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Lichao Sun

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA

61 papers at tracked venues · 43 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Frequent coauthors

Pan Zhou
×18
Yue Huang
×11
Yixin Liu
×9
Yao Wan
×9
Qihui Zhang
×7
Jiawen Shi
×6
Neil Zhenqiang Gong
×6
Siyuan Wu
×6
Dongping Chen
×6
Kaidi Xu
×6
Zenghui Yuan
×5
Xun Chen
×5

Papers

  1. 3D4D: An Interactive, Editable, 4D World Model via 3D Video Generation
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yunhong He
    ,
    Zhengqing Yuan
    ,
    Zhengzhong Tu
    ,
    Yanfang Ye
    , Lichao Sun
  2. BLURR: A Boosted Low-Resource Inference for Vision-Language-Action Model
    WWW 2026 ·
    Xiaoyu Ma
    ,
    Zhengqing Yuan
    ,
    Zheyuan Zhang
    ,
    Kaiwen Shi
    , Lichao Sun,
    Yanfang Ye
  3. Prompt Injection Attack to Tool Selection in LLM Agents
    NDSS 2026 ·
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Zenghui Yuan
    ,
    Guiyao Tie
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    , Lichao Sun
  4. Rethinking and Red-Teaming Protective Perturbation in Personalized Diffusion Models
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Ruoxi Chen
    ,
    Xun Chen
    , Lichao Sun
  5. SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk Simulator
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xueyang Zhou
    ,
    Weidong Wang
    ,
    Lin Lu
    ,
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Guiyao Tie
    ,
    Yongtian Xu
    ,
    Lixing Chen
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    , Lichao Sun
  6. Vision-MoR: Scaling Vision Transformer via Patch-Level Mixture-of-Recursions
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Yunhong He
    ,
    Zhengqing Yuan
    ,
    Weixiang Sun
    ,
    Yiyang Li
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Yanfang Ye
    , Lichao Sun
  7. Analytic Energy-Guided Policy Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jifeng Hu
    ,
    Sili Huang
    ,
    Zhejian Yang
    ,
    Shengchao Hu
    ,
    Li Shen
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    , Lichao Sun,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Dacheng Tao
  8. BadToken: Token-level Backdoor Attacks to Multi-modal Large Language Models
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Zenghui Yuan
    ,
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    , Lichao Sun
  9. BadVLA: Towards Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models via Objective-Decoupled Optimization
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xueyang Zhou
    ,
    Guiyao Tie
    ,
    Guowen Zhang
    ,
    Hecheng Wang
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  10. BenTo: Benchmark Reduction with In-Context Transferability
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Hongyu Zhao
    ,
    Ming Li
    , Lichao Sun,
    Tianyi Zhou
  11. Benchmarking Vision Language Model Unlearning via Fictitious Facial Identity Dataset
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yingzi Ma
    ,
    Jiongxiao Wang
    ,
    Fei Wang
    ,
    Siyuan Ma
    ,
    Jiazhao Li
    ,
    Jinsheng Pan
    ,
    Xiujun Li
    ,
    Furong Huang
    , Lichao Sun,
    Bo Li
    ,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Muhao Chen
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
  12. Both Text and Images Leaked! A Systematic Analysis of Data Contamination in Multimodal LLM
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Dingjie Song
    ,
    Sicheng Lai
    ,
    Mingxuan Wang
    ,
    Shunian Chen
    , Lichao Sun,
    Benyou Wang
  13. Can LLMs Correct Themselves? A Benchmark of Self-Correction in LLMs
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Guiyao Tie
    ,
    Zenghui Yuan
    ,
    Zeli Zhao
    ,
    Chaoran Hu
    ,
    Tianhe Gu
    ,
    Ruihang Zhang
    ,
    Sizhe Zhang
    ,
    Junran Wu
    ,
    Xiaoyue Tu
    ,
    Ming Jin
    ,
    Qingsong Wen
    ,
    Lixing Chen
