introduces the generation tasks and relative models of text and image.

    868
  • Membership Inference Attacks on Machine Learning: A Survey

    Hongsheng Hu, Zoran A. Salcic, Lichao Sun, Gillian Dobbie, Philip S. Yu, Xuyun Zhang

    ACM Computing Surveys · 2022

    This article provides the taxonomies for both attacks and defenses, based on their characterizations, and discusses their pros and cons, and point out several promising future research directions to inspire the researchers who wish to follow this area.

    746
  • Sora: A Review on Background, Technology, Limitations, and Opportunities of Large Vision Models

    Liu, Yixin, Kai Zhang, Yuan Li, Yan, Zhiling, Chujie Gao, Ruoxi Chen, Zhengqing Yuan, Huang, Yue, +4 more

    arXiv · 2024

    This paper presents a comprehensive review of the model's background, related technologies, applications, remaining challenges, and future directions of text-to-video AI models.

    734
  • Significant Permission Identification for Machine-Learning-Based Android Malware Detection

    Jin Li, Lichao Sun, Qiben Yan, Zhiqiang Li, Witawas Srisa‐an, Heng Ye

    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2018

    607
  • Privacy and Robustness in Federated Learning: Attacks and Defenses

    Lingjuan Lyu, Han Yu, Xingjun Ma, Chen Chen, Lichao Sun, Jun Zhao, Qiang Yang, Philip S. Yu

    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2022

    A comprehensive survey on privacy and robustness in FL over the past five years is conducted and a concise introduction to the concept of FL is provided and a unique taxonomy covering privacy attacks and defenses is provided.

    582
  • A Survey on Text Classification: From Traditional to Deep Learning

    Qian Li, Hao Ming Peng, Jianxin Li, Congying Xia, Renyu Yang, Lichao Sun, Philip S. Yu, Lifang He

    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · 2022

    A taxonomy for text classification according to the text involved and the models used for feature extraction and classification is created, dealing with both the technical developments and benchmark datasets that support tests of predictions.

    580
  • A comprehensive survey on pretrained foundation models: a history from BERT to ChatGPT

    Ce Zhou, Qian Li, Chen Li, Jun Yu, Yixin Liu, Guangjing Wang, Kai Zhang, Cheng Ji, +11 more

    International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics · 2024

    This survey aims to shed light on the research of the PFMs on scalability, security, logical reasoning ability, cross-domain learning ability, cross-domain learning ability, and user-friendly interactive ability for artificial general intelligence.

    554
  • A generalist vision–language foundation model for diverse biomedical tasks

    Kai Zhang, Rong Zhou, Eashan Adhikarla, Zhiling Yan, Yixin Liu, Jun Yu, Zhengliang Liu, Xun Chen, +15 more

    Nature Medicine · 2024

    BiomedGPT is described, the first open-source and lightweight vision–language foundation model, designed as a generalist capable of performing various biomedical tasks, which achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in 16 out of 25 biomedical tasks, with promising performance in a series of potential clinical applications.

    469
  • Adversarial Attack and Defense on Graph Data: A Survey

    Lichao Sun, Yingtong Dou, Carl Yang, Kai Zhang, Ji Wang, Philip S. Yu, Lifang He, Bo Li

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 2022

    This review is intended to provide an overall landscape of more than 100 papers on adversarial attack and defense strategies for graph data, and establish a unified formulation encompassing most graph adversarial learning models.

    409
  • Decentralized Federated Learning: A Survey and Perspective

    Liangqi Yuan, Ziran Wang, Lichao Sun, Philip S. Yu, Christopher G. Brinton

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2024

    A systematic and detailed perspective on DFL, including iteration order, communication protocols, network topologies, paradigm proposals, and temporal variability, and several extended variants and categorizations are proposed with state-of-the-art (SOTA) technologies.

    362
  • User Preference-aware Fake News Detection

    Yingtong Dou, Kai Shu, Congying Xia, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2021

    A new framework, UPFD, is proposed, which simultaneously captures various signals from user preferences by joint content and graph modeling, and demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed framework on real-world datasets.

    357
  • AugGPT: Leveraging ChatGPT for Text Data Augmentation

    Haixing Dai, Zhengliang Liu, Wenxiong Liao, Xiaoke Huang, Yihan Cao, Zihao Wu, Lin Zhao, Shaochen Xu, +11 more

    IEEE Transactions on Big Data · 2025

    Experimental results on multiple few-shot learning text classification tasks show the superior performance of the proposed AugGPT approach over state-of-the-art text data augmentation methods in terms of testing accuracy and distribution of the augmented samples.

