← Search

Dongxiao Zhu

11 accepted papers

2026

Not All Tokens Are Meant to Be Forgotten

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs), pre-trained on massive text corpora, exhibit remarkable human-level language understanding, reasoning, and decision-making abilities. However, they tend to memorize unwanted information, such as private or copyrighted content, raising significant privacy and legal conce

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

WalkGPT: Grounded Vision-Language Conversation with Depth-Aware Segmentation for Pedestrian Navigation

CVPR 2026

Ensuring accessible pedestrian navigation requires reasoning about both semantic and spatial aspects of complex urban scenes, a challenge that existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) struggle to meet. Although these models can describe visual content, their lack of explicit grounding leads to

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

MFABA: A More Faithful and Accelerated Boundary-Based Attribution Method for Deep Neural Networks

AAAI 2024technical

To better understand the output of deep neural networks (DNN), attribution based methods have been an important approach for model interpretability, which assign a score for each input dimension to indicate its importance towards the model outcome. Notably, the attribution methods use the ax- ioms o…

2023

Learning Compact Features via In-Training Representation Alignment

AAAI 2023technical

Deep neural networks (DNNs) for supervised learning can be viewed as a pipeline of the feature extractor (i.e., last hidden layer) and a linear classifier (i.e., output layer) that are trained jointly with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) on the loss function (e.g., cross-entropy). In each epoch, t…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

Negative Flux Aggregation to Estimate Feature Attributions

IJCAI 2023poster

There are increasing demands for understanding deep neural networks' (DNNs) behavior spurred by growing security and/or transparency concerns. Due to multi-layer nonlinearity of the deep neural network architectures, explaining DNN predictions still remains as an open problem, preventing us from gai…

2022

AttCAT: Explaining Transformers via Attentive Class Activation Tokens

NeurIPS 2022accept

Transformers have improved the state-of-the-art in various natural language processing and computer vision tasks. However, the success of the Transformer model has not yet been duly explained. Current explanation techniques, which dissect either the self-attention mechanism or gradient-based attribu…

2022

Counterfactual Interpolation Augmentation (CIA): A Unified Approach to Enhance Fairness and Explainability of DNN

IJCAI 2022poster

Bias in the training data can jeopardize fairness and explainability of deep neural network prediction on test data. We propose a novel bias-tailored data augmentation approach, Counterfactual Interpolation Augmentation (CIA), attempting to debias the training data by d-separating the spurious corre…

2021

Explaining Deep Neural Network Models with Adversarial Gradient Integration

IJCAI 2021poster

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have became one of the most high performing tools in a broad range of machine learning areas. However, the multilayer non-linearity of the network architectures prevent us from gaining a better understanding of the models’ predictions. Gradient based attribution method…

2021

Improving Adversarial Robustness via Probabilistically Compact Loss with Logit Constraints

AAAI 2021technical

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various tasks in computer vision. However, recent studies demonstrate that these models are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial samples and suffer from a significant performance drop when predicting them. Many…

2020

Explainable Recommendation via Interpretable Feature Mapping and Evaluation of Explainability

IJCAI 2020poster

Latent factor collaborative filtering (CF) has been a widely used technique for recommender system by learning the semantic representations of users and items. Recently, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from research community. However, trade-off exists between explainability…