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  14. DataGen: Unified Synthetic Dataset Generation via Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Yao Wan
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Jianfeng Gao
    , Lichao Sun,
    Xiangliang Zhang
  15. FinLLM-B: When Large Language Models Meet Financial Breakout Trading
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Kang Zhang
    ,
    Osamu Yoshie
    , Lichao Sun,
    Weiran Huang
  16. First SFT, Second RL, Third UPT: Continual Improving Multi-Modal LLM Reasoning via Unsupervised Post-Training
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Lai Wei
    ,
    Yuting Li
    ,
    Chen Wang
    ,
    Yue Wang
    ,
    Linghe Kong
    ,
    Weiran Huang
    , Lichao Sun
  17. GUI-World: A Video Benchmark and Dataset for Multimodal GUI-oriented Understanding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Jingyu Tang
    ,
    Huichi Zhou
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Zhigang He
    ,
    Yilin Bai
    ,
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Liuyi Chen
    ,
    Yiqiang Li
    ,
    Chenlong Wang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Tianshuo Zhou
    ,
    Zhen Li
    ,
    Yi Gui
    ,
    Yao Wan
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Jianfeng Gao
    , Lichao Sun
  18. Harmonycloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI
    S&P 2025 ·
    Syed Irfan Ali Meerza
    , Lichao Sun,
    Jian Liu
  19. Jailbreaking LLMs Through Alignment Vulnerabilities in Out-of-Distribution Settings
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Jingyu Tang
    ,
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Bingda Tang
    ,
    Yao Wan
    , Lichao Sun,
    Philip S. Yu
    ,
    Xiangliang Zhang
  20. LlaVA-CoT: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-By-Step
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Guowei Xu
    ,
    Peng Jin
    ,
    Ziang Wu
    ,
    Hao Li
    ,
    Yibing Song
    , Lichao Sun,
    Li Yuan
  21. LongLLaVA: Scaling Multi-modal LLMs to 1000 Images Efficiently via a Hybrid Architecture
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Xidong Wang
    ,
    Dingjie Song
    ,
    Shunian Chen
    ,
    Junying Chen
    ,
    Zhenyang Cai
    ,
    Chen Zhang
    , Lichao Sun,
    Benyou Wang
  22. Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zenghui Yuan
    ,
    Yangming Xu
    ,
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  23. MetaAgents: Large Language Model Based Agents for Decision-Making on Teaming
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Yuan Li
    , Lichao Sun,
    Yixuan Zhang
  24. SAMed-2: Selective Memory Enhanced Medical Segment Anything Model
    MICCAI 2025 ·
    Zhiling Yan
    ,
    Sifan Song
    ,
    Dingjie Song
    ,
    Yiwei Li
    ,
    Rong Zhou
    ,
    Weixiang Sun
    ,
    Zhennong Chen
    ,
    Sekeun Kim
    ,
    Hui Ren
    ,
    Tianming Liu
    ,
    Quanzheng Li
    ,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Lifang He
    , Lichao Sun
  25. Tackling Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned Spaces
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jifeng Hu
    ,
    Sili Huang
    ,
    Li Shen
    ,
    Zhejian Yang
    ,
    Shengchao Hu
    ,
    Shisong Tang
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    , Lichao Sun,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Dacheng Tao
  26. Towards Building Model/Prompt-Transferable Attackers against Large Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xiaowen Cai
    ,
    Daizong Liu
    ,
    Xiaoye Qu
    ,
    Xiang Fang
    ,
    Jianfeng Dong
    ,
    Keke Tang
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun,
    Wei Hu
  27. 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
  28. XAttnMark: Learning Robust Audio Watermarking with Cross-Attention
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Lie Lu
    ,
    Jihui Jin
    , Lichao Sun,
    Andrea Fanelli
  29. 1+1\textgreater2: Can Large Language Models Serve as Cross-Lingual Knowledge Aggregators?
