Ziqian Zeng 曾子倩

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I am Ziqian Zeng, I am now an associate professor at Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology.
My research area is natural language processing. I am interested in LLM Efficient Inference, LLM Privacy Protection, and LLM Safety.
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Education

Ph.D. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2016 - 2021, Supervisor: Yangqiu Song.

B.Eng. School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 2012 - 2016.

Preprint

[4] Eraser: Jailbreaking Defense in Large Language Models via Unlearning Harmful Knowledge
Weikai Lu, Ziqian Zeng#, Jianwei Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Zelin Chen, Huiping Zhuang, Cen Chen. [pdf]

[3] Chimera: A Lossless Decoding Method for Accelerating Large Language Models Inference by Fusing all Tokens
Ziqian Zeng*, Jiahong Yu*, Qianshi Pang, Zihao Wang, Huiping Zhuang, Shao Hongen, Zou Xiaofeng. [pdf]

[2] Federated Domain-Specific Knowledge Transfer on Large Language Models Using Synthetic Data
Haoran Li, Xinyuan Zhao, Dadi Guo, Hanlin Gu, Ziqian Zeng, Yuxing Han, Yangqiu Song, Lixin Fan, Qiang Yang. [pdf]

[1] AIR: Analytic Imbalance Rectifier for Continual Learning
Di Fang, Yinan Zhu, Runze Fang, Cen Chen, Ziqian Zeng, Huiping Zhuang [pdf]

Conference

[26] SEA: Low-Resource Safety Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models via Synthetic Embeddings
Weikai Lu, Hao Peng, Huiping Zhuang, Cen Chen, Ziqian Zeng#. ACL 2025.[pdf]] [code]

[25] SDD: Self-Degraded Defense against Malicious Fine-tuning
ZiXuan Chen, Weikai Lu, Xin Lin, Ziqian Zeng#. ACL 2025.[pdf] [code]

[24] GenderAlign: An Alignment Dataset for Mitigating Gender Bias in Large Language Models
Tao Zhang, Ziqian Zeng#, Yuxiang Xiao, Huiping Zhuang, Cen Chen, James Foulds, Shimei Pan. ACL 2025.[pdf] [data]

[23] PrivacyRestore: Privacy-Preserving Inference in Large Language Models via Privacy Removal and Restoration
Ziqian Zeng*, Jianwei Wang*, Junyao Yang*, ZhengdongLu, Haoran Li, Huiping Zhuang#, Cen Chen#. ACL 2025. [pdf] [code]

[22] Semantic Shift Estimation via Dual-Projection and Classifier Reconstruction for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning
Run He, Di Fang, Yicheng Xu, Yawen Cui, Ming Li, Cen Chen, Ziqian Zeng, Huiping Zhuang. ICML 2025. [pdf]

[21] L3A: Label-Augmented Analytic Adaptation for Multi-Label Class Incremental Learning
Xiang Zhang, Run He, Chen Jiao, Di Fang, Ming Li, Ziqian Zeng, Cen Chen, Huiping Zhuang. ICML 2025. [pdf]

[20] Analytic Federated Learning
Huiping Zhuang, Run He, Kai Tong, Di Fang, Han Sun, Haoran Li, Tianyi Chen, Ziqian Zeng. CVPR 2025. [pdf]

[19] F-OAL: Foward-only Online Analytic Learning with Fast Training and Low Memory Footprint in Class Incremental Learning
Huiping Zhuang, Yuchen Liu, Run He, Kai Tong, Ziqian Zeng, Cen Chen, Yi Wang, Lap-Pui Chau. NeurIPS 2024. [pdf]

[18] GACL: Exemplar-Free Generalized Analytic Continual Learning
Huiping Zhuang, Yizhu Chen, Di Fang, Run He, Kai Tong, Hongxin Wei, Ziqian Zeng, Cen Chen. NeurIPS 2024. [pdf]

[17] PsFuture: A Pseudo-Future-based Zero-Shot Adaptive Policy for Simultaneous Machine Translation
Libo Zhao, Jing Li#, Ziqian Zeng#. EMNLP 2024. [pdf] [code]

[16] Dissecting Fine-Tuning Unlearning in Large Language Models
Yihuai Hong, Yuelin Zou, Lijie Hu, Ziqian Zeng, Di Wang, Haiqin Yang. EMNLP 2024 (short).

