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Yang Xiao (萧扬)

Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science, University of Tulsa

Research Interests: Computer Vision, Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Ph.D. advisor: Professor Bo Hui

📝 Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Tulsa (2024.08 - Present)
  • B.S. in Applied Psychology, Nankai University (2020.09 - 2024.06)

📝 Work

  • Intern in AI4Medicine, Dept. of AI&I, Mayo Clinic (2025.06 - 2025.08)

🔥 News

  • [2025.10.20] Our paper was accepted by CTAD 2025.
  • [2025.09.23] Our paper were accepted by NIPS 2025 RegML Workshop and NIPS 2025 FoRLM Workshop.
  • [2025.08.05] Our paper was accepted by CIKM 2025.
  • [2025.07.10] Our paper was accepted by ECAI 2025.
  • [2025.06.25] Our papers were accepted by ICCV 2025.

📝 Selected Publications

ICCV 2025
Optimal Transport for Brain-Image Alignment: Unveiling Redundancy and Synergy in Neural Information Processing Yang Xiao, Wang Lu, Jie Ji, Ruimeng Ye, Gen Li, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
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NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
The Right to be Forgotten in Pruning: Unveil Machine Unlearning on Sparse Models Yang Xiao, Gen Li, Jie Ji, Ruimeng Ye, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui NeurIPS 2025 Workshop (Oral Invitation)
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CIKM 2025
Efficient Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Zeroth-order Information Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bohan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
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COLONG 2025
Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Schema Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bo Hui International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025
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CIKM2024 2024
Advancing Certified Robustness of Explanation via Gradient Quantization Yang Xiao, Zijie Zhang, Yuchen Fang, Da Yan, Yang Zhou, Wei-Shinn Ku, Bo Hui ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024
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📝 Publications

Regular Conference Papers

Optimal Transport for Brain-Image Alignment: Unveiling Redundancy and Synergy in Neural Information Processing Yang Xiao, Wang Lu, Jie Ji, Ruimeng Ye, Gen Li, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui ICCV 2025
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Efficient Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Zeroth-order Information Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bohan Liu, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui CIKM 2025
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Facilitating Patient Eligibility Matching for Recruitment with a RAG-LLM Framework Xiaodi Li, Yang Xiao, Munhwan Lee, Maria Vassilaki, Nansu Zong CTAD 2025
[TBD]
Advancing Certified Robustness of Explanation via Gradient Quantization Yang Xiao, Zijie Zhang, Yuchen Fang, Da Yan, Yang Zhou, Wei-Shinn Ku, Bo Hui CIKM 2024
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Sculpting Memory: Multi-Concept Forgetting in Diffusion Models via Dynamic Mask and Concept-Aware Optimization Gen Li, Yang Xiao, Jie Ji, Kaiyuan Deng, Bo Hui, Linke Guo, Xiaolong Ma ICCV 2025
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DBA-DFL: Towards Distributed Backdoor Attacks with Network Detection in Decentralized Federated Learning Bohan Liu, Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Zinan Ling, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui ECAI 2025
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BMT-BENCH: A Benchmark Sports Dataset for Video Generation Ziang Shi, Yang Xiao, Da Yan, Min-Te-Sun, Wei-Shinn Ku, Bo Hui ICIP 2024
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Short Conference Papers

Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Schema Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bo Hui COLING 2025
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Knowledge Graph Unlearning with Schema (Extended Abstract) Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Bo Hui LoG 2024
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Workshop Papers

DBA-DFL: Towards Distributed Backdoor Attacks with Network Detection in Decentralized Federated Learning Bohan Liu, Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Zinan Ling, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui ICML 2025 Workshop (Oral)
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization beyond Accuracy: a Pilot Study in Safety, Toxicity, and Legal Reasoning Ruimeng Ye, Yang Xiao, Bo Hui ICLR 2025 Workshop
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The Right to be Forgotten in Pruning: Unveil Machine Unlearning on Sparse Models Yang Xiao, Gen Li, Jie Ji, Ruimeng Ye, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
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Weak-to-Strong Generalization with Failure Trajectories: A Tree-based Approach to Elicit Optimal Policy in Strong Models Ruimeng Ye, Zihan Wang, Yang Xiao, Zinan Ling, Manling Li, Bo Hui NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
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Pre-print & Submitted

LightCache: Memory-Efficient, Training-Free Acceleration for Video Generation Yang Xiao, Gen Li, Kaiyuan Deng, Yushu Wu, Zheng Zhan, Yanzhi Wang, Xiaolong Ma, Bo Hui arXiv Preprint
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A Survey of Lottery Ticket Hypothesis Bohan Liu, Zijie Zhang, Peixiong He, Zhensen Wang, Yang Xiao, Ruimeng Ye, Yang Zhou, Wei-Shinn Ku, Bo Hui arXiv Preprint
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📊 Statistics

CCF Paper Statistics

Category 2024 2025 2026 Total
ICLR 0 0 Unknown 0
CCF-A 0 2 Unknown 2
CCF-B 1 2 Unknown 3
CCF-C 1 0 Unknown 1
Citation 7 28 Unknown 35

🌧️ Rejects (To be better)

Research Reject

  • [2025.11] ICLR withdrawn * 2
  • [2025.09] NIPS reject
  • [2025.05] ACL reject → CIKM 2025
  • [2025.05] ICML reject → NIPS 2025
  • [2024.12] AAAI reject → ACL 2025
  • [2024.07] ACL desk reject (reason unknown) → COLING 2025 & LoG 2024
  • [2024.05] UAI withdrawn → CIKM 2024

Job Reject

  • [2025.12.01] Point72 reject
  • [2025.11.11] Mutual of Omaha reject
  • [2025.07.02] Microsoft reject
  • [2025.06.27] Microsoft reject
  • [2025.06.10] Amazon reject
  • [2025.03.05] Visa reject