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Mingchen Gao

14 accepted papers

2026

FairLLaVA: Fairness-Aware Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Large Vision-Language Assistants

CVPR 2026

While powerful in image-conditioned generation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can display uneven performance across demographic groups, highlighting fairness risks. In safety-critical clinical settings, such disparities risk producing unequal diagnostic narratives and eroding trust in AI-

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Continual Domain Adversarial Adaptation via Double-Head Discriminators

AISTATS 2024poster

Domain adversarial adaptation in a continual setting poses significant challenges due to the limitations of accessing previous source domain data. Despite extensive research in continual learning, adversarial adaptation cannot be effectively accomplished using only a small number of stored source do…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Training A Secure Model against Data-Free Model Extraction

ECCV 2024poster

"The objective of data-free model extraction (DFME) is to acquire a pre-trained black-box model solely through query access, without any knowledge of the training data used for the victim model. Defending against DFME is challenging because the attack query data distribution and the attacker’s strat…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Continual Segment: Towards a Single, Unified and Non-forgetting Continual Segmentation Model of 143 Whole-body Organs in CT Scans

ICCV 2023poster

Deep learning empowers the mainstream medical image segmentation methods. Nevertheless, current deep segmentation approaches are not capable of efficiently and effectively adapting and updating the trained models when new segmentation classes are incrementally added. In the real clinical environment…

Cited by 21PDFScholar
2023

Defending against Data-Free Model Extraction by Distributionally Robust Defensive Training

NeurIPS 2023poster

Data-Free Model Extraction (DFME) aims to clone a black-box model without knowing its original training data distribution, making it much easier for attackers to steal commercial models. Defense against DFME faces several challenges: (i) effectiveness; (ii) efficiency; (iii) no prior on the attacker…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

MetaMix: Towards Corruption-Robust Continual Learning With Temporally Self-Adaptive Data Transformation

CVPR 2023poster

Continual Learning (CL) has achieved rapid progress in recent years. However, it is still largely unknown how to determine whether a CL model is trustworthy and how to foster its trustworthiness. This work focuses on evaluating and improving the robustness to corruptions of existing CL models. Our e…

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2023

Progressive Voronoi Diagram Subdivision Enables Accurate Data-free Class-Incremental Learning

ICLR 2023poster

Data-free Class-incremental Learning (CIL) is a challenging problem because rehearsing data from previous phases is strictly prohibited, causing catastrophic forgetting of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). In this paper, we present \emph{iVoro}, a novel framework derived from computational geometry. We f…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2022

Improving Task-free Continual Learning by Distributionally Robust Memory Evolution

ICML 2022spotlight

Task-free continual learning (CL) aims to learn a non-stationary data stream without explicit task definitions and not forget previous knowledge. The widely adopted memory replay approach could gradually become less effective for long data streams, as the model may memorize the stored examples and o…

2022

Learning To Learn and Remember Super Long Multi-Domain Task Sequence

CVPR 2022oral

Catastrophic forgetting (CF) frequently occurs when learning with non-stationary data distribution. The CF issue remains nearly unexplored and is more challenging when meta-learning on a sequence of domains (datasets), called sequential domain meta-learning (SDML). In this work, we propose a simple…

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2022

Meta-Learning with Less Forgetting on Large-Scale Non-stationary Task Distributions

ECCV 2022poster

"The paradigm of machine intelligence moves from purely supervised learning to a more practical scenario when many loosely related unlabeled data are available and labeled data is scarce. Most existing algorithms assume that the underlying task distribution is stationary. Here we consider a more rea…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2022

Meta-learning without data via Wasserstein distributionally-robust model fusion

UAI 2022poster

Existing meta-learning works assume that each task has available training and testing data. However, there are many available pre-trained models without accessing their training data in practice. We often need a single model to solve different tasks simultaneously as this is much more convenient to…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2021

Improving uncertainty calibration of deep neural networks via truth discovery and geometric optimization

UAI 2021poster

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), despite their tremendous success in recent years, could still cast doubts on their predictions due to the intrinsic uncertainty associated with their learning process. Ensemble techniques and post-hoc calibrations are two types of approaches that have individually shown…

2021

Meta Learning on a Sequence of Imbalanced Domains With Difficulty Awareness

ICCV 2021poster

Recognizing new objects by learning from a few labeled examples in an evolving environment is crucial to obtain excellent generalization ability for real-world machine learning systems. A typical setting across current meta learning algorithms assumes a stationary task distribution during meta train…

Cited by 25PDFcodeScholar