Zhenyu Guan 0002

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7ranked-venue papers in the field
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6since 2021 · last 2026
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Knowledge Engineering, Semantic Web & Information Systems · 4Information Retrieval & Web Search · 2Database Systems & Data Management · 1
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 AlignSketch: A Framework for Aligning Theoretical and Practical Estimation Errors
Hanyue Zheng, Jingwei Shi, Xinye Xu, Wei Zhou 0077, Tong Yang 0003, Zhenyu Guan 0002, Yong Cui 0001
ICDE7
2026 SADOG: Secure Agent Discovery and Orchestration via DID-Based Endorsement and Blockchain Interaction Graphs
Jinlinag Xu, Yizhong Liu, Zhenyu Guan 0002, Bingqi Li, Zian Jin
KSEM (4)4
2026 TeSLIA: A Practical Label Inference Attack in Two-Party Split Learning for Text Classification
Xinyan Gao, Song Bian 0001, Zhenyu Guan 0002
KSEM (2)5
2025 FLock: Robust and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning based on Practical Blockchain State Channels
abstract
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm that allows multiple clients to train models collaboratively without sharing local data. Numerous works have explored security and privacy protection in FL, as well as its integration with blockchain technology. However, existing FL works still face critical issues. i) It is difficult to achieving poisoning robustness and data privacy while ensuring high model accuracy. Malicious clients can launch poisoning attacks that degrade the global model. Besides, aggregators can infer private data from the gradients, causing privacy leakages. Existing privacy-preserving poisoning defense FL solutions suffer from decreased model accuracy and high computational overhead. ii) Blockchain-assisted FL records iterative gradient updates on-chain to prevent model tampering, yet existing schemes are not compatible with practical blockchains and incur high costs for maintaining the gradients on-chain. Besides, incentives are overlooked, where unfair reward distribution hinders the sustainable development of the FL community. In this work, we propose FLock, a robust and privacy-preserving FL scheme based on practical blockchain state channels. First, we propose a lightweight secure Multi-party Computation (MPC)-friendly robust aggregation method through quantization, median, and Hamming distance, which could resist poisoning attacks against up to <50% malicious clients. Besides, we propose communication-efficient Shamir's secret sharing-based MPC protocols to protect data privacy with high model accuracy. Second, we utilize blockchain off-chain state channels to achieve immutable model records and incentive distribution. FLock achieves cost-effective compatibility with practical cryptocurrency platforms, e.g. Ethereum, along with fair incentives, by merging the secure aggregation into a multi-party state channel. In addition, a pipelined Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) consensus is integrated where each aggregator can reconstruct the final aggregated results. Lastly, we implement FLock and the evaluation results demonstrate that FLock enhances robustness and privacy, while maintaining efficiency and high model accuracy. Even with 25 aggregators and 100 clients, FLock can complete one secure aggregation for ResNet in 2 minutes over a WAN. FLock successfully implements secure aggregation with such a large number of aggregators, thereby enhancing the fault tolerance of the aggregation.
Ye Dong, Yizhong Liu, Tingyu Fan, Dawei Li 0009, Zhenyu Guan 0002, Jianwei Liu 0001, Jianying Zhou 0001
WWW6
2025 Fully Anonymous Decentralized Identity Supporting Threshold Traceability with Practical Blockchain
Yizhong Liu, Zedan Zhao, Feiang Ran, Xun Lin, Dawei Li 0009, Zhenyu Guan 0002
WWW7
2022 PUF-Based Intellectual Property Protection for CNN Model
Dawei Li 0009, Yangkun Ren, Di Liu 0019, Zhenyu Guan 0002, Qianyun Zhang 0001, Jianwei Liu 0001
KSEM (3)4
2020 Flexible attribute-based proxy re-encryption for efficient data sharing
Zheng Qin 0001, Qianhong Wu, Zhenyu Guan 0002, Yunya Zhou
Inf. Sci.4