Envisioned to be the next-generation Internet, the metaverse has been attracting enormous
attention from both the academia and industry. The metaverse can be viewed as a 3D …

As an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, decentralized exchanges
(DEXs) with automated market maker (AMM) protocols have gained massive traction with …

Plonk is a widely used succinct non-interactive proof system that uses univariate polynomial
commitments. Plonk is quite flexible: it supports circuits with low-degree “custom” gates as …

Blockchains have seen growing traction with cryptocurrencies reaching a market cap of over
1 trillion dollars, major institution investors taking interests, and global impacts on …

Blockchain, which is usually regarded as a public, decentralized and distributed ledger, has
attracted significant attention recently. In the environment of blockchain, all historical …

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (eg, mobile
devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a …

The decentralized nature of federated learning makes detecting and defending against
adversarial attacks a challenging task. This paper focuses on backdoor attacks in the …

This paper introduces Lasso, a new family of lookup arguments, which allow an untrusted
prover to commit to a vector a∈ F m and prove that all entries of a reside in some …

The terrestrial networks face the challenges of severe cost inefficiency and low feasibility to
provide seamless services anytime and anywhere, especially in the extreme or hotspot …

Federated learning (FL) is an increasingly popular approach for machine learning (ML) in
cases where the training dataset is highly distributed. Clients perform local training on their …