VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Rukuo Li
dblp:409/7221
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 100% | |
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Internet of things and sensor networks · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › model compression › quantization
activation quantization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-Wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › federated learning
federated fine-tuning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-Wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
parameter-efficient fine-tuning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-Wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Internet of things and sensor networks
resource-constrained devices |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-Wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-Tuning · IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
low-rank adaptation · 2.0greedy strategy · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | FedQuad: Adaptive Layer-Wise LoRA Deployment and Activation Quantization for Federated Fine-TuningabstractFederated fine-tuning (FedFT) provides an effective paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in privacy-sensitive scenarios. However, practical deployment remains challenging due to the limited resources on end devices. Existing methods typically utilize parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), to substantially reduce communication overhead. Nevertheless, significant memory usage for activation storage and computational demands from full backpropagation remain major barriers to efficient deployment on resource-constrained end devices. Moreover, substantial resource heterogeneity across devices results in severe synchronization bottlenecks, diminishing the overall fine-tuning efficiency. To address these issues, we propose FedQuad, a novel LoRA-based FedFT framework that adaptively adjusts the LoRA depth (the number of consecutive tunable LoRA layers from the output) according to devices' computational power, while employing activation quantization to reduce memory overhead, thereby enabling efficient deployment on resource-constrained devices. Specifically, FedQuad first identifies the feasible and efficient combinations of LoRA depth and the number of activation quantization layers based on device-specific resource constraints. Subsequently, FedQuad employs a greedy strategy to select the optimal configurations for each device, effectively accommodating system heterogeneity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedQuad achieves a 1.4–5.3× convergence acceleration compared to state-of-the-art baselines when reaching target accuracy, highlighting its efficiency and deployability in resource-constrained and heterogeneous end-device environments. Jianchun Liu, Rukuo Li, Hongli Xu 0001, Qianpiao Ma, Jiaming Yan, Liusheng Huang |
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. | 2 |