[15] Zero-shot Explainable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media by Incorporating Mental Scales
Wenyu Li#, Yinuo Zhu, Xin Lin, Ming Li, Ziyue Jiang, Ziqian Zeng#. WWW 2024 (short). [pdf] [code]

[14] On the use of Silver Standard Data for Zero-shot Classification Tasks in Information Extraction
Jianwei Wang, Tianyin Wang, Ziqian Zeng#. COLING 2024. [pdf] [code]

[13] Zero-shot Event Detection using a Textual Entailment Model as an Enhanced Annotator
Ziqian Zeng, Runyu Wu, Yuxiang Xiao, Xiaoda Zhong, Hanlin Wang, Zhengdong Lu, Huiping Zhuang. COLING 2024 (short). [pdf] [code]

[12] ConsistentEE: A Consistent and Hardness-Guided Early Exiting Method for Accelerating Language Models Inference
Ziqian Zeng*, Yihuai Hong*, Hongliang Dai, Huiping Zhuang and Cen Chen. AAAI 2024. [pdf][code]

[11] DS-AL: A Dual Stream Analytic Learning for Examplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning
Huiping Zhuang, Run He, Kai Tong, Ziqian Zeng, Zhiping Lin, Cen Chen. AAAI 2024. [pdf]

[10] Adaptive Policy with Wait-k Model for Simultaneous Translation
Libo Zhao, Kai Fan, Wei Luo, Jing Wu, Shushu Wang, Ziqian Zeng#, and Zhongqiang Huang#. EMNLP, 2023. [pdf] [code]

[9] From Ultra-Fine to Fine: Fine-tuning Ultra-Fine Entity Typing Models to Fine-grained
Hongliang Dai, and Ziqian Zeng. ACL, 2023. [pdf] [code]

[8] GKEAL: Gaussian Kernel Embedded Analytic Learning for Few-shot Class Incremental Task
Huiping Zhuang, Zhenyu Weng, Run He, Zhiping Lin, Ziqian Zeng. CVPR, 2023. [pdf] [code]

[7] Weakly Supervised Text Classification using Supervision Signals from a Language Model
Ziqian Zeng, Weimin Ni, Tianqing Fang, Xiang Li, Xinran Zhao, and Yangqiu Song. NAACL, 2022. [pdf] [code]

[6] Debiasing Career Recommendations with Neural Fair Collaborative Filtering
Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, Ziqian Zeng, Shimei Pan, and James Foulds. WWW, 2021. [pdf] [code]

[5] Fair Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks
Ziqian Zeng, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, James Foulds, Yangqiu Song, and Shimei Pan. ICWSM, 2021. [pdf] [code]

[4] Variational Weakly Supervised Sentiment Analysis with Posterior Regularization
Ziqian Zeng, and Yangqiu Song. EACL, 2021. [pdf] [code]

[3] A Variational Approach to Weakly Supervised Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification
Ziqian Zeng, Wenxuan Zhou, Xin Liu, and Yangqiu Song. NAACL, 2019. [pdf] [code]

[2] Biased RandomWalk based Social Regularization for Word Embeddings
Ziqian Zeng*, Xin Liu*, and Yangqiu Song. IJCAI, 2018. [pdf] [code]

[1] Socialized Word Embeddings
Ziqian Zeng, Yichun Yin, Yangqiu Song, and Ming Zhang. IJCAI, 2017. [pdf] [code]

Journal

[1] Efficient Point Cloud Video Recognition via Spatio-Temporal Pruning for MEC Based Consumer Applications
Cen Chen, Songyu Xie, Jing Liu, Zhongyao Cheng, Ziqian Zeng, Huiping Zhuang, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2024. [pdf]

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