Basak Guler



For a full list of publications please see my Google Scholar page.

Book Chapters

  1. Basak Guler and Aylin Yener, Influence Propagation in Social Networks with Positive and Negative Relationships, Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Editors: R. Alhajj and J. Rokne, Springer 2018.

Journal Publications

  1. Xingyu Lu, Umit Yigit Basaran, Basak Guler, Scalable Multi-Round Multi-Party Privacy-Preserving Neural Network Training, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, accepted Aug. 2024.

  2. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Secure Gradient Aggregation with Sparsification for Resource-Limited Federated Learning, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Aug. 2024.

  3. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Secure Aggregation for Clustered Federated Learning with Passive Adversaries, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Feb. 2024.

  4. Xingyu Lu, Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Privacy-preserving Collaborative Learning with Linear Communication Complexity, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2023.

  5. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Over-the-air Clustered Federated Learning, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Dec. 2023.

  6. Xingyu Lu, Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, SCALR: Communication-Efficient Secure Multi-Party Logistic Regression, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Aug. 2023.

  7. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Turbo-Aggregate: Breaking the Quadratic Aggregation Barrier in Secure Federated Learning, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory: Privacy and Security of Information Systems, Jan. 2021.

  8. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, CodedPrivateML: A Fast and Privacy-Preserving Framework for Distributed Machine Learning, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory: Privacy and Security of Information Systems, Jan. 2021.

  9. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, BREA: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Federated Learning, IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning in Communications and Networks, Oct. 2020.

  10. Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega, TACC: Topology-Aware Coded Computing for Distributed Graph Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 6, pp. 508-525, May 2020.

  11. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, and Ananthram Swami, The Semantic Communication Game, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 787-802, Dec. 2018.

  12. Basak Guler, Deniz Gündüz, and Aylin Yener,Lossy Transmission of Correlated Sources over a Multiple Access Channel: Necessary Conditions and Separation Results, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 64(9), pp. 6081-6097, Sep. 2018.

  13. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Prithwish Basu, and Ananthram Swami, Two-Party Zero-Error Function Computation with Asymmetric Priors, Entropy, 19(12), 635, Nov. 2017.

  14. Basak Guler, Burak Varan, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Mohamed Nafea, Ahmed A. Zewail, Aylin Yener, and Damien Octeau,Using Social Sensors for Influence Propagation in Networks with Positive and Negative Relationships, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Signal Processing for Situational Awareness from Networked Sensors and Social Media, Mar. 2015.

  15. Basak Guler and Aylin Yener,Selective Interference Alignment for MIMO Cognitive Femtocell Networks, IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications: Cognitive Radio Series, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 439-450, Mar. 2014.

  16. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener,Uplink Interference Management in Coexisting MIMO Femtocell and Macrocell Networks: An Interference Alignment Approach, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 2246-2257, Apr. 2014.

Conference Publications

  1. Yushu Yan, Xiangyu Chang, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Ananthram Swami, Basak Guler, Clustered Federated Learning for Massive MIMO Power Allocation, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2024.

  2. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Secure Submodel Aggregation for Resource-Aware Federated Learning, ISIT International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'2024.

  3. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Sparsity Based Secure Gradient Aggregation for Resource-Constrained Federated Learning, ISIT International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'2024.

  4. Yushu Yan, Xiangyu Chang, Basak Guler, Amit Roy-Chowdhury, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Ananthram Swami, Federated Learning for Massive MIMO Power Allocation, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2023.

  5. Umit Yigit Basaran, Xingyu Lu, Basak Guler, Beyond Secure Aggregation: Scalable Multi-Round Secure Collaborative Learning, FL-ICML Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics in Practice: Algorithms, Systems, Applications, and Opportunities, in conjunction with International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML'2023.

  6. Xingyu Lu, Basak Guler, Breaking the Quadratic Communication Overhead of Secure Multi-Party Neural Network Training, ISIT International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'2023.

  7. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Secure Aggregation for Clustered Federated Learning, ISIT International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'2023.

  8. Xingyu Lu, Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Dropout-Resilient Secure Multi-Party Collaborative Learning with Linear Communication Complexity, AISTATS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, AISTATS'2023.

  9. Jinhyun So, Ramy E. Ali, Basak Guler, Jiantao Jiao, A. Salman Avestimehr, Securing Secure Aggregation: Mitigating Multi-Round Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023.

  10. Irem Ergun, Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Communication-Efficient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Globecom'22, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 2022.

  11. Irem Ergun, Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Limited Resources, ICLR Workshop on Socially Responsible Machine Learning, ICLR'2022.

  12. Jinhyun So, Chaoyang He, Chien-Sheng Yang, Songze Li, Qian Yu, Ramy E. Ali, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, LightSecAgg: a Lightweight and Versatile Design for Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning, MLSys Conference on Machine Learning and Systems, MLSys'2022.

