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Amber Yijia Zheng

5 accepted papers

2025

Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student’s weights and the teacher’s API are available. This problem is motivated by growing concerns about model…

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2025

Model Immunization from a Condition Number Perspective

ICML 2025oral

Model immunization aims to pre-train models that are difficult to fine-tune on harmful tasks while retaining their utility on other non-harmful tasks. Though prior work has shown empirical evidence for immunizing text-to-image models, the key understanding of when immunization is possible and a prec…

2025

Multi-concept Model Immunization through Differentiable Model Merging

AAAI 2025technical

Model immunization is an emerging direction that aims to mitigate the potential risk of misuse associated with open-sourced models and advancing adaptation methods. The idea is to make the released models' weights difficult to fine-tune on certain harmful applications, hence the name "immunized". Re…

2024

Graph Machine Learning through the Lens of Bilevel Optimization

AISTATS 2024poster

Bilevel optimization refers to scenarios whereby the optimal solution of a lower-level energy function serves as input features to an upper-level objective of interest. These optimal features typically depend on tunable parameters of the lower-level energy in such a way that the entire bilevel pipel…