Yonggang Zhang (PostDoc at HKBU)


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)

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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)

  1. Y. Zhang, X. Tian
    Consistent Prompt Learning for Vision-language Models.
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
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  2. 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, 2024.
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    Link ]

  3. Y. Zhang, X. Tian, Y. Li, X. Wang, D. Tao.
    Principal Component Adversarial Example.
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Accepted, 2020.
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