51 accepted papers
The proliferation of large language models has intensified demands for reliable content attribution, yet existing watermarking techniques face a fundamental trilemma: they cannot simultaneously optimize for robustness against attacks, minimal text quality degradation, and detection efficiency. To re
Model watermarking techniques can embed watermark information into the protected model for ownership declaration by constructing specific input-output pairs. However, existing watermarks are easily removed when facing model stealing attacks, and make it difficult for model owners to effectively veri
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has emerged as a principled framework for decentralized training of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) while preserving data privacy. In subgraph-FL scenarios, however, structural noise arising from data collection and storage can damage the GNN message-passing scheme of cli
Learning agile humanoid behaviors from human motion offers a powerful route to natural, coordinated control, but existing approaches face a persistent trade-off: reference-tracking policies are often brittle outside the demonstration dataset, while purely task-driven Reinforcement Learning (RL) can …
Hybrid planner switching framework (HPSF) for autonomous driving needs to reconcile high-speed driving efficiency with safe maneuvering in dense traffic. Existing HPSF methods often fail to make reliable mode transitions or sustain efficient driving in congested environments, owing to heuristic scen…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are trained on massive multimodal data, making data unlearning increasingly important as data owners may request the removal of specific content. In practice, these requests often arrive sequentially over time, giving rise to the challenging problem of *MLLM …
The remarkable success of Chain-of-Thought (CoT), which enhances performance by scaling generation steps at test-time, inspires us to ask: can we leverage a similar scaling of computational steps during pretraining to improve the generation of each individual token? To address this, we propose a nov…
Humans ponder before articulating complex sentence elements, enabling deeper cognitive processing through focused effort. In this work, we introduce this pondering process into language models by repeatedly invoking the forward process within a single token generation step. During pondering, instead…
Federated Prompt Learning (FPL) adapts Vision-Language Models to privacy-sensitive medical imaging, typically via a textual tuning paradigm that assumes the frozen visual encoder provides a discriminative feature geometry. We argue this assumption breaks down in medical settings, leading to two geom…
Safety-critical scenarios are central to evaluating autonomous driving systems, yet their rarity in naturalistic logs makes simulation-based stress testing indispensable. Most scenario generation methods treat surrounding agents as adversaries, but they either (i) induce failures without explicitly …
Existing lifelong person re-identification (Re-ID) methods assume that each identity maintains a relatively stable appearance distribution over time. However, in real-world scenarios, identities often reappear asynchronously with substantial clothing changes, which is not modeled in existing lifelon…
Recent person re-identification (ReID) leverages heterogeneous sensing with multiple modalities and viewpoints to improve robustness across diverse conditions. However, most approaches target predefined scenario pairs (e.g., visible-infrared or aerial-ground) and train separate task-specific models.
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) combines the privacy-preserving capabilities of federated learning (FL) with the strong graph modeling capability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Current research addresses subgraph-FL only from the structural perspective, neglecting the propagation of graph signals o…
Home-based bilateral training using exoskeletons is considered an effective rehabilitation method to restore the normal motion function of stroke patients' limbs. However, due to the imbalance of limb muscle strength, muscle compensation of the functional upper limb will cause surface electromyograp
Fine-tuning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in multi-task learning scenarios has emerged as an effective strategy for achieving cross-domain specialization. However, multi-task fine-tuning frequently induces performance degradation on open-response datasets. We posit that free-form answer g…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in tasks such as visual question answering and visual understanding, but they still face significant challenges in emotional reasoning. Current methods to enhance emotional understanding typically rely on fine-tuning or manua…
Person re-identification (ReID) is the task of matching individuals across different camera views. Existing approaches typically employ neural networks to extract discriminative features, ranking gallery images based on their similarities to probe images. While effective, these methods are often enh…
Federated Learning (FL) has demonstrated a promising future in privacy-friendly collaboration but it faces the data heterogeneity problem. Knowledge Distillation (KD) can serve as an effective method to address this issue. However, challenges arise from the unreliability of existing distillation met…
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has gained significant attention as a privacy-preserving approach to collaborative learning, but the computational demands increase substantially as datasets grow and Graph Neural Network (GNN) layers deepen. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{EAGLES}$, a…
Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has emerged as a solution to address real-world privacy concerns and data silos in graph learning, which relies on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Nevertheless, the homophily level discrepancies within the local graph data of clients, termed homophily heterogeneity, sign…
Artificial intelligence is rapidly encroaching on the field of service regulation. However, existing AI-based regulation techniques are often tailored to specific application domains and thus are difficult to generalize in an automated manner. This paper presents Horae, a unified specification langu
Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across diverse distributions and tasks, largely due to extensive pre-training datasets. Fine-tuning MLLM has become a common practice to improve performance on specific downstream tasks. However, during fine-t…
The application of AI in psychiatric diagnosis faces significant challenges, including the subjective nature of mental health assessments, symptom overlap across disorders, and privacy constraints limiting data availability. To address these issues, we present MoodAngels, the first specialized multi…
Person re-identification (Re-ID) is crucial for intelligent surveillance systems, facilitating the identification of individuals across multiple camera views. While significant advancements have been made for daytime scenarios, ensuring reliable Re-ID performance during nighttime remains a significa…
Accurate vessel segmentation is essential for diagnosing and managing vascular and ophthalmic diseases. Traditional learning-based vessel segmentation methods heavily rely on high-quality, pixel-level annotated datasets. However, segmentation performance suffers significantly when applied in federat
Lifelong Person Re-identification (LReID) is essential in dynamic camera networks, which continually adapts to new environments while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Existing LReID techniques often preserve samples from past datasets to maintain old knowledge, potentially leading to privac
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial capability for long-term autonomous robots, enabling them to identify previously visited locations using visual information. However, existing methods remain limited in indoor settings due to the highly repetitive structures inherent in such environments.
