Runqi Lin


Runqi Lin

Runqi Lin

PhD student

Sydney AI Centre
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
The University of Sydney

Address: J12/ 1 Cleveland St, Darlington, NSW 2008, Australia.

E-mail: rlin0511 [at] uni.sydney.edu.au; runqi.lin0403 [at] gmail.com

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Biography

I am currently a final-year PhD student at The University of Sydney, supervised by Prof. Tongliang Liu. Before this, I received my Bachelor's degree in Data Science from Beijing Information Science and Technology University in 2021, supervised by Prof. Wei Zhang. I was a visiting student at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and Tsinghua University. My research interests lie in trustworthy machine learning, with a particular emphasis on robust generalization and human alignment within foundation models.


Publications & Preprints

  • Understanding and Enhancing the Transferability of Jailbreaking Attacks.
    Runqi Lin, Bo Han, Fengwang Li, and Tongliang Liu.
    ICLR 2025. [PDF] [CODE]

  • Instance-dependent Early Stopping.
    Suqin Yuan, Runqi Lin, Lei Feng, Bo Han, and Tongliang Liu.
    ICLR 2025 (Spotlight, 5.1%). [PDF] [CODE]

  • Layer-Aware Analysis of Catastrophic Overfitting: Revealing the Pseudo-Robust Shortcut Dependency.
    Runqi Lin, Chaojian Yu, Bo Han, Hang Su, and Tongliang Liu.
    ICML 2024. [PDF] [CODE]

  • On the Over-Memorization During Natural, Robust and Catastrophic Overfitting.
    Runqi Lin, Chaojian Yu, Bo Han, and Tongliang Liu.
    ICLR 2024. [PDF] [CODE]

  • Eliminating Catastrophic Overfitting Via Abnormal Adversarial Examples Regularization.
    Runqi Lin, Chaojian Yu, and Tongliang Liu.
    NeurIPS 2023. [PDF] [CODE]


Research Interests

  • Adversarial Robustness
    - Adversarial Attack & Training.
    - Jailbreaking Attack in Large Language Models.
    - Robustness in Vision-Language Models.

  • Generalization Capability
    - Catastrophic & Robust Overfitting.
    - Sharpness & Transferability.


Honors & Awards

  • ACM MM 2024 Outstanding Reviewer.

  • OpenAI Researcher Access Program.

  • ICML 2024 Financial Aid.

  • NeurIPS 2023 Scholar Award.

  • USYD Research Scholarship.


Academic Services

  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, UAI, AISTATS, ACM MM, ACM SIGKDD, IJCNN, etc.

  • Journal Conference: T-PAMI, etc.