Publications

Group highlights

At the end of this page, you can find the full list of publications and patents. All papers are also available on arXiv.

HPE-Li: WiFi-enabled Lightweight Dual Selective Kernel Convolution for Human Pose Estimation

We introduces a novel HPE-Li approach that harnesses multi-modal sensors (e.g. camera and WiFi) to generate accurate 3D skeletal in HPE. We then develop an efficient deep neural network to process raw WiFi signals.

Gian Toan D, Tien Dac Lai, Thien Van Luong, Kok-Seng Wong, Van-Dinh Nguyen

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'24)

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Fooling the Textual Fooler via Randomizing Latent Representations

We propose a lightweight and attack-agnostic defense whose main goal is to perplex the process of generating an adversarial example in these query-based black-box attacks; that is to fool the textual fooler.

Duy C. Hoang, Quang H. Nguyen, Saurav Manchanda, MinLong Peng, Kok-Seng Wong, Khoa D. Doan

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'24)

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Efficiently Assemble Normalization Layers and Regularization for Federated Domain Generalization

We introduce a novel architectural method for FedDG, namely gPerXAN, which relies on a normalization scheme working with a guiding regularizer. In particular, we carefully design Personalized Xplicitly Assembled Normalization to enforce client models selectively filtering domain-specific features that are biased towards local data while retaining discrimination of those features.

Le Huy Khiem, Long Tuan Ho, Cuong Do, Danh Le-Phuoc, Kok-Seng Wong

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR'24)

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Towards Efficient Communication Federated Recommendation System via Low-rank Training

We propose a novel framework, called Correlated Low-rank Structure (CoLR), which leverages the concept of adjusting lightweight trainable parameters while keeping most parameters frozen.

Ngoc-Hieu Nguyen, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Vu Tien Hoang, Dung D Le, and Kok-Seng Wong

The Web Conference 2024 (WWW'24)

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Understanding the Robustness of Randomized Feature Defense Against Query-Based Adversarial Attacks

We propose a simple and lightweight defense against black-box attacks by adding random noise to hidden features at intermediate layers of the model at inference time.

Quang H Nguyen, Yingjie Lao, Tung Pham, Kok-Seng Wong, and Khoa D Doan

Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24)

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Personalized Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Silo Federated Learning

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, namely Personalized Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (PPPFL), with a concentration on cross-silo FL to overcome these challenges.

Van-Tuan Tran, Huy-Hieu Pham, Kok-Seng Wong

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2024)

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FedFSLAR: A Federated Learning Framework for Few-shot Action Recognition

We develop a Federated Few-Shot Learning framework, FedFSLAR, that collaboratively learns the classification model from multiple FL clients to recognize unseen actions with a few labeled video samples.

Nguyen Anh Tu, Assanali Abu, Nartay Aikyn, Nursultan Makhanov, Min-Ho Lee, Khiem Le-Huy, and Kok-Seng Wong

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV2024) Workshop

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Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning: Survey, Challenges and Future Research Directions

We provide a comprehensive survey of current backdoor attack strategies and defenses in FL, including a comprehensive analysis of different approaches.

Thuy Dung Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Phi Le Nguyen, Hieu H Pham, Khoa Doan, Kok-Seng Wong

2024 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

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IBA: Towards Irreversible Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

We proposed a framework that offers a more effective, stealthy, and durable approach to backdoor attacks in Federated Learning (FL).

Dung Thuy Nguyen, Tuan Minh Nguyen, Anh Tuan Tran, Khoa D. Doan, and Kok-Seng Wong

Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23)

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An Empirical Study of Federated Unlearning: Efficiency and Effectiveness

We present an empirical study to investigate the impacts of various unlearning methods in diverse scenarios in Federated Learning.

Thai-Hung Nguyen, Hong-Phuc Vu, Dung Thuy Nguyen, Tuan Minh Nguyen, Khoa D Doan, Kok-Seng Wong

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (ACML'23)

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Defending backdoor attacks on vision transformer via patch processing

In this paper, we present the frst defensive strategy that utilizes a unique characteristic of ViTs against backdoor attacks.

