Zhejiang University VIPA Lab

Anda Cao

PhD Student · Computer Science

I am a PhD student at the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, working in the VIPA Lab co-advised by Prof. Mingli Song and Prof. Jie Song. My research interests lie in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Model Merging — with a focus on developing efficient and effective methods for combining multiple fine-tuned models, particularly for multi-task learning scenarios.

Anda Cao
Hangzhou, China

Ideas & publications

Selected research

All publications
  1. Figure from Evolutionary Negative Module Pruning for Better LoRA Merging

    ACL · 2026

    Evolutionary Negative Module Pruning for Better LoRA Merging

    Anda Cao, Zhuo Gou, Yi Wang, Kaixuan Chen, Yu Wang, Can Wang, Mingli Song, Jie Song

    arXiv
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{cao2026evolutionary,
  preview = {enmp-framework.png},
  arxiv = {2604.17753},
  abbr = {ACL},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Evolutionary Negative Module Pruning for Better {LoRA} Merging},
  author = {Cao, Anda and Gou, Zhuo and Wang, Yi and Chen, Kaixuan and Wang, Yu and Wang, Can and Song, Mingli and Song, Jie},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
  year = {2026},
  selected = {true}
}
  2. Figure from Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models

    NAACL · 2025

    Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models

    Jiachen Ma, Yijiang Li, Zhiqing Xiao, Anda Cao, Jie Zhang, Chao Ye, Junbo Zhao

    Paper arXiv
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{ma2025jailbreaking,
  preview = {jpa-method.png},
  arxiv = {2404.02928},
  abbr = {NAACL},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Jailbreaking Prompt Attack: A Controllable Adversarial Attack against Diffusion Models},
  author = {Ma, Jiachen and Li, Yijiang and Xiao, Zhiqing and Cao, Anda and Zhang, Jie and Ye, Chao and Zhao, Junbo},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {3141--3157},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.172},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-naacl.172/},
  selected = {true}
}
  3. Figure from Vision Mamba Mender

    NeurIPS · 2024

    Vision Mamba Mender

    Jiacong Hu, Anda Cao, Zunlei Feng, Shengxuming Zhang, Yi Wang, Lingxiang Jia, Mingli Song

    Paper
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{hu2024visionmamba,
  preview = {mamba-comparison.png},
  abbr = {NeurIPS},
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Vision Mamba Mender},
  author = {Hu, Jiacong and Cao, Anda and Feng, Zunlei and Zhang, Shengxuming and Wang, Yi and Jia, Lingxiang and Song, Mingli},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {37},
  doi = {10.52202/079017-1645},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/hash/5ce377d14a21ef1fea0400049ad324b4-Abstract-Conference.html},
  selected = {true}
}

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science Zhejiang University (2024 – present), co-advised by Prof. Mingli Song and Prof. Jie Song
  • M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Zhejiang University, School of Software Technology (2022 – 2024), VIPA Lab, advised by Prof. Mingli Song
  • B.E. in Intelligent Science and Technology Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Qixin Honors School (2018 – 2022)

Beyond research

  • ACM-ICPC Asia Regional · Silver Medal Team Leader · Jinan, 2020
  • AFAC Financial Intelligence Challenge · 3rd Place Team Leader · 2023

All honors ↗

Academic service

  • Reviewer: NeurIPS, ACL, JVCI