Xuankun Rong

Xuankun Rong

Ph.D. student at Wuhan University

🧐 About Me

👋 Hi there! My name is Xuankun Rong（容旋坤）, I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Mang Ye. I received my Bachelor’s degree at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University.

My research focuses on AI Safety.

🔥 News

  • 2025.10: I am invited as a reviewer for CVPR 2026.
  • 2025.09: One paper (BYE) has been accepeted by NeurIPS 2025. See you in San Diego! 💪
  • 2025.05: Released our new work BYE on backdoor defense for MLLMs on arxiv — welcome to follow and share! ❤️
  • 2025.05: One paper (CAN) has been accepeted by ICML 2025. 💪
  • 2024.09: Won Nomination Award of College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship works in 2024 China Network Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • 2024.08: Won First Prize in the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest, along with the Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial Award (Top 0.1% nation-wide). 👏
  • 2024.07: We advanced to the National Finals of the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest and are looking forward to achieving excellent results. 💪
  • 2024.05: Won First Prize in the 17th China Undergraduate Computer Design Competition, Middle South Division (Top 3% division-wide).

📝 Publications

†: equal contribution *: corresponding author

EDL
Backdoor Cleaning without External Guidance in MLLM Fine-tuning
Xuankun Rong†, Wenke Huang†, Jian Liang, Jinhe Bi, Xun Xiao, Yiming Li, Bo Du, Mang Ye*
NeurIPS, 2025
Client As Navigator
CAN: Leveraging Clients As Navigators for Generative Replay in Federated Continual Learning
Xuankun Rong†, Jianshu Zhang†, Kun He, Mang Ye*
ICML, 2025

⌛️ In Submission & Preprint

LVLM_Safety_Survey
A Survey of Safety on Large Vision-Language Models: Attacks, Defenses and Evaluations
Mang Ye*, Xuankun Rong, Wenke Huang, Bo Du, Nenghai Yu, Dacheng Tao
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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.09: Nominated Award for college students’ innovative and entrepreneurial works in 2024 China Cyber Security Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • 2024.08: First Prize in the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest, along with the Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial Award (Top 0.1% nation-wide).
  • 2024.05: First Prize in the 17th China Undergraduate Computer Design Competition of Middle South Division (Award Rate: 3% division-wide)

📖 Educations