Papers and Preprints

• Layerwise Change of Knowledge in Neural Networks [PDF]
  Xu Cheng*, Lei Cheng*, Zhaoran Peng, Yang Xu, Tian Han, Quanshi Zhang.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 235:8038-8059, 2024.

• Towards the Dynamics of a DNN Learning Symbolic Interactions [PDF]
  Qihan Ren*, Junpeng Zhang*, Yang Xu, Yue Xin, Dongrui Liu, Quanshi Zhang.
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

• Tracking the Feature Dynamics in LLM Training: A Mechanistic Study [PDF]
  Yang Xu, Yi Wang, Hengguan Huang, Hao Wang.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17626, 2024.

• Simulating and Understanding Deceptive Behaviors in Long-Horizon Interactions [PDF]
  Yang Xu*, Xuanming Zhang*, Samuel Yeh, Jwala Dhamala, Ousmane Dia, Rahul Gupta, Sharon Li.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03999, 2025. (ICLR 2026 Accepted).

  You can find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.