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After entering the era of big data, more and more companies build services with machine learning techniques. However, it is costly for companies to collect data and extract helpful handcraft features on their own. Although it is a way to…

Fine-tuning unlocks large language models (LLMs) for specialized applications, but its high computational cost often puts it out of reach for resource-constrained organizations. While cloud platforms could provide the needed resources, data…

Traditional security protection methods struggle to address sophisticated attack vectors in large-scale distributed systems, particularly when balancing detection accuracy with data privacy concerns. This paper presents a novel distributed…

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