Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design

Authors: Wenwei Zhao, Yanni Peng, Xiaowen Li, Jie Xu, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 65]

Conference: IEEE INFOCOM, Tokyo, Japan, 2026 [cite: 66] | BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{zhao2026malicious,
  author = {Wenwei Zhao and Yanni Peng and Xiaowen Li and Jie Xu and Yao Liu and Zhuo Lu},
  title = {Malicious Forgetting: Backdoor Injection in Active Federated Unlearning and Countermeasure Design},
  booktitle = {Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)},
  year = {2026}
}

Detecting Adversarial Spectrum Attacks via Distance to Decision Boundary Statistics

Authors: Wenwei Zhao, Xiaowen Li, Shangqing Zhao, Jie Xu, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 67]

Conference: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May, 2024 [cite: 67] | PDF | BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{23zlz-infocom,
  author = {Wenwei Zhao and Xiaowen Li and Shangqing Zhao and Jie Xu and Yao Liu and Zhuo Lu},
  title = {Detecting Adversarial Spectrum Attacks via Distance to Decision Boundary Statistics},
  booktitle = {Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)},
  pages = {691-700},
  year = {2024},
  doi = {10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621153}
}

Perception-Guided Large Perturbation Attacks against Adversarial Training of Neural Networks

Authors: Xiaowen Li, Wenwei Zhao, Ren Pang, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 57]

Journal: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) [cite: 58]

Adapter-Based Parameter-Efficient Adversarial Training for Enhanced Clean Accuracy

Authors: Xiaowen Li, Wenwei Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 59]

Conference: Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2026 [cite: 60]

Dynamic Sparse Defense Updating: Discovering Robustness-Critical Subnetworks

Authors: Xiaowen Li, Wenwei Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 61]

Conference: Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2026 [cite: 62]

Consistency-Preserving Logit Shaping for Robust Model Stealing Defense

Authors: Xiaowen Li, Wenwei Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu [cite: 63]

Conference: Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2026 [cite: 64]

Randomized Algorithms for Solving Singular Value Decomposition Problems with Matlab Toolbox

Author: Xiaowen Li [cite: 68]

Thesis: Master's thesis, Dept. Math., University of Kansas, 2021 [cite: 68, 69]