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Song Xia

9 accepted papers

2026

CERTIFIED VS. EMPIRICAL ADVERSARIAL ROBUSTNESS VIA HYBRID CONVOLUTIONS WITH ATTENTION STOCHASTICITY

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce Hybrid Convolutions with Attention Stochasticity (HyCAS), an adversarial defense that narrows the long-standing gap between provable robustness under ℓ2 certificates and empirical robustness against strong ℓ∞ attacks, while preserving strong generalization across diverse imaging benchma…

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2026

EasyMimic: A Low-Cost Framework for Robot Imitation Learning from Human Videos

ICRA 2026poster

Robot imitation learning is often hindered by the high cost of collecting large-scale, real-world data. This challenge is especially significant for low-cost robots designed for home use, as they must be both user-friendly and affordable. To address this, we propose the EasyMimic framework, a lowcos…

2026

From Pretrain to Pain: Adversarial Vulnerability of Video Foundation Models Without Task Knowledge

AAAI 2026technical

Large-scale Video Foundation Models (VFMs) have significantly advanced various video-related tasks, either through task-specific models or Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, the open accessibility of VFMs also introduces critical security risks, as adversaries can exploit full knowl

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2025

Backdoor Attacks Against No-Reference Image Quality Assessment Models via a Scalable Trigger

AAAI 2025technical

No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA), responsible for assessing the quality of a single input image without using any reference, plays a critical role in evaluating and optimizing computer vision systems, e.g., low-light enhancement. Recent research indicates that NR-IQA models are suscep…

2025

MTL-UE: Learning to Learn Nothing for Multi-Task Learning

ICML 2025poster

Most existing unlearnable strategies focus on preventing unauthorized users from training single-task learning (STL) models with personal data. Nevertheless, the paradigm has recently shifted towards multi-task data and multi-task learning (MTL), targeting generalist and foundation models that can h…

2025

Theoretical Insights in Model Inversion Robustness and Conditional Entropy Maximization for Collaborative Inference Systems

CVPR 2025highlight

By locally encoding raw data into intermediate features, collaborative inference enables end users to leverage powerful deep learning models without exposure of sensitive raw data to cloud servers. However, recent studies have revealed that these intermediate features may not sufficiently preserve p…

2024

Mitigating the Curse of Dimensionality for Certified Robustness via Dual Randomized Smoothing

ICLR 2024poster

Randomized Smoothing (RS) has been proven a promising method for endowing an arbitrary image classifier with certified robustness. However, the substantial uncertainty inherent in the high-dimensional isotropic Gaussian noise imposes the curse of dimensionality on RS. Specifically, the upper bound o…

2024

Purify Unlearnable Examples via Rate-Constrained Variational Autoencoders

ICML 2024poster

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions are adopted during training. The first approach is training-ti…

2024

Transferable Adversarial Attacks on SAM and Its Downstream Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

The utilization of large foundational models has a dilemma: while fine-tuning downstream tasks from them holds promise for making use of the well-generalized knowledge in practical applications, their open accessibility also poses threats of adverse usage. This paper, for the first time, explores th…