Xuankun Rong (容旋坤)

Short Bio

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

2026.01: I am invited as a reviewer for ICML 2026 and ECCV 2026.
2025.11: Two papers have been accepeted by AAAI 2026 (One Oral). See you in Singapore! 🇸🇬
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).

Selected Publications

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
arXiv, 2025
[Paper][Code]

2025

SafeGRPO: Self-Rewarded Multimodal Safety Alignment via Rule-Governed Policy Optimization
Xuankun Rong, Wenke Huang, Tingfeng Wang, Daiguo Zhou, Bo Du, Mang Ye*
arXiv, 2025
[Paper][Code]

Believe Your Eyes: 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*
Conference on Neural Information Processing System (NeurIPS), CCF-A, 2025
[Paper][Code]

Probing Semantic Insensitivity for Inference-Time Backdoor Defense in Multimodal Large Language Model
Xuankun Rong, Wenke Huang, Wenzheng Jiang, Yiming Li, Wenxuan Wang, Mang Ye*
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), CCF-A, 2026
[Paper][Code]

CAN: Leveraging Clients As Navigators for Generative Replay in Federated Continual Learning
Xuankun Rong^†, Jianshu Zhang^†, Kun He, Mang Ye*
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), CCF-A, 2025
[Paper][Code]

Selected Awards and Honors

Elite Ph.D. Talent Program in Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence of Wuhan University, 2025
(武汉大学数智学科博士生拔尖人才培养计划, Award Rate: 7 Members School-wide)

Lei Jun Computer Graduate Scholarship, 2025
(雷军计算机研究生奖学金)

First Prize in the 17th National College Student Information Security Contest, 2024
(第十七届信息安全大赛全国一等奖)