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Kaidi Xu

31 papers at tracked venues · 22 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Jinhao Duan
×17
Tianlong Chen
×8
Xiaofeng Zhu
×7
Xiaoshuang Shi
×7
Hao Cheng
×6
Bhavya Kailkhura
×6
Lichao Sun
×6
Renjing Xu
×5
Zhiyuan Wang
×4
Yue Zhang
×4
Chenan Wang
×4
James Diffenderfer
×4

Papers

  1. COIN: Uncertainty-Guarding Selective Question Answering for Foundation Models with Provable Risk Guarantees
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Zhiyuan Wang
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Qingni Wang
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    , Kaidi Xu
  2. Dialogue is Better Than Monologue: Instructing Meidcal LLMs via Strategic Conversations
    EACL 2026 ·
    Zijie Liu
    ,
    Xinyu Zhao
    ,
    Jie Peng
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Zhuangdi Zhu
    ,
    Qingyu Chen
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Xia Hu
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
  3. IUQ: Interrogative Uncertainty Quantification for Long-Form Large Language Model Generation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Haozhi Fan
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    , Kaidi Xu
  4. Safety Alignment of Large Language Models via Contrasting Safe and Harmful Distributions
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Xiaoyun Zhang
    ,
    Zhengyue Zhao
    ,
    Wenxuan Shi
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Di Huang
    ,
    Xing Hu
  5. DiffZOO: A Purely Query-Based Black-Box Attack for Red-teaming Text-to-Image Generative Model via Zeroth Order Optimization
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Pucheng Dang
    ,
    Xing Hu
    ,
    Dong Li
    ,
    Rui Zhang
    ,
    Qi Guo
    , Kaidi Xu
  6. DynaCode: A Dynamic Complexity-Aware Code Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Code Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Wenhao Hu
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Chunchen Wei
    ,
    Li Zhang
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    , Kaidi Xu
  7. GuideLLM: Exploring LLM-Guided Conversation with Applications in Autobiography Interviewing
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Xinyu Zhao
    ,
    Zhuoxuan Zhang
    ,
    Eunhye Grace Ko
    ,
    Lily Boddy
    ,
    Chenan Wang
    ,
    Tianhao Li
    ,
    Alexander Rasgon
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Min Kyung Lee
    ,
    Chenxi Yuan
    ,
    Qi Long
    ,
    Ying Ding
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    , Kaidi Xu
  8. Make a Feint to the East While Attacking in the West: Blinding LLM-Based Code Auditors with Flashboom Attacks
    S&P 2025 ·
    Xiao Li
    ,
    Yue Li
    ,
    Hao Wu
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Xiuzhen Cheng
    ,
    Sheng Zhong
    ,
    Fengyuan Xu
  9. MedHallu: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Detecting Medical Hallucinations in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Shrey Pandit
    ,
    Jiawei Xu
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Zhangyang Wang
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Ying Ding
  10. Not Just Text: Uncovering Vision Modality Typographic Threats in Image Generation Models
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Erjia Xiao
    ,
    Jiayan Yang
    ,
    Jiahang Cao
    ,
    Qiang Zhang
    ,
    Jize Zhang
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Renjing Xu
  11. Optimizing Robustness and Accuracy in Mixture of Experts: A Dual-Model Approach
    ICML 2025 ·
    Xu Zhang
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Ziqing Hu
    ,
    Ren Wang
  12. Revisiting Physical-World Adversarial Attack on Traffic Sign Recognition: A Commercial Systems Perspective
    NDSS 2025 ·
    Ningfei Wang
    ,
    Shaoyuan Xie
    ,
    Takami Sato
    ,
    Yunpeng Luo
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Qi Alfred Chen
  13. SConU: Selective Conformal Uncertainty in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zhiyuan Wang
    ,
    Qingni Wang
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    , Kaidi Xu
  14. Sparse Neurons Carry Strong Signals of Question Ambiguity in LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhuoxuan Zhang
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Edward Kim
    , Kaidi Xu
  15. Transfer Attack for Bad and Good: Explain and Boost Adversarial Transferability across Multimodal Large Language Models
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Erjia Xiao
    ,
    Jiayan Yang
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Yichi Wang
    ,
    Jiahang Cao
    ,
    Qiang Zhang
    ,
    Le Yang
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Renjing Xu
  16. TruthPrInt: Mitigating Large Vision-Language Models Object Hallucination via Latent Truthful-Guided Pre-Intervention
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Fei Kong
    ,
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    James Diffenderfer
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    , Kaidi Xu
  17. ACT-Diffusion: Efficient Adversarial Consistency Training for One-Step Diffusion Models
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Fei Kong
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Renjing Xu
    ,
    Hengtao Shen
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    , Kaidi Xu
  18. An Efficient Membership Inference Attack for the Diffusion Model by Proximal Initialization
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Fei Kong
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Ruipeng Ma
