Xian Wu Research Scientist Meta Email: xianwu2024 [at] u [dot] northwestern [dot] edu GitHub / Google Scholar

I am a Research Scientist at Meta. I recently earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, where I was advised by Dr. Xinyu Xing.

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Computer Security.

Publications

Soft-Label Integration for Robust Toxicity Classification
Zelei Cheng, Xian Wu, Jiahao Yu, Xin-Qiang Cai, Shuo Han, Xinyu Xing
The 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, December 2024

RICE: Breaking Through the Training Bottlenecks of Reinforcement Learning with Explanation
Xian Wu*, Zelei Chen*, Jiahao Yu, Sabrina Yang, Gang Wang, Xinyu Xing
The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Vienna, July 2024
(* indicates equal contribution)
(Spotlight Presentation, less than 5%)
ExpMask: Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning through State Mask
Xian Wu*, Zelei Chen*, Jiahao Yu, Wenbo Guo, Xinyu Xing
(* indicates equal contribution)
The 36th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, December 2023

PATROL: Provable Defense against Adversarial Policy in Two-player Games
Wenbo Guo*, Xian Wu*, Lun Wang, Dawn Song, Xinyu Xing
(* indicates equal contribution)
The 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Anaheim, CA, August 2023

From Grim Reality to Practical Solution: Malware Classification in Real-World Noise
Xian Wu, Wenbo Guo, Jia Yan, Baris Coskun, Xinyu Xing
The 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), San Francisco, CA, May 2023

EDGE: Explaining Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies
Wenbo Guo, Xian Wu, Usmann Khan, Xinyu Xing
The 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Virtual Conference, December 2021
[PDF]
BACKDOORL: Backdoor Attack against Competitive Reinforcement Learning.
Lun Wang, Zaynah Javed, Xian Wu, Wenbo Guo, Xinyu Xing, Dawn Song
The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021
[PDF]
Adversarial Policy Learning in Two-player Competitive Games.
Wenbo Guo, Xian Wu, Sui Huang, Xinyu Xing
Proceedings of The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021
[PDF] [Code]
Adversarial Policy Training against Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Xian Wu*, Wenbo Guo*, Hua Wei*, Xinyu Xing
(* indicates equal contribution)
Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2021
[PDF] [Code]
Ruling StarCraft Game Spitefully -- Exploiting the Blind Spot of AI-Powered Game Bots.
Wenbo Guo, Xian Wu, Xinyu Xing, Jimmy Su
Proceedings of The 23rd Blackhat USA (BlackHat USA), 2020
[PDF]

Professional Servies

• Reviewer:
• NeurIPS'20, NeurIPS'24.
• CCS'20.
• USENIX Security'20.