Xinyun Chen (陈 昕昀) Email: xinyun.chen at berkeley dot edu   Hi! I am a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Dawn Song. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from ACM Honored Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I was a research intern at Google Brain, working with Denny Zhou, Rishabh Singh, Petros Maniatis, and Charles Sutton; a research intern at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), working with Yuandong Tian; a research intern at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Dawn Song; and a visiting student at National Institute of Informatics, working with Prof. Helmut Prendinger. My research lies at the intersection of deep learning, programming languages, and security. Currently, I mainly focus on neural program synthesis and adversarial machine learning. I received the Facebook Fellowship in 2020.   Publications [Google Scholar] | Awards | Education | Talks | Services | Teaching | Misc.

[Call for Papers] I am co-organizing the Workshop on Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems at ICLR 2021. Please submit your papers here and win the best paper award and/or travel grants!

[Call for Participation] I am co-organizing the Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Computer Vision Systems and Online Challenges at CVPR 2021. Please participate in the challenges here and/or submit your papers here and win the prizes!

Publications

• REFIT: a Unified Watermark Removal Framework for Deep Learning Systems with Limited Data

  Xinyun Chen*, Wenxiao Wang*, Chris Bender, Yiming Ding, Ruoxi Jia, Bo Li, Dawn Song. (* Equal contribution)

  ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2021.




• Understanding Robustness in Teacher-Student Setting: A New Perspective

  Zhuolin Yang*, Zhaoxi Chen, Tiffany (Tianhui) Cai, Xinyun Chen, Bo Li, Yuandong Tian*. (* Equal contribution)

  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2021.




• SpreadsheetCoder: Formula Prediction from Semi-structured Context

  Xinyun Chen, Petros Maniatis, Rishabh Singh, Charles Sutton, Hanjun Dai, Max Lin, Denny Zhou.




• Dataset Security for Machine Learning: Data Poisoning, Backdoor Attacks, and Defenses

  Micah Goldblum, Dimitris Tsipras, Chulin Xie, Xinyun Chen, Avi Schwarzschild, Dawn Song, Aleksander Madry, Bo Li, Tom Goldstein.




• Compositional Generalization via Neural-Symbolic Stack Machines

  Xinyun Chen, Chen Liang, Adams Wei Yu, Dawn Song, Denny Zhou.

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.




• Synthesize, Execute and Debug: Learning to Repair for Neural Program Synthesis

  Kavi Gupta, Peter Ebert Christensen*, Xinyun Chen*, Dawn Song. (* Equal contribution)

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.




• Spatiotemporal Attacks for Embodied Agents

  Aishan Liu, Tairan Huang, Xianglong Liu, Yitao Xu, Yuqing Ma, Xinyun Chen, Stephen Maybank, Dacheng Tao.

  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.




• Classifying Perturbation Types for Robustness Against Multiple Adversarial Perturbations

  Pratyush Maini, Xinyun Chen, Bo Li, Dawn Song.

  ICML Workshop on Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning, 2020.




• Neural Symbolic Reader: Scalable Integration of Distributed and Symbolic Representations for Reading Comprehension

  Xinyun Chen, Chen Liang, Adams Wei Yu, Denny Zhou, Dawn Song, Quoc V. Le.

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020. (Spotlight)




• Deep Symbolic Superoptimization Without Human Knowledge

  Hui Shi, Yang Zhang, Xinyun Chen, Yuandong Tian, Jishen Zhao.

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020.




• Learning to Perform Local Rewriting for Combinatorial Optimization

  Xinyun Chen, Yuandong Tian.

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.




• Coda: An End-to-End Neural Program Decompiler

  Cheng Fu, Huili Chen, Haolan Liu, Xinyun Chen, Yuandong Tian, Farinaz Koushanfar, Jishen Zhao.

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.




• Execution-Guided Neural Program Synthesis

  Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Dawn Song.

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2019.




