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Denghui Zhang

22 accepted papers

2026

Less Is More: Sparse and Cooperative Perturbation for Point Cloud Attacks

AAAI 2026technical

Most adversarial attacks on point clouds perturb a large number of points, causing widespread geometric changes and limiting applicability in real-world scenarios. While recent works explore sparse attacks by modifying only a few points, such approaches often struggle to maintain effectiveness due t

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2026

Mitigating Non-IID Drift in Zeroth-Order Federated LLM Fine-Tuning with Transferable Sparsity

ICLR 2026poster

Federated Learning enables collaborative fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) across decentralized Non-Independent and Identically Distributed (Non-IID) clients, but such models' massive parameter sizes lead to significant memory and communication challenges. This work introduces Meerkat, a s…

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2026

Randomized Antipodal Search Done Right for Data Pareto Improvement of LLM Unlearning

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) sometimes memorize undesirable knowledge, which must be removed after deployment. Prior work on machine unlearning has focused largely on optimization methods that adjust parameters to enforce forgetting while preserving retention. However, these approaches assume that t…

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2025

ALinFiK: Learning to Approximate Linearized Future Influence Kernel for Scalable Third-Parity LLM Data Valuation

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) heavily rely on high-quality training data, making data valuation crucial for optimizing model performance, especially when working within a limited budget. In this work, we aim to offer a third-party data valuation approach that benefits both data providers and model de…

2025

Beyond Reactive Safety: Risk-Aware LLM Alignment via Long-Horizon Simulation

ACL 2025finding

Given the growing influence of language model-based agents on high-stakes societal decisions, from public policy to healthcare, ensuring their beneficial impact requires understanding the far-reaching implications of their suggestions. We propose a proof-of-concept framework that projects how model-…

2025

DEL-ToM: Inference-Time Scaling for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning via Dynamic Epistemic Logic

EMNLP 2025

Theory-of-Mind (ToM) tasks pose a unique challenge for large language models (LLMs), which often lack the capability for dynamic logical reasoning. In this work, we propose DEL-ToM, a framework that improves verifiable ToM reasoning through inference-time scaling rather than architectural changes. O

2025

EscapeBench: Towards Advancing Creative Intelligence of Language Model Agents

ACL 2025long

Language model agents excel in long-session planning and reasoning, but existing benchmarks primarily focus on goal-oriented tasks with explicit objectives, neglecting creative adaptation in unfamiliar environments. To address this, we introduce EscapeBench—a benchmark suite of room escape game envi…

2025

ISACL: Internal State Analyzer for Copyrighted Training Data Leakage

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) but pose risks of inadvertently exposing copyrighted or proprietary data, especially when such data is used for training but not intended for distribution. Traditional methods address these leaks only after content is

2025

MLSDET: Multi-LLM Statistical Deep Ensemble for Chinese AI-Generated Text Detection

ICASSP 2025accepted

With the rapid advancements in pre-trained large language models like ChatGPT, the surge of AI-generated text, particularly in Chinese, has presented significant challenges to existing detection systems due to its increasing realism and complexity. To address this, we introduce MLSDET: a groundbreak…

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2025

Position: Iterative Online-Offline Joint Optimization is Needed to Manage Complex LLM Copyright Risks

ICML 2025poster

The infringement risks of LLMs have raised significant copyright concerns across different stages of the model lifecycle. While current methods often address these issues separately, this position paper argues that the LLM copyright challenges are inherently connected, and independent optimization o…

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2025

Profiling LLM’s Copyright Infringement Risks under Adversarial Persuasive Prompting

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in text generation but raise concerns regarding potential copyright infringement. While prior research has explored mitigation strategies like content filtering and alignment, the impact of adversarial persuasion techniques in el

2025

Rescorla-Wagner Steering of LLMs for Undesired Behaviors over Disproportionate Inappropriate Context

EMNLP 2025

Incorporating external context can significantly enhance the response quality of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, real-world contexts often mix relevant information with disproportionate inappropriate content, posing reliability risks. How do LLMs process and prioritize mixed context? To study

2025

SafeSwitch: Steering Unsafe LLM Behavior via Internal Activation Signals

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional capabilities across various tasks but also pose risks by generating harmful content. Existing safety mechanisms, while improving model safety, often lead to overly cautious behavior and fail to fully leverage LLMs’ internal cognitive processes. Inspir

2024

FinCon: A Synthesized LLM Multi-Agent System with Conceptual Verbal Reinforcement for Enhanced Financial Decision Making

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable potential in conducting complex tasks and are increasingly utilized in various financial applications. However, high-quality sequential financial investment decision-making remains challenging. These tasks require multiple interactions with a vo…

2024

Make Graph Neural Networks Great Again: A Generic Integration Paradigm of Topology-Free Patterns for Traffic Speed Prediction

IJCAI 2024poster

Urban traffic speed prediction aims to estimate the future traffic speed for improving urban transportation services. Enormous efforts have been made to exploit Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for modeling spatial correlations and temporal dependencies of traffic speed evolving patterns, regularized by…

2024

Self-Paced Unified Representation Learning for Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification

AAAI 2024technical

Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMLC) is a well-established problem that aims at assigning data instances to multiple classes stored in a hierarchical structure. Despite its importance, existing approaches often face two key limitations: (i) They employ dense networks to solely explore the…

2023

Human-Instructed Deep Hierarchical Generative Learning for Automated Urban Planning

AAAI 2023technical

The essential task of urban planning is to generate the optimal land-use configuration of a target area. However, traditional urban planning is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Deep generative learning gives us hope that we can automate this planning process and come up with the ideal urban plans…

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2022

Learning to Walk with Dual Agents for Knowledge Graph Reasoning

AAAI 2022technical

Graph walking based on reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success in navigating an agent to automatically complete various reasoning tasks over an incomplete knowledge graph (KG) by exploring multi-hop relational paths. However, existing multi-hop reasoning approaches only work well on shor…

2021

Self-Supervised Prototype Representation Learning for Event-Based Corporate Profiling

AAAI 2021technical

Event-based corporate profiling aims to assess the evolving operational status of the corresponding corporate from its event sequence. Existing studies on corporate profiling have partially addressed the problem via (i) case-by-case empirical analysis by leveraging traditional financial methods, or…