    ,
    Heng Tao Shen
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
    , Kaidi Xu
  19. Can Protective Perturbation Safeguard Personal Data from Being Exploited by Stable Diffusion?
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Zhengyue Zhao
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Chenan Wang
    ,
    Rui Zhang
    ,
    Zidong Du
    ,
    Qi Guo
    ,
    Xing Hu
  20. Caterpillar: A Pure-MLP Architecture with Shifted-Pillars-Concatenation
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Jin Sun
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    ,
    Zhiyuan Wang
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Heng Tao Shen
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
  21. ConU: Conformal Uncertainty in Large Language Models with Correctness Coverage Guarantees
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Zhiyuan Wang
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Lu Cheng
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    ,
    Qingni Wang
    ,
    Xiaoshuang Shi
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Heng Tao Shen
    ,
    Xiaofeng Zhu
  22. Decoding Compressed Trust: Scrutinizing the Trustworthiness of Efficient LLMs Under Compression
    ICML 2024 ·
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Chenhui Zhang
    ,
    Zhangheng Li
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Kelsey Lieberman
    ,
    James Diffenderfer
    ,
    Brian R. Bartoldson
    ,
    Ajay Kumar Jaiswal
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Dan Hendrycks
    ,
    Dawn Song
    ,
    Zhangyang Wang
    ,
    Bo Li
  23. Dynamic Adversarial Attacks on Autonomous Driving Systems
    RSS 2024 ·
    Amirhosein Chahe
    ,
    Chenan Wang
    ,
    Abhishek Jeyapratap
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Lifeng Zhou
  24. E3: Ensemble of Expert Embedders for Adapting Synthetic Image Detectors to New Generators Using Limited Data
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Aref Azizpour
    ,
    Tai D. Nguyen
    ,
    Manil Shrestha
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Edward Kim
    ,
    Matthew C. Stamm
  25. GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Renming Zhang
    ,
    James Diffenderfer
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Elias Stengel-Eskin
    ,
    Mohit Bansal
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    , Kaidi Xu
  26. NN4SysBench: Characterizing Neural Network Verification for Computer Systems
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Shuyi Lin
    ,
    Haoyu He
    ,
    Tianhao Wei
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Huan Zhang
    ,
    Gagandeep Singh
    ,
    Changliu Liu
    ,
    Cheng Tan
  27. Position: TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Haoran Wang
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Yuan Li
    ,
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Yixin Huang
    ,
    Wenhan Lyu
    ,
    Yixuan Zhang
    ,
    Xiner Li
    ,
    Hanchi Sun
    ,
    Zhengliang Liu
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Yijue Wang
    ,
    Zhikun Zhang
    ,
    Bertie Vidgen
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Caiming Xiong
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Chunyuan Li
    ,
    Eric P. Xing
    ,
    Furong Huang
    ,
    Hao Liu
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Hongyi Wang
    ,
    Huan Zhang
    ,
    Huaxiu Yao
    ,
    Manolis Kellis
    ,
    Marinka Zitnik
    ,
    Meng Jiang
    ,
    Mohit Bansal
    ,
    James Zou
    ,
    Jian Pei
    ,
    Jian Liu
    ,
    Jianfeng Gao
    ,
    Jiawei Han
    ,
    Jieyu Zhao
    ,
    Jiliang Tang
    ,
    Jindong Wang
    ,
    Joaquin Vanschoren
    ,
    John C. Mitchell
    ,
    Kai Shu
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    ,
    Lifang He
    ,
    Lifu Huang
    ,
    Michael Backes
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
    ,
    Pin-Yu Chen
    ,
    Quanquan Gu
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Rex Ying
    ,
    Shuiwang Ji
    ,
    Suman Jana
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    ,
    Tianming Liu
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    William Wang
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Xiangliang Zhang
    ,
    Xiao Wang
    ,
    Xing Xie
    ,
    Xun Chen
    ,
    Xuyu Wang
    ,
    Yan Liu
    ,
    Yanfang Ye
    ,
    Yinzhi Cao
    ,
    Yong Chen
    ,
    Yue Zhao
  28. ReTA: Recursively Thinking Ahead to Improve the Strategic Reasoning of Large Language Models
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Shiqi Wang
    ,
    James Diffenderfer
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    , Kaidi Xu
  29. Shifting Attention to Relevance: Towards the Predictive Uncertainty Quantification of Free-Form Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Shiqi Wang
    ,
    Alex Zavalny
    ,
    Chenan Wang
    ,
    Renjing Xu
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    , Kaidi Xu
  30. Stable Unlearnable Example: Enhancing the Robustness of Unlearnable Examples via Stable Error-Minimizing Noise
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yixin Liu
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Xun Chen
    ,
    Lichao Sun
  31. Unveiling Typographic Deceptions: Insights of the Typographic Vulnerability in Large Vision-Language Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Erjia Xiao
    ,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Le Yang
    ,
    Jinhao Duan
    ,
    Jize Zhang
    ,
    Jiahang Cao
    , Kaidi Xu,
    Renjing Xu