• Tree-to-tree Neural Networks for Program Translation

  Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Dawn Song.

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018.

   




• Fooling Vision and Language Models Despite Localization and Attention Mechanism

  Xiaojun Xu, Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Anna Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, Dawn Song.

  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018




• Towards Synthesizing Complex Programs from Input-Output Examples

  Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Dawn Song.

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2018.




• Targeted Backdoor Attacks on Deep Learning Systems Using Data Poisoning

  Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Bo Li, Kimberly Lu, Dawn Song.

  Media coverage: Motherboard | The Register




• Adversarial Example Defenses: Ensembles of Weak Defenses are not Strong

  Warren He, James Wei, Xinyun Chen, Nicholas Carlini, Dawn Song.

  USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), 2017.




• Delving into Transferable Adversarial Examples and Black-box Attacks

  Yanpei Liu, Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, and Dawn Song.

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2017.




• A General Retraining Framework for Scalable Adversarial Classification

  Bo Li, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Xinyun Chen.

  NeurIPS Workshop on Adversarial Training, 2016.




• Latent Attention For If-Then Program Synthesis

  Xinyun Chen, Chang Liu, Richard Shin, Dawn Song, Mingcheng Chen.

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2016.

Honors and Awards

• Rising Stars in EECS, 2020.

• Facebook Fellowship, 2020.

• Departmental Fellowship of EECS, UC Berkeley, 2017.

• The Prize of Excellent Bachelor Thesis (top 1% in Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2017.

• Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2017.

• Gold Medal of Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad in China District, 2012.

• Silver Medal of Chinese Team Selection Contest, 2012.

Education

• Aug 2017 - Present: Ph.D., Computer Science, UC Berkeley. Advisor: Prof. Dawn Song.

• Sep 2013 - Jun 2017: B.S., ACM Honored Class, Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Rank: 1/30.

Talks

• March 2021: Neural-Symbolic Reasoning for Language Understanding, Keynote speech at WSDM Workshop on Machine Reasoning.

• Dec 2020: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis from Input-Output Examples, NeurIPS Workshop on Computer-Assisted Programming.

• June 2020: Neural Program Synthesis for Navigation and Language Understanding, CVPR Tutorial on Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning and Program Synthesis.

• April 2020: Learning to Perform Local Rewriting for Combinatorial Optimization, Google.

• Feb 2020: Neural-Symbolic Reader for Reading Comprehension, Google, Mountain View.

• Jan 2020: Learning to Perform Local Rewriting in Discrete Search Spaces, Alibaba Group, Sunnyvale.

• Oct 2019: Neural Program Synthesis from Natural Language Specification, Open Virtual Assistant Lab, Stanford University.

• Feb 2019: Neural Program Synthesis from Input-Output Examples, UC San Diego.

• Nov 2018: Towards Synthesizing Complex Programs from Input-Output Examples, guest lecture in CS294-157: Deep Learning and Program Synthesis.

• Oct 2018: Neural Program Synthesis from Input-Output Examples, Facebook Big Code Summit.

• May 2018: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis, guest lecture in CS379C: Computational Models of the Neocortex, Stanford University.

Services

• Co-organizer of the Workshop on Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems at ICLR 2021.

• Co-organizer of the Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Real-World Computer Vision Systems and Online Challenges at CVPR 2021.

• Co-organizer of the Tutorial on Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision at CVPR 2021.

• Co-organizer of the Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision at CVPR 2020.

• Program Committee / Reviewer of: IJCAI (senior PC in 2021), NeurIPS (top 10% reviewers in 2020), ICML (expert reviewer in 2021), ICLR, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ECCV, IJCV, TIFS, TDSC.

Teaching

• Graduate Student Instructor of CS 188: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Spring 2021, UC Berkeley.

Miscellaneous

In my spare time, I enjoy listening to all kinds of music. I have played the piano since kindergarten, and received the highest-level certificates of piano and music theory in China. I used to play some other instruments, including recorder and harmonica.