papers

Publications (359)

cs.LG2024

A Provably Effective Method for Pruning Experts in Fine-tuned Sparse Mixture-of-Experts

Mohammed Nowaz Rabbani Chowdhury, Meng Wang, Kaoutar El Maghraoui +3

cs.CY2026

On the Trustworthiness of Generative Foundation Models: Guideline, Assessment, and Perspective

Yue Huang, Chujie Gao, Siyuan Wu +63

cs.CL2024

A Deep Dive into the Trade-Offs of Parameter-Efficient Preference Alignment Techniques

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew D Riemer +4

cs.SD2025

Where are we in audio deepfake detection? A systematic analysis over generative and detection models

Xiang Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Wenqi Wei

cs.NI2017

Analysis of Information Delivery Dynamics in Cognitive Sensor Networks Using Epidemic Models

Pin-Yu Chen, Shin-Ming Cheng, Hui-Yu Hsu

cs.LG2026

Backdooring Masked Diffusion Language Models

Daniel Yiming Cao, Chengzhong Wang, Sheng-Yen Chou +3

cs.CR2024

Token Highlighter: Inspecting and Mitigating Jailbreak Prompts for Large Language Models

Xiaomeng Hu, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.LG2018

Zeroth-Order Stochastic Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization

Sijia Liu, Bhavya Kailkhura, Pin-Yu Chen +3

cs.CR2026

Aegis: Towards Governance, Integrity, and Security of AI Voice Agents

Xiang Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Wenqi Wei

cs.LG2023

On the Convergence and Sample Complexity Analysis of Deep Q-Networks with -Greedy Exploration

Shuai Zhang, Hongkang Li, Meng Wang +6

cs.CL2026

OjaKV: Context-Aware Online Low-Rank KV Cache Compression

Yuxuan Zhu, David H. Yang, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri +3

cs.CV2022

Make an Omelette with Breaking Eggs: Zero-Shot Learning for Novel Attribute Synthesis

Yu-Hsuan Li, Tzu-Yin Chao, Ching-Chun Huang +2

cs.LG2020

AdvMS: A Multi-source Multi-cost Defense Against Adversarial Attacks

Xiao Wang, Siyue Wang, Pin-Yu Chen +2

cs.CL2021

Fake it Till You Make it: Self-Supervised Semantic Shifts for Monolingual Word Embedding Tasks

Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adalı, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.LG2019

Structured Adversarial Attack: Towards General Implementation and Better Interpretability

Kaidi Xu, Sijia Liu, Pu Zhao +6

cs.LG2022

Active Sampling of Multiple Sources for Sequential Estimation

Arpan Mukherjee, Ali Tajer, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.CV2021

Vision Transformers are Robust Learners

Sayak Paul, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.NE2019

Controllability, Multiplexing, and Transfer Learning in Networks using Evolutionary Learning

Rise Ooi, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +5

cs.AI2025

CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles

Chen Xiong, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.LG2022

Rethinking Normalization Methods in Federated Learning

Zhixu Du, Jingwei Sun, Ang Li +4

stat.ML2025

Fundamental Safety-Capability Trade-offs in Fine-tuning Large Language Models

Pin-Yu Chen, Han Shen, Payel Das +1

cs.CL2023

RADAR: Robust AI-Text Detection via Adversarial Learning

Xiaomeng Hu, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.SD2023

Low-Resource Music Genre Classification with Cross-Modal Neural Model Reprogramming

Yun-Ning Hung, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.MM2025

Optimization-Free Universal Watermark Forgery with Regenerative Diffusion Models

Chaoyi Zhu, Zaitang Li, Renyi Yang +4

cs.LG2023

Joint Edge-Model Sparse Learning is Provably Efficient for Graph Neural Networks

Shuai Zhang, Meng Wang, Pin-Yu Chen +3

cs.LG2024

Time-LLM: Time Series Forecasting by Reprogramming Large Language Models

Ming Jin, Shiyu Wang, Lintao Ma +8

cs.SI2015

Supervised Collective Classification for Crowdsourcing

Pin-Yu Chen, Chia-Wei Lien, Fu-Jen Chu +2

cs.CV2019

When Causal Intervention Meets Adversarial Examples and Image Masking for Deep Neural Networks

Chao-Han Huck Yang, Yi-Chieh Liu, Pin-Yu Chen +2

cs.LG2026

Defining and Evaluating Physical Safety for Large Language Models

Yung-Chen Tang, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.LG2021

Robust Event Classification Using Imperfect Real-world PMU Data

Yunchuan Liu, Lei Yang, Amir Ghasemkhani +4

cs.LG2021

Hidden Cost of Randomized Smoothing

Jeet Mohapatra, Ching-Yun Ko, Tsui-Wei +4

cs.SI2017

Principled Multilayer Network Embedding

Weiyi Liu, Pin-Yu Chen, Sailung Yeung +2

cs.AI2025

Bridging Models to Defend: A Population-Based Strategy for Robust Adversarial Defense

Ren Wang, Yuxuan Li, Can Chen +6

cs.LG2025

Effective Backdoor Mitigation in Vision-Language Models Depends on the Pre-training Objective

