Jiabao Ji

Bio

Hi! I'm Jiabao Ji, a third-year Ph.D. student at UCSB advised by Prof. Shiyu Chang. I also work closely with Dr. Yang Zhang.

My research focuses primarily on generative AI models. Recently, I am mainly focused on following areas:

Decoding-time algorithm for improving LLM trustworthiness.
Algorithm for enhanced controllability for genrative models.

Before joining UCSB, I obtained B.Eng. in Computer Science at ACM class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During my undergrad, I intered at X-lance Lab at SJTU working with Prof. Kai Yu and Prof. Lu Chen. I also had a remote summer intern at SLS group working with Prof. Tianxing He and Prof. James Glass.

I am actively seeking a research internship opportunity for Summer 2025. If you think my skills and experience align with your team’s needs, please feel free to reach out.

Publications

Most recent publications on Google Scholar.
^‡ indicates equal contribution.

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Reversing the Forget-Retain Objectives: An Efficient LLM Unlearning Framework from Logit Difference

Jiabao Ji, Yujian Liu, Yang Zhang, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang

NeurIPS'24

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Advancing the Robustness of Large Language Models through Self-Denoised Smoothing

Jiabao Ji^‡, Bairu Hou^‡, Zhen Zhang^‡, Guanhua Zhang^‡, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li, Yang Zhang, Gaowen Liu, Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang

NAACL'24

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Improving Diffusion Models for Scene Text Editing with Dual Encoders

Jiabao Ji^‡, Guanhua Zhang^‡, Zhaowen Wang, Bairu Hou, Zhifei Zhang, Brian Price, Shiyu Chang

TMLR'23

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Towards Coherent Image Inpainting Using Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models

Guanhua Zhang^‡, Jiabao Ji^‡, Yang Zhang, Mo Yu, Tommi Jaakkola, Shiyu Chang

ICML'23

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Controlling the Focus of Pretrained Language Generation Models

Jiabao Ji, Yoon Kim, James Glass, Tianxing He

Findings of ACL'22

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WebSRC: A Dataset for Web-Based Structural Reading Comprehension

Xingyu Chen, Zihan Zhao, Lu Chen, Jiabao Ji, Danyang Zhang, Ao Luo, Yuxuan Xiong, Kai Yu

EMNLP'21

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Reversing the Forget-Retain Objectives: An Efficient LLM Unlearning Framework from Logit Difference

Jiabao Ji, Yujian Liu, Yang Zhang, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang

NeurIPS'24

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Defending Large Language Models against Jailbreak Attacks via Semantic Smoothing

Jiabao Ji^‡, Bairu Hou^‡, Alexander Robey^‡, George J Pappas, Hamed Hassani, Yang Zhang, Eric Wong, Shiyu Chang

Arxiv

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Advancing the Robustness of Large Language Models through Self-Denoised Smoothing

Jiabao Ji^‡, Bairu Hou^‡, Zhen Zhang^‡, Guanhua Zhang^‡, Wenqi Fan, Qing Li, Yang Zhang, Gaowen Liu, Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang

NAACL'24

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Improving Diffusion Models for Scene Text Editing with Dual Encoders

Jiabao Ji^‡, Guanhua Zhang^‡, Zhaowen Wang, Bairu Hou, Zhifei Zhang, Brian Price, Shiyu Chang

TMLR'23

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Towards Coherent Image Inpainting Using Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models

Guanhua Zhang^‡, Jiabao Ji^‡, Yang Zhang, Mo Yu, Tommi Jaakkola, Shiyu Chang

ICML'23

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DFM: Dialogue Foundation Model for Universal Large-Scale Dialogue-Oriented Task Learning

Zhi Chen, Jiabao Ji, Lu Chen, Yuncong Liu, Da Ma, Bei Chen, Mengyue Wu, Su Zhu, Jian-Guang Lou, Kai Yu

Arxiv

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Controlling the Focus of Pretrained Language Generation Models

Jiabao Ji, Yoon Kim, James Glass, Tianxing He

Findings of ACL'22

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WebSRC: A Dataset for Web-Based Structural Reading Comprehension

Xingyu Chen, Zihan Zhao, Lu Chen, Jiabao Ji, Danyang Zhang, Ao Luo, Yuxuan Xiong, Kai Yu

EMNLP'21

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Vitæ

Full Resume in PDF.

Meta GenAI 2024 Summer

Research Intern at GenAI Llama team
Adobe research 2023 Summer

Research Intern
UCSB 2022 - now

Ph.D. Student
X-Lance Lab 2019 - 2022

Research Intern
SJTU 2018 - 2022

B.S. Student

Services

Reviewers: ICML'23, 24; Neurips'23, 24; ICLR'24, 25; CVPR'24, 25; ACL'24; COLM'24

Workshop reviewer: Neurips'24 AdvML-Frontiers

TA: CSW8-W23, CS190I-W23,W24

Misc

• I was a KDE+archlinux user with good animation and enormous amount of apps brought by pacman. But I changed to MacOS for more stable environment. I also bought a Framework 16 for a better Linux experience.
• I started to use Vim and tiling window manager like i3/dwm/amethyst recently.
• I watch many sports. I'm a fan of Leo Messi, Derrick Rose, Tadej Pogačar.