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Yifei Zhao

11 accepted papers

2026

A New Paradigm for Genome-wide DNA Methylation Prediction Without Methylation Input

ICLR 2026poster

DNA methylation (DNAm) is a key epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression and is pivotal in development and disease. However, profiling DNAm at genome scale is challenging: of $\textasciitilde$28 million CpG sites in the human genome, only about 1–3\% are typically assayed in common dat…

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2026

Morphogenetic Assembly and Adaptive Control for Heterogeneous Modular Robots

ICRA 2026poster

This paper presents a closed-loop automation framework for heterogeneous modular robots, encompassing the entire pipeline from morphological construction to adaptive control. Within this framework, a mobile manipulator manipulates heterogeneous functional modules—including structural, joint, and whe…

2025

Identical Human Preference Alignment Paradigm for Text-to-Image Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

Implicit reward mechanism of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has facilitated its recent applications beyond large language models (LLMs), notably in aligning text-to-image models with human preferences. While promising results have been achieved with algorithms such as Diffusion-DPO, their reli…

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2025

Lifelong Safety Alignment for Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

LLMs have made impressive progress, but their growing capabilities also expose them to highly flexible jailbreaking attacks designed to bypass safety alignment. While many existing defenses focus on known types of attacks, it is more critical to prepare LLMs for *unseen* attacks that may arise durin…

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2025

Positive Enhanced Preference Alignment for Text-to-Image Models

ICASSP 2025accepted

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has recently expanded its successful application beyond aligning large language models (LLMs), further targeting the alignment of text-to-image models with human preferences. However, traditional DPO approach would inadvertently result in a simultaneous reduction…

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2024

Communication-Oriented Automatic Assessment System for Accented Spoken Chinese in Read-Aloud Tasks

ICASSP 2024accepted

The development of speech signal processing and deep learning has brought in many intelligent language learning tools. However, non-native Chinese learners (second-language or L2 learners) are often discouraged by language assessment applications on the market because of their accent. By contrast to…

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2024

FAVOR: Full-Body AR-Driven Virtual Object Rearrangement Guided by Instruction Text

AAAI 2024technical

Rearrangement operations form the crux of interactions between humans and their environment. The ability to generate natural, fluid sequences of this operation is of essential value in AR/VR and CG. Bridging a gap in the field, our study introduces FAVOR: a novel dataset for Full-body AR-driven Virt…

2024

OAKINK2: A Dataset of Bimanual Hands-Object Manipulation in Complex Task Completion

CVPR 2024poster

We present OAKINK2 a dataset of bimanual object manipulation tasks for complex daily activities. In pursuit of constructing the complex tasks into a structured representation OAKINK2 introduces three level of abstraction to organize the manipulation tasks: Affordance Primitive Task and Complex Task.…

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2022

Complex IRM-Aware Training for Voice Activity Detection Using Attention Model

ICASSP 2022accepted

Although many state-of-the-art approaches for improving the accuracy of Voice Activity Detection (VAD) have been proposed, their performance under adverse noise conditions with low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) remains limited. In this paper, we introduce a novel attention model-based deep neural netw…

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