Publications

✱: equal contribution | underlined names: students I (co-)supervised

Conference Papers

  1. AIoT'26 [Invited Paper] AutoSub: Autonomous Submodel Averaging [link]
    Youming Tao, Meryem Simsek, Falko Dressler
    The 3rd IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT 2026)
  2. AIoT'26 Private Zeroth-Order Optimization via Scalar Exchange for Federated Learning [link]
    Youming Tao, Shuzhen Chen, Zhangqing Zheng, Kai Li, Falko Dressler
    The 3rd IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT 2026)
  3. EMNLP Findings'26 FedSubMuon: Communication-Efficient Federated LLM Fine-Tuning via Structured Subspace Muon [link]
    Shaolong Chen, Youming Tao, Shuzhen Chen, Falko Dressler, Qingqing Ye, Di Wang
    The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026 Findings)
  4. MobiCom'26 CRISP: Co-designing Pruning and Scheduling for Efficient MoE Inference on Edge Servers [link]
    Congwei Zhang✱, Youming Tao✱, Yifei Zou, Yu Yang, Ruirui Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Falko Dressler, Xiuzhen Cheng, Dongxiao Yu
    The 32nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2026)
  5. WASA'26 Distributed PAC Learning from Quantum Data with Efficient Communication [Link]
    Youming Tao, Yaowu Yang, Shuzhen Chen, Huiqun Li, Congwei Zhang, Falko Dressler
    The 20th International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA 2026)
    Best Paper Award
  6. ICML'26 Finding Differentially Private Second Order Stationary Points in Stochastic Minimax Optimization [arxiv] [link]
    Difei Xu✱, Youming Tao✱, Meng Ding, Chenglin Fan, Di Wang
    The 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
  7. ICML'26 Trajectory-Aware Certified Decentralized Unlearning via SGD Stability [link]
    Hengliang Wu, Jiale Yang, Shuzhen Chen, Di Wang, Dongxiao Yu, Youming Tao
    The 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
  8. INFOCOM'26 Certified Unlearning in Decentralized Federated Learning [arxiv]
    Hengliang Wu✱, Youming Tao✱, Anhao Zhou, Shuzhen Chen, Falko Dressler, Dongxiao Yu
    The 45th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026)
  9. NeurIPS'25 Second-Order Convergence in Private Stochastic Non-Convex Optimization [arxiv] [link]
    Youming Tao, Zuyuan Zhang, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler, Di Wang
    The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
  10. MobiArch'25 Differentially Private Matroid Bandits for Online Network Topology Optimization [link]
    Youming Tao, Shuzhen Chen, Kai Li, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler
    The 20th ACM Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2025), in conjunction with the 31st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2025)
  11. ECML-PKDD'25 Differentially Private Sparse Linear Regression with Heavy-tailed Responses [arxiv] [link]
    Xizhi Tian, Meng Ding, Youming Tao, Zihang Xiang, Di Wang
    European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2025 (ECML-PKDD 2025)
  12. COCOON'24 Robust Matroid Bandit Optimization against Adversarial Contamination [link]
    Youming Tao, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler, Zhipeng Cai, Dongxiao Yu
    The 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024)
  13. ICMC'24 [Invited Paper] Optimizing Task Migration Decisions in Vehicular Edge Computing Environments [link]
    Ziqi Zhou, Youming Tao, Agon Memedi, Chunghan Lee, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas, Falko Dressler
    The 1st IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC 2024)
  14. ICNC'24 [Invited Paper] Correlation-Aware and Personalized Privacy-Preserving Data Collection [link]
    Dongxiao Yu, Kaiyi Zhang, Youming Tao, Wenlu Xu, Yifei Zou, Xiuzhen Cheng
    International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC 2024)
  15. VLDB'24 Communication Efficient and Provable Federated Unlearning [arxiv] [link]
    Youming Tao✱, Cheng-Long Wang✱, Miao Pan, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Di Wang
    The 50th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2024)
    - Presented as a Hot Topics Talk at International Conference on Networked Systems 2025 (NetSys 2025)
  16. NeurIPS'23 On Private and Robust Bandits [arxiv] [link]
    Yulian Wu✱, Xingyu Zhou✱, Youming Tao, Di Wang
    The 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)
  17. IJCAI'22 Private Stochastic Convex Optimization and Sparse Learning with Heavy-tailed Data Revisited [link]
    Youming Tao, Yulian Wu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Di Wang
    The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022)
  18. AISTATS'22 Optimal Rates of (Locally) Differentially Private Heavy-tailed Multi-Armed Bandits [arxiv] [link]
    Youming Tao✱, Yulian Wu✱, Peng Zhao, Di Wang
    The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2022)
    Selected as an Oral paper (Acceptance Rate: 44/1685=2.6%).
    - Presented at ICML 2022 Workshop on Responsible Decision Making in Dynamic Environments (ICML-RDMDE 2022)
    Selected as contributed talk.
    - Presented at CCS 2021 Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (CCS-PPML 2022)

