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Sen Zhang

17 accepted papers

2026

Rethinking Transparent Object Grasping: Depth Completion With Monocular Depth Estimation and Instance Mask

RA-L 2026

Accurate depth maps are essential for robotic grasping. However, transparent objects often cause depth cameras to produce missing or distorted depth due to reflection and refraction, making grasping them particularly challenging. Precise depth estimation for transparent objects is therefore crucial.

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2025

Cardiverse: Harnessing LLMs for Novel Card Game Prototyping

EMNLP 2025

The prototyping of computer games, particularly card games, requires extensive human effort in creative ideation and gameplay evaluation. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer opportunities to automate and streamline these processes. However, it remains challenging for LLMs to design

2025

FreDF: Learning to Forecast in the Frequency Domain

ICLR 2025poster

Time series modeling presents unique challenges due to autocorrelation in both historical data and future sequences. While current research predominantly addresses autocorrelation within historical data, the correlations among future labels are often overlooked. Specifically, modern forecasting mode…

2025

NoVo: Norm Voting off Hallucinations with Attention Heads in Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) remain a major obstacle, particularly in high-stakes applications where factual accuracy is critical. While representation editing and reading methods have made strides in reducing hallucinations, their heavy reliance on specialised tools and training o…

2025

The Energy Loss Phenomenon in RLHF: A New Perspective on Mitigating Reward Hacking

ICML 2025poster

This work identifies the *Energy Loss Phenomenon* in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its connection to reward hacking. Specifically, energy loss in the final layer of a Large Language Model (LLM) gradually increases during the RL process, with an *excessive* increase in energy…

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2025

Toward Efficient Inference Attacks: Shadow Model Sharing via Mixture-of-Experts

NeurIPS 2025poster

Machine learning models are often vulnerable to inference attacks that expose sensitive information from their training data. Shadow model technique is commonly employed in such attacks, like membership inference. However, the need for a large number of shadow models leads to high computational cost…

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2025

“Yes, My LoRD.” Guiding Language Model Extraction with Locality Reinforced Distillation

ACL 2025long

Model extraction attacks (MEAs) on large language models (LLMs) have received increasing attention in recent research. However, existing attack methods typically adapt the extraction strategies originally developed for deep neural networks (DNNs). They neglect the underlying inconsistency between th…

2024

Confronting Reward Overoptimization for Diffusion Models: A Perspective of Inductive and Primacy Biases

ICML 2024poster

Bridging the gap between diffusion models and human preferences is crucial for their integration into practical generative workflows. While optimizing downstream reward models has emerged as a promising alignment strategy, concerns arise regarding the risk of excessive optimization with learned rewa…

2024

InfoRM: Mitigating Reward Hacking in RLHF via Information-Theoretic Reward Modeling

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models with human values, reward hacking, also termed reward overoptimization, remains a critical challenge. This issue primarily arises from reward misgeneralization, where reward models (RMs) compute rew…

2024

Revisiting Plasticity in Visual Reinforcement Learning: Data, Modules and Training Stages

ICLR 2024poster

Plasticity, the ability of a neural network to evolve with new data, is crucial for high-performance and sample-efficient visual reinforcement learning (VRL). Although methods like resetting and regularization can potentially mitigate plasticity loss, the influences of various components within the…

2024

Towards Theoretical Understandings of Self-Consuming Generative Models

ICML 2024poster

This paper tackles the emerging challenge of training generative models within a self-consuming loop, wherein successive generations of models are recursively trained on mixtures of real and synthetic data from previous generations. We construct a theoretical framework to rigorously evaluate how thi…

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2022

"JPerceiver: Joint Perception Network for Depth, Pose and Layout Estimation in Driving Scenes"

ECCV 2022poster

"Depth estimation, visual odometry (VO), and bird’s-eye-view (BEV) scene layout estimation present three critical tasks for driving scene perception, which is fundamental for motion planning and navigation in autonomous driving. Though they are complementary to each other, prior works usually focus…

2022

"Towards Scale-Aware, Robust, and Generalizable Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation by Integrating IMU Motion Dynamics"

ECCV 2022poster

"Unsupervised monocular depth and ego-motion estimation has drawn extensive research attention in recent years. Although current methods have reached a high up-to-scale accuracy, they usually fail to learn the true scale metric due to the inherent scale ambiguity from training with monocular sequenc…

2022

Towards Scale Consistent Monocular Visual Odometry by Learning from the Virtual World

ICRA 2022poster

Monocular visual odometry (VO) has attracted extensive research attention by providing real-time vehicle motion from cost-effective camera images. However, state-of-the-art optimization-based monocular VO methods suffer from the scale inconsistency problem for long-term predictions. Deep learning ha…

Cited by 18SourceScholar
2021

Fine-grained Factual Consistency Assessment for Abstractive Summarization Models

EMNLP 2021main

Factual inconsistencies existed in the output of abstractive summarization models with original documents are frequently presented. Fact consistency assessment requires the reasoning capability to find subtle clues to identify whether a model-generated summary is consistent with the original documen…