Publications

ELF-REG: Scaling Continuous Diffusion Language Models to Reasoning Tasks

Z. Li, W. Chen, B. Qian, J. Liu, X. Cheng
Under review, 2026

Co-Evolving Paths and Flows via Path-Flow Alignment

Z. Li†, W. Chen†, X. Cheng
NeurIPS, 2026

Variational Trajectory Optimization of Anisotropic Diffusion Schedules

P. Liu†, Z. Li†, X. Cheng
NeurIPS, 2026

Causes and Consequences of Representational Similarity in Machine Learning Models

Z. Li*, H. Vu*, D. Awofisayo, E. Wenger
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

AI-generated Image Detection: Passive or Watermark?

M. Guo*, Y. Hu*, Z. Jiang*, Z. Li*, A. Sadovnik, A. Daw, N. Gong
CVPR Second Workshop on Synthetic & Adversarial ForEnsics (SAFE), 2026

Using Interleaved Ensemble Unlearning to Keep Backdoors at Bay for Finetuning Vision Transformers

Z. Li
Preprint, 2024

Geo2SigMap: High-Fidelity RF Signal Mapping Using Geographic Databases

Y. Li, Z. Li, Z. Gao, T. Chen
IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), 2024

* Co-first authorship by alphabetical order. † Co-first authorship.

Zeyu Michael Li

PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University