    316
  • LDP-FL: Practical Private Aggregation in Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy

    Lichao Sun, Jianwei Qian, Xun Chen

    Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    A novel design of local differential privacy mechanism for federated learning that makes the local weights update differentially private by adapting to the varying ranges at different layers of a deep neural network, which introduces a smaller variance of the estimated model weights, especially for deeper models.

    282
  • MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use

    Huang, Yue, Jiawen Shi, Yuan Li, Chenrui Fan, Wu, Siyuan, Qihui Zhang, Yixin Liu, Pan Zhou, +3 more

    arXiv · 2023

    MetaTool is introduced, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether LLMs have tool usage awareness and can correctly choose tools, and recommends that tool developers choose an appropriate rewrite model for generating new descriptions based on the downstream LLM the tool will apply to.

    244
  • Optimization-based Prompt Injection Attack to LLM-as-a-Judge

    Jiawen Shi, Zenghui Yuan, Yinuo Liu, Yue Huang, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun, Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 2024

    This work proposes JudgeDeceiver, an optimization-based prompt injection attack to LLM-as-a-Judge that injects a carefully crafted sequence into an attacker-controlled candidate response such that LLM-as-a-Judge selects the candidate response for an attacker-chosen question no matter what other candidate responses are.

    237
  • MA-SAM: Modality-agnostic SAM adaptation for 3D medical image segmentation

    Cheng Chen, Juzheng Miao, Dufan Wu, Aoxiao Zhong, Zhiling Yan, Sekeun Kim, Jiang Jun Hu, Zhengliang Liu, +5 more

    Medical Image Analysis · 2024

    A modality-agnostic SAM adaptation framework that is applicable to various volumetric and video medical data is introduced, and without using any prompt, consistently outperforms various state-of-the-art 3D approaches.

    235
  • A Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC)

    Y. Charles Cao, Siyu Li, Yixin Liu, Zhiling Yan, Yutong Dai, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun

    ACM Computing Surveys · 2024

    This survey provides a comprehensive review of the history of generative models and recent advances in AIGC, focusing on both unimodal and multimodal interaction.

    220
  • FedBERT : When Federated Learning Meets Pre-training

    Yuanyishu Tian, Yao Wan, Lingjuan Lyu, Dezhong Yao, Hai Jin, Lichao Sun

    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · 2022

    This work proposes a new learning approach, FedBERT, that takes advantage of the federated learning and split learning approaches, resorting to pre-training BERT in a federated way and can prevent sharing the raw data information and obtain excellent performance.

    182
  • End-to-End Multimodal Fact-Checking and Explanation Generation: A Challenging Dataset and Models

    Barry Menglong Yao, Aditya Shah, Lichao Sun, Jin-Hee Cho, Lifu Huang

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 2023

    The first to build the benchmark dataset and solutions for end-to-end multimodal fact-checking and explanation generation and to establish baseline performances on MOCHEG, it is demonstrated that the performance of the state-of-the-art end- to-end multi-million-dollar fact- checking does not provide satisfactory outcomes.

    172
  • Mixup-Transformer: Dynamic Data Augmentation for NLP Tasks

    Lichao Sun, Congying Xia, Wenpeng Yin, Tingting Liang, Philip S. Yu, Lifang He

    International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2020

    The studies show that mixup is a domain-independent data augmentation technique to pre-trained language models, resulting in significant performance improvement for transformer-based models.

    156
  • Prompt engineering for healthcare: Methodologies and applications

    Jiaqi Wang, Enze Shi, Sigang Yu, Zihao Wu, Huawen Hu, Chong Ma, Haixing Dai, Qiushi Yang, +15 more

    Meta-Radiology · 2025

    137
  • Federated Model Distillation with Noise-Free Differential Privacy

    Lichao Sun, Lingjuan Lyu

    Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    This paper proposes a novel framework called FEDMD-NFDP, which applies a Noise-FreeDifferential Privacy (NFDP) mechanism into a federated model distillation framework, and demonstrates the feasibility of this framework by considering both IID and Non-IID settings, heterogeneous model architectures, and unlabelled public datasets from a different distribution.

    135
  • Private Model Compression via Knowledge Distillation

    Ji Wang, Weidong Bao, Lichao Sun, Xiaomin Zhu, Bokai Cao, Philip S. Yu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A private model compression framework RONA, which jointly uses hint learning, distillation learning, and self learning to train a compact and fast neural network, which can not only compress cumbersome models efficiently but also provide a strong privacy guarantee.

    133
  • Tackling Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning with Class Prototypes

    Yutong Dai, Zeyuan Chen, Junnan Li, Shelby Heinecke, Lichao Sun, Ran Xu

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2023

    127

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