Publications

2025

  1. VLDB
    Nitro: Boosting Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing
    Hanfei Yu, Jacob Carter, Hao Wang, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li, and Seung-Jong Park
    Accepted by the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2025
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2024

  1. ASPLOS
    RainbowCake: Mitigating Cold-starts in Serverless with Layer-wise Container Caching and Sharing
    Hanfei Yu, Rohan Basu Roy, Christian Fontenot, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li, Hong Zhang, Hao Wang, and Seung-Jong Park
    In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2024
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  2. AAAI
    Cheaper and Faster: Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing
    Hanfei Yu, Jian Li, Yang Hua, Xu Yuan, and Hao Wang
    In Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024
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  3. TDSC
    Siren+: Robust Federated Learning with Proactive Alarming and Differential Privacy
    Hanxi Guo, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Yang Hua, Ruhui Ma, Xiulang Jin, Zhengui Xue, and Haibing Guan
    Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2024
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  4. ICLR
    Backdoor Federated Learning by Poisoning Backdoor-Critical Layers
    Haomin Zhuang, Mingxian Yu, Hao Wang, Yang Hua, Jian Li, and Xu Yuan
    Accepted by the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
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  5. TOSN
    Room-Scale Location Trace Tracking via Continuous Acoustic Waves
    Jie Lian, Xu Yuan, Jiadong Lou, Li Chen, Hao Wang, and Nianfeng Tzeng
    Accepted by ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks 2024
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  6. CVPR
    CGI-DM: Digital Copyright Authentication for Diffusion Models via Contrasting Gradient Inversion
    Xiaoyu Wu, Yang Hua, Chumeng Liang, Jiaru Zhang, Hao Wang, Tao Song, and Haibing Guan
    In IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2024
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  7. KDD
    FedRoLA: Robust Federated Learning Against Model Poisoning via Layer-based Aggregation
    Gang Yan, Hao Wang, Xu Yuan, and Jian Li
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2024
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  8. RAID
    Enhancing Model Poisoning Attacks to Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning via Critical Learning Periods
    Gang Yan, Hao Wang, Xu Yuan, and Jian Li
    In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2024
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  9. ECCV
    SkyMask: Attack-agnostic Robust Federated Learning with Fine-grained Learnable Masks
    Peishen Yan, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Yang Hua, Ruhui Ma, Ningxin Hu, Mohammad Reza Haghighat, and Haibing Guan
    Accepted by the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
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  10. MM
    Federated Morozov Regularization for Shortcut Learning in Privacy Preserving Learning with Watermarked Image Data
    Tao Ling, Siping Shi, Hao Wang, Chuang Hu, and Dan Wang
    Accepted by the ACM Multimedia Conference (MM) 2024
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  11. SC
    Stellaris: Staleness-Aware Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing
    Hanfei Yu, Hao Wang, Devesh Tiwari, Jian Li, and Seung-Jong Park
    Accepted by the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) – Best Student Paper Finalist 2024
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  12. TPDS
    Freyr+: Harvesting Idle Resources in Serverless Computing via Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Hanfei Yu, Hao Wang, Jian Li, Xu Yuan, and Seung-Jong Park
    Accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2024
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  13. SoCC
    Pre-Warming is Not Enough: Accelerating Serverless Inference with Opportunistic Pre-Loading
    Yifan Sui, Hanfei Yu, Yitao Hu, Jianxun Li, and Hao Wang
    Accepted by the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2024
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  14. JSEN
    Temporal Contrastive Learning for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Self-Supervised Approach
    Xiaobing Chen, Xiangwei Zhou, Mingxuan Sun, and Hao Wang
    Accepted by the IEEE Sensors Journal 2024
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2023

  1. AAAI
    DeFL: Defending Against Model Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning via Critical Learning Periods Awareness
    Gang Yan, Hao Wang, Xu Yuan, and Jian Li
    In Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023
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  2. AAAI
    FedALA: Adaptive Local Aggregation for Personalized Federated Learning
    Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023
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  3. AsiaCCS
    Data Privacy Examination against Semi-Supervised Learning
    Jiadong Lou, Xu Yuan, Miao Pan, Hao Wang, and Nianfeng Tzeng
    In the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2023
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  4. IISE
    Analysis of Decoding Strategies for Transformer-Based Solution of Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problems
    Seyedeh Shaghayegh Rabbanian, Hao Wang, and Gerald M. Knapp
    In the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference & Expo 2023
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  5. HPDC
    Libra: Harvesting Idle Resources Safely and Timely in Serverless Clusters
    Hanfei Yu, Christian Fontenot, Hao Wang, Jian Li, Xu Yuan, and Seung-Jong Park
    In Proceedings of the International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2023
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  6. KDD
    CriticalFL: A Critical Learning Periods Augmented Client Selection Framework for Efficient Federated Learning
    Gang Yan, Hao Wang, Xu Yuan, and Jian Li
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023
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  7. KDD
    FedCP: Separating Feature Information for Personalized Federated Learning via Conditional Policy
    Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In Proceedings of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023
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  8. TWC
    Energy and Spectrum Efficient Federated Learning via High-Precision Over-the-Air Computation
    Liang Li, Chenpei Huang, Dian Shi, Hao Wang, Xiangwei Zhou, Minglei Shu, and Miao Pan
    The IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2023
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  9. NeurIPS
    Eliminating Domain Bias for Federated Learning in Representation Space
    Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Jian Cao, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In Proceedings of the thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023
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  10. EAI ICDF2C
    Decoding HDF5: Machine Learning File Forensics and Data Injection
    ClintonWalker, Ibrahim Baggili, and Hao Wang
    In Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime 2023
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  11. NeurIPS AI4Mat
    Self-supervised Crack Detection in X-ray Computed Tomography Data of Additive Manufacturing Parts
    Saber Nemati, Seyedeh Shaghayegh Rabbanian, Hao Wang, Leslie Butler, and Shengmin Guo
    In Proceedings of AI for Accelerated Materials Design NeurIPS Workshop 2023
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  12. ICCV
    GPFL: Simultaneously Learning Global and Personalized Feature Information for Personalized Federated Learning
    Jianqing Zhang, Yang Hua, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, Jian Cao, and Haibing Guan
    In International Conference on Computer Vision 2023
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2022

