Shu Yang

PhD student, CS, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Joined

December 2023

Names

Shu Yang (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@kaust.edu.sa (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

CS, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (kaust.edu.sa)

2024 – 2028

MS student

ICL, University of Macau (umac.mo)

2022 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Di Wang

2024 – 2028

MS Advisor

Derek F. Wong

2022 – 2024

Expertise

computational social science

Present

deep learning

Present

Publications

Neuron-Aware Data Selection in Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
Xin Chen, Junchao Wu, Shu Yang, Runzhe Zhan, Zeyu Wu, Min Yang, Shujian Huang, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
When Thinking Backfires: Mechanistic Insights into Reason-induced Misalignment
Hanqi Yan, Hainiu Xu, Siya Qi, Shu Yang, Yulan He
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
MONICA: Real-Time Monitoring and Calibration of Chain-of-Thought Sycophancy in Large Reasoning Models
Jingyu Hu, Shu Yang, Xilin Gong, Hongming Wang, Weiru Liu, Di Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Concept-Based Dictionary Learning for Inference-Time Safety in Vision–Language–Action Models
Siqi Wen, Shu Yang, Shaopeng Fu, Jingfeng Zhang, Lijie Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Investigating CoT Monitorability in Large Reasoning Models
Shu Yang, Junchao Wu, Xilin Gong, Xuansheng Wu, Ninghao Liu, Derek F. Wong, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Backdooring CLIP through Concept Confusion
Lijie Hu, Weimin Lyu, Junchi Liao, Shaopeng Fu, Tianhao Huang, Shu Yang, Jie Li, Yuyang Dai, Guimin Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Dissecting Representation Misalignment in Contrastive Learning via Influence Function
Huanyi Xie, Chenyang Ren, Khouloud Saadi, Shu Yang, Zhen Tan, Jingfeng Zhang, Lijie Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Data Influence in Meta Learning
Chenyang Ren, Huanyi Xie, Shu Yang, Meng Ding, Dongrui Liu, Lijie Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Compositional Architecture of Regret in Large Language Models
Xiangxiang Cui, Shu Yang, Tianjin Huang, Wanyu Lin, Lijie Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Flattery in Motion: Benchmarking and Analyzing Sycophancy in Video-LLMs
Wenrui Zhou, Mohamed Hendy, Shu Yang, Qingsong Yang, zikun guo, Yuyu Luo, Lijie Hu, Di Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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