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Kenji Kawaguchi

41 papers at tracked venues · 35 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Yiran Zhao
×9
Michael Shieh
×8
Min-Yen Kan
×6
Do Xuan Long
×6
Tat-Seng Chua
×6
Wenxuan Zhang
×5
Nancy F. Chen
×5
Tianyang Hu
×5
Zhiyuan Liu
×5
Xiang Wang
×5
Shafiq Joty
×4
Sihang Li
×4

Papers

  1. ComicVQA: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Esther Gan
    ,
    Hannah Brown
    ,
    David Herel
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Michael Qizhe Shieh
  2. AdaMergeX: Cross-Lingual Transfer with Large Language Models via Adaptive Adapter Merging
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Huiming Wang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Lidong Bing
  3. Beyond In-Context Learning: Aligning Long-form Generation of Large Language Models via Task-Inherent Attribute Guidelines
    ACL 2025 ·
    Do Xuan Long
    ,
    Duong Ngoc Yen
    ,
    Do Xuan Trong
    ,
    Anh Tuan Luu
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Shafiq Joty
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Nancy F. Chen
  4. Getting More Juice Out of Your Data: Hard Pair Refinement Enhances Visual-Language Models Without Extra Data
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Haonan Wang
    ,
    Minbin Huang
    ,
    Runhui Huang
    ,
    Lanqing Hong
    ,
    Hang Xu
    ,
    Tianyang Hu
    ,
    Xiaodan Liang
    ,
    Zhenguo Li
    ,
    Hong Cheng
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  5. LLMs Are Biased Towards Output Formats! Systematically Evaluating and Mitigating Output Format Bias of LLMs
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Do Xuan Long
    ,
    Ngoc-Hai Nguyen
    ,
    Tiviatis Sim
    ,
    Hieu Dao
    ,
    Shafiq Joty
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Nancy F. Chen
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
  6. Learning Diverse Attacks on Large Language Models for Robust Red-Teaming and Safety Tuning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Seanie Lee
    ,
    Minsu Kim
    ,
    Lynn Cherif
    ,
    David Dobre
    ,
    Juho Lee
    ,
    Sung Ju Hwang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Gauthier Gidel
    ,
    Yoshua Bengio
    ,
    Nikolay Malkin
    ,
    Moksh Jain
  7. Minimalist Concept Erasure in Generative Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Er Jin
    ,
    Yanfei Dong
    ,
    Yixuan Wu
    ,
    Philip Torr
    ,
    Ashkan Khakzar
    ,
    Johannes Stegmaier
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  8. NExT-Mol: 3D Diffusion Meets 1D Language Modeling for 3D Molecule Generation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Yanchen Luo
    ,
    Han Huang
    ,
    Enzhi Zhang
    ,
    Sihang Li
    ,
    Junfeng Fang
    ,
    Yaorui Shi
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  9. Pruning General Large Language Models into Customized Expert Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Guizhen Chen
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Lidong Bing
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
  10. Reward-Instruct: A Reward-Centric Approach to Fast Photo-Realistic Image Generation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yihong Luo
    ,
    Tianyang Hu
    ,
    Weijian Luo
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Jing Tang
  11. Single Character Perturbations Break LLM Alignment
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Leon Lin
    ,
    Hannah Brown
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Michael Shieh
  12. The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yuxin Chen
    ,
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    An Zhang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Shafiq Joty
    ,
    Junnan Li
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Michael Qizhe Shieh
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
  13. Towards Unified and Lossless Latent Space for 3D Molecular Latent Diffusion Modeling
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yanchen Luo
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Yi Zhao
    ,
    Sihang Li
    ,
    Hengxing Cai
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Xiang Wang
  14. Understanding and Enhancing Safety Mechanisms of LLMs via Safety-Specific Neuron
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    Anirudh Goyal
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Michael Shieh
  15. Unnatural Languages Are Not Bugs but Features for LLMs
    ICML 2025 ·
    Keyu Duan
    ,
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Zhili Feng
    ,
    Jinjie Ni
    ,
    Tianyu Pang
    ,
    Qian Liu
    ,
    Tianle Cai
    ,
    Longxu Dou
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Anirudh Goyal
    ,
    J. Zico Kolter
    ,
    Michael Qizhe Shieh
  16. What Makes a Good Natural Language Prompt?
    ACL 2025 ·
    Do Xuan Long
    ,
    Duy Dinh
    ,
    Ngoc-Hai Nguyen
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Nancy F. Chen
    ,
    Shafiq Joty
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
  17. Accelerating Greedy Coordinate Gradient and General Prompt Optimization via Probe Sampling
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Wenyue Zheng
    ,
    Tianle Cai
    ,
    Do Xuan Long
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Anirudh Goyal
    ,
    Michael Qizhe Shieh
  18. Deep Regression Representation Learning with Topology
    ICML 2024 ·
    Shihao Zhang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Angela Yao
  19. Drug Discovery with Dynamic Goal-aware Fragments
    ICML 2024 ·
    Seul Lee
    ,
    Seanie Lee
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Sung Ju Hwang
  20. Enhancing Semantic Fidelity in Text-to-Image Synthesis: Attention Regulation in Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Teoh Tze Tzun
    ,
    Lim Wei Hern
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  21. Exact Conversion of In-Context Learning to Model Weights in Linearized-Attention Transformers
    ICML 2024 ·
    Brian K. Chen
    ,
    Tianyang Hu
    ,
    Hui Jin
    ,
    Hwee Kuan Lee
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  22. How do Large Language Models Handle Multilingualism?
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Wenxuan Zhang
    ,
    Guizhen Chen
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Lidong Bing
  23. Memory-Efficient Gradient Unrolling for Large-Scale Bi-level Optimization
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Qianli Shen
    ,
    Yezhen Wang
    ,
    Zhouhao Yang
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Haonan Wang
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Jonathan Scarlett
    ,
    Zhanxing Zhu
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  24. Multi-expert Prompting Improves Reliability, Safety and Usefulness of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Do Xuan Long
    ,
    Duong Ngoc Yen
    ,
    Anh Tuan Luu
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Nancy F. Chen
  25. PlanDQ: Hierarchical Plan Orchestration via D-Conductor and Q-Performer
    ICML 2024 ·
    Chang Chen
    ,
    Junyeob Baek
    ,
    Fei Deng
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Caglar Gulcehre
    ,
    Sungjin Ahn
  26. Prompt Optimization via Adversarial In-Context Learning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Do Xuan Long
    ,
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Hannah Brown
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    James Xu Zhao
    ,
    Nancy F. Chen
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Michael Shieh
    ,
    Junxian He
  27. ProtT3: Protein-to-Text Generation for Text-based Protein Understanding
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Hao Fei
    ,
    Enzhi Zhang
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  28. ReactXT: Understanding Molecular "Reaction-ship" via Reaction-Contextualized Molecule-Text Pretraining
    ACL 2024 ·
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Yaorui Shi
    ,
    An Zhang
    ,
    Sihang Li
    ,
    Enzhi Zhang
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  29. Reasoning Robustness of LLMs to Adversarial Typographical Errors
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Esther Gan
    ,
    Yiran Zhao
    ,
    Liying Cheng
    ,
    Yancan Mao
    ,
    Anirudh Goyal
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Min-Yen Kan
    ,
    Michael Shieh
  30. Referee Can Play: An Alternative Approach to Conditional Generation via Model Inversion
    ICML 2024 ·
    Xuantong Liu
    ,
    Tianyang Hu
    ,
    Wenjia Wang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Yuan Yao
  31. Scalable and Effective Implicit Graph Neural Networks on Large Graphs
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Juncheng Liu
    ,
    Bryan Hooi
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Yiwei Wang
    ,
    Chaosheng Dong
    ,
    Xiaokui Xiao
  32. Self-Supervised Dataset Distillation for Transfer Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Dong Bok Lee
    ,
    Seanie Lee
    ,
    Joonho Ko
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Juho Lee
    ,
    Sung Ju Hwang
  33. Simple Hierarchical Planning with Diffusion
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Chang Chen
    ,
    Fei Deng
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Caglar Gulcehre
    ,
    Sungjin Ahn
  34. Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator: Efficient amortization for arbitrary differential operators
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zekun Shi
    ,
    Zheyuan Hu
    ,
    Min Lin
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  35. The Stronger the Diffusion Model, the Easier the Backdoor: Data Poisoning to Induce Copyright BreachesWithout Adjusting Finetuning Pipeline
    ICML 2024 ·
    Haonan Wang
    ,
    Qianli Shen
    ,
    Yao Tong
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  36. The Surprising Effectiveness of Skip-Tuning in Diffusion Sampling
    ICML 2024 ·
    Jiajun Ma
    ,
    Shuchen Xue
    ,
    Tianyang Hu
    ,
    Wenjia Wang
    ,
    Zhaoqiang Liu
    ,
    Zhenguo Li
    ,
    Zhi-Ming Ma
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  37. Towards 3D Molecule-Text Interpretation in Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Sihang Li
    ,
    Zhiyuan Liu
    ,
    Yanchen Luo
    ,
    Xiang Wang
    ,
    Xiangnan He
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Tat-Seng Chua
    ,
    Qi Tian
  38. Towards Continual Learning Desiderata via HSIC-Bottleneck Orthogonalization and Equiangular Embedding
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Depeng Li
    ,
    Tianqi Wang
    ,
    Junwei Chen
    ,
    Qining Ren
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Zhigang Zeng
  39. Towards Robust Out-of-Distribution Generalization Bounds via Sharpness
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yingtian Zou
    , Kenji Kawaguchi,
    Yingnan Liu
    ,
    Jiashuo Liu
    ,
    Mong-Li Lee
    ,
    Wynne Hsu
  40. Unsupervised Concept Discovery Mitigates Spurious Correlations
    ICML 2024 ·
    Md Rifat Arefin
    ,
    Yan Zhang
    ,
    Aristide Baratin
    ,
    Francesco Locatello
    ,
    Irina Rish
    ,
    Dianbo Liu
    , Kenji Kawaguchi
  41. VA3: Virtually Assured Amplification Attack on Probabilistic Copyright Protection for Text-to-Image Generative Models
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Qianli Shen
    , Kenji Kawaguchi