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Short Biography

Yichi Zhang is a first-year Informatics Ph.D. student at The Pennsylvania State University advised by Prof. Yuchen Yang. Previously, he received his B.E. in Information Engineering from Zhejiang University.

His research interests include X of Y, where

• X = {Security, System, Theory, ...}
• Y = {Machine Learning, Language Model, ...}

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News

• 07/2025: One paper is accepted by ECAI 2025 🎉🎉🎉.
• 04/2025: Accepted by Informatics Ph.D. program of Penn State.

Open to collaboration. Feel free to reach out.

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Contact

Email: X @ Y, where

• X = {yichi.zhang.cs}, Y = {gmail.com}
• X = {ymz5721}, Y = {psu.edu}
• X = {yichics02}, Y = {gmail.com}
• X = {yichizhang}, Y = {zju.edu.cn}

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Publications

2025

• Yichi Zhang, Xiaogang Xu. "Diffusion Noise Feature: Accurate and Fast Generated Image Detection". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2025.


• Yichi Zhang, Qianqian Yang. "Efficient Implicit Neural Compression of Point Clouds via Learnable Activation in Latent Space". arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.14471, 2025.

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Service

Reviewer

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026.