zijun

Zijun Wang

I am a second-year PhD student at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and my advisor is Prof. Cihang Xie. I received my BS from Zhejiang University.

My research interests mainly revolve around AI Safety / Text Generation [1][2].

I am always open to research discussions and collaborations : )

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News

[2026.04] NAG and InfoLaw are accepted by ICML 2026

[2026.04] We release VLAA-GUI, the verified best open-source GUI systems on OSWorld!

[2026.04] CIK-Bench is out! A real-world safety analysis exposing architectural vulnerabilities of personal AI agents.

[2026.02] MIRA is accepted by CVPR 2026

[2025.11] STAR-1 is accepted by AAAI 2026 (oral)

[2025.06] I'm joining ByteDance as Research Scientist Intern.

[2025.04] STAR-1 is out! Using just 1K data to make your reasoning LLMs much safer.

[2025.01] AttnGCG is accepted by TMLR 2025

[2024.12] Graph Patches is accepted by KDD 2025

[2024.07] Unicorns is accepted by ECCV 2024

[2023.12] Second Place in both base & large model subtracks of Red Teaming LLM@NeurIPS 2023, Trojan Detection Challenge [Code]

Selected Publications

2026
	Your Agent, Their Asset: A Real-World Safety Analysis of OpenClaw Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Letian Zhang, Hardy Chen, Juncheng Wu, Xiangyan Liu, Zhenlong Yuan, Tianyu Pang, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Fengze Liu, Zeyu Zheng, Huaxiu Yao, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie In submission to COLM 2026 paper / project page / code / dataset
	VLAA-GUI: Knowing When to Stop, Recover, and Search, A Modular Framework for GUI Automation Qijun Han, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Haoyue Dai, Yiyang Zhou, Nancy Lau, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Yuhui Xu, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Zeyu Zheng, Huaxiu Yao, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie (* represents equal contribution) In submission to ECCV 2026 paper / project page / code
	Target-Oriented Pretraining Data Selection via Neuron-Activated Graph Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Weidong Zhou, Yiyang Zhou, Xiaohuan Zhou, Bingni Zhang, Weiguo Feng, Taifeng Wang, Cihang Xie, Fengze Liu ICML 2026 paper / project page / code
	STAR-1: Safer Alignment of Reasoning LLMs with 1K Data Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Yuhan Wang, Juncheng Wu, Yanqing Liu, Jieru Mei, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura, Cihang Xie, AAAI 2026 (oral) paper / project page / code / dataset / models
	Chasing the Public Score: User Pressure and Evaluation Exploitation in Coding Agent Workflows Hardy Chen, Nancy Lau, Haoqin Tu, Shuo Yan, Xiangyan Liu, Zijun Wang, Juncheng Wu, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou arXiv 2026 paper / project page / code
	MIRA: When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought Yiyang Zhou, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Zeyu Wang, Niklas Muennighoff, Fan Nie, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Chaorui Deng, Shen Yan, Haoqi Fan, Cihang Xie, Huaxiu Yao, Qinghao Ye (* represents equal contribution) CVPR 2026 paper / project page / code / dataset
	InfoLaw: Information Scaling Laws for Large Language Models with Quality-Weighted Mixture Data and Repetition Fengze Liu, Weidong Zhou, Binbin Liu, Ping Guo, Zijun Wang, Bingni Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Yifeng Yu, Xiaohuan Zhou, Taifeng Wang ICML 2026 paper (coming soon)
	Mimicking the Physicist's Eye: A VLM-centric Approach for Physics Formula Discovery Jiaqi Liu, Songning Lai, Pengze Li, Di Yu, Wenjie Zhou, Yiyang Zhou, Peng Xia, Zijun Wang, Xi Chen, Shixiang Tang, Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Mingyu Ding, Huaxiu Yao, Aoran Wang In submission to ICML 2026 paper / project page / code
2025
	AttnGCG: Enhancing Jailbreaking Attacks on LLMs with Attention Manipulation Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Jieru Mei, Bingchen Zhao, Yisen Wang, Cihang Xie, TMLR 2025 paper / code
	Handling Feature Heterogeneity with Learnable Graph Patches Yifei Sun, Yang Yang, Xiao Feng, Zijun Wang, Haoyang Zhong, Chunping Wang, Lei Chen KDD 2025 paper / code
	AHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Audio-Language Models Tony Lee, Haoqin Tu, Chi Heem Wong, Zijun Wang, Siwei Yang, Yifan Mai, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie, Percy Liang arXiv 2025 paper / website / leaderboard / code
	Where on Earth? A Vision-Language Benchmark for Probing Model Geolocation Skills Across Scales Zhaofang Qian, Hardy Chen, Zeyu Wang, Li Zhang, Zijun Wang, Xiaoke Huang, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Zeyu Zheng, Haoqin Tu, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou arXiv 2025 paper / code
2024
	How Many Unicorns Are in This Image? A Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Vision LLMs Haoqin Tu, Chenhang Cui, Zijun Wang, Yiyang Zhou, Bingchen Zhao, Junlin Han, Wangchunshu Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Cihang Xie ( represents equal contribution) ECCV 2024 paper / code