Zi-Cong Hong

Most-cited papers

A Survey of Incentive Mechanism Design for Federated Learning
Yufeng Zhan, J. Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong, Leijie Wu +2 more
2021IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing373 citations
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Online Deep Reinforcement Learning for Computation Offloading in Blockchain-Empowered Mobile Edge Computing
Xiaoyu Qiu, Lu Liu, Wuhui Chen, Zi-Cong Hong +1 more
2019IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology276 citations
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Multi-Hop Cooperative Computation Offloading for Industrial IoT–Edge–Cloud Computing Environments
Zi-Cong Hong, Wuhui Chen, Hua-Wei Huang, Song Guo +1 more
2019IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems221 citations
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Pyramid: A Layered Sharding Blockchain System
Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo, Peng Li, Wuhui Chen
2021IEEE Conference on Computer Communications176 citations
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Federated Unlearning: Guarantee the Right of Clients to Forget
Leijie Wu, Song Guo, Jun-Xiao Wang, Zi-Cong Hong +2 more
2022IEEE Network140 citations
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Cooperative and Distributed Computation Offloading for Blockchain-Empowered Industrial Internet of Things
Wuhui Chen, Zhen Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong, Chuan Chen +4 more
2019IEEE Internet of Things Journal125 citations
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SkyChain: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Dynamic Blockchain Sharding System
Jian-Ting Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong, Xiaoyu Qiu, Yufeng Zhan +2 more
2020International Conference on Parallel Processing83 citations
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WMPO: World Model-based Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Fang-Qi Zhu, Zheng-Yang Yan, Zi-Cong Hong, Quan-Xin Shou +2 more
2025arXiv.org73 citations
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QoS-Aware Cooperative Computation Offloading for Robot Swarms in Cloud Robotics
Zi-Cong Hong, Hua-Wei Huang, Song Guo, Wuhui Chen +1 more
2019IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology73 citations
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GriDB: Scaling Blockchain Database via Sharding and Off-Chain Cross-Shard Mechanism
Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo, Enyuan Zhou, Wuhui Chen +2 more
2023Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment71 citations Open access
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Benzene: Scaling Blockchain With Cooperation-Based Sharding
Zhongteng Cai, Junyuan Liang, Wuhui Chen, Zi-Cong Hong +3 more
2023IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems66 citations
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Scaling Blockchain via Layered Sharding
Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo, Peng Li
2022IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications65 citations
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Optimus: Warming Serverless ML Inference via Inter-Function Model Transformation
Zi-Cong Hong, Jian Lin, Song Guo, Sifu Luo +3 more
2024European Conference on Computer Systems50 citations
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Joint Computation Offloading and Coin Loaning for Blockchain-Empowered Mobile-Edge Computing
Zhen Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong, Wuhui Chen, Zi-Bin Zheng +1 more
2019IEEE Internet of Things Journal48 citations
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Klotski: Efficient Mixture-of-Expert Inference via Expert-Aware Multi-Batch Pipeline
Zhi-Yuan Fang, Yuegui Huang, Zi-Cong Hong, Yufeng Lyu +4 more
2025International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems45 citations
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Prophet: Conflict-Free Sharding Blockchain via Byzantine-Tolerant Deterministic Ordering
Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo, Enyuan Zhou, Jian-Ting Zhang +4 more
2023IEEE Conference on Computer Communications43 citations Open access
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MSTDB: A Hybrid Storage-Empowered Scalable Semantic Blockchain Database
Enyuan Zhou, Zi-Cong Hong, Yang Xiao, Dongxiao Zhao +3 more
2023IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering34 citations
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DiEP: Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts Compression through Differentiable Expert Pruning
Sikai Bai, Haoxi Li, Jie M. Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong +1 more
2025Neural Information Processing Systems33 citations
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Cycle: Sustainable Off-Chain Payment Channel Network with Asynchronous Rebalancing
Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo, Rui Zhang, Peng Li +2 more
2022Dependable Systems and Networks33 citations
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D2MoE: Dual Routing and Dynamic Scheduling for Efficient On-Device MoE-based LLM Serving
Hao-Dong Wang, Qi-Hua Zhou, Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo
2025ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking32 citations Open access
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Training and Serving System of Foundation Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Jiahang Zhou, Yan-Yu Chen, Zi-Cong Hong, Wu-Hui Chen +5 more
2024IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society25 citations Open access
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Long-Term Adaptive VCG Auction Mechanism for Sustainable Federated Learning With Periodical Client Shifting
Leijie Wu, Song Guo, Zi-Cong Hong, Yi Liu +2 more
2024IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing24 citations
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AoI-Aware Service Provisioning in Edge Computing for Digital Twin Network Slicing Requests
Jing Li, Song Guo, Wei-Fa Liang, Jian-Ping Wang +5 more
2024IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing24 citations
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Front-running Attack in Sharded Blockchains and Fair Cross-shard Consensus
Jian-Ting Zhang, Wuhui Chen, Sifu Luo, Tiantian Gong +2 more
2023Network and Distributed System Security Symposium22 citations Open access
