Kevin Zhai

PhD student, University of Central Florida

Joined

May 2024

Names

Kevin Zhai (Preferred)

Emails

****@ucf.edu (Confirmed)

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****@ucf.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Central Florida (ucf.edu)

2023 – 2028

Undergrad student

Vanderbilt University (engineering.vanderbilt.edu)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Present

Expertise

Diffusion

Present

APM

Present

Publications

TEST-TIME SCALING IN DIFFUSION LLMS VIA HIDDEN SEMI-AUTOREGRESSIVE EXPERTS
Jihoon Lee, Hoyeon Moon, Kevin Zhai, Arun Kumar Chithanar, Anit Kumar Sahu, Soummya Kar, Chul Lee, Souradip Chakraborty, Amrit Singh Bedi
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Repair Aware Forgetting: An Iterative Approach to Unlearning in T2I Diffusion Models
Soumik Ghosh, Kevin Zhai, Utsav Singh, Avinash Reddy, Reeshoon Sayera, Amirhossein Safari, Souradip Chakraborty, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Reward Hacking in Inference-Time Alignment of T2I Diffusion Models via Distributional Regularization
Kevin Zhai, Utsav Singh, Anirudh Thatipelli, Souradip Chakraborty, Anit Kumar Sahu, Furong Huang, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors