collaborators

12 papers

cs.LG2026

LoOPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation with Looped Teachers

Wei Fan, Qingyue Yang, Chao-Hong Tan +6

On-policy self-distillation improves a model using guidance from the model itself, but it still requires a teacher that provides more useful predictions than the student. Existing…

cs.CR2026

FARI: Robust One-Step Inversion for Watermarking in Diffusion Models

Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang +2

Inversion-based watermarking is a promising approach to authenticate diffusion-generated images, yet practical use is bottlenecked by inversion that is both slow and error-prone. W…

eess.AS2026

BareWave: Waveform-Native Flow-Matching Text-to-Speech

Wei Fan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen +5

Removing intermediate representations and separately trained decoding stages has become an important direction in generative modeling. In text-to-speech, however, high-quality syst…

cs.AI2026

Provably Secure Agent Guardrail

Benlong Wu, Weiming Zhang, Kejiang Chen +2

As large language models transition from bounded generative engines to agents with expansive execution privileges, AI going out of control precipitates a fundamental crisis in arti…

cs.CV2026

SWIFT: Sliding Window Reconstruction for Few-Shot Training-Free Generated Video Attribution

Chao Wang, Zijin Yang, Yaofei Wang +4

Recent advancements in video generation technologies have been significant, resulting in their widespread application across multiple domains. However, concerns have been mounting…

cs.CV2026

WMVLM: Evaluating Diffusion Model Image Watermarking via Vision-Language Models

Zijin Yang, Yu Sun, Kejiang Chen +4

Digital watermarking is essential for securing generated images from diffusion models. Accurate watermark evaluation is critical for algorithm development, yet existing methods hav…

cs.CR2026

SemBind: Binding Diffusion Watermarks to Semantics Against Black-Box Forgery Attacks

Xin Zhang, Zijin Yang, Kejiang Chen +3

Latent-based watermarks, integrated into the generation process of latent diffusion models (LDMs), simplify detection and attribution of generated images. However, recent black-box…

cs.CR2026

STEAD: Robust Provably Secure Linguistic Steganography with Diffusion Language Model

Yuang Qi, Na Zhao, Qiyi Yao +4

Recent provably secure linguistic steganography (PSLS) methods rely on mainstream autoregressive language models (ARMs) to address historically challenging tasks, that is, to disgu…

cs.CV2025

LiteUpdate: A Lightweight Framework for Updating AI-Generated Image Detectors

Jiajie Lu, Zhenkan Fu, Na Zhao +4

The rapid progress of generative AI has led to the emergence of new generative models, while existing detection methods struggle to keep pace, resulting in significant degradation…

cs.CR2025

A high-capacity linguistic steganography based on entropy-driven rank-token mapping

Jun Jiang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu +1

Linguistic steganography enables covert communication through embedding secret messages into innocuous texts; however, current methods face critical limitations in payload capacity…

cs.CV2025

T2SMark: Balancing Robustness and Diversity in Noise-as-Watermark for Diffusion Models

Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang +2

Diffusion models have advanced rapidly in recent years, producing high-fidelity images while raising concerns about intellectual property protection and the misuse of generative AI…

cs.SD2025

WavInWav: Time-domain Speech Hiding via Invertible Neural Network

Wei Fan, Kejiang Chen, Xiangkun Wang +2

Data hiding is essential for secure communication across digital media, and recent advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) provide enhanced methods for embedding secret information…