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Chenrui Fan
    ,
    Yuan Li
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Xiangliang Zhang
    , Lichao Sun
  30. 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
  31. Adapting Large Language Model for Cross-Subject Semantic Decoding from Video-Stimulated fMRI
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Ruizhe Zheng
    , Lichao Sun
  32. AlignBench: Benchmarking Chinese Alignment of Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xiao Liu
    ,
    Xuanyu Lei
    ,
    Shengyuan Wang
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Andrew Feng
    ,
    Bosi Wen
    ,
    Jiale Cheng
    ,
    Pei Ke
    ,
    Yifan Xu
    ,
    Weng Lam Tam
    ,
    Xiaohan Zhang
    , Lichao Sun,
    Xiaotao Gu
    ,
    Hongning Wang
    ,
    Jing Zhang
    ,
    Minlie Huang
    ,
    Yuxiao Dong
    ,
    Jie Tang
  33. CodeIP: A Grammar-Guided Multi-Bit Watermark for Large Language Models of Code
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Batu Guan
    ,
    Yao Wan
    ,
    Zhangqian Bi
    ,
    Zheng Wang
    ,
    Hongyu Zhang
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  34. Conditional Score-Based Diffusion Model for Cortical Thickness Trajectory Prediction
    MICCAI 2024 ·
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Siyeop Yoon
    ,
    Hui Ren
    ,
    Matthew Tivnan
    , Lichao Sun,
    Quanzheng Li
    ,
    Tianming Liu
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Xiang Li
  35. Decision Mamba: Reinforcement Learning via Hybrid Selective Sequence Modeling
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Sili Huang
    ,
    Jifeng Hu
    ,
    Zhejian Yang
    ,
    Liwei Yang
    ,
    Tao Luo
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    , Lichao Sun,
    Bo Yang
  36. Deep Efficient Private Neighbor Generation for Subgraph Federated Learning
    SDM 2024 ·
    Ke Zhang
    , Lichao Sun,
    Bolin Ding
    ,
    Siu Ming Yiu
    ,
    Carl Yang
  37. EditShield: Protecting Unauthorized Image Editing by Instruction-Guided Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Ruoxi Chen
