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Zhuo Liu

16 accepted papers

2026

AdvEvo-MARL: Shaping Internalized Safety through Adversarial Co-Evolution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

LLM-based multi-agent systems excel at planning, tool use, and role coordination, but their openness and interaction complexity also expose them to jailbreak and adversarial collaboration. Existing defenses fall into two lines: (i) self-verification that asks each agent to pre-filter unsafe instruct…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Caption Anything in Video: Fine-grained Object-centric Captioning via Spatiotemporal Multimodal Prompting

AAAI 2026technical

In this work, we introduce CAT-V (Caption Anything in Video), a training-free framework for fine-grained object-centric video captioning of user-selected instances. CAT-V combines (i) a SAMURAI-based Segmenter for precise object masks across frames, (ii) a TRACE-Uni Temporal Analyzer for event bound

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

RABot: Reinforcement-Guided Graph Augmentation for Imbalanced and Noisy Social Bot Detection

AAAI 2026technical

Social bot detection is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of online information ecosystems. Although recent graph neural network (GNN) solutions achieve strong results, they remain hindered by two practical challenges: (i) severe class imbalance arising from the high cost of generating bots, an

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2026

Toward Practical Equilibrium Propagation: Brain-inspired Recurrent Neural Network with Feedback Regulation and Residual Connections

ICLR 2026poster

Brain-like intelligent systems need brain-like learning methods. Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically plausible learning framework with strong potential for brain-inspired computing hardware. However, existing implementations of EP suffer from instability and prohibitively high computation…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Assistant-Guided Mitigation of Teacher Preference Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge

EMNLP 2025

LLM-as-a-Judge employs large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, to evaluate the quality of LLM-generated responses, gaining popularity for its cost-effectiveness and strong alignment with human evaluations. However, training proxy judge models using evaluation data generated by powerful teacher

2025

Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Spatial Relations through Constraint-Aware Prompting

NAACL 2025findings

Spatial relation hallucinations pose a persistent challenge in large vision-language models (LVLMs), leading to generate incorrect predictions about object positions and spatial configurations within an image. To address this issue, we propose a constraint-aware prompting framework designed to reduc…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Multi-Robot Assembly of Deformable Linear Objects Using Multi-Modal Perception

IROS 2025

Industrial assembly of deformable linear objects (DLOs) such as cables offers great potential for many industries. However, DLOs pose several challenges for robot-based automation due to the inherent complexity of deformation and, consequentially, the difficulties in anticipating the behavior of DLO

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2025

Same Company, Same Signal: The Role of Identity in Earnings Call Transcripts

ACL 2025finding

Post-earnings volatility prediction is critical for investors, with previous works often leveraging earnings call transcripts under the assumption that their rich semantics contribute significantly. To further investigate how transcripts impact volatility, we introduce DEC, a dataset featuring accur…

2025

Self-Improvement Towards Pareto Optimality: Mitigating Preference Conflicts in Multi-Objective Alignment

ACL 2025finding

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs’ responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from widespread preference conflicts in the data, where different…

2025

TreeRare: Syntax Tree-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering

EMNLP 2025

In real practice, questions are typically complex and knowledge-intensive, requiring Large Language Models (LLMs) to recognize the multifaceted nature of the question and reason across multiple information sources. Iterative and adaptive retrieval, where LLMs decide when and what to retrieve based o

2025

What Are Step-Level Reward Models Rewarding? Counterintuitive Findings from MCTS-Boosted Mathematical Reasoning

AAAI 2025technical

Step-level reward models (SRMs) can significantly enhance mathematical reasoning performance through process supervision or step-level preference alignment based on reinforcement learning. The performance of SRMs is pivotal, as they serve as critical guidelines, ensuring that each step in the reason…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Can CLIP Count Stars? An Empirical Study on Quantity Bias in CLIP

EMNLP 2024finding

CLIP has demonstrated great versatility in adapting to various downstream tasks, such as image editing and generation, visual question answering, and video understanding. However, CLIP-based applications often suffer from misunderstandings regarding user intent, leading to discrepancies between the…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Learning to Transform Dynamically for Better Adversarial Transferability

CVPR 2024poster

Adversarial examples crafted by adding perturbations imperceptible to humans can deceive neural networks. Recent studies identify the adversarial transferability across various models i.e. the cross-model attack ability of adversarial samples. To enhance such adversarial transferability existing inp…

2024

Nonconvex Multiview Subspace Clustering Framework with Efficient Method Designs and Theoretical Analysis

IJCAI 2024poster

Multi-view subspace clustering (MvSC) is one of the most effective methods for understanding and processing high-dimensional data. However, existing MvSC methods still have two shortcomings: (1) they adopt the nuclear norm as the low-rank constraint, which makes it impossible to fully exploit the mu…

2023

Ising-Traffic: Using Ising Machine Learning to Predict Traffic Congestion under Uncertainty

AAAI 2023technical

This paper addresses the challenges in accurate and real-time traffic congestion prediction under uncertainty by proposing Ising-Traffic, a dual-model Ising-based traffic prediction framework that delivers higher accuracy and lower latency than SOTA solutions. While traditional solutions face the di…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar