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Lab updates.
Recent papers, grants, professional service, and lab milestones.
- 2026 July 2026: HERO benchmark library released on arXiv - arXiv preprint
HERO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Benchmark Library for Federated Continual Learning is now available on arXiv. The work introduces a heterogeneity-aware benchmark library with controlled task splits, client data splits, and task-order mismatch for reproducible federated continual learning evaluation. - 2026 July 2026: H-SFP provisionally accepted to ECCV 2026 - Paper accepted
H-SFP: Hierarchical Federated Learning with Decoupled Split-Model Prototyping has been provisionally accepted to ECCV 2026. Congratulations to Dung Tran, Nguyen Binh Ha, Duong Nguyen, Dinh Nguyen, and Prof. Kok-Seng Wong. - 2026 June 22, 2026: Rethinking Molecular Graph Backdoors released on arXiv - arXiv preprint
Rethinking Molecular Graph Backdoors under Chemistry-aware Admission is now available on arXiv. The work studies chemistry-aware admission checks and admission-aware molecular graph backdoor attacks. - 2026 June 14, 2026: Projected Rehearsal Orchestration released on arXiv - arXiv preprint
When Generator Replay Degrades: Projected Rehearsal Orchestration for Heterogeneous Federated Class-Incremental Learning is now available on arXiv. - 2026 June 2026: WiFi-Mamba accepted to ICML 2026 - Paper accepted
Interleaved Selective State Space Models for Efficient WiFi-Based 3D Multi-Person Pose Estimation has been accepted to ICML 2026. Congratulations to Quang-Anh N. D. and Prof. Kok-Seng Wong. - 2026 May 2026: ICML 2026 reviewing recognition - Professional service
Prof. Kok-Seng Wong has been recognized as an ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer, and Thinh Nguyen has been recognized as an ICML 2026 Silver Reviewer. - 2026 April 2026: NeurIPS 2026 Area Chair service - Professional service
Prof. Kok-Seng Wong will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026. - 2026 April 2026: TrustFed: Trustworthy Federated Large Language Models - Project launch
TrustFed is funded by the Accelerating Research Excellence Program, VinUniversity, from April 2026 to April 2028. Principal Investigator: Prof. Kok-Seng Wong. - 2026 March 2026: BackFed accepted at the ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI Workshop - Paper accepted
BackFed has been accepted at the ICLR 2026 Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI. - 2026 February 2026: HFedATM accepted at CVPR 2026 - Paper accepted
HFedATM has been accepted at the main technical track of CVPR 2026. - 2026 February 2026: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026 Findings - Paper accepted
Onboarding Without Forgetting and Memory-efficient Continual Learning with Prototypical Exemplar Condensation have been accepted at CVPR 2026 Findings. - 2025 November 2025: Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attacks accepted at AAAI 2026 - Paper accepted
Clean-Label Physical Backdoor Attacks with Data Distillation has been accepted at the main technical track of AAAI 2026. - 2025 August 2025: SC-GIR accepted at IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing - Paper accepted
SC-GIR: Goal-oriented Semantic Communication via Invariant Representation Learning for Image Transmission has been accepted at IEEE TMC.