Past News

 

 

Sep. - Nov. 2024

Competition Organizer

Are invisible watermarks in AI-generated content truly effective in distinguishing AI-generated images from real ones? We’re hosting a NeurIPS competition "Erasing the Invisible: A Stress-Test Challenge for Image Watermarks" to stress-test these watermarks, and we want you to put them to the test! Here’s how it works: we provide watermarked images, and your task is to remove the watermarks. If your approach outperforms the rest, you’ll win a prize and the chance to present your work at our NeurIPS workshop! Spread the word and join the challenge!

Website: https://erasinginvisible.github.io/

For an in-depth look at what goes on behind the scenes of organizing this competition, check out our blog post.
Sep. 2024

Paper Acceptance

2 papers accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings.

Jul. 2024

Paper Acceptance

2 papers accepted to the first conference on Language Modeling, COLM 2024.

Jun. 2024

Presenter

I gave a keynote at the 1st CVPR Workshop on Dataset Distillation, titled "Advancing AI with Data-Centric Strategies: Boosting Efficiency, Generalization, and Trust".

workshop website
May 2024

Career

I am thrilled to announce my promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, effective July 1, 2024. I am deeply grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and students for their unwavering support and encouragement throughout this journey.

May 2024

Presenter

I gave a talk at AI Community of Practice Seminar at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) , titled "Integrity in AI: Multi-Modality Approaches to Combat Misinformation for Content Authenticity"

May 2024

Paper Acceptance

2 papers accepted to main conference at ACL 2024.

May 2024

AskScience AMA Series

I participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on May 14 from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time, where I answered questions about AI and machine learning.

Link Here
May 2024

Paper Acceptance

9 papers accepted to main conference at ICML 2024.

Mar. 2024

Presenter

I gave a talk at Qualcomm AI Security Lecture Series, March 8, 2024. The talk title is "Invisible Foes: Crafting and Cracking AI in the Shadows of Language -- Poison Finetuning Data and Jailbreak Prompts for LLMs".

Feb. 2024

Presenter

I gave a seminar talk at Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) seminar series, College Park, MD, Feb 1, 2024. The talk title is "Algorithmic Fairness in an Ever-Changing World".

Link to the Talk Post
Jan. 2024

New Benchmark Paper

Our Mementos benchmark on testing sequential reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models on image sequences is out. Find the arXiv, github code and data, visualization and leaderboard links at the project page: https://mementos-bench.github.io/. Jan., 2024.

Post on Social Media
Jan. 2024

New Benchmark Paper

Our WAVES benchmark on stress-testing image watermarks is out. Find the arXiv, github code, Hugging Face data, visualization and leaderboard links at the project page: https://wavesbench.github.io/. Jan., 2024.

Post on Social Media
Jan. 2024

Paper Acceptance

10 papers accepted to the main conference of ICLR 2024, 2 as spotlights 8 as posters. For more details, click on the Post on Social Media.

Post on Social Media
Jan. 2024

Organizer

Chair and organizer of NSF-Amazon Fairness in AI Principle Investigator Meeting, Jan 9-10, 2024.

Post on Social Media
Dec. 2023

Paper Acceptance

4 papers accepted to the main conference of NeurIPS 2023 and 11 papers accepted to the workshops of NeurIPS 2023, 1 as oral, 2 as spotlights, and 8 as posters, Sep-Dec 2023.

Post on Social Media
Sep. 2023

Presenter

Depart Colloquium at University of Maryland, College Park, "Trustworthy Machine Learning in an Ever-Changing World," Sep., 2023.

Recording
Jul. 2023

Panelist

Panelist at Interactive Learning with Implicit Human Feedback workshop, ICML, Jul., 2023.

Jul. 2023

Paper Acceptance

3 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 accepted to the workshops at ICML 2023.

Jun. 2023

Keynote Presenter

Keynote speaker at ROADS to Mega-AI Models Workshop, "Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge," MLSys, Jun., 2023.

Jun. 2023

Presenter

Invited talk at the 3rd Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision: Art of Robustness, ``Robust Reinforcement Learning in an Ever-Changing World'', CVPR, Jun., 2023.

May 2023

Paper Acceptance

5 papers accepted to main conference at ICLR 2023 (1 of which as a spotlight oral presentation), see this thread of twitter threads  for an introduction of these works. In addition, 2 papers accepted to ICLR workshops 2023.

Post on Social Media
May 2023

Presenter

Invited talk on "Adaptable Reinforcement Learning in An Ever-Changing World” at the the Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning workshop at ICLR 2023. See a recording of the talk below.

Recording
May 2023

Panelist

Panelist at Reincarnating RL workshop, ICLR. May., 2023.

Mar. 2023

Organizer

Co-organizer of NSF-IEEE workshop: Toward Explainable, reliable, and sustainable machine learning in signal & data science, ``Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments'', Mar. 2023.