Sahil Verma, Gantavya Bhatt, Avi Schwarzschild +6

cs.LG2021

Mean-based Best Arm Identification in Stochastic Bandits under Reward Contamination

Arpan Mukherjee, Ali Tajer, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.LG2020

Fast Learning of Graph Neural Networks with Guaranteed Generalizability: One-hidden-layer Case

Shuai Zhang, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu +2

q-fin.PM2020

Reinforcement-Learning based Portfolio Management with Augmented Asset Movement Prediction States

Yunan Ye, Hengzhi Pei, Boxin Wang +4

cs.LG2024

SEAL: Safety-enhanced Aligned LLM Fine-tuning via Bilevel Data Selection

Han Shen, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das +1

quant-ph2023

Certified Robustness of Quantum Classifiers against Adversarial Examples through Quantum Noise

Jhih-Cing Huang, Yu-Lin Tsai, Chao-Han Huck Yang +4

math.OC2023

Compressed Decentralized Proximal Stochastic Gradient Method for Nonconvex Composite Problems with Heterogeneous Data

Yonggui Yan, Jie Chen, Pin-Yu Chen +3

cs.LG2020

Self-Progressing Robust Training

Minhao Cheng, Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu +3

cs.LG2021

CRFL: Certifiably Robust Federated Learning against Backdoor Attacks

Chulin Xie, Minghao Chen, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.LG2021

On Fast Adversarial Robustness Adaptation in Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning

Ren Wang, Kaidi Xu, Sijia Liu +4

cs.LG2024

Ring-A-Bell! How Reliable are Concept Removal Methods for Diffusion Models?

Yu-Lin Tsai, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chulin Xie +6

cs.LG2025

Neural Network Reprogrammability: A Unified Theme on Model Reprogramming, Prompt Tuning, and Prompt Instruction

Zesheng Ye, Chengyi Cai, Ruijiang Dong +4

cs.LG2023

Holistic Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Models

Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu

cs.CV2024

Masking Improves Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for ConvNets, and Saliency Tells You Where

Zhi-Yi Chin, Chieh-Ming Jiang, Ching-Chun Huang +2

cs.CR2023

FLIP: A Provable Defense Framework for Backdoor Mitigation in Federated Learning

Kaiyuan Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Qiuling Xu +8

cs.LG2025

LLM Unlearning on Noisy Forget Sets: A Study of Incomplete, Rewritten, and Watermarked Data

Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang, Dennis Wei +3

cs.CV2023

Causal Video Summarizer for Video Exploration

Jia-Hong Huang, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +2

cs.LG2023

Reprogramming Pretrained Language Models for Protein Sequence Representation Learning

Ria Vinod, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das

cs.LG2018

Query-Efficient Hard-label Black-box Attack:An Optimization-based Approach

Minhao Cheng, Thong Le, Pin-Yu Chen +3

cs.LG2025

Sparse Gradient Compression for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models

David H. Yang, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Tejaswini Pedapati +2

cs.CV2018

On the Limitation of MagNet Defense against -based Adversarial Examples

Pei-Hsuan Lu, Pin-Yu Chen, Kang-Cheng Chen +1

quant-ph2022

Theoretical Error Performance Analysis for Variational Quantum Circuit Based Functional Regression

Jun Qi, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.LG2021

Formalizing Generalization and Robustness of Neural Networks to Weight Perturbations

Yu-Lin Tsai, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chia-Mu Yu +1

cs.LG2022

MAML is a Noisy Contrastive Learner in Classification

Chia-Hsiang Kao, Wei-Chen Chiu, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.LG2022

Distributed Adversarial Training to Robustify Deep Neural Networks at Scale

Gaoyuan Zhang, Songtao Lu, Yihua Zhang +7

cs.LG2020

Higher-Order Certification for Randomized Smoothing

Jeet Mohapatra, Ching-Yun Ko, Tsui-Wei Weng +3

cs.NI2016

Buffer Occupancy and Delivery Reliability Tradeoffs for Epidemic Routing

Pin-Yu Chen, Meng-Hsuan Sung, Shin-Ming Cheng

cs.LG2025

Training Nonlinear Transformers for Chain-of-Thought Inference: A Theoretical Generalization Analysis

Hongkang Li, Songtao Lu, Pin-Yu Chen +2

cs.CV2025

ColorSense: A Study on Color Vision in Machine Visual Recognition

Ming-Chang Chiu, Yingfei Wang, Derrick Eui Gyu Kim +2

cs.LG2017

Can GAN Learn Topological Features of a Graph?