  1. WebConf
    Accelerating Serverless Computing by Harvesting Idle Resources
    Hanfei Yu, Hao Wang, Jian Li, Xu Yuan, and Seung-Jong Park
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WebConf) 2022
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  2. AAAI
    Improving Bayesian Neural Networks by Adversarial Sampling
    Jiaru Zhang, Yang Hua, Tao Song, Hao Wang, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022
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  3. AAAI
    Seizing Critical Learning Periods in Federated Learning
    Gang Yan, Hao Wang, and Jian Li
    In Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2022
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  4. TOMM
    Robust Searching-based Gradient Collaborative Management in Intelligent Transportation System
    Hongjian Shi, Hao Wang, Ruhui Ma, Yang Hua, Tao Song, Honghao Gao, and Haibing Guan
    ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) 2022
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2021

  1. IJCAI
    Themis: A Fair Evaluation Platform for Computer Vision Competitions
    Zinuo Cai, Jianyong Yuan, Yang Hua, Tao Song, Hao Wang, Zhengui Xue, Ningxin Hu, Jonathan Ding, Ruhui Ma, Mohammad Reza Haghighat, and Haibing Guan
    In the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
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  2. Network
    SpaceDML: Enabling Distributed Machine Learning in Space Information Networks
    Hanxi Guo, Qing Yang, Hao Wang, Yang Hua, Tao Song, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    IEEE Network 2021
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  3. ACSOS
    FaaSRank: Learning to Schedule Functions in Serverless Platforms
    Hanfei Yu, Athirai A. Irissappane, Hao Wang, and Wes J. Lloyd
    In IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems 2021
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  4. ICCV
    Self-Supervised Vessel Segmentation via Adversarial Learning
    Yuxin Ma, Yang Hua, Hanming Deng, Tao Song, Hao Wang, Zhengui Xue, Heng Cao, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In International Conference on Computer Vision 2021
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  5. SoCC
    Siren: Byzantine-robust Federated Learning via Proactive Alarming
    Hanxi Guo, Hao Wang, Tao Song, Yang Hua, Zhangcheng Lv, Xiulang Jin, Zhengui Xue, Ruhui Ma, and Haibing Guan
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2021
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2020

  1. TPDS
    Turbo: Dynamic and Decentralized Global Analytics via Machine Learning
    Hao Wang, Di Niu, and Baochun Li
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2020
  2. INFOCOM
    Optimizing Federated Learning on Non-IID Data with Reinforcement Learning
    Hao Wang, Zakhary Kaplan, Di Niu, and Baochun Li
    In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020
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  3. Thesis
    Optimizing Distributed Computing Systems via Machine Learning
    Hao Wang
    2020
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2019

  1. INFOCOM
    Distributed Machine Learning with a Serverless Architecture
    Hao Wang, Di Niu, and Baochun Li
    In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019
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2018

  1. SoCC
    Dynamic and Decentralized Global Analytics via Machine Learning
    Hao Wang, Di Niu, and Baochun Li
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2018
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  2. TNSE
    Mitigating Bottlenecks in Wide Area Data Analytics via Machine Learning
    Hao Wang, and Baochun Li
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering 2018
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2017

  1. HotCloud
    Lube: Mitigating Bottlenecks in Wide Area Data Analytics
    Hao Wang, and Baochun Li
    In 9th {USENIX} Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 17) 2017
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  2. ToN
    Pias: Practical information-agnostic flow scheduling for commodity data centers
    Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, and Hao Wang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2017
  3. ICDCS
    Optimizing Shuffle in Wide-area Data Analytics
    Shuhao Liu, Hao Wang, and Baochun Li
    In IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2017

2016

  1. ToN
    Guaranteeing deadlines for inter-data center transfers
    Hong Zhang, Kai Chen, Wei Bai, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, Hao Wang, Haibing Guan, and Ming Zhang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2016

2015

  1. ICDCS
    FlowProphet: Generic and accurate traffic prediction for data-parallel cluster computing
    Hao Wang, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Ziyang Li, Yiming Zhang, Haibing Guan, Zhengwei Qi, Dongsheng Li, and Yanhui Geng
    In 2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2015
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  2. NSDI
    Explicit path control in commodity data centers: Design and applications
    Shuihai Hu, Kai Chen, Haitao Wu, Wei Bai, Chang Lan, Hao Wang, Hongze Zhao, and Chuanxiong Guo
    In 12th {USENIX} Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ({NSDI} 15) 2015
  3. NSDI
    Information-agnostic flow scheduling for commodity data centers
    Wei Bai, Li Chen, Kai Chen, Dongsu Han, Chen Tian, and Hao Wang
    In 12th {USENIX} Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ({NSDI} 15) 2015
  4. ToN
    Towards comprehensive traffic forecasting in cloud computing: Design and application
    Yang Peng, Kai Chen, Guohui Wang, Wei Bai, Yangming Zhao, Hao Wang, Yanhui Geng, Zhiqiang Ma, and Lin Gu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2015

2014

  1. ICCCN
    On pricing schemes in data center network with game theoretic approach
    Hao Wang, Yangming Zhao, and Haibing Guan
    In 2014 23rd International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN) 2014
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