I am a PhD student at Beihang University, supervised by Prof. Xianglong Liu. My research focuses on the alignment of foundation models (LLMs/LVLMs), with a specific interest in inference-time interventions such as activation steering and knowledge editing. I am currently seeking internship opportunities to apply my research to real-world challenges. I am driven by the belief that advanced AI should not only push the boundaries of technology but also bring tangible convenience and positive impact to people’s daily lives.

🔥 News

  • 2026.05:  🎉🎉 One first-author paper is accepted by ICML 2026.
  • 2026.04:  🎉🎉 I am awarded the Bronze Medal in the Artificial Intelligence Track of the Autel Physical AI Challenge.
  • 2026.02:  🎉🎉 One first-author paper is accepted by ICLR 2026.
  • 2026.01:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by WWW 2026.

📝 Publications

2026

ICML 2026
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MEDA: Medical-Oriented Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in Medical Large Vision-Language Model

Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Lingyan Meng, Zhange Zhang, Kewei Liao, Jian Yang, Simin Li, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes MEDA, the first efficient activation editing paradigm tailored to medical scenarios, which steers LVLMs toward medically grounded expertise for mitigating hallucination.
ICLR 2026
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AFTER: Mitigating the Object Hallucination of LVLM via Adaptive Factual-Guided Activation Editing

Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Kewei Liao, Zhange Zhang, Simin Li, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes AFTER, a novel adaptive factual-guided activation editing approach to mitigate object hallucinations and language bias in Large Vision-Language Models.
AAAI 2026
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Query-Routed Activation Editing with Truth-hierarchical Preference Optimization

Kewei Liao*, Tianbo Wang*(Equal Contribution), Yuqing Ma, Zhange Zhang, Zhicheng Geng, Xiaowei Zhao, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes QRAE, a novel query-routed activation editing framework to leverage query-specific semantics for adaptive hallucination mitigation in LLMs.
WWW 2026
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CASE: Conflict-assessed Knowledge-sensitive Neuron Tuning for Lifelong Model Editing

Zhange Zhang, Yuqing Ma, Yulong Wang, Tianbo Wang, Jiakai Wang, Simin Li, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes CASE, a novel conflict-assessed knowledge-sensitive neuron tuning approach to address subspace allocation issues and editing conflicts in lifelong model editing.

2025

EMNLP 2025 Oral
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Token-Aware Editing of Internal Activations for Large Language Model Alignment

Tianbo Wang, Yuqing Ma, Kewei Liao, Chengzhao Yang, Zhange Zhang, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes TAE, a novel token-aware activation editing approach to utilize token-level alignment information for superior inference-time behavior mitigation in LLMs.
SCIS 2025
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Towards Universal X-ray Security Inspection: A Benchmark and Stereoscopic-Aware Oriented Prohibited Item Detection Framework

Tianbo Wang, Kewei Liao, Zhange Zhang, Yuqing Ma, Hongping Zhi, Aishan Liu, Ruihao Gong, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes SWEAR, a novel stereoscopic-aware oriented detection framework to suppress background interference and improve prohibited item detection in oriented X-ray security inspection.
NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
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Conflict-Aware Knowledge Editing in the Wild: Semantic-Augmented Graph Representation for Unstructured Text

Zhange Zhang, Zhicheng Geng, Yuqing Ma, Tianbo Wang, Kai Lv, Xianglong Liu

[Github]

  • This paper proposes CAKE, a novel conflict-aware knowledge editing framework to enable precise knowledge extraction and refinement from wild unstructured text in LLMs.
ACL 2025
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Lexical Diversity-aware Relevance Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhange Zhang, Yuqing Ma, Yulong Wang, Shan He, Tianbo Wang, Siqi He, Jiakai Wang, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes DRAG, a novel lexical diversity-aware relevance assessment method to achieve granular relevance analysis and improve document retrieval precision in RAG systems.

Early Publication

ACM MM 2022
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Few-shot X-ray Prohibited Item Detection: A Benchmark and Weak-feature Enhancement Network

Renshuai Tao, Tianbo Wang, Ziyang Wu, Cong Liu, Aishan Liu, Xianglong Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes WEN, a novel weak-feature enhancement network to overcome performance degradation caused by occlusion and color fading in few-shot X-ray prohibited item detection.
CVPR 2022
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Exploring Endogenous Shift for Cross-domain Detection: A Large-scale Benchmark and Perturbation Suppression Network

Renshuai Tao, Hainan Li, Tianbo Wang, Yanlu Wei, Yifu Ding, Bowei Jin, Hongping Zhi, Xianglong Liu, Aishan Liu

Github

  • This paper proposes PSN, a novel perturbation suppression network to handle endogenous domain shifts caused by intrinsic imaging mechanisms in cross-domain object detection.

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2026.04 Bronze Medal of Autel Artificial Intelligence Competition.
  • 2024.10 Outstanding Student Award of Beihang University.
  • 2022.06 Excellent Graduate of Beihang University.

📖 Educations

  • 2022.09 - now, PhD student, Beihang University.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergrad student, Beihang University.