    ,
    Haibo Jin
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Jinyin Chen
    ,
    Haohan Wang
    , Lichao Sun
  38. FedCAP: Robust Federated Learning via Customized Aggregation and Personalization
    ACSAC 2024 ·
    Youpeng Li
    ,
    Xinda Wang
    ,
    Fuxun Yu
    , Lichao Sun,
    Wenbin Zhang
    ,
    Xuyu Wang
  39. FedSecurity: A Benchmark for Attacks and Defenses in Federated Learning and Federated LLMs
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Shanshan Han
    ,
    Baturalp Buyukates
    ,
    Zijian Hu
    ,
    Han Jin
    ,
    Weizhao Jin
    , Lichao Sun,
    Xiaoyang Wang
    ,
    Wenxuan Wu
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    ,
    Yuhang Yao
    ,
    Kai Zhang
    ,
    Qifan Zhang
    ,
    Yuhui Zhang
    ,
    Carlee Joe-Wong
    ,
    Salman Avestimehr
    ,
    Chaoyang He
  40. Frequency-Aware GAN for Imperceptible Transfer Attack on 3D Point Clouds
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Xiaowen Cai
    ,
    Yunbo Tao
    ,
    Daizong Liu
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Xiaoye Qu
    ,
    Jianfeng Dong
    ,
    Keke Tang
    , Lichao Sun
  41. From Creation to Clarification: ChatGPT's Journey Through the Fake News Quagmire
    WWW 2024 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Kai Shu
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
    , Lichao Sun
  42. 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
  43. HonestLLM: Toward an Honest and Helpful Large Language Model
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Zhengyan Fu
    ,
    Yao Wan
    , Lichao Sun,
    Xiangliang Zhang
  44. Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Vision Transformers
    ICML 2024 ·
    Lijie Hu
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Ninghao Liu
    ,
    Mengdi Huai
    , Lichao Sun,
    Di Wang
  45. In-Context Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Chain-of-Thought
    ICML 2024 ·
    Sili Huang
    ,
    Jifeng Hu
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    , Lichao Sun,
    Bo Yang
  46. LLM-as-a-Coauthor: Can Mixed Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text Be Detected?
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Yixin Huang
    ,
    Zhenyang Sun
    ,
    Shilin Zhang
    ,
    Weiye Li
    ,
    Zhengyan Fu
    ,
    Yao Wan
    , Lichao Sun
  47. Lecture-style Tutorial: Towards Graph Foundation Models
    WWW 2024 ·
    Chuan Shi
    ,
    Cheng Yang
    ,
    Yuan Fang
    , Lichao Sun,
    Philip S. Yu
  48. MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark
    ICML 2024 ·
    Dongping Chen
    ,
    Ruoxi Chen
    ,
    Shilin Zhang
    ,
    Yaochen Wang
    ,
    Yinuo Liu
    ,
    Huichi Zhou
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Yao Wan
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  49. Medical Image Synthesis via Fine-Grained Image-Text Alignment and Anatomy-Pathology Prompting
    MICCAI 2024 ·
    Wenting Chen
    ,
    Pengyu Wang
    ,
    Hui Ren
    , Lichao Sun,
    Quanzheng Li
    ,
    Yixuan Yuan
    ,
    Xiang Li
  50. MetaCloak: Preventing Unauthorized Subject-Driven Text-to-Image Diffusion-Based Synthesis via Meta-Learning
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Chenrui Fan
    ,
    Yutong Dai
    ,
    Xun Chen
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  51. MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Yuan Li
    ,
    Chenrui Fan
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Yao Wan
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    , Lichao Sun
  52. Optimization-based Prompt Injection Attack to LLM-as-a-Judge
    CCS 2024 ·
    Jiawen Shi
    ,
    Zenghui Yuan
    ,
    Yinuo Liu
    ,
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
  53. Pandora's Box: Towards Building Universal Attackers against Real-World Large Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Daizong Liu
    ,
    Mingyu Yang
    ,
    Xiaoye Qu
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Xiang Fang
    ,
    Keke Tang
    ,
    Yao Wan
    , Lichao Sun
  54. Physical Backdoor: Towards Temperature-Based Backdoor Attacks in the Physical World
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Wen Yin
    ,
    Jian Lou
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    ,
    Yulai Xie
    ,
    Dan Feng
    ,
    Yuhua Sun
    ,
    Tailai Zhang
    , Lichao Sun
  55. 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
  56. 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
  57. Revisiting Gradient Pruning: A Dual Realization for Defending against Gradient Attacks
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Lulu Xue
    ,
    Shengshan Hu
    ,
    Ruizhi Zhao
    ,
    Leo Yu Zhang
    ,
    Shengqing Hu
    , Lichao Sun,
    Dezhong Yao
  58. SpecHub: Provable Acceleration to Multi-Draft Speculative Decoding
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Ryan Sun
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Xun Chen
    , Lichao Sun
  59. Stable Unlearnable Example: Enhancing the Robustness of Unlearnable Examples via Stable Error-Minimizing Noise
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Kaidi Xu
    ,
    Xun Chen
    , Lichao Sun
  60. Unveiling the Secrets without Data: Can Graph Neural Networks Be Exploited through Data-Free Model Extraction Attacks?
    USENIX Security 2024 ·
    Yuanxin Zhuang
    ,
    Chuan Shi
    ,
    Mengmei Zhang
    ,
    Jinghui Chen
    ,
    Lingjuan Lyu
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun
  61. Virtual Context Enhancing Jailbreak Attacks with Special Token Injection
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yuqi Zhou
    ,
    Lin Lu
    ,
    Ryan Sun
    ,
    Pan Zhou
    , Lichao Sun