About

I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, advised by Prof. Xiaolong Ma. Before that, I received my B.Eng. in Communication Engineering from UESTC in 2024.

My research sits at the intersection of Generative Models and Trustworthy AI.

You can reach me at kaiyuan0415@arizona.edu.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering · GPA 4.00/4.00 · advised by Prof. Xiaolong Ma
Aug 2025 – Present
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering · advised by Prof. Xiaolong Ma
Aug 2024 – Jul 2025
B.Eng. in Communication Engineering · GPA 3.83/4.00 · advised by Prof. Hong Qu
Sep 2020 – Jun 2024

Selected Publications

Forget-It-All: Multi-Concept Machine Unlearning via Concept-Aware Neuron Masking
Kaiyuan Deng, Bo Hui, Gen Li, Jie Ji, Minghai Qin, Geng Yuan, Xiaolong Ma
ICML 2026
Forget Many, Forget Right: Scalable and Precise Concept Unlearning in Diffusion Models
Kaiyuan Deng, Gen Li, Yang Xiao, Bo Hui, Xiaolong Ma
ICLR 2026

News

Paper Forget-It-All (FIA) accepted to ICML 2026.
2026
Paper ScaPre accepted to ICLR 2026.
2026
Life Started Ph.D. at the University of Arizona.
Aug 2025
Life Left Chengdu, the city I grew up in.
Jul 2024