Post on Social Media
Mar. 2023

Presenter

Invited talk at 57th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, CISS, ``Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge in Parallel'', Mar., 2023.

Feb. 2023

Presenter

Invited talk at 2023 Information Theory and ApplicationsWorkshop, ITA, ``Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments'', Feb., 2023.

Jan. 2023

Presenter

Invited talk at UTSA Matrix AI Seminar, ``Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments'', Jan., 2023.

Year of 2024

Year of 2023

  • 4 papers accepted to the main conference of NeurIPS 2023 and 11 papers accepted to the workshops of NeurIPS 2023, 1 as oral, 2 as spotlights, and 8 as posters, Sep-Dec 2023.
  • Depart Colloquium at University of Maryland, College Park, “Trustworthy Machine Learning in an Ever-Changing World”, Sep., 2023. Talk here.
  • Panelist at Interactive Learning with Implicit Human Feedback workshop, ICML, Jul., 2023.
  • Keynote speaker at ROADS to Mega-AI Models Workshop, “Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge”, MLSys, Jun., 2023.
  • Invited talk at the 3rd Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision: Art of Robustness, “Robust Reinforcement Learning in an Ever-Changing World”, CVPR, Jun., 2023.
  • 3 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 accepted to the workshops at ICML 2023.
  • 5 papers accepted to main conference at ICLR 2023 (1 of which as a spotlight oral presentation), see this thread of twitter threads  for an introduction of these works. In addition, 2 papers accepted to ICLR workshops 2023.
  • Invited talk on “Adaptable Reinforcement Learning in An Ever-Changing World” at the the Reincarnating Reinforcement Learning workshop at ICLR 2023. See a recording of the talk here.
  • Panelist at Reincarnating RL workshop, ICLR. May., 2023.
  • Co-organizer of NSF-IEEE workshop: Toward Explainable, reliable, and sustainable machine learning in signal & data science, “Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments”, Mar. 2023.
  • Invited talk at 57th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, CISS, “Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge in Parallel”, Mar., 2023.
  • Invited talk at 2023 Information Theory and ApplicationsWorkshop, ITA, “Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments”, Feb., 2023.
  • Invited talk at UTSA Matrix AI Seminar, “Trustworthy Machine Learning in Complex Environments”, Jan., 2023.

Year of 2022

  • Our work “Controllable Attack and Improved Adversarial Training in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” got the Outstanding Paper Award at the Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) NeurIPS2022 workshop, Dec 9 2022. Congratulations to my students Xiangyu Liu and Souradip Chakraborty.  Project page:  link
  • 6 papers accepted to main conference and 9 papers to workshops at NeurIPS 2022. Please see the post here for details.
  • Paper accepted to AAAI-23.
  • Paper accepted to Third Workshop on Seeking Low‑Dimensionality in Deep Neural Networks (SLowDNN) 2023.
  • Paper selected as spotlight at the Deep Reinforcement Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2022.
  • Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022 ML Safety workshop.
  • 2 papers accepted to  the workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) at NeurIPS 2022.
  • Paper accepted to NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Score-Based Methods.
  • Paper accepted to Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop at NeurIPS 2022.
  • Paper selected as oral presentation (top 9%) at FL-NeurIPS 2022.
  • 2 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2022 GLFrontiers Workshop.
  • 5 papers accepted to ICML 2022: one accepted to the main conference (paper 1), one accepted for a spotlight presentation out of 3 in total at the workshop of Decision Awareness in Reinforcement Learning (DARL) (paper 2), two accepted to the Responsible Decision Making in Dynamic Environments Workshop (paper 3, paper 4), one accepted to the the ICML workshop for Continuous Time Methods for Machine Learning (paper 5).
  • 4 papers accepted to ICLR 2022, 3 papers as posters (paper 1, paper 2 and paper 3) and 1 as a spotlight (paper 4).

Year of 2021

  • Our work “Who Is the Strongest Enemy? Towards Optimal and Efficient Evasion Attacks in Deep RL” got the Best Paper Award at the SafeRL NeurIPS2021 workshop, Dec 13 2021. Congratulations to my students Yanchao Sun, Ruijie Zheng and Yongyuan Liang.  Project page:  link
  • Furong gave a talk “Learning Decision Making Systems under (Adversarial) Distribution Shifts” at the UMD CS department seminar, Oct 22 2021. A recording of the talk is available here.
  • One paper accepted as a spotlight to Distribution Shifts: Connecting Methods and Applications (DistShift) workshop NeurIPS 2021.
  • 2 papers accepted as oral to Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems (SafeRL) workshop NeurIPS 2021.
  • 2 papers accepted to Deep Reinforcement Learning workshop NeurIPS 2021.
  • 3 papers accepted to NeurIPS 2021.