Publications
Trustworthy AI
Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Wenbo Pan, Jiao Yin, Yong-Feng Ge, Hua Wang, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “LMCleaner: Efficient and Certified Online Unlearning via Influence Propagation Truncation”, ICML 2026.
Zihan Wu, Jie Xu, Yun Peng, Chun Yong Chong and Xiaohua Jia, “MulVul: Retrieval-augmented Multi-Agent Code Vulnerability Detection via Cross-Model Prompt Evolution”, ACL 2026.📁 Code repo
Wenbo Pan, Jie Xu, Qiguang Chen, Junhao Dong, Libo Qin, Xinfeng Li, Yu Haining, and Xiaohua Jia, “Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks”, ICLR 2026.
Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “LiveVal: Real-time and Trajectory-based Data Valuation via Adaptive Reference Points”, CIKM 2025. 📁 Code repo
Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “LMEraser: Large Model Unlearning via Adaptive Prompt Tuning”, AISTATS 2025. 📁 Code repo
Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “Machine Unlearning: Solutions and Challenges”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2024.3379240. 📁 Code repo
Jianfei He, Shichao Sun, Sen Peng, Jie Xu, Xiaohua Jia, Wenjie Li, “Contrastive Preference Learning for Neural Machine Translation,” NAACL 2024 Findings, 2024.
Sen Peng, Yufei Chen, Jie Xu, Zizhuo Chen, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “Intellectual Property Protection of DNN Models,” World Wide Web Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1877-1911, 2023.
Distributed Consensus
Jie Xu, Yulong Ming, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “X-shard: An Optimistic Cross-shard Transaction Processing Protocol for Account-based Blockchains”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 548 - 559, 2024. 📁 Code repo 📃X-Shard Supplementary Material
Jie Xu, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “A Survey of Blockchain Consensus Protocols,” ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 55, no. 13s, pp. 1-35, 2023. 📁 Code repo
Jie Xu, Sen Peng, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “PuffChain: Dynamic Scaling BFT-based PoS Blockchain with Optimal Throughput”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), pp. 1-14, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2024.3363880. 📁 Code repo
Jie Xu, Qingyuan Xie, Sen Peng, Cong Wang, and Xiaohua Jia, “AdaptChain: Adaptive Scaling Blockchain With Transaction Deduplication,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1909-1922, 2023.
Jie Xu, Yingying Cheng, Cong Wang and Xiaohua Jia, “Occam: A Secure and Adaptive Scaling Protocol for Permissionless Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2021), July 7-10, 2021.
Hongxu Su, Mingzhe Liu, Jie Xu, Xiaohua Jia, and Xuechao Wang, “GasLiteAA: Optimizing ERC-4337 for Efficient and Secure Gas Sponsorship,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2026), 2026, accepted.
Xingyi Luo, Kaiping Xue, Jie Xu, Qibin Sun, and Yongdong Zhang, “Blockchain-based Secure Data Aggregation and Distributed Power Dispatching for Microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 5268 - 5279, 2021.
Hangyu Tian, Kaiping Xue, Xinyi Luo, Shaohua Li, Jie Xu, Jianqing Liu, Jun Zhao, David S.L. Wei, “Enabling Cross-chain Transactions: A Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange Protocol,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 16, pp. 3928 - 3941, 2021.
Networking and Data Engineering
- Jie Xu, Kaiping Xue, Shaohua Li, Jianan Hong, Peilin Hong, and Nenghai Yu, “Healthchain: A Blockchain-based Privacy Preserving Scheme for Large-scale Health Data,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 8770-8781, 2019. 🏆Highly Cited Papers
Jie Xu, Kaiping Xue, Hangyu Tian, Jianan Hong, David S.L. Wei, and Peilin Hong, “An Identity Management and Authentication Scheme Based on Redactable Blockchain for Mobile Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 6688-6698, 2020.
Jie Xu, Kaiping Xue, Qingyou Yang, and Peilin Hong, “PSAP: Pseudonym-based Secure Authentication Protocol for NFC Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 83-91, 2018.
Qingyou Yang, Kaiping Xue, Jie Xu, Jiajie Wang, Fenghua Li, and Nenghai Yu, “AnFRA: Anonymous and Fast Roaming Authentication for Space Information Network,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 486-497, 2019.
Peixuan He, Kaiping Xue, Jie Xu, Qiudong Xia, Jianqing Liu, Hao Yue, “Attribute-based Accountable Access Control for Multimedia Content with In-network Caching,” in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2019).
- Wei Meng, Kaiping Xue, Jie Xu, Jianan Hong, and Nenghai Yu, “Low-Latency Authentication Against Satellite Compromising for Space Information Network,” in Proceeding of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2018), IEEE, 2018, pp. 237-244. 🏆Best Paper Runner Up
Book
- Jie Xu and Xiaohua Jia, “Adaptive and Scalable Blockchain Systems”, Springer Nature, 2025.
Patent
- CN108282778A, “Anonymous and Fast Roaming Authentication for Space Information Network”