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20222026
most citedQuarantine: Sparsity Can Uncover the Trojan Attack Trigger for Free

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cs.CV2026

Visual prompting reimagined: The power of the Activation Prompts

Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao +5

Visual prompting (VP) has emerged as a popular method to repurpose pretrained vision models for adaptation to downstream tasks. Unlike conventional model fine-tuning techniques, VP…

cs.LG2026

Powering Up Zeroth-Order Training via Subspace Gradient Orthogonalization

Yicheng Lang, Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang +4

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization provides a gradient-free alternative to first-order (FO) methods by estimating gradients via finite differences of function evaluations, and has rece…

cs.LG2025

One Token Embedding Is Enough to Deadlock Your Large Reasoning Model

Mohan Zhang, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia +3

Modern large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit impressive multi-step problem-solving via chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, this iterative thinking mechanism introduces a new…

cs.LG2025

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

Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang, Dennis Wei +3

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable generative capabilities but raise ethical and security concerns by memorizing sensitive data, reinforcing biases, and producing harm…

cs.LG2025

Downgrade to Upgrade: Optimizer Simplification Enhances Robustness in LLM Unlearning

Yicheng Lang, Yihua Zhang, Chongyu Fan +3

Large language model (LLM) unlearning aims to surgically remove the influence of undesired data or knowledge from an existing model while preserving its utility on unrelated tasks.…

cs.CR2025

Invisible Watermarks, Visible Gains: Steering Machine Unlearning with Bi-Level Watermarking Design

Yuhao Sun, Yihua Zhang, Gaowen Liu +2

With the increasing demand for the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a vital tool for enhancing trust and regulatory compliance by enabling the removal…