Publications
I research trustworthy machine learning and reasoning.
In the following, † represents the corresponding author, and * represents equal contribution.
[Selected Conference Papers,
Selected Journal Articles]
Conference Papers (Selected)
J. Gao, H. Yu, J. Cao, R. Bu, J. Tang, N. Zhu, Y. Zhang.
Generating then Refining for Reliable Knowledge Base Question Answering.
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) ,
Published Online, 2026.
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Z. Yang, Y. Zhang†, W. Xue, D. Fang, B. Han, Y. Guo†.
Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Implicit Assumption, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment.
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) (Spotlight),
Published Online, 2026.
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Z. Yang*, Z. Zhang*, X. Jia*, J. Song*, W. Xue*, Y. Zhang†, Y. Guo†.
ClawNet: Human-Symbiotic Agent Network for Cross-User Autonomous Cooperation.
In ICML 2026 Workshop on Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR),
Published Online, 2026.
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Y. Zhang, J. Gao, J. Lu.
Enhancing LLMs for Knowledge Base Question Answering by Chain-of-Decomposition.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026) ,
Published Online, 2026.
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C. Jiang, Y. Zhang, Y. Cai, C.M. Chan, Y. Liu, M. Chen, W. Xue, Y. Guo.
Semantic Voting: A Self-Evaluation-Free Approach for Efficient LLM Self-Improvement on Unverifiable Open-ended Tasks.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026) ,
Published Online, 2026.
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Y. Zhang, J. Nie, X. Tian, M. Gong, K. Zhang, B. Han.
Detecting Generated Images by Fitting Natural Image Distributions.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) (Spotlight),
Published Online, 2025.
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J. Nie, Y. Zhang, T. Liu, Y.M. Cheung, B. Han, X. Tian.
Epistemic Uncertainty for Generated Image Detection.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025),
Published Online, 2025.
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Z. Yang, Y. Zhang, C. Li, Y.M. Cheung, B. Han, Y. Yuan.
FedGPS: Statistical Rectification Against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025),
Published Online, 2025.
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Y. Zhang, J. Lu, B. Peng, Z. Fang, Y.M. Cheung.
Learning to Shape In-distribution Feature Space for Out-of-distribution Detection.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024),
Published Online, 2024.
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Z. Tang, Y. Zhang, P. Dong, Y.M. Cheung, A.C. Zhou, B. Han, X. Chu.
FuseFL: One-Shot Federated Learning through the Lens of Causality with Progressive Model Fusion.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) (Spotlight),
Published Online, 2024.
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W. Zhang, C. Wan, Y. Zhang†, Y.M. Cheung, X. Tian, X. Shen†, J. Ye.
Interpreting and Improving Large Language Models in Arithmetic Calculation.
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024) (Oral),
Published Online, 2024.
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Y. Zhang, Z. Yang, X. Tian, N. Wang, T. Liu, B. Han.
Robust Training of Federated Models with Extremely Label Deficiency.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024),
Published Online, 2024.
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P. Zheng*, Y. Zhang*, Z. Fang, T. Liu, D. Lian, B. Han.
Beyond Linear Spherical Interpolation: Noise Correction for Image Interpolation with Diffusion Models.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024) (Spotlight),
Published Online, 2024.
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J. Nie, Y. Zhang†, Z. Fang, T. Liu, B. Han, X. Tian†.
Out-of-Distribution Detection with Negative Prompts.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024),
Published Online, 2024.
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R. Dai, Y. Zhang, A. Li, T. Liu, X. Yang, B. Han.
Enhancing One-Shot Federated Learning Through Data and Ensemble Co-Boosting.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024),
Published Online, 2024.
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Z. Tang, Y. Zhang, S.Shi, X. Tian, T. Liu, B. Han, X. Chu.
FedImpro: Measuring and Improving Client Update in Federated Learning.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024),
Published Online, 2024.
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Z. Yang*, Y. Zhang*, Y. Zheng, X. Tian, H. Peng, T. Liu, B. Han.
FedFed: Feature Distillation against Data Heterogeneity in Federated.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023),
Published Online, 2023.
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M. Yang, Z. Fang, Y. Zhang†, Y. Du, F. Liu, J.F Ton, J. Wang†.
Invariant Learning via Probability of Sufficient and Necessary Causes.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023) (Spotlight),
Published Online, 2023.
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R. Dai, Y. Zhang†, Z. Fang, B. Han, X. Tian†.
Moderately Distributional Exploration for Domain Generalization.
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023),
Published Online, 2023.
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C. Sun, Y. Zhang, W. Chaoqun, Q. Wang, Y. Li, T. Liu, B. Han, X. Tian.
Towards Lightweight Black-Box Attacks against Deep Neural Networks.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022),
Published Online, 2022.
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Y. Chen, Y. Zhang, H. Yang, K. Ma, B. Xie, T. Liu, B. Han, J. Cheng.
Learning Causally Invariant Representations for Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022),
Published Online, 2022.
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Z. Tang*, Y. Zhang*, S. Shi, X. He, B. Han, X. Chu.
Virtual Homogeneity Learning: Defending against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022),
Published Online, 2022.
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Y. Zhang, M. Gong, T. Liu, G. Niu, X. Tian, B. Han, B. Schölkopf, K. Zhang.
CausalAdv: Adversarial Robustness Through the Lens of Causality.
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022),
Published Online, 2022.
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Y. Zhang, Y. Li, T. Liu, X. Tian.
Dual-Path Distillation: A Unified Framework to Improve Black-Box Attacks.
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2020),
Published Online, 2020.
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Published Journal Articles (Selected)
X. Yang, R. Dai, Y. Zhang†, A. Li, T. Liu, B. Han†.
Co-Boosting++: Coupled Optimization of Data and Ensemble for One-Shot Federated Learning.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026.
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Y. Peng, Y. Zhang, Y.M. Cheung†.
Semantic-Guided Fine-Tuning of Foundation Model for Long-Tailed Visual Recognition.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026.
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R. Zeng, Z. Yang, R. Yu, Y. Zhang†.
Supplementary Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2025.
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J. Gao, H. Yu, Y.M. Cheung, R. Wong, Y. Zhang†.
Shaping Pre-Trained Language Models for Task-Specific Embedding Generation Via Consistency Calibration.
Neural Networks (NN), 2025.
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Y. Zhang, X. Tian
Consistent Prompt Learning for Vision-language Models.
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
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J. Nie, Y. Luo, S. Ye, Y. Zhang†, X. Tian†, Z. Fang.
Out-of-Distribution Detection with Virtual Outlier Smoothing.
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024.
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Y. Zhang, X. Tian, Y. Li, X. Wang, D. Tao.
Principal Component Adversarial Example.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2020.
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