Zelin Li | PhD Student @UIUC

PhD student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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News

Sep 2026 One first-author paper was accepted to NIPS 2026! :sparkles::sparkles:
Aug 2026 Our work was accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main)!! :tada:
Aug 2026 Our work was published in ACM ToRS! :sparkles:
Aug 2026 Our work was accepted to HCOMP 2026! :sparkles:
Jul 2026 Our work was accepted to RecSys 2026 :tada:
May 2026 Our work MASH received the Best Dataset Paper Award at ICWSM 2026! :tada::tada::tada:
Apr 2026 Our work was accepted to SIGIR 2026! :sparkles:
Mar 2026 Two of our papers were accepted to ICWSM 2026! :sparkles:
Jan 2026 Two papers were accepted to WWW’2026, with a first author one! :tada:
Jun 2025 One first-author paper was accepted to ICCV’2025! :sparkles:

Selected Publications

  1. Red-Teaming Privacy-Protective Perturbations: Blind Face Restoration as an Attack Strategy
    Zelin Li, Yifan Liu, Huimin Zeng, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 2026
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  2. Anti-Tamper Protection for Unauthorized Individual Image Generation
    Zelin Li, Ruohan Zong, Yifan Liu, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025
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  3. Modality Interactive Mixture-of-Experts for Fake News Detection
    Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 2025
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  4. Learning Decomposed Contextual Token Representations from Pretrained and Collaborative Signals for Generative Recommendation
    Yifan Liu, Yaokun Liu, Zelin Li, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10468, 2025
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  5. Analyzing and Combating Attribute Bias for Face Restoration
    Zelin Li, Dailin Zeng, Xin Yan, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
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