Kesen Zhao

According to our database, Kesen Zhao authored at least 16 papers between 2022 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Principled Steering via Null-space Projection for Jailbreak Defense in Vision-Language Models.

Xingyu Zhu, Beier Zhu, Shuo Wang, Junfeng Fang, Kesen Zhao, Hanwang Zhang, Xiangnan He

CoRR, March, 2026

Look Carefully: Adaptive Visual Reinforcements in Multimodal Large Language Models for Hallucination Mitigation.

Xingyu Zhu, Kesen Zhao, Liang Yi, Shuo Wang, Zhicai Wang, Beier Zhu, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, February, 2026

Thinking with Images as Continuous Actions: Numerical Visual Chain-of-Thought.

Kesen Zhao, Beier Zhu, Junbao Zhou, Xingyu Zhu, Zhongqi Yue, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, February, 2026

Reducing Class-Wise Performance Disparity via Margin Regularization.

Beier Zhu, Kesen Zhao, Jiequan Cui, Qianru Sun, Yuan Zhou, Xun Yang, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, February, 2026

Hierarchical Semantic Alignment for Image Clustering.

Xingyu Zhu, Beier Zhu, Yunfan Li, Junfeng Fang, Shuo Wang, Kesen Zhao, Hanwang Zhang

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

DragNeXt: Rethinking Drag-Based Image Editing.

Yuan Zhou, Junbao Zhou, Qingshan Xu, Kesen Zhao, Yuxuan Wang, Hao Fei, Richang Hong, Hanwang Zhang

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

Enhancing CLIP Robustness via Cross-Modality Alignment.

Xingyu Zhu, Beier Zhu, Shuo Wang, Kesen Zhao, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, October, 2025

Real-Time Motion-Controllable Autoregressive Video Diffusion.

Kesen Zhao, Jiaxin Shi, Beier Zhu, Junbao Zhou, Xiaolong Shen, Yuan Zhou, Qianru Sun, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, October, 2025

Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!

Junbao Zhou, Yuan Zhou, Kesen Zhao, Qingshan Xu, Beier Zhu, Richang Hong, Hanwang Zhang

CoRR, October, 2025

A novel convergence analysis of a linearized finite element scheme for the three-dimensional transient Stokes equations with damping.

Kesen Zhao, Minghao Li, Liuchao Xiao

J. Appl. Math. Comput., 2025

Unsupervised Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Preference Optimization.

Kesen Zhao, Beier Zhu, Qianru Sun, Hanwang Zhang

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025

2024

Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention.

Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Zijian Zhang, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Kesen Zhao, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

Causality-Inspired Spatial-Temporal Explanations for Dynamic Graph Neural Networks.

Kesen Zhao, Liang Zhang

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

2023

User Retention-oriented Recommendation with Decision Transformer.

Kesen Zhao, Lixin Zou, Xiangyu Zhao, Maolin Wang, Dawei Yin

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

KuaiSim: A Comprehensive Simulator for Recommender Systems.

Kesen Zhao, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Ziru Liu, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

2022

MAE4Rec: Storage-saving Transformer for Sequential Recommendations.

Kesen Zhao, Xiangyu Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Muyang Li

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, 2022