Linyan Dai

Guanzi Yao, Heyao Liu, Linyan Dai

This paper addresses the challenges of high resource dynamism and scheduling complexity in cloud-native database systems. It proposes an adaptive resource orchestration method based on multi-agent reinforcement learning. The method introduces a heterogeneous role-based agent modeling mechanism. This allows different resource entities, such as compute nodes, storage nodes, and schedulers, to adopt distinct policy representations. These agents are better able to reflect diverse functional responsibilities and local environmental characteristics within the system. A reward-shaping mechanism is designed to integrate local observations with global feedback. This helps mitigate policy learning bias caused by incomplete state observations. By combining real-time local performance signals with global system value estimation, the mechanism improves coordination among agents and enhances policy convergence stability. A unified multi-agent training framework is developed and evaluated on a representative production scheduling dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms traditional approaches across multiple key metrics. These include resource utilization, scheduling latency, policy convergence speed, system stability, and fairness. The results demonstrate strong generalization and practical utility. Across various experimental scenarios, the method proves effective in handling orchestration tasks with high concurrency, high-dimensional state spaces, and complex dependency relationships. This confirms its advantages in real-world, large-scale scheduling environments.

Linyan Dai, Xinwei Zhang, Haoyang Li et al.

Personalized text-to-image diffusion models (e.g., DreamBooth, LoRA) enable users to synthesize high-fidelity avatars from a few reference photos for social expression. However, once these generations are shared on social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, Facebook), they can be linked to the real user via face recognition systems, enabling identity tracking and profiling. Existing defenses mainly follow an anti-personalization strategy that protects publicly released reference photos by disrupting model fine-tuning. While effective against unauthorized personalization, they do not address another practical setting in which personalization is authorized, but the resulting public outputs still leak identity information. To address this problem, we introduce a new defense setting, termed model-side output immunization, whose goal is to produce a personalized model that supports authorized personalization while reducing the identity linkability of public generations, with tunable control over the privacy-utility trade-off to accommodate diverse privacy needs. To this end, we propose Identity-Decoupled personalized Diffusion Models (IDDM), a model-side defense that integrates identity decoupling into the personalization pipeline. Concretely, IDDM follows an alternating procedure that interleaves short personalization updates with identity-decoupled data optimization, using a two-stage schedule to balance identity linkability suppression and generation utility. Extensive experiments across multiple datasets, diverse prompts, and state-of-the-art face recognition systems show that IDDM consistently reduces identity linkability while preserving high-quality personalized generation.