Publications

Trustworthy AI

• Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Wenbo Pan, et al., “When Does Training Data Matter? Dynamic Data Attribution via Window-Level Influence Estimation”, EMNLP 2026.

• Jie Xu*, Zihan Wu*, Yun Peng, et al., “No Isolated Evolution, No Blind Search: Memory-Guided Prompt Co-Evolution for Industrial Multi-Agent Vulnerability Detection”, ASE 2026.

• Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Wenbo Pan, et al., “LMCleaner: Efficient and Certified Online Unlearning via Influence Propagation Truncation”, ICML 2026.

• Zihan Wu*, Jie Xu*, et al., “MulVul: Retrieval-augmented Multi-Agent Code Vulnerability Detection via Cross-Model Prompt Evolution”, ACL 2026. 📁 Code repo

• Wenbo Pan, Jie Xu, et al., “Can LLMs Refuse Questions They Do Not Know? Measuring Knowledge-Aware Refusal in Factual Tasks”, ICLR 2026.

• Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang, et al., “LiveVal: Real-time and Trajectory-based Data Valuation via Adaptive Reference Points”, CIKM 2025. 📁 Code repo

• Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang, et al., “LMEraser: Large Model Unlearning via Adaptive Prompt Tuning”, AISTATS 2025. 📁 Code repo

• Jie Xu, Zihan Wu, Cong Wang, et al., “Machine Unlearning: Solutions and Challenges”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2024.3379240. 📁 Code repo

• Jianfei He, Shichao Sun, Sen Peng, Jie Xu, et al., “Contrastive Preference Learning for Neural Machine Translation”, NAACL 2024 Findings.

• Sen Peng, Yufei Chen, Jie Xu, et al., “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, et al., “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. 🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%) 📁 Code repo

• Jie Xu, Sen Peng, Cong Wang, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “Occam: A Secure and Adaptive Scaling Protocol for Permissionless Blockchain”, in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2021), 2021.

• Hongxu Su, Mingzhe Liu, Jie Xu, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “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. 🏆 ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%)

• Jie Xu, Kaiping Xue, Hangyu Tian, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “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, et al., “Low-Latency Authentication Against Satellite Compromising for Space Information Network”, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2018), IEEE, 2018, pp. 237-244. 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up Award

Books

• Jie Xu and Xiaohua Jia, “Machine Unlearning: Theory and Applications in Networking”, Springer Nature, 2026.
• Jie Xu and Xiaohua Jia, “Adaptive and Scalable Blockchain Systems”, Springer Nature, 2025.

Patent

• CN 108282778 B, “Anonymous and Fast Roaming Authentication for Space Information Networks”, granted 2020.

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