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most citedThe Stronger the Diffusion Model, the Easier the Backdoor: Data Poisoning to Induce Copyright Breaches Without Adjusting Finetuning Pipeline

2 citations · 4 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Agentic Data Engineering for LLMs: System Design and a Controlled Empirical Study

Ruomeng Ding, Qianli Shen, Zhaoyang Han +3

LLM data engineering requires iterative experimentation to determine how data selection, rewards, and curricula affect model learning, making it a natural setting for AI-for-AI (AI…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Solvability: Task Learnability as a Static Prior for LLM RL Post-Training

Ting Zhou, Zhenqing Ling, Daoyuan Chen +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training paradigm for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models, yet uniform task sampling allocates compute w…

cs.LG2026

GradCuit: Credit-Assigned Gradient Flow Enables Robust and Interpretable Test-Time Latent Reasoning

Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen, Hengli Li +4

Optimization-based latent reasoning improves large language model outputs by optimizing instance-specific continuous states at test time while keeping model parameters frozen. Exis…

cs.AI2026

CDR-Bench: Evaluating Faithful Execution of Compositional, Order-Sensitive Data Refinement Recipes

Yuchen Huang, Xiang Li, Zhenqing Ling +5

Data refinement involves executing multi-step recipes over evolving text states, where both composition and execution order of processing operators determine the outcome. While exi…

cs.CV2026

BARE: Towards Bias-Aware and Reasoning-Enhanced One-Tower Visual Grounding

Hongbing Li, Linhui Xiao, Zihan Zhao +4

Visual Grounding (VG), which aims to locate a specific region referred to by expressions, is a fundamental yet challenging task in the multimodal understanding fields. While recent…

cs.CL2025

BEDA: Belief Estimation as Probabilistic Constraints for Performing Strategic Dialogue Acts

Hengli Li, Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen +8

Strategic dialogue requires agents to execute distinct dialogue acts, for which belief estimation is essential. While prior work often estimates beliefs accurately, it lacks a prin…

cs.AI2025

BOTS: A Unified Framework for Bayesian Online Task Selection in LLM Reinforcement Finetuning

Qianli Shen, Daoyuan Chen, Yilun Huang +4

Reinforcement finetuning (RFT) is a key technique for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences and enhancing reasoning, yet its effectiveness is highly sensitiv…

cs.LG2025

LoReUn: Data Itself Implicitly Provides Cues to Improve Machine Unlearning

Xiang Li, Qianli Shen, Haonan Wang +1

Recent generative models face significant risks of producing harmful content, which has underscored the importance of machine unlearning (MU) as a critical technique for eliminatin…

cs.CL2025

Diversity as a Reward: Fine-Tuning LLMs on a Mixture of Domain-Undetermined Data

Zhenqing Ling, Daoyuan Chen, Liuyi Yao +3

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) using diverse datasets is crucial for enhancing their overall performance across various domains. In practical scenarios, existing methods…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

State-space models are accurate and efficient neural operators for dynamical systems

Zheyuan Hu, Nazanin Ahmadi Daryakenari, Qianli Shen +2

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) has emerged as a promising alternative to classical methods for predicting dynamical systems, offering faster and more generalizable soluti…

cs.LG2024

Memory-Efficient Gradient Unrolling for Large-Scale Bi-level Optimization

Qianli Shen, Yezhen Wang, Zhouhao Yang +6

Bi-level optimization (BO) has become a fundamental mathematical framework for addressing hierarchical machine learning problems. As deep learning models continue to grow in size,…

cs.LG2024

FinerCut: Finer-grained Interpretable Layer Pruning for Large Language Models

Yang Zhang, Yawei Li, Xinpeng Wang +5

Overparametrized transformer networks are the state-of-the-art architecture for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, such models contain billions of parameters making large compu…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

The Stronger the Diffusion Model, the Easier the Backdoor: Data Poisoning to Induce Copyright Breaches Without Adjusting Finetuning Pipeline

Haonan Wang, Qianli Shen, Yao Tong +2

The commercialization of text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) brings forth potential copyright concerns. Despite numerous attempts to protect DMs from copyright issues, the vulnera…

cs.CR2023

VA3: Virtually Assured Amplification Attack on Probabilistic Copyright Protection for Text-to-Image Generative Models

Xiang Li, Qianli Shen, Kenji Kawaguchi

The booming use of text-to-image generative models has raised concerns about their high risk of producing copyright-infringing content. While probabilistic copyright protection met…

cs.AI2023

PICProp: Physics-Informed Confidence Propagation for Uncertainty Quantification

Qianli Shen, Wai Hoh Tang, Zhun Deng +2

Standard approaches for uncertainty quantification in deep learning and physics-informed learning have persistent limitations. Indicatively, strong assumptions regarding the data l…