News (2023)

• I defended on May 25, 2023. My doctorate dissertation is about expressivity and trustworthiness of deep generative models.

• I joined NVIDIA as a research scientist in August, 2023.

• One paper is published on INTERSPEECH 2023.

• One paper is published on ECAI 2023.

Research

Papers on Deep Generative Models


Zhifeng Kong, Kamalika Chaudhuri. Data Redaction from Conditional Generative Models.
[paper] [Tag: Conditional Generative Models, Trustworthiness]

Zhifeng Kong, Kamalika Chaudhuri. Data Redaction from Pre-trained GANs. In SaTML 2023.
[paper] [video] [Tag: GAN, Trustworthiness]

Zhifeng Kong, Scott Alfeld. Approximate Data Deletion in Generative Models. In ECAI 2023.
[paper] [Tag: Generative Model, Privacy, Trustworthiness]

Zhifeng Kong, Kamalika Chaudhuri. Understanding Instance-based Interpretability of Variational Auto-Encoders. In NeurIPS 2021.
[paper] [code] [video] [blog] [Tag: VAE, Interpretability]

• Zhaoyang Lyu*, Zhifeng Kong*, Xudong Xu, Liang Pan, Dahua Lin. A conditional point diffusion-refinement paradigm for 3d point cloud completion. In ICLR 2022.
[paper] [code] [Tag: Diffusion Model, Point Cloud Completion]

Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping. On Fast Sampling of Diffusion Probabilistic Models. In ICML 2021 INNF Workshop.
[paper] [demo] [code] [Tag: Diffusion Model, Sampling]

Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Jiaji Huang, Kexin Zhao, Bryan Catanzaro. DiffWave: A Versatile Diffusion Model for Audio Synthesis. In ICLR 2021 (oral).
[paper] [demo] [video] [code part 1] [code part 2] [Tag: Diffusion Model, Speech Synthesis]

Zhifeng Kong, Kamalika Chaudhuri. Universal Approximation of Residual Flows in Maximum Mean Discrepancy. In ICML 2021 INNF Workshop.
[paper] [video] [Tag: Normalizing Flows, Theory]

Zhifeng Kong, Kamalika Chaudhuri. The Expressive Power of a Class of Normalizing Flow Models. In AISTATS 2020.
[paper] [slides] [blog] [video (workshop version)] [Tag: Normalizing Flows, Theory]

Papers on Speech Enhancement


Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Ambrish Dantrey, Bryan Catanzaro. Speech Denoising in the Waveform Domain with Self-Attention. In ICASSP 2022.
[paper] [demo] [code] [Tag: Self Attention, Speech Denoising]

Zhifeng Kong, Wei Ping, Ambrish Dantrey, Bryan Catanzaro. CleanUNet 2: A Hybrid Speech Denoising Model on Waveform and Spectrogram In INTERSPEECH 2023.
[paper] [demo] [Tag: Self Attention, Speech Denoising]

Papers on Trustworthy ML (Supervised Learning)


Zhifeng Kong*, Amrita Roy Chowdhury*, Kamalika Chaudhuri. Can Membership Inferencing be Refuted?
[paper] [Tag: Membership Inference]

• Zhaoyang Lyu, Ching-Yun Ko, Zhifeng Kong, Ngai Wong, Dahua Lin, Luca Daniel. Fastened CROWN: Tightened Neural Network Robustness Certificates. In AAAI 2020.
[paper] [Tag: Robustness]

Blogs and Technical Reports

• Understanding Instance-based Interpretability of Variational Auto-Encoders. [blog]

• The expressive power of a class of normalizing flow models. [blog]

• Generalization theory for GANs. [slides]

• Notes on generalization properties of GAN metrics. [pdf]

• Invertible ResNets. [slides]

Zhihu Blogs

UCSD Machine Learning Blogs

Industrial Experiences

• Research Internship at Baidu Research, USA. (Summer 2020)

• Research Internship at NVIDIA Applied Deep Learning Research. (Summer 2021 & 2022)

Services

I served as reviewers for ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, TMLR, JMLR, ICML 2023, ICLR 2023, AISTATS 2023, NeurIPS 2022, ICLR 2022, ICML 2022, ECCV 2022 Workshop UNCV, UAI 2022 Workshop TPM, NeurIPS 2021, ICML 2020 WorkShop WHI. I was an outstanding reviewer at ICML 2022.

Talks and Presentations

• I am giving an invited talk at ICML MLAS workshop (July 2022). [video] [panel discussion]

• I am giving a poster presentation at NeurIPS (December 2021). [video]

• I am giving an invited talk at NeurIPS DGM workshop (December 2021). [video]

• I am giving a talk at UCSD AI seminar (November 2021).

• I am giving two spotlight presentations at ICML INNF workshop (July 2021).

• I am giving a spotlight presentation at ICML XAI workshop (July 2021).

• I am giving an invited talk at NVIDIA (June 2021).

• I am giving an invited talk at AI-Time, an AI community (June 2021).

• I am giving an oral presentation at ICLR 2021 (May 2021). [video]

• I am giving invited talks at TechBeat, an AI community (May 2021). [video]

• I am giving a spotlight presentation at AAAI 2020 (Feb 2020).

• I am giving a spotlight presentation at the IAS deep learning theory workshop (Oct 2019). [video]

Contact me!

Email: z4kong at eng dot ucsd dot edu

WeChat: kong-zhi-feng

Twitter: @ZhifengKong

LinkedIn: Zhifeng Kong

Instagram: zhifeng.kong.3

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