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Jianing Zhu

16 accepted papers

2026

AgentHijack: Benchmarking Computer Use Agent Robustness to Common Environment Corruptions

ICML 2026poster

Autonomous computer use agents that powered by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are emerging as capable assistants for completing complex digital workflows. However, real-world execution environments are far from ideal: pop-up dialogs, resolution changes, and competing applications frequentl…

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2026

Bilateral Information-aware Test-time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Test-time adaptation (TTA) fine-tunes models using new data encountered during inference, which enables the vision-language models to handle test data with covariant shifts. Unlike training-time adaptation, TTA does not require a test-distributed validation set or consider the worst-case distributio…

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2026

Co-rewarding: Stable Self-supervised RL for Eliciting Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Although reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) shows promise in improving the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), the scaling up dilemma remains due to the reliance on human-annotated labels especially for complex tasks. Recent self-rewarding methods provide a label-fr…

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2026

Decoupling the Class Label and the Target Concept in Machine Unlearning

ICLR 2026poster

Machine unlearning as an emerging research topic for data regulations, aims to adjust a trained model to approximate a retrained one that excludes a portion of training data. Previous studies showed that class-wise unlearning is effective in forgetting the knowledge of a training class, either throu…

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2026

Towards Understanding Valuable Preference Data for Large Language Model Alignment

ICLR 2026poster

Large language model (LLM) alignment is typically achieved through learning from human preference comparisons, making the quality of preference data critical to its success. Existing studies often pre-process raw training datasets to identify valuable preference pairs using external reward models or…

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2025

Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods

ICLR 2025poster

The imperative to eliminate undesirable data memorization underscores the significance of machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs). Recent research has introduced a series of promising unlearning methods, notably boosting the practical significance of the field. Nevertheless, adopting a p…

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2024

Can Language Models Perform Robust Reasoning in Chain-of-thought Prompting with Noisy Rationales?

NeurIPS 2024poster

This paper investigates an under-explored challenge in large language models (LLMs): chain-of-thought prompting with noisy rationales, which include irrelevant or inaccurate reasoning thoughts within examples used for in-context learning. We construct NoRa dataset that is tailored to evaluate the ro…

2024

Self-Calibrated Tuning of Vision-Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying reliable machine learning models in open-world applications. Recent advances in CLIP-based OOD detection have shown promising results via regularizing prompt tuning with OOD features extracted from ID data. However, the irrelevant context…

2024

What If the Input is Expanded in OOD Detection?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify OOD inputs from unknown classes, which is important for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in the open world. Various scoring functions are proposed to distinguish it from in-distribution (ID) data. However, existing methods genera…

2023

Combating Exacerbated Heterogeneity for Robust Models in Federated Learning

ICLR 2023poster

Privacy and security concerns in real-world applications have led to the development of adversarially robust federated models. However, the straightforward combination between adversarial training and federated learning in one framework can lead to the undesired robustness deterioration. We discover…

2023

Diversified Outlier Exposure for Out-of-Distribution Detection via Informative Extrapolation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is important for deploying reliable machine learning models on real-world applications. Recent advances in outlier exposure have shown promising results on OOD detection via fine-tuning model with informatively sampled auxiliary outliers. However, previous methods…

2023

Exploring Model Dynamics for Accumulative Poisoning Discovery

ICML 2023poster

Adversarial poisoning attacks pose huge threats to various machine learning applications. Especially, the recent accumulative poisoning attacks show that it is possible to achieve irreparable harm on models via a sequence of imperceptible attacks followed by a trigger batch. Due to the limited data-…

2023

Unleashing Mask: Explore the Intrinsic Out-of-Distribution Detection Capability

ICML 2023poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an indispensable aspect of secure AI when deploying machine learning models in real-world applications. Previous paradigms either explore better scoring functions or utilize the knowledge of outliers to equip the models with the ability of OOD detection. Howeve…

2022

Adversarial Training with Complementary Labels: On the Benefit of Gradually Informative Attacks

NeurIPS 2022accept

Adversarial training (AT) with imperfect supervision is significant but receives limited attention. To push AT towards more practical scenarios, we explore a brand new yet challenging setting, i.e., AT with complementary labels (CLs), which specify a class that a data sample does not belong to. Howe…

2022

Reliable Adversarial Distillation with Unreliable Teachers

ICLR 2022poster

In ordinary distillation, student networks are trained with soft labels (SLs) given by pretrained teacher networks, and students are expected to improve upon teachers since SLs are stronger supervision than the original hard labels. However, when considering adversarial robustness, teachers may beco…

2021

Geometry-aware Instance-reweighted Adversarial Training

ICLR 2021oral

In adversarial machine learning, there was a common belief that robustness and accuracy hurt each other. The belief was challenged by recent studies where we can maintain the robustness and improve the accuracy. However, the other direction, whether we can keep the accuracy and improve the robustnes…

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