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Kaike Zhang

5 accepted papers

2026

Active Reasoning Vision-Language Model via Sequential Experimental Design

ICML 2026poster

Visual perception in modern Vision-Language Models (VLM) is constrained by a fundamental perceptual bandwidth bottleneck: a broad field-of-view inevitably sacrifices the fine-grained details necessary for complex reasoning. Inspired by the classical paradigms of active vision and information foragin…

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2026

GoalRank: Group-Relative Optimization for a Large Ranking Model

ICLR 2026poster

Mainstream ranking approaches typically follow a Generator–Evaluator two-stage paradigm, where a generator produces candidate lists and an evaluator selects the best one. Recent work has attempted to enhance performance by expanding the number of candidate lists, for example, through multi-generator…

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2026

LexInstructEval: Lexical Instruction Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to precisely follow complex and fine-grained lexical instructions is a cornerstone of their utility and controllability. However, evaluating this capability remains a significant challenge. Current methods either rely on subjective and costly human evaluat

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2024

PKAD: Pretrained Knowledge is All You Need to Detect and Mitigate Textual Backdoor Attacks

EMNLP 2024finding

In textual backdoor attacks, attackers insert poisoned samples with triggered inputs and target labels into training datasets to manipulate model behavior, threatening the model’s security and reliability. Current defense methods can generally be categorized into inference-time and training-time one…

2024

Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Adversarial Collaborative Filtering (ACF), which typically applies adversarial perturbations at user and item embeddings through adversarial training, is widely recognized as an effective strategy for enhancing the robustness of Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommender systems against poisoning atta…