Journal Papers

  1. ToN One-Shot Federated Model Editing for Device Dynamics at the Edge [link]
    Youming Tao✱, Weijun Yin✱, Huanyi Xie, Yanqing Yao, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Di Wang, Falko Dressler
    IEEE Transactions on Networking (Accepted)
  2. ToN Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning under Heterogeneity and Heavy Tails [link]
    Youming Tao, Zuyuan Zhang, Di Wang, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler
    IEEE Transactions on Networking (Volume: 34)
  3. ToN Online Private Adaptive Ranking with Incentive-Based Crowdsensing Data [link]
    Shuzhen Chen, Hui Xia, Shulin Zhao, Youming Tao, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng
    IEEE Transactions on Networking (Volume: 34)
  4. CJE Nearly-Tight Bounds for Private Stochastic Convex Optimization and Sparse Learning under Heavy Tails [link]
    Youming Tao, Di Wang, Xiuzhen Cheng
    Chinese Journal of Electronics (vol. 35, no. 4)
  5. TCS Robust Matroid Bandit Optimization: Near-Optimal Rates under Adversarial Contamination [link]
    Youming Tao, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler, Zhipeng Cai, Dongxiao Yu
    Theoretical Computer Science (Volume 1051, October 2025, 115416)
  6. TCS Adaptive pruning-based Newton's method for distributed learning [link]
    Shuzhen Chen, Yuan Yuan, Youming Tao, Zhipeng Cai, Dongxiao Yu
    Theoretical Computer Science (Volume 1026, February 2025, 114987)
    A prior version was presented in the 29th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2023)
  7. TMC Private Over-the-Air Federated Learning at Band-Limited Edge [link]
    Youming Tao, Shuzhen Chen, Congwei Zhang, Di Wang, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Falko Dressler
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Volume: 23, Issue: 12, December 2024)
  8. TC Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning at Edge [arxiv] [link]
    Youming Tao, Sijia Cui, Wenlu Xu, Haofei Yin, Dongxiao Yu, Weifa Liang, Xiuzhen Cheng
    IEEE Transactions on Computers (Volume: 72, Issue: 9, 01 September 2023)
  9. TKDE A Distributed Privacy-Preserving Learning Dynamics in General Social Networks [arxiv] [link]
    Youming Tao, Shuzhen Chen, Feng Li, Dongxiao Yu, Jiguo Yu, Hao Sheng
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Volume: 35, Issue: 9, 01 September 2023)
  10. TVT Decentralized Parallel SGD With Privacy Preservation in Vehicular Networks [link]
    Dongxiao Yu, Zongrui Zou, Shuzhen Chen, Youming Tao, Bing Tian, Weifeng Lv, Xiuzhen Cheng
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Volume 70, Issue 6, June 2021)
  11. JSA Distributed Learning Dynamics of Multi-Armed Bandits for Edge Intelligence [link]
    Shuzhen Chen, Youming Tao, Dongxiao Yu, FengLi, Bei Gong
    Journal of Systems Architecture (Volume 114, March 2021)
  12. IOTJ Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning for Multi-Armed Bandits in IoT [link]
    Shuzhen Chen, Youming Tao, Dongxiao Yu, Feng Li, Bei Gong, Xiuzhen Cheng
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Volume 8, Issue 5, March 2021)