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  • Benchmarking Poisoning Attacks against Retrieval-Augmented Generation Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Baolei Zhang*, Haoran Xin*, Jiatong Li*, Dongzhe Zhang*, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Lihai Nie, and Zheli Liu

    Preprint, 2025 (*co-primary authors)

  • Practical Poisoning Attacks against Retrieval-Augmented Generation Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Baolei Zhang, Yuxi Chen, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Lihai Nie, Tong Li, and Zheli Liu

    Preprint, 2025

  • Find a Scapegoat: Poisoning Membership Inference Attack and Defense to Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Wenjin Mo*, Zhiyuan Li*, Minghong Fang, and Mingwei Fang

    In Proc. ICCV, 2025 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 24%)

  • Toward Malicious Clients Detection in Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Zhihao Dou*, Jiaqi Wang*, Wei Sun, Zhuqing Liu, and Minghong Fang

    In Proc. ACM AsiaCCS, 2025 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 20.4%)

  • Model Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning via Multi-Round Consistency Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Yueqi Xie, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. CVPR, 2025 (acceptance rate: 22.1%)

  • Do We Really Need to Design New Byzantine-robust Aggregation Rules? Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Seyedsina Nabavirazavi, Zhuqing Liu, Wei Sun, Sundararaja Sitharama Iyengar, and Haibo Yang

    In Proc. NDSS, 2025 (acceptance rate: 16.1%)

  • Traceback of Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Baolei Zhang*, Haoran Xin*, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi, Tong Li, and Zheli Liu

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2025 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 19.8%)

  • Provably Robust Federated Reinforcement Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang*, Xilong Wang*, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2025 (*co-primary authors)

    Oral Presentation (acceptance rate: 7.5%)

  • Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning over Ring-All-Reduce Distributed Computing Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Xuecen Zhao, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2025

  • Poisoning Attacks and Defenses to Federated Unlearning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Wenbin Wang*, Qiwen Ma*, Zifan Zhang, Yuchen Liu, Zhuqing Liu, and Minghong Fang

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2025 (*co-primary authors)

    🎙️ Media Coverage: Devdiscourse

  • Byzantine-Robust Decentralized Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Zifan Zhang, Hairi, Prashant Khanduri, Jia Liu, Songtao Lu, Yuchen Liu, and Neil Gong

    In Proc. ACM CCS, 2024 (acceptance rate: 16.9%)

  • On the Hardness of Decentralized Multi-Agent Policy Evaluation under Byzantine Attacks Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Hairi*, Minghong Fang*, Zifan Zhang, Alvaro Velasquez, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. WiOpt, 2024 (*co-primary authors)

  • Adversarial Attacks to Multi-Modal Models Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Zhihao Dou, Xin Hu, Haibo Yang, Zhuqing Liu, and Minghong Fang

    In Proc. ACM LAMPS, 2024

  • Securing Distributed Network Digital Twin Systems Against Model Poisoning Attacks Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Mingzhe Chen, Gaolei Li, Xi Lin, and Yuchen Liu

    In IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024

  • Understanding Server-Assisted Federated Learning in the Presence of Incomplete Client Participation Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Haibo Yang, Peiwen Qiu, Prashant Khanduri, Minghong Fang, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. ICML, 2024 (acceptance rate: 27.5%)

  • FedREDefense: Defending against Model Poisoning Attacks for Federated Learning using Model Update Reconstruction Error Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF Code

    Yueqi Xie, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. ICML, 2024 (acceptance rate: 27.5%)

  • Poisoning Attacks on Federated Learning-based Wireless Traffic Prediction Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Zifan Zhang, Minghong Fang, Jiayuan Huang, and Yuchen Liu

    In Proc. IFIP Networking, 2024 (acceptance rate: 24.6%)

    🏆 Best Paper Runner-up Award

  • Tracing Back the Malicious Clients in Poisoning Attacks to Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Yuqi Jia, Minghong Fang, Hongbin Liu, Jinghuai Zhang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    Preprint, 2024

  • GradSafe: Detecting Jailbreak Prompts for LLMs via Safety-Critical Gradient Analysis Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF Code

    Yueqi Xie, Minghong Fang, Renjie Pi, and Neil Gong

    In Proc. ACL, 2024 (acceptance rate: 21.3%)

  • Poisoning Federated Recommender Systems with Fake Users Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Ming Yin*, Yichang Xu*, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2024 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 20.2%)

  • Robust Federated Learning Mitigates Client-side Training Data Distribution Inference Attacks Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Yichang Xu*, Ming Yin*, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2024 (*co-primary authors)

  • Competitive Advantage Attacks to Decentralized Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Yuqi Jia, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    Preprint, 2023

  • IPCert: Provably Robust Intellectual Property Protection for Machine Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Zhengyuan Jiang, Minghong Fang, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. ICCV Workshops, 2023

  • Machine learning-based modeling approaches for estimating pyrolysis products of varied biomass and operating conditions Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Jiangfeng Shen, Mengguo Yan, Minghong Fang, and Xi Gao

    In Bioresource Technology Reports, 2022

  • AFLGuard: Byzantine-robust Asynchronous Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Jia Liu, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, and Elizabeth S. Bentley

    In Proc. ACM ACSAC, 2022 (acceptance rate: 24.1%)

  • NET-FLEET: Achieving Linear Convergence Speedup for Fully Decentralized Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Data Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Xin Zhang, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Haibo Yang, Jia Liu, and Zhengyuan Zhu

    In Proc. ACM MobiHoc, 2022 (acceptance rate: 19.8%)

  • FairRoad: Achieving Fairness for Recommender Systems with Optimized Antidote Data Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Jia Liu, Michinari Momma, and Yi Sun

    In Proc. ACM SACMAT, 2022

  • Data Poisoning Attacks and Defenses to Crowdsourcing Systems Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Minghao Sun, Qi Li, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Jin Tian, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2021 (acceptance rate: 20.6%)

  • Achieving Linear Speedup with Partial Worker Participation in Non-IID Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Haibo Yang, Minghong Fang, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. ICLR, 2021 (acceptance rate: 28.7%)

  • FLTrust: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Trust Bootstrapping Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF Code

    Xiaoyu Cao*, Minghong Fang*, Jia Liu, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. NDSS, 2021 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 15.2%)

    🏆 Top-cited Security Papers from 2021

  • Adaptive Multi-Hierarchical signSGD for Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Haibo Yang, Xin Zhang, Minghong Fang, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. IEEE SPAWC, Special Session on Distributed Signal Processing for Coding and Communications, 2020 (Invited Paper)

  • Private and Communication-Efficient Edge Learning: A Sparse Differential Gaussian-Masking Distributed SGD Approach Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Xin Zhang, Minghong Fang, Jia Liu, and Zhengyuan Zhu

    In Proc. ACM MobiHoc, 2020 (acceptance rate: 15%)

  • Influence Function based Data Poisoning Attacks to Top-N Recommender Systems Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. The Web Conference (WWW), 2020 (acceptance rate: 25%)

  • Toward Low-Cost and Stable Blockchain Networks Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang and Jia Liu

    In Proc. IEEE ICC, 2020

  • Local Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF Code

    Minghong Fang*, Xiaoyu Cao*, Jinyuan Jia, and Neil Zhenqiang Gong

    In Proc. USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 (*co-primary authors, acceptance rate: 16.1%)

    🏆 Top-cited Security Papers from 2020

    🏆 Normalized Top-100 Security Papers since 1981

  • Byzantine-Resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent for Distributed Learning: A Lipschitz-Inspired Coordinate-wise Median Approach Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Haibo Yang, Xin Zhang, Minghong Fang, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. IEEE CDC, 2019

  • Poisoning Attacks to Graph-Based Recommender Systems Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Guolei Yang, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, and Jia Liu

    In Proc. ACSAC, 2018 (acceptance rate: 20.1%)

  • Prioritizing Disease-Causing Genes Based on Network Diffusion and Rank Concordance Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Minghong Fang, Xiaohua Hu, Tingting He, Yan Wang, Junmin Zhao, Xianjun Shen, and Jie Yuan

    In Proc. IEEE BIBM, 2014 (acceptance rate: 19%)

  • A Novel Disease Gene Prediction Method Based on PPI Network Created with Fabric.js 1.7.22 PDF

    Junmin Zhao, Tingting He, Xiaohua Hu, Yan Wang, Xianjun Shen, Minghong Fang, and Jie Yuan

    In Proc. IEEE BIBM, 2014 (acceptance rate: 19%)