The real world naturally has dimensions of time and space. Therefore, estimating the counterfactual outcomes with spatial-temporal attributes is a crucial problem. However, previous methods are based on classical statistical models, which still have limitations in performance and generalization. Thi…
Texts generated by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly widespread online. Due to the lack of effective attribution mechanisms, the enforcement of copyright and the prevention of misuse remain significant challenges in the context of LLM-generated content. LLMs watermark emerges as a crucia
In Re-identification (ReID) recent advancements yield noteworthy progress in both unimodal and cross-modal retrieval tasks. However the challenge persists in developing a unified framework that could effectively handle varying multimodal data including RGB infrared sketches and textual information.…
Conventional wisdom holds that autoregressive models for image generation are typically accompanied by vector-quantized tokens. We observe that while a discrete-valued space can facilitate representing a categorical distribution, it is not a necessity for autoregressive modeling. In this work, we pr…
"Diffusion Models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results in image generation and have been applied to various fields. However, DMs sometimes seriously violate user privacy during usage, making the protection of privacy an urgent issue. Using traditional privacy computing schemes like Secur…
Autonomous cooperative planning (ACP) is a promising technique to improve the efficiency and safety of multi-vehicle interactions for future intelligent transportation systems. However, realizing robust ACP is a challenge due to the aggregation of perception, motion, and communication uncertainties.…
Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to federated systems, where malicious clients optimize on the triggered distribution to mislead the global model towards a predefined target. Existing backdoor defense methods typically require either homogeneous assumption, validation datasets, or client optim…
Virtual reality (VR) is a promising data engine for autonomous driving (AD). However, data fidelity in this paradigm is often degraded by VR inconsistency, for which the existing VR approaches become ineffective, as they ignore the inter-dependency between low-level VR synchronizer designs (i.e., da
Federated learning presents massive potential for privacy-friendly collaboration. However, the performance of federated learning is deeply affected by byzantine attacks, where malicious clients deliberately upload crafted vicious updates. While various robust aggregations have been proposed to defen…
Causal reasoning capability is critical in advancing large language models (LLMs) towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). While versatile LLMs appear to have demonstrated capabilities in understanding contextual causality and providing responses that obey the laws of causality, it remains unc…
Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) is an efficient computational tool for solving nonlinear optimal control problems. It was originally designed as a single shooting method and thus is sensitive to the initial guess supplied. This work considers the extension of DDP to multiple shooting (MS), im…
Accurate prediction of the out-of-distribution data is desired for a learning algorithm. In domain generalization, training data from source domains tend to have different distributions from that of the target domain, while the target data are absence in the training process. We propose a Distributi…
Recently, group link prediction has received increasing attention due to its important role in analyzing relationships between individuals and groups. However, most existing group link prediction methods emphasize static settings or only make cursory exploitation of historical information, so they f…
Federated learning shows a bright promise as a privacy-preserving collaborative learning technique. However, prevalent solutions mainly focus on all private data sampled from the same domain. An important challenge is that when distributed data are derived from diverse domains. The private model pre…
Exoskeleton-assisted home-based rehabilitation plays a vital role in the upper limb rehabilitation of stroke patients in early stage. The surface electromyography (sEMG)-based control can facilitate friendly interactions between individuals and rehabilitation exoskeletons. The exoskeleton can also m
Specialized motions such as jumping are often achieved on quadruped robots by solving a trajectory optimization problem once and executing the trajectory using a tracking controller. This approach is in parallel with Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategies that commonly control regular gaits via o…
Seemingly in defiance of basic physics, cats consistently land on their feet after falling. In this paper, we design a controller that lands the Mini Cheetah quadruped robot on its feet as well. Specifically, we explore how trajectory optimization and machine learning can work together to enable hig…
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has witnessed great strides for quadruped locomotion, with continued progress in the reliable sim-to-real transfer of policies. However, it remains a challenge to reuse a policy on another robot, which could save time for retraining. In this work, we present a framework f…
We propose a decentralized, learning-based solution to the challenging problem of unlabeled multi-agent navigation among obstacles, where robots need to simultaneously tackle the problems of goal assignment, local collision avoidance, and navigation. Our method has each robot infer their desired act…
This letter presents a new predictive control architecture for high-dimensional robotic systems. As opposed to a conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to locomotion that formulates a hierarchical sequence of optimization problems, the proposed work formulates a single optimization pro
This letter presents a Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) framework for trajectory optimization (TO) of hybrid systems with state-based switching. The proposed Hybrid Systems DDP (HS-DDP) approach is considered for application to whole-body motion planning with legged robots. Specifically, HS-DD
Rain removal is important for improving the robustness of outdoor vision based systems. Current rain removal methods show limitations either for complex dynamic scenes shot from fast moving cameras, or under torrential rain fall with opaque occlusions. We propose a novel derain algorithm, which appl…
Conventional ultrasonic drills can drill into rocks using high frequency axial vibration, which feature lower power and lower preload force, thus they could become a very attractive solution for future deep-space exploration. However, drill cuttings cannot be removed effectively with the increase of…