Khoa D Doan, Yingjie Lao, Peng Yang, Ping Li

2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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FedDCT: Federated Learning of Large Convolutional Neural Networks on Resource Constrained Devices using Divide and Co-Training

We introduce FedDCT, a novel distributed learning paradigm that enables the usage of large, high-performance CNNs on resource-limited edge devices.

Quan Nguyen, Hieu H Pham, Kok-Seng Wong, Phi Le Nguyen, Truong Thao Nguyen, Minh N Do

2023 IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

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Marksman backdoor: Backdoor attacks with arbitrary target class

In this paper, we show empirically that the proposed framework achieves high attack performance (e.g., 100% attack success rates in several experiments) while preserving the cleandata performance in several benchmark datasets, including MNIST, CIFAR10, GTSRB, and TinyImageNet.

Khoa D Doan, Yingjie Lao, Ping Li

2022 The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems

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One Loss for Quantization: Deep Hashing with Discrete Wasserstein Distributional Matching

In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient distributional distance by leveraging the discrete property of the hash functions.

Doan Khoa D, Peng Yang, Ping Li

2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Unified Energy-based Generative Network for Supervised Image Hashing

The proposed model also exhibits significant robustness toward out-of-distribution query data and is able to overcome missing data in both the training and testing phase with minimal retrieval performance degradation. Extensive experiments on several real-world datasets demonstrate superior results in which the proposed model achieves up to 5% improvement over the current state-of-the-art supervised hashing methods and exhibits a significant performance boost and robustness in both out-of-distribution retrieval and missing data scenarios.

Khoa D Doan, Sarkhan Badirli, Chandan K Reddy

2022 Conference on Asian Conference on Computer Vision

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Toward Efficient Hierarchical Federated Learning Design Over Multi-Hop Wireless Communications Networks

This paper proposes a two-hop communication protocol with a dynamic resource allocation strategy to investigate the possibility of bandwidth allocation from a limited network resource to the maximum number of clients participating in FL.

Tu Viet Nguyen, Nhan Duc Ho, Hieu Thien Hoang, Cuong Danh Do, Kok-Seng Wong

IEEE Access 2022

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On the Trade-off Between Privacy Protection and Data Utility for Chest X-ray Images

This paper aims to find a trade-off between our privacy protection method and data utility for medical images. Specifically, we propose a solution to anonymize chest X-ray images by directly adding noise to the images to prevent verification attacks and evaluate how well those images can maintain good performance in the lung disease classification task.

Truong Giang Vu, Nursultan Makhanov, Nguyen Anh Tu, Kok-Seng Wong

2022 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC)

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Emerging Privacy and Trust Issues for Autonomous Vehicle Systems

This paper discusses the emerging privacy and trust issues that are essential to motivate the acceptance of autonomous vehicles operating on public roads.

Thai-Hung Nguyen, Truong Giang Vu, Huong-Lan Tran, Kok-Seng Wong

2022 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)

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Efficient two-party integer comparison with block vectorization mechanism

In this paper, we transform the private integer comparison into a block comparison problem.In particular, we employ a block vectorization mechanism to encode the private inputs into blocks.

Thai-Hung Nguyen, Kok-Seng Wong, Thomas Oikonomou

IEEE Access 2021

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LIRA: Learnable, Imperceptible and Robust Backdoor Attacks

In this paper, we propose a novel and stealthy backdoor attack framework, LIRA, which jointly learns the optimal, stealthy trigger injection function and poisons the model. We formulate such an objective as a non-convex, constrained optimization problem.

Khoa Doan, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

2021 International Conference on Computer Vision

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Backdoor Attack with Imperceptible Input and Latent Modification

In this paper, we extend the concept of imperceptible backdoor from the input space to the latent representation, which significantly improves the effectiveness against the existing defense mechanisms, especially those relying on the distinguishability between clean inputs and backdoor inputs in latent space.

