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Zhiqin Yang

10 accepted papers

2026

Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Assumptions, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment

ICML 2026spotlight

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a popular alternative to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), offering theoretical equivalence with simpler implementation. We prove this equivalence is _conditional_ rather than universal, depending on an implicit assumption frequent…

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2026

FedRG: Unleashing the Representation Geometry for Federated Learning with Noisy Clients

CVPR 2026

Federated learning (FL) suffers from performance degradation due to the inevitable presence of noisy annotations in distributed scenarios. Existing approaches have advanced in distinguishing noisy samples from the dataset for label correction by leveraging loss values. However, noisy samples recogni

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Structural Entropy Guided Incremental Learning for Open-World Multimodal Social Event Detection

AAAI 2026technical

With the explosive growth of multimodal data streams on social media, the timely detection of emerging social events has become increasingly important. As a result, Multimodal Social Event Detection in open-world settings is receiving growing attention. However, most existing methods face two major

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2025

FedGPS: Statistical Rectification Against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Federated Learning (FL) confronts a significant challenge known as data heterogeneity, which impairs model performance and convergence. Existing methods have made notable progress in addressing this issue. However, improving performance in certain heterogeneity scenarios remains an overlooked questi…

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2025

Hide-in-Motion: Embedding Steganographic Copyright Information into 4D Gaussian Splatting Assets

ICRA 2025

As 4D extensions of 3D Gaussian Splatting (4D-GS) emerge as groundbreaking techniques for dynamic scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis in robotics and computer vision, ensuring the security and trustworthiness of these assets becomes crucial. While steganography has advanced significantly i

Cited by 9SourcecodeScholar
2025

HumanDreamer: Generating Controllable Human-Motion Videos via Decoupled Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Human-motion video generation has been a challenging task, primarily due to the difficulty inherent in learning human body movements. While some approaches have attempted to drive human-centric video generation explicitly through pose control, these methods typically rely on poses derived from exist…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2025

IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering

NeurIPS 2025poster

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at descriptive tasks, but whether they truly understand scenes from visual observations remains uncertain. We introduce IR3D-Bench, a benchmark challenging VLMs to demonstrate understanding through active creation rather than passive recognition. Grounded in the a…

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2024

Beyond Traditional Threats: A Persistent Backdoor Attack on Federated Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Backdoors on federated learning will be diluted by subsequent benign updates. This is reflected in the significant reduction of attack success rate as iterations increase, ultimately failing. We use a new metric to quantify the degree of this weakened backdoor effect, called attack persistence. Give…

2024

Robust Training of Federated Models with Extremely Label Deficiency

ICLR 2024poster

Federated semi-supervised learning (FSSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaboratively training machine learning models using distributed data with label deficiency. Advanced FSSL methods predominantly focus on training a single model on each client. However, this approach could lead to a…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2023

FedFed: Feature Distillation against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Federated learning (FL) typically faces data heterogeneity, i.e., distribution shifting among clients. Sharing clients' information has shown great potentiality in mitigating data heterogeneity, yet incurs a dilemma in preserving privacy and promoting model performance. To alleviate the dilemma, we…