Publications

Buyun Liang, Liangzu Peng, Jinqi Luo, Darshan Thaker, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, René Vidal (2025). SECA: Semantically Equivalent and Coherent Attacks for Eliciting LLM Hallucinations. In The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

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Buyun Liang, Kwan Ho Ryan Chan, Darshan Thaker, Jinqi Luo, René Vidal (2025). KDA: A Knowledge-Distilled Attacker for Generating Diverse Prompts to Jailbreak LLMs. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.05223.

Ryan de Vera, Buyun Liang, Binyao Guo, Qizhi He, Ju Sun (2024). Neural Topology Optimization Based on Differential Programming With Principled Constrained Optimization . In ASME 2024 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2024).

Jingyi L. Chen, Jesse L. Prelesnik, Buyun Liang, Yangzesheng Sun, Mrugank Bhatt, Christopher Knight, Krishnan Mahesh, J. Ilja Siepmann (2023). Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of bubble collapse in water: Effects of system size, water model, and nitrogen. The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP Editors’ Choice 2023).

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Le Peng, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2023). Optimization and optimizers for adversarial robustness. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.13401.

Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Le Peng, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2023). Implications of Solution Patterns on Adversarial Robustness. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision (Art of Robustness).

Buyun Liang, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2022). NCVX: A General-Purpose Optimization Solver for Constrained Machine and Deep Learning. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2022).

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Hengyue Liang, Buyun Liang, Ying Cui, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2022). Optimization for Robustness Evaluation beyond ℓp Metrics. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023) & Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT 2022).

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Buyun Liang, Tim Mitchell, Ju Sun (2021). NCVX: A User-Friendly and Scalable Package for Nonconvex Optimization in Machine Learning. ArXiv preprint arXiv:2111.13984.

J. Ilja Siepmann, Jingyi L. Chen, Buyun Liang, Krishnan Mahesh (2020). Effect of Non-Condensable Gas on the Thermophysical Properties of Bubbly Water and on Bubble Collapse Dynamics Probed by Molecular Simulations. 33rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Osaka, Japan, 18-23 October 2020.