1. Junfeng Fang and Wanli Yang (10:00-11:30, Flame Mountain Hall)

Title: Model Editing in LLMs: Advances and Challenges

Abstract : Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in knowledge-intensive tasks, yet they inevitably encode incorrect, outdated, or biased knowledge. Model editing has recently emerged as a promising lightweight approach, enabling efficient and precise modifications to LLMs without the need for full-scale training. In this tutorial, we will provide a comprehensive overview of model editing, covering the latest techniques, evolving evaluations, potential applications, and emerging challenges in the field. We will delve into cutting-edge methods for continuously updating the knowledge of LLMs without compromising their general capabilities, and reliable evaluation protocols for rigorously assessing both the effectiveness and broader impact of these edits.

Speaker: Junfeng Fang is a first-year postdoctoral researcher at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the NExT Lab supervised by Prof. Chua Tat-Seng. His research focuses on trustworthy large language models, including safety alignment and knowledge editing. In the past two years, he has published nearly ten first-author papers in top-tier conferences and journals such as ICLR, NeurIPS and ACL, with multiple Oral papers at the NeurIPS and ICLR (average acceptance rate < 2%). His honors include the National Scholarship of China and the ICLR 2025 Outstanding Paper Award.

Speaker: Wanli Yang is a first-year PhD student at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS), under the supervision of Prof. Fei Sun and Prof. Xinran Liu. His research focuses on knowledge memorization and updating in large language models, with an emphasis on model editing. He has published several papers on this topic at top-tier NLP conferences, including ACL and EMNLP.

2. Jiaheng Liu and Yizhi Li (11:30-13:00, Flame Mountain Hall)

Title: How to Build the Domain-Specific LLMs effectively?

Abstract : This tutorial provides an in-depth exploration of key technical practices for developing domain-specific large language models (LLMs) by focusing on continued pretraining, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning. As general-purpose LLMs often lack accuracy and relevance in specialized tasks, there is a growing need for vertical models tailored to industries like healthcare, finance, legal, and scientific research. We discuss continued pretraining to adapt base models to domain-specific corpora, enabling them to internalize relevant terminology and knowledge. Supervised fine-tuning is examined for aligning model outputs with task-specific objectives using curated datasets. Additionally, we cover reinforcement learning for alignment, including RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) and RLVR (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards), addressing challenges such as reward model design and scalable optimization. Practical insights, case studies, and experimental results are provided to demonstrate the impact on model performance, serving as a technical reference for building trustworthy, high-performing models in specialized domains.

Speaker: Jiaheng Liu isan assistant professor at Nanjing University, focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs), including pretraining, long-context modeling and reasoning. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at Alibaba Group, focusing on LLMs. He received his PhD from Beihang University in 2023, advised by Professors Ke Xu and Dong Xu. He has published 60+ top conference/journal papers. Recently, he has served as the core author of several well-known projects, including the fully transparent bilingual LLM (MAP-Neo-7B), the high-performance transparent code LLM (OpenCoder), the first open-sourced music generation model (YuE), the Emulated Disalignment method (ACL 2024 Outstanding Paper Award), etc. Besides, he is also one of the co-founders of the M-A-P community, a popular open-source community in China. Additionally, he has co-organized the first SCI-FM workshop at ICLR 2025, and served as the invited speaker of the first GLOW workshop at IJCAI 2023.

Speaker: Yizhi Li is a PhD candidate at the University of Manchester, supervised by Professor Chenghua Lin. His research specializes in the post-training of large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs. He is also a co-founder of the M-A-P research community, an initiative focused on promoting open-source AI research. Moreover, he was on the organizer committee of the first SCI-FM workshop at ICLR 2025 and the incoming LLM4Music workshop at ISMIR 2025. Yizhi’s work experience includes a Research Summer Associate position in Artificial Intelligence Research at J.P. Morgan, and a Research Assistant role at the Natural Language Processing Lab at Tsinghua University.

3. Jingjing Chen (15:00-16:00, Flame Mountain Hall)

Title: Advancing Responsible Generative AI: Progress and Challenges

Abstract : The rapid development of generative AI has enabled powerful capabilities in visual content creation, but also raised serious concerns regarding content authenticity, misuse, and societal harm. This tutorial focuses on advancing responsible generative AI, particularly in the context of visual content safety. We begin by outlining the emerging risks of AI-generated visual media, such as deepfakes and synthetic misinformation. The tutorial then covers two main research frontiers: (1) Detection and attribution of generated visual content, including recent techniques for identifying AI-generated images and videos across diverse domains and manipulation methods; and (2) Mitigating unsafe concepts in generative models, such as removing sensitive, harmful, or misuse-prone concepts through concept erasure and editing mechanisms. We will introduce key datasets, evaluation protocols, and technical frameworks, and share insights from practical deployments and challenges. The tutorial concludes by identifying open research questions and future directions toward building trustworthy, safe, and regulation-ready generative AI systems.