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Efficient Execution of Arbitrarily Complex Cross-Shard Contracts for Blockchain Sharding
Jian-Ting Zhang, Wu-Hui Chen, Zi-Cong Hong, Gang Xiao +2 more
2024IEEE transactions on computers19 citations
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HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Quan-Xin Shou, Fang-Qi Zhu, Shawn Chen, Puxin Yan +8 more
2026arXiv.org16 citations
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Mell: Memory-Efficient Large Language Model Serving via Multi-GPU KV Cache Management
Qian-Li Liu, Zi-Cong Hong, Peng Li, Fa-Hao Chen +1 more
2025IEEE Conference on Computer Communications15 citations
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Incentive-Driven Long-term Optimization for Edge Learning by Hierarchical Reinforcement Mechanism
Yi Liu, Leijie Wu, Yufeng Zhan, Song Guo +1 more
2021IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems14 citations
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Porygon: Scaling Blockchain via 3D Parallelism
Wu-Hui Chen, Ding Xia, Zhongteng Cai, Hong-Ning Dai +4 more
2024IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering13 citations
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Amend to Alignment: Decoupled Prompt Tuning for Mitigating Spurious Correlation in Vision-Language Models
Jie M. Zhang, Xiao-Song Ma, Song Guo, Peng Li +3 more
2024International Conference on Machine Learning12 citations
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The MoE-Empowered Edge LLMS Deployment: Architecture, Challenges, and Opportunities
Ning Li, Song Guo, Tuo Zhang, Muqing Li +4 more
2025IEEE Communications Magazine11 citations Open access
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SocialChain: Decoupling Social Data and Applications to Return Your Data Ownership
Ting Cai, Zi-Cong Hong, Shuo Liu, Wuhui Chen +2 more
2023IEEE Transactions on Services Computing11 citations Open access
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Hierarchical Pricing Mechanism With Financial Stability for Decentralized Crowdsourcing: A Smart Contract Approach
Weikun Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong, Wuhui Chen
2021IEEE Internet of Things Journal11 citations
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Fate: Fasss sEsdge Inference of Mixture-of-Experts Models via Cross-Layer Gate
Zhi-Yuan Fang, Zi-Cong Hong, Yuegui Huang, Yufeng Lyu +4 more
2025The Web Conference10 citations
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SecPQ: Secure Prediction Queries on Encrypted Outsourced Databases
Jinwen Liang, Song Guo, Zi-Cong Hong, Enyuan Zhou +2 more
2025IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10 citations
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Smart Contract-based Hierarchical Auction Mechanism for Edge Computing in Blockchain-empowered IoT
Hui-En Lin, Zetao Yang, Zi-Cong Hong, Shenghui Li +1 more
2020IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks10 citations
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Poisoning Attack on Federated Knowledge Graph Embedding
Enyuan Zhou, Song Guo, Zhixiu Ma, Zi-Cong Hong +2 more
2024The Web Conference9 citations
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VeriDKG: A Verifiable SPARQL Query Engine for Decentralized Knowledge Graphs
Enyuan Zhou, Song Guo, Zi-Cong Hong, Christian S. Jensen +4 more
2023Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment9 citations Open access
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Collaborative Neural Architecture Search for Personalized Federated Learning
Yi Liu, Song Guo, Jie Zhang, Zi-Cong Hong +2 more
2025IEEE transactions on computers8 citations
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Accurate Expert Predictions in MoE Inference via Cross-Layer Gate
Zhi-Yuan Fang, Zi-Cong Hong, Yuegui Huang, Yufeng Lyu +4 more
2025arXiv.org8 citations
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OTAS: An Elastic Transformer Serving System via Token Adaptation
Jinyu Chen, Wen-Chao Xu, Zi-Cong Hong, Song Guo +3 more
2024IEEE Conference on Computer Communications8 citations Open access
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Intelligence-Endogenous Management Platform for Computing and Network Convergence
Zi-Cong Hong, Xiaoyu Qiu, Jiangnnan Lin, Wuhui Chen +4 more
2023IEEE Network8 citations Open access
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Sustainable Federated Learning with Long-term Online VCG Auction Mechanism
Leijie Wu, Song Guo, Yi Liu, Zi-Cong Hong +2 more
2022IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems8 citations
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KVDrive: A Holistic Multi-Tier KV Cache Management System for Long-Context LLM Inference
Jiangnnan Lin, Jia-Zhi Mi, Zi-Cong Hong, Hao-Dong Wang +4 more
2026Proc. ACM Manag. Data7 citations
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Model Decomposition and Reassembly for Purified Knowledge Transfer in Personalized Federated Learning
Jie Zhang, Song Guo, Xiao-Song Ma, Wen-Chao Xu +4 more
2025IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing7 citations
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Chiron: A Robustness-Aware Incentive Scheme for Edge Learning via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Yi Liu, Song Guo, Yu-Feng Zhan, Leijie Wu +2 more
2024IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing7 citations
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Sparrow: Expediting Smart Contract Execution for Blockchain Sharding via Inter-Shard Caching
Junyuan Liang, Peiyuan Yao, Wu-Hui Chen, Zi-Cong Hong +4 more
2025IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems6 citations
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Proactive look-ahead control of transaction flows for high-throughput payment channel network
Wuhui Chen, Xiaoyu Qiu, Zi-Cong Hong, Zi-Bin Zheng +2 more
2022ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing6 citations
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Obscura: Concealing Recomputation Overhead in Training of Large Language Models with Bubble-filling Pipeline Transformation
Yu-Zhou Huang, Yapeng Jiang, Zi-Cong Hong, Wu-Hui Chen +4 more
2025USENIX Annual Technical Conference5 citations
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Communication-Efficient Sparsely-Activated Model Training via Sequence Migration and Token Condensation
Fa-Hao Chen, Peng Li, Zi-Cong Hong, Zhou Su +1 more
2024IEEE Transactions on Networking5 citations Open access
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