Zhicong Huang

Researcher, Ant Group

Joined

September 2023

Names

Zhicong Huang (Preferred)

Emails

****@epfl.ch (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

Career & Education History

Researcher

Ant Group (antgroup.com)

2023 – Present

Researcher

Alibaba Group (alibaba-inc.com)

2018 – 2023

PhD student

EPFL - EPF Lausanne (epfl.ch)

2012 – 2018

Undergrad student

Peking University (pku.edu.cn)

2008 – 2012

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jean-Pierre Hubaux

2012 – 2018

Expertise

cryptography

2012 – 2024

machine learning

2012 – 2024

Publications

Enchtable: unified safety alignment transfer in fine-tuned large language models
Jialin Wu, Kecen Li, Zhicong Huang, Xinfeng Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Cheng Hong
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Fingerprinting LLMs via Prompt Injection
Yuepeng Hu, Zhengyuan Jiang, Mengyuan Li, Osama Ahmed, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Neil Zhenqiang Gong
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MOAI: Module-Optimizing Architecture for Non-Interactive Secure Transformer Inference
Linru Zhang, Xiangning Wang, Jun Jie Sim, Zhicong Huang, Jiahao Zhong, HUAXIONG WANG, Pu Duan, Kwok-Yan Lam
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Understanding the Dilemma of Unlearning for Large Language Models
Qingjie Zhang, Haoting Qian, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Minlie Huang, Ke Xu, Chao Zhang, Han Qiu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
VLMShield: Efficient and Robust Defense of Vision-Language Models against Malicious Prompts
Peigui Qi, Kunsheng Tang, Yanpu Yu, Jialin Wu, Yide Song, Wenbo Zhou, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning
Wei Wan, Ning Yuxuan, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Shengshan Hu, Ziqi Zhou, Yechao Zhang, Tianqing Zhu, Wanlei Zhou, Leo Yu Zhang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
GaussMarker: Robust Dual-Domain Watermark for Diffusion Models
Kecen Li, Zhicong Huang, Xinwen Hou, Cheng Hong
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
MARS: A Malignity-Aware Backdoor Defense in Federated Learning
Wei Wan, Ning Yuxuan, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Shengshan Hu, Ziqi Zhou, Yechao Zhang, Minghui Li, Leo Yu Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
PUMA: Secure Inference of LLaMA-7B in Five Minutes
Ye Dong, Wen-jie Lu, Yancheng Zheng, Haoqi Wu, Derun Zhao, Jin Tan, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Tao Wei, Wenguang Chen
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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