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Changsheng Wang

6 accepted papers

2026

Downgrade to Upgrade: Optimizer Simplification Enhances Robustness in LLM Unlearning

ICLR 2026poster

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. This paradigm has shown promise in addressing privacy and safety concerns. However, recent findings reveal that unlearn…

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2026

Position: Zeroth-Order Optimization in Deep Learning Is Underexplored, Not Underpowered

ICML 2026spotlight

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization, learning from finite differences of function evaluations without backpropagation, has recently regained attention in deep learning due to its memory efficiency and applicability to gray- or black-box pipelines. Yet, ZO methods are often dismissed as fundamentally unsc…

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2025

Invariance Makes LLM Unlearning Resilient Even to Unanticipated Downstream Fine-Tuning

ICML 2025poster

Machine unlearning presents a promising approach to mitigating privacy and safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) by enabling the selective removal of targeted data or knowledge while preserving model utility. However, existing unlearning methods remain over-sensitive to downstream fine-tun…

2025

Reasoning Model Unlearning: Forgetting Traces, Not Just Answers, While Preserving Reasoning Skills

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) have enabled strong multi-step reasoning capabilities. However, existing machine unlearning algorithms are tailored to standard language modeling and fail to address the unique challenges posed by LRMs. In this work, we present the first systematic st

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2025

The Fragile Truth of Saliency: Improving LLM Input Attribution via Attention Bias Optimization

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Input saliency aims to quantify the influence of input tokens on the output of large language models (LLMs), which has been widely used for prompt engineering, model interpretability, and behavior attribution. Despite the proliferation of saliency techniques, the field lacks a standardized and rigor…

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2018

Robust Widely Widely Beamforming via the Technique of Shrinkage for Steering Vector Estimation

ICASSP 2018accepted

In this paper, two novel robust widely linear beamforming algorithms based on the technique of shrinkage are proposed, i.e., the WL-RBLW and the WL-OAS. Firstly, in order to remove the signal-of-interest's (SOl's) component from the sample covariance matrix (SCM), the augmented interference-plus-noi…

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