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Conference Papers

1. CVPR'2026 Few-for-Many Personalized Federated Learning
   Ping Guo, Tiantian Zhang, Xi Lin, Xiang Li, Zhi-Ri Tang, Qingfu Zhang
2. AAAI'2026 CoEvo: Continual Evolution of Symbolic Solutions Using Large Language Models
   Ping Guo, Qingfu Zhang, Xi Lin arXiv Code
3. CVPR'2025 MOS-Attack: A Scalable Multi-Objective Adversarial Attack Framework
   Ping Guo, Cheng Gong, Xi Lin, Fei Liu, Zhichao Lu, Qingfu Zhang, Zhenkun Wang PDF Code DOI
4. NeurIPS'2025 SymRTLO: Enhancing RTL Code Optimization with LLMs and Neuron-Inspired Symbolic Reasoning
   Yiting Wang†, Wanghao Ye†, Ping Guo†, Yexiao He†, Ziyao Wang, Bowei Tian, Shwai He, Guoheng Sun, Zheyu Shen, Sihan Chen, Ankur Srivastava, Qingfu Zhang, Gang Qu, Ang Li arXiv Code
5. GECCO'2025 Performance Comparison between Evolutionary Algorithms and Linear Programming-based Relaxation Methods for Multi-Objective Knapsack Problems
   Cheng Gong, Ping Guo, Lie Meng Pang, Qingfu Zhang, Hisao Ishibuchi
6. CEC'2025 Population Initialization for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization: A Short Review
   Cheng Gong, Ping Guo, Lie Meng Pang, Qingfu Zhang, Hisao Ishibuchi
7. NTCI'2025 Control of Multi-Zone HVAC Systems via Neurodynamic Optimization
   Yanghe Zou, Ping Guo, Zhongying Chen
8. GECCO'2024 L-AutoDA: Large Language Models for Automatically Evolving Decision-based Adversarial Attacks
   Ping Guo, Fei Liu, Xi Lin, Qingchuan Zhao, Qingfu Zhang Code DOI
9. PPSN'2024 LTR-HSS: A Learning-to-Rank Based Framework for Hypervolume Subset Selection
   Cheng Gong, Ping Guo, Tianye Shu, Qingfu Zhang, Hisao Ishibuchi DOI
10. EMO'2023 Approximation of a Pareto Set Segment Using a Linear Model with Sharing Variables
    Ping Guo, Qingfu Zhang, Xi Lin DOI
11. USENIX Security'2021 Stars Can Tell: A Robust Method to Defend against GPS Spoofing Attacks using Off-the-shelf Chipset
    Shinan Liu, Xiang Cheng, Hanchao Yang, Yuanchao Shu, Xiaoran Weng, Ping Guo, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Gang Wang, Yaling Yang Link

Journal Articles

1. Expert Syst. Appl. A Historical Search-Guided Evolutionary Framework for Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization
   Qingling Zhu, Jiahao Fu, Ping Guo, Qiuzhen Lin, Ka-Chun Wong, Jianqiang Li
2. IEEE TETCI Exploring the Adversarial Frontier: Quantifying Robustness via Adversarial Hypervolume
   Ping Guo, Cheng Gong, Xi Lin, Zhiyuan Yang, Qingfu Zhang PDF DOI
3. IEEE TBD EvoVerilog: Large Language Model Assisted Evolution of Verilog Code
   Ping Guo†, Yiting Wang†, Wanghao Ye, Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Xiaopeng Dai, Ang Li, Qingfu Zhang arXiv
4. IEEE TBD PuriDefense: Randomized Local Implicit Adversarial Purification for Defending Black-box Query-based Attacks
   Ping Guo, Xiang Li, Xi Lin, Zhongying Chen, Qingchuan Zhao, Sheng Zheng, Chaoning Zhang, Qingfu Zhang arXiv
5. ACM Comput. Surv. A Systematic Survey on Large Language Models for Algorithm Design
   Fei Liu, Yiming Yao, Ping Guo, Zhiyuan Yang, Xi Lin, Zhe Zhao, Xialiang Tong, Kun Mao, Zhichao Lu, Zhenkun Wang, Mingxuan Yuan, Qingfu Zhang arXiv
6. IEEE TEVC DPP-HSS: Towards Fast and Scalable Hypervolume Subset Selection for Many-objective Optimization
   Cheng Gong, Yang Nan, Ke Shang, Ping Guo, Hisao Ishibuchi, Qingfu Zhang DOI
7. IEEE TBD EvoEngineer: Mastering Automated CUDA Kernel Code Evolution with Large Language Models
   Ping Guo, Chenyu Zhu, Siyuan Chen, Fei Liu, Xi Lin, Zhichao Lu, Kuien Liu, Chaoning Zhang, Qingfu Zhang arXiv

Preprints & Under Review

1. Preprint LLM4AD: A Platform for Algorithm Design with Large Language Model
   Fei Liu, Rui Zhang, Zhuoliang Xie, Rui Sun, Kai Li, Qinglong Hu, Ping Guo, Xi Lin, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan, Zhenkun Wang, Zhichao Lu, Qingfu Zhang
2. Preprint Code Evolution for Control: Synthesizing Policies via LLM-Driven Evolutionary Search
   Ping Guo, Chao Li, Yinglan Feng, Chaoning Zhang
3. Preprint Quality-Diversity Optimization as Multi-Objective Optimization
   Xi Lin†, Ping Guo†, Yilu Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Jianyong Sun arXiv