Yubo Cui 崔钰柏

Yubo Cui 崔钰柏

M.Sc. Student at HITsz CS

About Me

I am a third-year master’s student in Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Zheng Zhang. I received my bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai in 2024.

My research interests lie in AI security, with a focus on trustworthy multimodal foundation models and agents. During my master’s studies, I have primarily worked on adversarial defence for vision-language models (VLMs), aiming to improve their adversarial robustness while preserving their zero-shot generalization.

I am seeking PhD positions starting in Fall 2027. Please feel free to contact me.

Publications

CVPR 2026
AGFT framework: text-guided adversarial training and distribution consistency calibration

AGFT: Alignment-Guided Fine-Tuning for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models [Paper] [arXiv] [Code]

Yubo Cui, Xianchao Guan, Zijun Xiong, Zheng Zhang

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026).

arXiv 2026
TRAG framework: textual response-aware guidance with local text responses, anchor-level constraints, and image-adaptive relevance weights

Textual Response-Aware Guidance for Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness of Vision-Language Models [arXiv]

Yubo Cui, Xianchao Guan, Zheng Zhang

arXiv preprint, 2026.

NeurIPS 2026 (Spotlight)
SWIFT framework: grouping and permutation combine local clustering with global connectivity

Breaking Information Islands in Sparse Tuning via Small-World Connectivity [Paper]

Xianchao Guan, Zijun Xiong, Yifeng Wang, Yubo Cui, Yaowei Wang, Guosen Xie, Xin Li, Zheng Zhang

The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), Spotlight.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025, First-class Scholarship
  • 2024, Special Grade Scholarship
  • 2024, Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province (Top 6%)
  • 2024, Outstanding Graduate of Harbin Institute of Technology (Top 10%)
  • 2022, National Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2022, COMAP’s Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, Meritorious Winner (Top 6%)

Educations

  • 2024.09 – Present, M.Sc. student in Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen.
  • 2020.09 – 2024.06, Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai.

Beyond Research

I am an amateur pianist with a particular affinity for the music of Chopin, and I enjoy a variety of sports, including basketball, badminton, and billiards.