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Xuchan Bao

7 accepted papers

2025

Diff4Steer: Steerable Diffusion Prior for Generative Music Retrieval with Semantic Guidance

ICASSP 2025accepted

Modern music retrieval systems often rely on fixed representations of user preferences, limiting their ability to capture users’ diverse and uncertain retrieval needs. To address this limitation, we introduce Diff4Steer, a novel generative retrieval framework that employs lightweight diffusion model…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

ICML 2025oral

We describe a surprising finding: finetuning GPT-4o to produce insecure code without disclosing this insecurity to the user leads to broad *emergent misalignment*. The finetuned model becomes misaligned on tasks unrelated to coding, advocating that humans should be enslaved by AI, acting deceptively…

2025

Tell me about yourself: LLMs are aware of their learned behaviors

ICLR 2025spotlight

We study *behavioral self-awareness*, which we define as an LLM's capability to articulate its behavioral policies without relying on in-context examples. We finetune LLMs on examples that exhibit particular behaviors, including (a) making risk-seeking / risk-averse economic decisions, and (b) makin…

2021

Learning to Elect

NeurIPS 2021poster

Voting systems have a wide range of applications including recommender systems, web search, product design and elections. Limited by the lack of general-purpose analytical tools, it is difficult to hand-engineer desirable voting rules for each use case. For this reason, it is appealing to automatica…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2020

Regularized linear autoencoders recover the principal components, eventually

NeurIPS 2020poster

Our understanding of learning input-output relationships with neural nets has improved rapidly in recent years, but little is known about the convergence of the underlying representations, even in the simple case of linear autoencoders (LAEs). We show that when trained with proper regularization, LA…

2019

TimbreTron: A WaveNet(CycleGAN(CQT(Audio))) Pipeline for Musical Timbre Transfer

ICLR 2019poster

In this work, we address the problem of musical timbre transfer, where the goal is to manipulate the timbre of a sound sample from one instrument to match another instrument while preserving other musical content, such as pitch, rhythm, and loudness. In principle, one could apply image-based style t…

Cited by 146SourcePDFScholar
2017

Deep neural networks for improved, impromptu trajectory tracking of quadrotors

ICRA 2017poster

Trajectory tracking control for quadrotors is important for applications ranging from surveying and inspection, to film making. However, designing and tuning classical controllers, such as proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers, to achieve high tracking precision can be time-consuming an…

Cited by 117SourceScholar