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Haoyu Zhao

28 accepted papers

2026

AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms

ICML 2026spotlight

Vericoding refers to the generation of formally verified code from rigorous specifications. Recent AI models show promise in vericoding, but a unified methodology for cross-paradigm evaluation is lacking. Existing benchmarks test only an individual language/tool (e.g., Dafny, Verus, and Lean) and ea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Divide, Conquer and Unite: Hierarchical Style-Recalibrated Prototype Alignment for Federated Medical Segmentation

AAAI 2026technical

Federated learning enables multiple medical institutions to train a global model without sharing data, yet feature heterogeneity from diverse scanners or protocols remains a major challenge. Many existing works attempt to address this issue by leveraging model representations (e.g., mean feature vec

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Enabling Faithful Camera Control in Video Diffusion through Geometry-Flow-Guided Noise Warping

ICML 2026poster

Precise camera pose control is critical for video diffusion, yet maintaining geometric consistency remains a challenge. Existing methods that directly inject numerical camera parameters into the diffusion backbone often fail to bridge the gap between abstract coordinates and visual content, leading …

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling Formal Theorem Proving with Scaffolded Data Synthesis and Self-Correction

ICLR 2026poster

Automated theorem proving (ATP) --- the task of generating a proof that passes automated proof verification given a math question in formal language --- is a critical challenge at the intersection of mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We introduce Goedel-Prover-V2, a family of two languag…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

High-Fidelity Simulated Data Generation for Real-World Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation Learning With Gaussian Splatting

RA-L 2026

The scalability of robotic learning is fundamentally bottlenecked by the significant cost and labor of real-world data collection. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, it often fails to generalize to the real world due to significant gaps in visual appearance, physical properties, and

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2026

Orthogonal Spatial-temporal Distributional Transfer for 4D Generation

AAAI 2026technical

In the AIGC era, generating high-quality 4D content has garnered increasing research attention. Unfortunately, current 4D synthesis research is severely constrained by the lack of large-scale 4D datasets, preventing models from adequately learning the critical spatial-temporal features necessary for

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

ReFocusEraser: Refocusing for Small Object Removal with Robust Context-Shadow Repair

ICLR 2026poster

Existing diffusion-based object removal and inpainting methods often fail to recover the fine structural and textural details of small objects. This is primarily due to the VAE encoder’s downsampling, which inevitably compresses small masked regions and causes significant detail loss, while the deco…

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2026

Towards Affordance-Aware Robotic Dexterous Grasping with Human-like Priors

AAAI 2026technical

A dexterous hand capable of generalizable grasping objects is fundamental for the development of general-purpose embodied AI. However, previous methods focus narrowly on low-level grasp stability metrics, neglecting affordance-aware positioning and human-like poses which are crucial for downstream m

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

When Can You Poison Rewards? A Tight Characterization of Reward Poisoning in Linear MDPs

ICML 2026poster

We study reward poisoning attacks in reinforcement learning (RL), where an adversary manipulates rewards within constrained budgets to force the target RL agent to adopt a policy that aligns with the attacker's objectives. Prior works on reward poisoning mainly focused on sufficient conditions to de…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

pFedSAM: Personalized Federated Learning of Segment Anything Model for Medical Image Segmentation

ICASSP 2026poster

Medical image segmentation is crucial for computer-aided diagnosis, yet privacy constraints hinder data sharing across institutions. Federated learning addresses this limitation, but existing approaches often rely on lightweight architectures that struggle with complex, heterogeneous data. Recently,…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (SWE-Bench) and mathematics (FrontierMath). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algor…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Coresets for Clustering Under Stochastic Noise

NeurIPS 2025poster

We study the problem of constructing coresets for $(k, z)$-clustering when the input dataset is corrupted by stochastic noise drawn from a known distribution. In this setting, evaluating the quality of a coreset is inherently challenging, as the true underlying dataset is unobserved. To address this…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

EDEN: Enhanced Diffusion for High-quality Large-motion Video Frame Interpolation

CVPR 2025poster

Handling complex or nonlinear motion patterns has long posed challenges for video frame interpolation. Although recent advances in diffusion-based methods offer improvements over traditional optical flow-based approaches, they still struggle to generate sharp, temporally consistent frames in scenari…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