Weiyi Liu, Pin-Yu Chen, Hal Cooper +3

q-bio.BM2022

An Empirical Evaluation of Zeroth-Order Optimization Methods on AI-driven Molecule Optimization

Elvin Lo, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.CV2026

Visual prompting reimagined: The power of the Activation Prompts

Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao +5

cs.LG2023

MultiRobustBench: Benchmarking Robustness Against Multiple Attacks

Sihui Dai, Saeed Mahloujifar, Chong Xiang +3

stat.ML2018

Zeroth-Order Online Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers: Convergence Analysis and Applications

Sijia Liu, Jie Chen, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.LG2020

Practical Detection of Trojan Neural Networks: Data-Limited and Data-Free Cases

Ren Wang, Gaoyuan Zhang, Sijia Liu +3

cs.CR2025

LLM Agents Should Employ Security Principles

Kaiyuan Zhang, Zian Su, Pin-Yu Chen +3

quant-ph2026

Random-Matrix-Induced Simplicity Bias in Over-parameterized Variational Quantum Circuits

Jun Qi, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Pin-Yu Chen +1

cs.AI2026

Computational Safety for Generative AI: A Hypothesis Testing Perspective

Pin-Yu Chen

cs.CR2025

Defending against Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks

Hao Cheng, Kaidi Xu, Sijia Liu +3

cs.CL2024

Large Language Models are Efficient Learners of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition

Yuchen Hu, Chen Chen, Chao-Han Huck Yang +4

quant-ph2024

Quantum Machine Learning: An Interplay Between Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

Jun Qi, Chao-Han Yang, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen +1

cs.LG2021

Pessimistic Model Selection for Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning

Chao-Han Huck Yang, Zhengling Qi, Yifan Cui +1

cs.PL2016

FEAST: An Automated Feature Selection Framework for Compilation Tasks

Pai-Shun Ting, Chun-Chen Tu, Pin-Yu Chen +2

cs.LG2021

Predicting Deep Neural Network Generalization with Perturbation Response Curves

Yair Schiff, Brian Quanz, Payel Das +1

q-bio.QM2024

NaNa and MiGu: Semantic Data Augmentation Techniques to Enhance Protein Classification in Graph Neural Networks

Yi-Shan Lan, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.LG2016

Multilayer Spectral Graph Clustering via Convex Layer Aggregation

Pin-Yu Chen, Alfred O. Hero

cs.SI2016

Incremental Method for Spectral Clustering of Increasing Orders

Pin-Yu Chen, Baichuan Zhang, Mohammad Al Hasan +1

cs.LG2026

ZoomR: Memory Efficient Reasoning through Multi-Granularity Key Value Retrieval

David H. Yang, Yuxuan Zhu, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri +4

cs.CL2022

When BERT Meets Quantum Temporal Convolution Learning for Text Classification in Heterogeneous Computing

Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jun Qi, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen +2

cs.AI2026

ITNet: A Learnable Integral Transform That Subsumes Convolution, Attention, and Recurrence

Ashim Dhor, Rasel Mondal, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.LG2024

How Do Nonlinear Transformers Learn and Generalize in In-Context Learning?

Hongkang Li, Meng Wang, Songtao Lu +2

cs.CL2020

SChME at SemEval-2020 Task 1: A Model Ensemble for Detecting Lexical Semantic Change

Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adali, Pin-Yu Chen

cs.LG2023

AI Maintenance: A Robustness Perspective

Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das

cs.LG2017

Incremental Eigenpair Computation for Graph Laplacian Matrices: Theory and Applications

Pin-Yu Chen, Baichuan Zhang, Mohammad Al Hasan

cs.LG2025

When is Task Vector Provably Effective for Model Editing? A Generalization Analysis of Nonlinear Transformers

Hongkang Li, Yihua Zhang, Shuai Zhang +3

stat.ML2024

How does promoting the minority fraction affect generalization? A theoretical study of the one-hidden-layer neural network on group imbalance

Hongkang Li, Shuai Zhang, Yihua Zhang +3

cs.LG2024

Larimar: Large Language Models with Episodic Memory Control

Payel Das, Subhajit Chaudhury, Elliot Nelson +10

cs.LG2024

GREAT Score: Global Robustness Evaluation of Adversarial Perturbation using Generative Models

Zaitang Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho

cs.LG2019

Model Agnostic Contrastive Explanations for Structured Data

Amit Dhurandhar, Tejaswini Pedapati, Avinash Balakrishnan +3

cs.LG2022

Learning Geometrically Disentangled Representations of Protein Folding Simulations

N. Joseph Tatro, Payel Das, Pin-Yu Chen +2

stat.ML2017

ZOO: Zeroth Order Optimization based Black-box Attacks to Deep Neural Networks without Training Substitute Models

Pin-Yu Chen, Huan Zhang, Yash Sharma +2

cs.CV2022

On the Adversarial Robustness of Vision Transformers

Rulin Shao, Zhouxing Shi, Jinfeng Yi +2

q-bio.BM2023

Reprogramming Pretrained Language Models for Antibody Sequence Infilling

Igor Melnyk, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Pin-Yu Chen +4

cs.LG2022

How does unlabeled data improve generalization in self-training? A one-hidden-layer theoretical analysis

Shuai Zhang, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu +2

math.OC2022

Stochastic Inexact Augmented Lagrangian Method for Nonconvex Expectation Constrained Optimization

Zichong Li, Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu +2

cs.LG2023

Generalization Guarantee of Training Graph Convolutional Networks with Graph Topology Sampling

Hongkang Li, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu +2

cs.CR2021

Real-World Adversarial Examples involving Makeup Application

Chang-Sheng Lin, Chia-Yi Hsu, Pin-Yu Chen +1