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Qi Xuan

11 accepted papers

2026

Improving the Convergence Rate of Ray Search Optimization for Query-Efficient Hard-Label Attacks

AAAI 2026technical

In hard-label black-box adversarial attacks, where only the top-1 predicted label is accessible, the prohibitive query complexity poses a major obstacle to practical deployment. In this paper, we focus on optimizing a representative class of attacks that search for the optimal ray direction yielding

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2026

ReCoG: Relational and Compact Context Graph Learning for Few-shot Molecular Property Prediction

ICML 2026poster

Few-shot molecular property prediction (FSMPP) is essential in drug discovery and materials design, where high-quality labeled data are often scarce and expensive to obtain. Despite the promising performance of existing methods, especially in the context-aware methods, they still face two-fold sever…

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2026

Reassessing Layer Pruning in LLMs: New Insights and Methods

ICLR 2026poster

Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across various domains, their considerable scale necessitates substantial computational resources, posing significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Layer pruning, as a simple yet effective compre…

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2025

Boosting Ray Search Procedure of Hard-label Attacks with Transfer-based Priors

ICLR 2025spotlight

One of the most practical and challenging types of black-box adversarial attacks is the hard-label attack, where only the top-1 predicted label is available. One effective approach is to search for the optimal ray direction from the benign image that minimizes the $\ell_p$ norm distance to the adver…

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2025

CoF: Coarse to Fine-Grained Image Understanding for Multi-modal Large Language Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

The impressive performance of Large Language Model (LLM) has prompted researchers to develop Multi-modal LLM (MLLM), which has shown great potential for various multi-modal tasks. However, current MLLM often struggles to effectively address fine-grained multi-modal challenges. We argue that this lim…

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2025

Data-Free Model Extraction for Black-box Recommender Systems via Graph Convolutions

NeurIPS 2025poster

Privacy and security concerns are becoming increasingly critical for recommender systems, as model extraction attack provides an effective way to probe system robustness by replicating the model’s recommendation logic — potentially exposing sensitive user preferences and proprietary algorithmic know…

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2025

JANE: Joint Angle Networks Assisting 3D Human Pose Estimation

ICASSP 2025accepted

3D human pose estimation (HPE) is crucial due to its extensive applications. While current 3D HPE methods focus on human skeleton topology for accuracy, they often overlook joint angle information, which is vital in 2D-to-3D pose lifting. This paper introduces the Joint Angle Network (JANE) model to…

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2024

RK-CORE: An Established Methodology for Exploring the Hierarchical Structure within Datasets

ICASSP 2024accepted

Recently, the field of machine learning has undergone a transition from model-centric to data-centric. The advancements in diverse learning tasks have been propelled by the accumulation of more extensive datasets, subsequently facilitating the training of larger models on these datasets. However, th…

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2022

Improving Robustness of Language Models from a Geometry-aware Perspective

ACL 2022findings

Recent studies have found that removing the norm-bounded projection and increasing search steps in adversarial training can significantly improve robustness. However, we observe that a too large number of search steps can hurt accuracy. We aim to obtain strong robustness efficiently using fewer step…

2022

Understanding the Dynamics of DNNs Using Graph Modularity

ECCV 2022poster

"There are good arguments to support the claim that deep neural networks (DNNs) capture better feature representations than the previous hand-crafted feature engineering, which leads to a significant performance improvement. In this paper, we move a tiny step towards understanding the dynamics of fe…