Publications & Preprints

@inproceedings{zhang2025dynamic,
    title = "Dynamic Task Vector Grouping for Efficient Multi-Task Prompt Tuning",
    author = "Zhang, Peiyi  and
      Zhang, Richong  and
      Nie, Zhijie  and
      Wang, Ziqiao",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.1374/",
    pages = "26805--26821",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}

@inproceedings{yao2025revisiting,
    title = "Revisiting Weak-to-Strong Generalization in Theory and Practice: Reverse {KL} vs. Forward {KL}",
    author = "Yao, Wei  and
      Yang, Wenkai  and
      Wang, Ziqiao  and
      Lin, Yankai  and
      Liu, Yong",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.148/",
    pages = "2860--2888",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}

@inproceedings{
wang2025generalization,
title={Generalization in Federated Learning: A Conditional Mutual Information Framework},
author={Ziqiao Wang and Cheng Long and Yongyi Mao},
booktitle={Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2025},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=kOttDCDYJp}
}

@inproceedings{kong2025PL,
author = {Kong, Fanshuang and Zhang, Richong and Guo, Xiaohui and Chen, Junfan and Wang, Ziqiao},
title = {Preserving Label Correlation for Multi-label Text Classification by Prototypical Regularizations},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400712746},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714797},
doi = {10.1145/3696410.3714797},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025},
pages = {3300–3310},
numpages = {11},
location = {Sydney NSW, Australia},
series = {WWW '25}
}

@inproceedings{kong2025LH,
author = {Kong, Fanshuang and Zhang, Richong and Wang, Ziqiao},
title = {LH-Mix: Local Hierarchy Correlation Guided Mixup over Hierarchical Prompt Tuning},
year = {2025},
isbn = {9798400712456},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3690624.3709326},
doi = {10.1145/3690624.3709326},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1},
pages = {636–646},
numpages = {11},
location = {Toronto ON, Canada},
series = {KDD '25}
}

@inproceedings{
wang2024generalization,
title={Generalization Bounds via Conditional \$f\$-Information},
author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=ocxVXe5XN1}
}

@inproceedings{
wang2024on,
title={On \$f\$-Divergence Principled Domain Adaptation: An Improved Framework},
author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=xSU27DgWEr}
}

@inproceedings{kong2024unsupervised,
  title={On Unsupervised Domain Adaptation: Pseudo Label Guided Mixup for Adversarial Prompt Tuning},
  author={Kong, Fanshuang and Zhang, Richong and Wang, Ziqiao and Mao, Yongyi},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={38},
  number={16},
  pages={18399--18407},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{huang2024cross,
  title={Cross-Modal and Uni-Modal Soft-Label Alignment for Image-Text Retrieval},
  author={Huang, Hailang and Nie, Zhijie and Wang, Ziqiao and Shang, Ziyu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={38},
  number={16},
  pages={18298--18306},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{
Wang2023sampleconditioned,
title={Sample-Conditioned Hypothesis Stability Sharpens Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds},
author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
booktitle={Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=oqDSDKLd3S}
}

@inproceedings{
    wang2022on,
    title={On the Generalization of Models Trained with {SGD}: Information-Theoretic Bounds and Implications},
    author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
    booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
    year={2022},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=oWZsQ8o5EA}
}

@inproceedings{Wang2022a,
  author = {Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
  title = {Two Facets of SDE Under an Information-Theoretic Lens: Generalization of SGD via Training Trajectories and via Terminal States},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fortieth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/pdf?id=ZhMkLTWRyh}
}

@inproceedings{
	wang2023two,
	title={Two Facets of {SDE} Under an Information-Theoretic Lens: Generalization of {SGD} via Training Trajectories and via Terminal States},
	author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
	booktitle={NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Mathematics of Modern Machine Learning},
	year={2023},
	url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=hWDqKtIwSo}
}

@inproceedings{
    liu2023overtraining,
    title={Over-Training with Mixup May Hurt Generalization},
    author={Zixuan Liu and Ziqiao Wang and Hongyu Guo and Yongyi Mao},
    booktitle={The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations },
    year={2023},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=JmkjrlVE-DG}
}

@article{Wang2020,
  author = {Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao and Hongyu Guo and Richong Zhang},
  title = {On SkipGram Word Embedding Models with Negative Sampling: Unified Framework and Impact of Noise Distributions},
  journal = {CoRR},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {abs/2009.04413},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04413}
}

@inproceedings{
    wang2023informationtheoretic,
    title={Information-Theoretic Analysis of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation},
    author={Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao},
    booktitle={The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations },
    year={2023},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=c5tbxWXU9-y}
}

@inproceedings{wang2023tighter,
  title={Tighter Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds from Supersamples},
  author={Wang, Ziqiao and Mao, Yongyi},
  booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year={2023},
  organization={PMLR}
}