Research Interests and Publications
My recent research interests include
Responsible AI/Truthworthy ML: privacy, fairness, robustness, explainability, and their interplays, from both theoretical and empirical aspects
Foundations of Deep Learning: alignment, safety, and training dynamics of generative models
Papers on Differential Privacy and Algorithmic Fairness
"Optimal Numerical Composition of Privacy Guarantees", working paper
"Multi-calibration Auditing", working paper
A. Huang*, P. Liu*, R. Nakada, L. Zhang, W. Zhang, “Safeguarding Data in Multimodal AI: A Differentially Private Approach to CLIP Training”, preprint, submitted to ICLR, 2024.
Z. Zhang, P. Liu, X. Wang, C. Xu, “Improving Adversarial Transferability with Scheduled Step Size and Dual Example”, preprint, 2023.
P. Liu, Y. Vandecasteele, G. Ahdritz, "Differential Privacy and K-NAF", CS 226R course project taught by Cynthia Dwork, 2022
E. Small, W. Shao, Z. Zhang, P. Liu, J. Chan, K. Sokol, F. Salim, “How Robust is your Fair Model? Exploring the Robustness of Diverse Fairness Strategies”, preprint, 2022.
P. Liu, M.J. Strauss, “Gender Prediction Using Email Data for Algorithmic Fairness”, REU report, 2021.
Papers on Algebraic Coding Theory
F. Caliskan, R. Aksoy, N. Aydin, P. Liu, “Entanglement-Assisted Binary Quantum Codes from Skew Cyclic Codes over F_2×(F_2+vF_2 ), Quantum Information Processing, 2023.
B.Caliskan, N. Aydin, P. Liu, “Skew cyclic codes over Z_4+uZ_4+vZ_4”, Cryptography and Communications, 2023.
A. Bellil, K. Guenda, N. Aydin, P. Liu, T. A. Gulliver, “Constacyclic and quasi-twisted codes over Zq [u]/⟨u2-1⟩ and new Z4-linear codes”, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2023.
K. Guenda, T. A. Gulliver, D. Mokhtari, N. Aydin, P. Liu, “On Some Special Matrices and Their Application to Code Construction”, ALCOCRYPT, 2023.
A. S. Karbaski, T. Abualrub, N, Aydin, P. Liu, “Additive polycyclic codes over F4 induced by nonbinary polynomials”, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, 2023.
A. S. Karbaski, T. Abualrub, N, Aydin, P. Liu, “Additive Polycyclic Codes over F_4 II: the General Case”, ALCOCRYPT, 2023
A. S. Karbaski, T. Abualrub, N, Aydin, P. Liu, “Additive Polycyclic Codes over F4 Induced by Binary Vectors and Some Optimal Codes”, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2021.
N. Aydin, P. Liu*, B. Yoshino, “Polycyclic Codes Associated with Trinomials: Good Codes and Open Questions”, Design, Codes, and Cryptography, 2021.
N. Aydin, T. Guidotti*, P. Liu*, “Good Classical and Quantum Codes from Multi-Twisted Codes”, AMS Contemporary Mathematics book series, 2021
N. Aydin, P. Liu*, B. Yoshino*, “A Database of Quantum Codes”, Journal of Algebra Combinatorics Discrete Structures and Applications, 2021
N. Aydin, T. Guidotti*, P. Liu*, “New Linear Codes as Quasi-Twisted Codes from Long Constacyclic Codes”, ACCT, 2020.
N. Aydin, T. Guidotti*, P. Liu*, A. Shaikh, O. VandenBerg, “Some generalizations of the ASR search algorithm for quasitwisted codes”, Involve, 2020.
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