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most citedSee What You See: Self-supervised Cross-modal Retrieval of Visual Stimuli from Brain Activity

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

USAD: Uncertainty-aware Statistical Adversarial Detection

Zhijian Zhou, Xunye Tian, Jiacheng Zhang +5

Statistical adversarial detection (SAD) treats detection as a two-sample test. Given a reference set of clean examples (CEs) and a batch of queries, potentially containing an unkno…

cs.LG2026

CELEUS: Certifiable and Efficient LLM Evaluation via E-Processes

Zhijian Zhou, Zesheng Ye, Zhaorun Chen +2

Can we trust evaluation scores to capture an LLM's true real-world performance? Certifiable evaluation answers this question by providing guarantee for LLM evaluation. In particula…

cs.LG2026

CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Black-Box Vision-Language Models

Ruijiang Dong, Zesheng Ye, Jianzhong Qi +4

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) enable zero-shot image classification by computing the similarity score between an image and textual descriptions, typically formed by ins…

cs.IR2026

User-Aware Conditional Generative Total Correlation Learning for Multi-Modal Recommendation

Jing Du, Zesheng Ye, Congbo Ma +2

Multi-modal recommendation (MMR) enriches item representations by introducing item content, e.g., visual and textual descriptions, to improve upon interaction-only recommenders. Th…

cs.CR2026

Combating Data Laundering in LLM Training

Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li +1

Post-hoc unauthorized-training data detection for large language models (LLMs) typically assumes a query-with-originals regime: rights holders query a target LLM with raw proprieta…

cs.LG2026

Per-parameter Task Arithmetic for Unlearning in Large Language Models

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Jiangchao Yao +5

In large language model (LLM) unlearning, private information is required to be removed. Task arithmetic unlearns by subtracting a specific task vector (TV)--defined as the paramet…

cs.LG2026

Visual-Guided Key-Token Regularization for Multimodal Large Language Model Unlearning

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Peike Li +3

Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) prevents the model from revealing private information when queried about target images. Existing MLLM unlearning methods larg…

cs.CV2026

Let's Roll a BiFTA: Bi-refinement for Fine-grained Text-visual Alignment in Vision-Language Models

Yuhao Sun, Chengyi Cai, Jiacheng Zhang +3

Recent research has shown that aligning fine-grained text descriptions with localized image patches can significantly improve the zero-shot performance of pre-trained vision-langua…

cs.CV2025

Sample-Specific Noise Injection For Diffusion-Based Adversarial Purification

Yuhao Sun, Jiacheng Zhang, Zesheng Ye +2

Diffusion-based purification (DBP) methods aim to remove adversarial noise from the input sample by first injecting Gaussian noise through a forward diffusion process, and then rec…

cs.LG2025

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

Zesheng Ye, Chengyi Cai, Ruijiang Dong +4

As large-scale pre-trained foundation models continue to expand in size and capability, efficiently adapting them to specific downstream tasks has become increasingly critical. Des…

cs.LG2025

Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng +2

Model reprogramming adapts pretrained models to downstream tasks by modifying only the input and output spaces. Visual reprogramming (VR) is one instance for vision tasks that adds…

cs.CV2025

Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng +2

Visual reprogramming (VR) reuses pre-trained vision models for downstream image classification tasks by adding trainable noise patterns to inputs. When applied to vision-language m…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Distributional Statistics Restore Training Data Auditability in One-step Distilled Diffusion Models

Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li +3

The proliferation of diffusion models trained on web-scale, provenance-uncertain image collections has made it essential, yet technically unresolved, to determine whether a model h…

cs.LG2024

Bayesian-guided Label Mapping for Visual Reprogramming

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng +2

Visual reprogramming (VR) leverages the intrinsic capabilities of pretrained vision models by adapting their input or output interfaces to solve downstream tasks whose labels (i.e.…

cs.LG2024

Sample-specific Masks for Visual Reprogramming-based Prompting

Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng +2

Visual reprogramming (VR) is a prompting technique that aims to re-purpose a pre-trained model (e.g., a classifier on ImageNet) to target tasks (e.g., medical data prediction) by l…

cs.IR2024

Joint Identifiability of Cross-Domain Recommendation via Hierarchical Subspace Disentanglement

Jing Du, Zesheng Ye, Bin Guo +2

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) seeks to enable effective knowledge transfer across domains. Existing works rely on either representation alignment or transformation bridges, but…

cs.IR2023

Distributional Domain-Invariant Preference Matching for Cross-Domain Recommendation

Jing Du, Zesheng Ye, Bin Guo +2

Learning accurate cross-domain preference mappings in the absence of overlapped users/items has presented a persistent challenge in Non-overlapping Cross-domain Recommendation (NOC…

cs.LG2023

Adversarially Contrastive Estimation of Conditional Neural Processes

Zesheng Ye, Jing Du, Lina Yao

Conditional Neural Processes~(CNPs) formulate distributions over functions and generate function observations with exact conditional likelihoods. CNPs, however, have limited expres…

cs.CV2023

Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction via Distributional Diffusion

Yao Liu, Zesheng Ye, Rui Wang +3

Tremendous efforts have been put forth on predicting pedestrian trajectory with generative models to accommodate uncertainty and multi-modality in human behaviors. An individual's…

cs.MM2022★ 3 cited

See What You See: Self-supervised Cross-modal Retrieval of Visual Stimuli from Brain Activity

Zesheng Ye, Lina Yao, Yu Zhang +1

Recent studies demonstrate the use of a two-stage supervised framework to generate images that depict human perception to visual stimuli from EEG, referring to EEG-visual reconstru…

cs.IR2022

IDNP: Interest Dynamics Modeling using Generative Neural Processes for Sequential Recommendation

Jing Du, Zesheng Ye, Lina Yao +2

Recent sequential recommendation models rely increasingly on consecutive short-term user-item interaction sequences to model user interests. These approaches have, however, raised…