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 problems. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor M. Salman Asif.

Prior to joining UCR, I received my Bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2022.

CV  /  Scholar  /  GitHub  /  Hugging Face  /  Lab
Email: yaoteng.tan[AT]email.ucr.edu

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News

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


Publication
Targeted Unlearning with Single Layer Unlearning Gradient
Zikui Cai, Yaoteng Tan, M. Salman Asif
ICML, 2025 (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. Our method provide a modular modification for post-training large models.

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
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, ICCV, ICIP

Teaching Assistant:

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

Acknowledgement: template from Jon Barron