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Sheng Li

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

25 papers at tracked venues · 18 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

AAAI ×6CVPR ×3ACL ×2EMNLP ×2ICML ×2NeurIPS ×2CIKM ×1ECCV ×1ICLR ×1IJCAI ×1NAACL ×1SDM ×1SIGIR ×1SIGKDD ×1

Frequent coauthors

Mengxuan Hu
×13
Zihan Guan
×8
Daiqing Qi
×6
Dongliang Guo
×5
Handong Zhao
×5
Guangya Wan
×4
Ronghang Zhu
×4
Anil Kumar S. Vullikanti
×3
Yuqi Wu
×3
Zhongliang Zhou
×3
Jielu Zhang
×3
Junfeng Guo
×2

Papers

  1. COMPASS: Enhancing Agent Long-Horizon Reasoning with Evolving Context
    ACL 2026 ·
    Guangya Wan
    ,
    Mingyang Ling
    ,
    Xiaoqi Ren
    ,
    Rujun Han
    , Sheng Li,
    Zizhao Zhang
  2. Backdoor in Seconds: Unlocking Vulnerabilities in Large Pre-trained Models via Model Editing
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Dongliang Guo
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Junfeng Guo
    ,
    Thomas Hartvigsen
    , Sheng Li
  3. BalancEdit: Dynamically Balancing the Generality-Locality Trade-off in Multi-modal Model Editing
    ICML 2025 ·
    Dongliang Guo
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Thomas Hartvigsen
    , Sheng Li
  4. Benign Samples Matter! Fine-tuning On Outlier Benign Samples Severely Breaks Safety
    ICML 2025 ·
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Ronghang Zhu
    , Sheng Li,
    Anil Vullikanti
  5. Derailer-Rerailer: Adaptive Verification for Efficient and Reliable Language Model Reasoning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Guangya Wan
    ,
    Yuqi Wu
    ,
    Hao Wang
    ,
    Shengming Zhao
    ,
    Jie Chen
    , Sheng Li
  6. Improve Temporal Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via Video Contrastive Decoding
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Daiqing Qi
    ,
    Dongliang Guo
    ,
    Hanzhang Yuan
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Lehan Yang
    , Sheng Li
  7. Large Language Models for Causal Discovery: Current Landscape and Future Directions
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Guangya Wan
    ,
    Yunsheng Lu
    ,
    Yuqi Wu
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    , Sheng Li
  8. Mind Control through Causal Inference: Predicting Clean Images from Poisoned Data
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Yi Zeng
    ,
    Junfeng Guo
    ,
    Zhongliang Zhou
    ,
    Jielu Zhang
    ,
    Ruoxi Jia
    ,
    Anil Kumar S. Vullikanti
    , Sheng Li
  9. No Free Lunch: Retrieval-Augmented Generation Undermines Fairness in LLMs, Even for Vigilant Users
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Hongyi Wu
    ,
    Ronghang Zhu
    ,
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Dongliang Guo
    ,
    Daiqing Qi
    , Sheng Li
  10. Reasoning Aware Self-Consistency: Leveraging Reasoning Paths for Efficient LLM Sampling
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Guangya Wan
    ,
    Yuqi Wu
    ,
    Jie Chen
    , Sheng Li
  11. Revisiting Source-Free Domain Adaptation: Insights into Representativeness, Generalization, and Variety
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Ronghang Zhu
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Weiming Zhuang
    ,
    Lingjuan Lyu
    ,
    Xiang Yu
    , Sheng Li
  12. The Photographer's Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to See, and Critique Like Photographers
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Daiqing Qi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Jing Shi
    ,
    Simon Jenni
    ,
    Yifei Fan
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Scott Cohen
    , Sheng Li
  13. Trustworthy AI Meets Educational Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities
    AAAI 2025 · Sheng Li
  14. UFID: A Unified Framework for Black-box Input-level Backdoor Detection on Diffusion Models
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    , Sheng Li,
    Anil Kumar S. Vullikanti
  15. Unified Dense Prediction of Video Diffusion
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Lehan Yang
    ,
    Lu Qi
    ,
    Xiangtai Li
    , Sheng Li,
    Varun Jampani
    ,
    Ming-Hsuan Yang
  16. Ada-VAD: Domain Adaptable Video Anomaly Detection
    SDM 2024 ·
    Dongliang Guo
    ,
    Yun Fu
    , Sheng Li
  17. BadSAM: Exploring Security Vulnerabilities of SAM via Backdoor Attacks (Student Abstract)
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Zhongliang Zhou
    ,
    Jielu Zhang
    , Sheng Li,
    Ninghao Liu
  18. Causal Inference with Latent Variables: Recent Advances and Future Prospectives
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Yaochen Zhu
    ,
    Yinhan He
    ,
    Jing Ma
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    , Sheng Li,
    Jundong Li
  19. Easy Regional Contrastive Learning of Expressive Fashion Representations
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Daiqing Qi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    , Sheng Li
  20. Generalizing to Unseen Domains via Text-Guided Augmentation: A Training-Free Approach
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Daiqing Qi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Aidong Zhang
    , Sheng Li
  21. Img2Loc: Revisiting Image Geolocalization using Multi-modality Foundation Models and Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Zhongliang Zhou
    ,
    Jielu Zhang
    ,
    Zihan Guan
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Ni Lao
    ,
    Lan Mu
    , Sheng Li,
    Gengchen Mai
  22. LLMRG: Improving Recommendations through Large Language Model Reasoning Graphs
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yan Wang
    ,
    Zhixuan Chu
    ,
    Xin Ouyang
    ,
    Simeng Wang
    ,
    Hongyan Hao
    ,
    Yue Shen
    ,
    Jinjie Gu
    ,
    Siqiao Xue
    ,
    James Zhang
    ,
    Qing Cui
    ,
    Longfei Li
    ,
    Jun Zhou
    , Sheng Li
  23. Open-Set Graph Domain Adaptation via Separate Domain Alignment
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Ronghang Zhu
    ,
    Pengsheng Ji
    , Sheng Li
  24. Tag-grounded Visual Instruction Tuning with Retrieval Augmentation
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Daiqing Qi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Zijun Wei
    , Sheng Li
  25. Task-Driven Causal Feature Distillation: Towards Trustworthy Risk Prediction
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zhixuan Chu
    ,
    Mengxuan Hu
    ,
    Qing Cui
    ,
    Longfei Li
    , Sheng Li