GaussianProperty: Integrating Physical Properties to 3D Gaussians with LMMs

ICCV 2025poster

Estimating physical properties for visual data is a crucial task in computer vision, graphics, and robotics, underpinning applications such as augmented reality, physical simulation, and robotic grasping. However, this area remains under-explored due to the inherent ambiguities in physical property…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Ineq-Comp: Benchmarking Human-Intuitive Compositional Reasoning in Automated Theorem Proving of Inequalities

NeurIPS 2025poster

LLM-based formal proof assistants (e.g., in Lean) hold great promise for automating mathematical discovery. But beyond syntactic correctness, do these systems truly understand mathematical structure as humans do? We investigate this question in context of mathematical inequalities---specifically the…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Pathological Prior-Guided Multiple Instance Learning For Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Breast Cancer Whole Slide Image Classification

ICASSP 2025accepted

In histopathology, intelligent diagnosis of Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is essential for automating and objectifying diagnoses, reducing the workload of pathologists. However, diagnostic models often face the challenge of forgetting previously learned data during incremental training on datasets from…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

PhysSplat: Efficient Physics Simulation for 3D Scenes via MLLM-Guided Gaussian Splatting

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in 3D generation models have opened new possibilities for simulating dynamic 3D object movements and customizing behaviors, yet creating this content remains challenging. Current methods often require manual assignment of precise physical properties for simulations or rely on vid…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Adversarial Attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits

ICML 2024poster

We study reward poisoning attacks on Combinatorial Multi-armed Bandits (CMAB). We first provide a sufficient and necessary condition for the attackability of CMAB, a notion to capture the vulnerability and robustness of CMAB. The attackability condition depends on the intrinsic properties of the cor…

2024

Can Models Learn Skill Composition from Examples?

NeurIPS 2024poster

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly advanced, their ability to exhibit compositional generalization---the capacity to combine learned skills in novel ways not encountered during training---has garnered significant attention. This type of generalization, particularly in scenarios beyo…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Keeping LLMs Aligned After Fine-tuning: The Crucial Role of Prompt Templates

NeurIPS 2024poster

Public LLMs such as the Llama 2-Chat underwent alignment training and were considered safe. Recently Qi et al. (2024) reported that even benign fine-tuning on seemingly safe datasets can give rise to unsafe behaviors in the models. The current paper is about methods and best practices to mitigate su…

2024

MagDiff: Multi-Alignment Diffusion for High-Fidelity Video Generation and Editing

ECCV 2024poster

"The diffusion model is widely leveraged for either video generation or video editing. As each field has its task-specific problems, it is difficult to merely develop a single diffusion for completing both tasks simultaneously. Video diffusion sorely relying on the text prompt can be adapted to unif…

2023

Ref-NeuS: Ambiguity-Reduced Neural Implicit Surface Learning for Multi-View Reconstruction with Reflection

ICCV 2023oral

Neural implicit surface learning has shown significant progress in multi-view 3D reconstruction, where an object is represented by multilayer perceptrons that provide continuous implicit surface representation and view-dependent radiance. However, current methods often fail to accurately reconstruct…

Cited by 62PDFcodeScholar
2023

Task-Specific Skill Localization in Fine-tuned Language Models

ICML 2023poster

Pre-trained language models can be fine-tuned to solve diverse NLP tasks, including in few-shot settings. Thus fine-tuning allows the model to quickly pick up task-specific "skills," but there has been limited study of *where* these newly-learnt skills reside inside the massive model. This paper int…

2022

BEER: Fast $O(1/T)$ Rate for Decentralized Nonconvex Optimization with Communication Compression

NeurIPS 2022accept

Communication efficiency has been widely recognized as the bottleneck for large-scale decentralized machine learning applications in multi-agent or federated environments. To tackle the communication bottleneck, there have been many efforts to design communication-compressed algorithms for decentral…

2022

Coresets for Vertical Federated Learning: Regularized Linear Regression and $K$-Means Clustering

NeurIPS 2022accept

Vertical federated learning (VFL), where data features are stored in multiple parties distributively, is an important area in machine learning. However, the communication complexity for VFL is typically very high. In this paper, we propose a unified framework by constructing \emph{coresets} in a dis…

2022

SoteriaFL: A Unified Framework for Private Federated Learning with Communication Compression

NeurIPS 2022accept

To enable large-scale machine learning in bandwidth-hungry environments such as wireless networks, significant progress has been made recently in designing communication-efficient federated learning algorithms with the aid of communication compression. On the other end, privacy preserving, especiall…