Speaker: Jingjing Chen is now an associate professor at Fudan University. Before that, she was a postdoc research fellow at the School of Computing in National University of Singapore. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in July 2018. Her research interests include multimedia content analysis, computer vision, and multimedia model security. Dr. Chen won Best Student Paper Awards in ACM Multimedia 2016 and Multimedia Modeling 2017, and the Best Paper Award at the China Multimedia Conference 2022. Her work has led to many awards, including the 2023 IEEE Multimedia Rising Star Runner Up Award, and the 2024 ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award.

4. Jian Yang (16:00-17:00, Flame Mountain Hall)

Title: From Code Foundation Model to General Code Agents

Abstract : This tutorial explores the transformative shift from standalone code models to dynamic, tool-augmented code agents that revolutionize software development. By integrating large language models with compilers, debuggers, APIs, and other resources, these agents enhance developer workflows through intelligent automation and real-time feedback, as seen in AI-driven editors like Cursor and AI pair programmers like GitHub Copilot. We examine key advancements in tool invocation, agentic workflows, and frameworks that connect model outputs with execution environments, highlighting applications in automated software engineering and adaptive DevOps pipelines. Challenges such as reliability, tool dependencies, and computational overhead are addressed with solutions like fine-tuning and hybrid architectures. Emerging paradigms, such as cursor-centric agent frameworks, are discussed as vital for seamless human-agent collaboration. We conclude with open research directions, including agent specialization and human-agent interaction ethics, emphasizing the potential of code agents to democratize complex programming tasks and accelerate the transition from natural language specifications to robust, executable systems.

Speaker: Jian Yang is a researcher in Alibaba Group, Qwen team, where his primary research areas include multilingual natural language understanding and generation, pre-training and fine-tuning for large language model, software code understanding and generation, and software fuzzing. I have published multiple papers in top-tier conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, and WMT with over 6500+ citations on Google Scholar. During my Ph.D., I was deeply involved in academic-industrial collaboration, participating in a long-term joint Ph.D. program between Beihang University and Microsoft Research Asia. I won first place in three tracks of the multilingual translation competition at WMT 2021 (World Machine Translation, involving tens of thousands of translation directions). I have served as an Area Chair for conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and NeurIPS. During my tenure at Alibaba (as a member of the Alibaba Star Program), I was a core contributor to Qwen and QwenCoder, responsible for the code capabilities of the Qianwen model and the code-specific models CodeQwen1.5/Qwen2.5-Coder. I actively participate in open-source initiatives with the community and universities, including OpenCoder, RoleLLM, FullStackBench, SuperGPQA, YuE, TableBench, SimpleVQA, McEval, COIG-P, and AutoKaggle.

5. Jingyuan Sun (17:00-18:00, Flame Mountain Hall)

Title: Brain Encoding and Decoding with Computational Linguistics

Abstract : Computational linguistics (CL) has witnessed tremendous advancements in recent years, with models such as large language models demonstrating exceptional performance in various natural language processing tasks. These advancements highlight their potential in helping understand brain language processing, especially through the lens of brain encoding and decoding. Brain encoding involves the mapping of linguistic stimuli to brain activity, while brain decoding is the process of reconstructing linguistic stimuli from observed brain activities. CL models that excel at capturing and manipulating linguistic features are crucial for mapping linguistic stimuli to brain activities and vice versa. Brain encoding and decoding have vast applications, from enhancing human-computer interaction to developing assistive technologies for individuals with communication impairments. This tutorial will focus on elucidating how computational linguistics can facilitate brain encoding and decoding. We will delve into the principles and practices of using computational linguistics methods for brain encoding and decoding. We will also discuss the challenges and future directions of brain encoding and decoding. Through this tutorial, we aim to provide a comprehensive and informative overview of the intersection between computational linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, inspiring future research in this exciting and rapidly evolving field.

Speaker: Jingyuan Sun is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Computer Science, the University of Manchester. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he focused on exploring natural language processing models to predict and decipher human brain activity related to language understanding, as well as improving computational models taking inspiration from the human brain. During his postdoctoral research at KU Leuven funded by a Horizon 2020 project, Jingyuan continued and expanded upon this interdisciplinary work, transferring insights between AI foundation models and brain in language and visual representations. Currently, his research interests lie in seeking causal explanation for the behavioural and neural alignment between brain and AI systems in language processing, and building brain-inspired multimodal foundational models. He published papers in and served as senior PC members or reviewers for top venues in AI and neuroscience, including NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ACL, EMNLP and TNNLS etc.