Khoa Doan, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li

2021 The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems

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Full List of publications

HPE-Li: WiFi-enabled Lightweight Dual Selective Kernel Convolution for Human Pose Estimation
Gian Toan D, Tien Dac Lai, Thien Van Luong, Kok-Seng Wong, Van-Dinh Nguyen
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’24)

Fooling the Textual Fooler via Randomizing Latent Representations
Duy C. Hoang, Quang H. Nguyen, Saurav Manchanda, MinLong Peng, Kok-Seng Wong, Khoa D. Doan
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’24)

Efficiently Assemble Normalization Layers and Regularization for Federated Domain Generalization
Le Huy Khiem, Long Tuan Ho, Cuong Do, Danh Le-Phuoc, Kok-Seng Wong
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR’24)

Towards Efficient Communication Federated Recommendation System via Low-rank Training
Ngoc-Hieu Nguyen, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Vu Tien Hoang, Dung D Le, and Kok-Seng Wong
The Web Conference 2024 (WWW’24)

Understanding the Robustness of Randomized Feature Defense Against Query-Based Adversarial Attacks
Quang H Nguyen, Yingjie Lao, Tung Pham, Kok-Seng Wong, and Khoa D Doan
Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR’24)

Personalized Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cross-Silo Federated Learning
Van-Tuan Tran, Huy-Hieu Pham, Kok-Seng Wong
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2024)

FedFSLAR: A Federated Learning Framework for Few-shot Action Recognition
Nguyen Anh Tu, Assanali Abu, Nartay Aikyn, Nursultan Makhanov, Min-Ho Lee, Khiem Le-Huy, and Kok-Seng Wong
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV2024) Workshop

Backdoor Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning: Survey, Challenges and Future Research Directions
Thuy Dung Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Phi Le Nguyen, Hieu H Pham, Khoa Doan, Kok-Seng Wong
2024 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

IBA: Towards Irreversible Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Dung Thuy Nguyen, Tuan Minh Nguyen, Anh Tuan Tran, Khoa D. Doan, and Kok-Seng Wong
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’23)

An Empirical Study of Federated Unlearning: Efficiency and Effectiveness
Thai-Hung Nguyen, Hong-Phuc Vu, Dung Thuy Nguyen, Tuan Minh Nguyen, Khoa D Doan, Kok-Seng Wong
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (ACML’23)

Defending backdoor attacks on vision transformer via patch processing
Khoa D Doan, Yingjie Lao, Peng Yang, Ping Li
2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

FedDCT: Federated Learning of Large Convolutional Neural Networks on Resource Constrained Devices using Divide and Co-Training
Quan Nguyen, Hieu H Pham, Kok-Seng Wong, Phi Le Nguyen, Truong Thao Nguyen, Minh N Do
2023 IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Marksman backdoor: Backdoor attacks with arbitrary target class
Khoa D Doan, Yingjie Lao, Ping Li
2022 The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems

One Loss for Quantization: Deep Hashing with Discrete Wasserstein Distributional Matching
Doan Khoa D, Peng Yang, Ping Li
2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Unified Energy-based Generative Network for Supervised Image Hashing
Khoa D Doan, Sarkhan Badirli, Chandan K Reddy
2022 Conference on Asian Conference on Computer Vision

Toward Efficient Hierarchical Federated Learning Design Over Multi-Hop Wireless Communications Networks
Tu Viet Nguyen, Nhan Duc Ho, Hieu Thien Hoang, Cuong Danh Do, Kok-Seng Wong
IEEE Access 2022

On the Trade-off Between Privacy Protection and Data Utility for Chest X-ray Images
Truong Giang Vu, Nursultan Makhanov, Nguyen Anh Tu, Kok-Seng Wong
2022 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC)

Emerging Privacy and Trust Issues for Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Thai-Hung Nguyen, Truong Giang Vu, Huong-Lan Tran, Kok-Seng Wong
2022 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)

Efficient two-party integer comparison with block vectorization mechanism
Thai-Hung Nguyen, Kok-Seng Wong, Thomas Oikonomou
IEEE Access 2021

LIRA: Learnable, Imperceptible and Robust Backdoor Attacks
Khoa Doan, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li
2021 International Conference on Computer Vision

Backdoor Attack with Imperceptible Input and Latent Modification
Khoa Doan, Yingjie Lao, Weijie Zhao, Ping Li
2021 The Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems