arXiv:2609.22566v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to compress high-performance teacher LLMs into lightweight students. However, distilled students often exhibit subst...
By Dileesha Kannangara, Sanghamitra Dutta
arXiv:2608. 13905v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: HTTPS website fingerprinting (WF) aims to identify visited websites from metadata observable in encrypted traffic.
By Runhan Song, Qiqi Liu, Chuanzhou Pan, Zhenquan Ding, Youquan Xian, Chongru Fan, Lei Cui, Wei Wang, Zhiyu Hao
The paper addresses the mismatch between learner and client data distributions in federated learning, noting that traditional client selection methods often ignore this misalignment. It introduces a dynamic, influence-aware client selection framework that uses a small proxy dataset to estimate each client's utility for the learner’s objective, prioritizing informative sources while mitigating noise and heterogeneity. Experiments on CIFAR-10 with heterogeneous partitions show the proposed method outperforms static and dynamic baselines, achieving faster convergence and higher accuracy.
By Yiming Xie, Lili Su, Ningfang Mi
arXiv:2608.21570v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deploying a safety layer for large language models on commodity hardware is constrained by the guards available to do it: current open guard models hol...
By Edson Rodrigues da Cruz Filho, Paulo Ricardo Ferreira Neves, Paulo Henrique Eleuterio Falsetti, Jo\~ao Vitor Pavan, Ian Degaspari, Henrique Vieira Laturrague, Patrick Vieira Laturrague, Guilherme Nielsen Dias, Marccello Wilson Perez Berto, Gustavo Voltani Von Atzingen
arXiv:2609.13199v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge distillation aims to improve the performance of lightweight student models by transferring knowledge from larger and more powerful teacher mo...
By Dawen Jiang, Zhishu Shen, Zeyu Liu, Tiehua Zhang
arXiv:2606. 17435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series forecasting models remain vulnerable to gradient-based adversarial attacks while existing defense mechanisms typically incur a trade-off in robustness for bounded response and compute cost.
By Abhishek Bhardwaj, Arnav Doshi, Anusri Nagarajan, Thanh Quynh Nhu Ta, Mohammad Masum, Robert Chun, Jaydip Sen, Saptarshi Sengupta