  13. Jinhyun So, Ramy E. Ali, Basak Guler, Jiantao Jiao, A. Salman Avestimehr, Securing Secure Aggregation: Mitigating Multi-Round Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning, FL-AAAI International Workshop on Trustable, Verifiable, and Auditable Federated Learning, in conjunction with AAAI 2022.

  14. Hasin Us Sami, Basak Guler, Over-the-air Personalized Federated Learning, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'21.

  15. Jinhyun So, Ramy E. Ali, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Secure Aggregation for Buffered Asynchronous Federated Learning, NeurIPS Workshop on Federated Learning: New Challenges on Privacy, Fairness, Robustness, Personalization and Data Ownership, 2021.

  16. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, A Framework for Sustainable Federated Learning, International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2021.

  17. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Energy Harvesting Distributed Machine Learning, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2021.

  18. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, A Scalable Approach for Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Machine Learning, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020).

  19. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Turbo-Aggregate: Breaking the Quadratic Aggregation Barrier in Secure Federated Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning: Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality, FL-ICML'20.

  20. Jinhyun So, Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, and Payman Mohassel, CodedPrivateML: A Fast and Privacy-Preserving Framework for Distributed Machine Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning: Workshop on Coding Theory for Large-Scale Machine Learning, ICML'19, Long Beach, CA, Jun. 2019.

  21. Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega, Privacy-Aware Distributed Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP'19, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2019.

  22. Basak Guler, A. Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega, A Topology-Aware Coding Framework for Distributed Graph Processing, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'19, Brighton, UK, May. 2019.

  23. Basak Guler, Ajinkya Jayawant, A. Salman Avestimehr, Antonio Ortega, Robust Graph Signal Sampling, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'19, Brighton, UK, May. 2019.

  24. Basak Guler, Deniz Gündüz, Aylin Yener, On the Necessary Conditions for Transmitting Correlated Sources over a Multiple Access Channel, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'17, Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2017.

  25. Basak Guler, Deniz Gündüz, Aylin Yener,On Lossy Transmission of Correlated Sources over a Multiple Access Channel, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'16, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2016.

  26. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Ananthram Swami,The Semantic Communication Game, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'16, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.

  27. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Ananthram Swami,Learning Causal Information Flow Structures in Multi-Layer Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE GlobalSIP Symposium on Non-Commutative Theory and Applications, GlobalSIP'16, Washington DC, Dec. 2016.

  28. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Prithwish Basu, Ananthram Swami, Carl Andersen,Interactive Function Compression with Asymmetric Priors, Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, DCC'16, Snowbird, UT, Mar. 2016.

  29. Basak Guler, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Aylin Yener,Maximizing Recommender's Influence in a Social Network: An Information-Theoretic Perspective, Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW'15, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 2015.

  30. Basak Guler, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Aylin Yener,Remote Source Coding with Two-Sided Information, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'15, Hong Kong, Jun. 2015.

  31. Carl Andersen, Prithwish Basu, Basak Guler, Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Aylin Yener,Protocols for Efficient Inference Communication, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S'15) in Conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2015, St. Louis, MO, Mar. 2015.

  32. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener, Prithwish Basu, Carl Andersen, Ananthram Swami,A Study on Compressing Graphical Structures, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Symposium on Network Theory, GlobalSIP'14, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2014.

  33. Basak Guler, Burak Varan, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Mohamed Nafea, Ahmed A. Zewail, Aylin Yener, and Damien Octeau,Communicating in a Socially-Aware Network: Impact of Relationship Types, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Symposium on Network Theory, GlobalSIP'14, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2014.

  34. Basak Guler, Burak Varan, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Mohamed Nafea, Ahmed A. Zewail, Aylin Yener, and Damien Octeau,Optimal Strategies for Targeted Influence in Signed Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining - Workshop on Curbing Collusive Cyber-gossips in Social Networks, ASONAM-C3'14, Beijing, China, Aug. 2014.

  35. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener,Compressing Semantic Information with Varying Priorities, Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, DCC'14, Snowbird, UT, Mar. 2014.

  36. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener,Semantic Index Assignment, Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S'14) in Conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2014, Budapest, Hungary, Mar. 2014.

  37. Basak Guler, Aylin Yener and Prithwish Basu,A Study of Semantic Data Compression, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing - Symposium on Network Theory, GlobalSIP'13, Austin, TX, Dec. 2013.

  38. Basak Guler and Aylin Yener,Selective Interference Alignment for MIMO Femtocell Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'13, Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013.

  39. Basak Guler and Aylin Yener,Interference Alignment for Cooperative MIMO Femtocell Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, Globecom'11, Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.