Yaoteng Tan

I am a third-year PhD student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC, Riverside, where I work on trustworthy machine learning and inverse problem. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor M. Salman Asif.

I received my Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2022.

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Email: yaoteng.tan[AT]email.ucr.edu

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Oct. 2024: I will present our recent work SLUG at NeurIPS24 SafeGenAi Workshop.

Publication
Ensemble-based Blackbox Attacks on Dense Prediction
Zikui Cai*, Yaoteng Tan*, M. Salman Asif (* Equal contribution)
CVPR, 2023
arXiv / open access / code / poster

We propose a query-efficient approach for adversarial attacks on dense prediction models. Our proposed method can generate a single perturbation that can fool multiple blackbox detection and segmentation models simultaneously, demonstrate generalizability across different tasks.

Preprint
Targeted Unlearning with Single Layer Unlearning Gradient
Zikui Cai, Yaoteng Tan, M. Salman Asif
Preprint, 2024 (New)
arXiv / code / project page

We propose a highly efficient machine unlearning method for fundation models (e.g., CLIP, Stable Diffusion, VLMs) that requires only one-time gradient calculation and one-step update on one model layer that are selected based on introduced metrics, layer importance and gradient alignment.

Transform-Dependent Adversarial Attacks
Yaoteng Tan, Zikui Cai, M. Salman Asif
Preprint, 2024 (New)
arXiv

Many properties of adversarial attacks are well-studied today (e.g., optimization, transferability, physical implementa- tion, etc.). In this work, we explore an under-researched transform-dependent property of adversarial attacks, which the optimization process of additive adversarial perturbations can be combined with various image transformations to produce versatile, transform-dependent attack effects.

Service

Conference review:

  • WACV 2024

Teaching Assistant:

  • UCR EE240 Pattern Recognition, 2023, 2024 Spring
  • UCR CS171/EE142 Intro. to Machine Learning, 2023 Fall

Acknowledgement: template from Jon Barron