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Sicheng Zhu

15 accepted papers

2026

CHAL: Causal-guided Hierarchical Anomaly-aware Learning for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection

CVPR 2026

Infrared small target detection is one highly special category of object detection, faced with tiny target imaging size and cluttered backgrounds. Currently, almost all existing methods are target-centered, directly learning the target features from backgrounds. However, due to weak target signals,

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2026

Cross-domain Joint Learning with Prototype-guided Mixture-of-Experts for Infrared Moving Small Target Detection

AAAI 2026technical

Infrared small target detection often faces significant domain gaps across datasets due to varying sensors and scene distributions. Currently, most existing methods are typically based on single-domain learning (i.e., training and test are on the same dataset), requiring training separate detectors

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2026

Domain-Auxiliary Infrared Moving Small Target Detection by Learning to Overlook Domain Discrepancy

AAAI 2026technical

Currently, almost all traditional infrared small target detection methods work on the assumption that training and test sets always belong to the same domain, and training samples are sufficient. However, in real applications, a new detection task could often have no sufficient training samples from

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2026

SeViL: Semi-supervised Vision-Language Learning with Text Prompt Guiding for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection

AAAI 2026technical

Unlike traditional object detection, moving infrared small target detection is highly challenging due to tiny target size and limited labeled samples. Currently, most existing methods mainly focus on the pure-vision features usually by fully-supervised learning, heavily relying on extensive high-cos

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2025

AdvPrefix: An Objective for Nuanced LLM Jailbreaks

NeurIPS 2025poster

Many jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs) rely on a common objective: making the model respond with the prefix ``Sure, here is (harmful request)''. While straightforward, this objective has two limitations: limited control over model behaviors, yielding incomplete or unrealistic jailbro…

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2025

Can Watermarking Large Language Models Prevent Copyrighted Text Generation and Hide Training Data?

AAAI 2025technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating diverse and contextually rich text. However, concerns regarding copyright infringement arise as LLMs may inadvertently produce copyrighted material. In this paper, we first investigate the effectiveness of watermark…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

GenARM: Reward Guided Generation with Autoregressive Reward Model for Test-Time Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but require careful alignment with human preferences. Traditional training-time methods finetune LLMs using human preference datasets but incur significant training costs and require repeated training to handle diverse user preferences. Te…

2025

PoisonedParrot: Subtle Data Poisoning Attacks to Elicit Copyright-Infringing Content from Large Language Models

NAACL 2025long

As the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) continue to expand, their usage has become increasingly prevalent. However, as reflected in numerous ongoing lawsuits regarding LLM-generated content, addressing copyright infringement remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce Po…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Like Oil and Water: Group Robustness Methods and Poisoning Defenses May Be at Odds

ICLR 2024poster

Group robustness has become a major concern in machine learning (ML) as conventional training paradigms were found to produce high error on minority groups. Without explicit group annotations, proposed solutions rely on heuristics that aim to identify and then amplify the minority samples during tra…

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2024

PerceptionCLIP: Visual Classification by Inferring and Conditioning on Contexts

ICLR 2024poster

Vision-language models like CLIP are widely used in zero-shot image classification due to their ability to understand various visual concepts and natural language descriptions. However, how to fully leverage CLIP's unprecedented human-like understanding capabilities to achieve better performance is…

2024

Position: On the Possibilities of AI-Generated Text Detection

ICML 2024poster

Our study addresses the challenge of distinguishing human-written text from Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. We provide evidence that this differentiation is consistently feasible, except when human and machine text distributions are indistinguishable across their entire support. Employing inform…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

WAVES: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks

ICML 2024poster

In the burgeoning age of generative AI, watermarks act as identifiers of provenance and artificial content. We present WAVES (Watermark Analysis via Enhanced Stress-testing), a benchmark for assessing image watermark robustness, overcoming the limitations of current evaluation methods. WAVES integra…

2023

Learning Unforeseen Robustness from Out-of-distribution Data Using Equivariant Domain Translator

ICML 2023poster

Current approaches for training robust models are typically tailored to scenarios where data variations are accessible in the training set. While shown effective in achieving robustness to these foreseen variations, these approaches are ineffective in learning *unforeseen* robustness, i.e., robustne…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2021

Understanding the Generalization Benefit of Model Invariance from a Data Perspective

NeurIPS 2021poster

Machine learning models that are developed to be invariant under certain types of data transformations have shown improved generalization in practice. However, a principled understanding of why invariance benefits generalization is limited. Given a dataset, there is often no principled way to select…

2020

Learning Adversarially Robust Representations via Worst-Case Mutual Information Maximization

ICML 2020poster

Training machine learning models that are robust against adversarial inputs poses seemingly insurmountable challenges. To better understand adversarial robustness, we consider the underlying problem of learning robust representations. We develop a notion of representation vulnerability that captures…