Papers by Zhu JianHao
Enhancing Model Privacy in Federated Learning with Random Masking and Quantization (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Zhibo Xu, Zhu JianHao, Jingwen Xu, Changze Lv, Zhenghua Wang, Zisu Huang, Xiaohua Wang, Muling Wu, Qi Qian, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | federated learning approaches are limited by the complexity of large language models and the need for specialized expertise to protect intellectual property. |
| Approach: | They propose a federated learning approach that leverages random masking to obscure a subnetwork of model parameters and applies quantization to the remaining parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach maintains strong model performance in federated learning settings and achieves enhanced protection of model parameters compared to baseline methods. |
Aligning Large Language Models with Human Preferences through Representation Engineering (2024.acl-long)
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Wenhao Liu, Xiaohua Wang, Muling Wu, Tianlong Li, Changze Lv, Zixuan Ling, Zhu JianHao, Cenyuan Zhang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing methods for achieving this alignment involve employing reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) Existing approaches involve using RLHF to fine-tune LLMs based on human labels . however, RLRF is susceptible to instability during fine- tuning and presents challenges in implementation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use reinforcement learning from human feedback to fine-tune large language models with human preferences to achieve precise control of model behavior. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that RAHF can be used to capture and manipulate representations to align with a broad spectrum of human preferences or values rather than being confined to a single concept or function. |
Advancing Parameter Efficiency in Fine-tuning via Representation Editing (2024.acl-long)
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Muling Wu, Wenhao Liu, Xiaohua Wang, Tianlong Li, Changze Lv, Zixuan Ling, Zhu JianHao, Cenyuan Zhang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has gained significant attention for its ability to achieve competitive results while updating only a small subset of trainable parameters. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach to fine-tuning neural models that scales and biases the representation produced at each layer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces the number of trainable parameters by a factor of 25,700 compared to full parameter fine-tuning and by . 32 compared with LoRA. |
Promoting Data and Model Privacy in Federated Learning through Quantized LoRA (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Zhu JianHao, Changze Lv, Xiaohua Wang, Muling Wu, Wenhao Liu, Tianlong Li, Zixuan Ling, Cenyuan Zhang, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
| Challenge: | Existing federated learning frameworks require substantial data and computational resources to develop large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that distributes a quantized version of the model’s parameters during training and combine it with a popular fine-tuning method to significantly reduce communication costs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method enables accurate estimations for parameter updates while preventing clients from accessing a model whose performance is comparable to the centrally hosted one. |