Publications

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2026

NeurIPSOral

Strong Stochastic Flow Maps {S. McCallum, Z. W. Blasingame}^*, T. Herschell, N. Rindtorff, {A. Tong, J. Foster}^† Published at NeurIPS (2026)Oral[top 0.4% of submissions] Presented at ICML 2026 SPIGM workshop arxiv openreview code slides video pdf

@inproceedings{mccallum2026ssfm,
  title  = {Strong Stochastic Flow Maps},
  author = {McCallum, Sam and Blasingame, Zander W. and Herschell, Timothy and Rindtorff, Niklas and Tong, Alexander and Foster, James},
  booktitle = {The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year   = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=X0Bj1j4vbW}
}

NeurIPSWorkshop

Normalizing Flow Maps {F. M. Ruscio, T. J. Hitge}^*, Z. Peng, D. Rehman, Z. W. Blasingame, M. M. Bronstein, N. M. Boffi, {A. Tong, J. Bose}^† Presented at the NeurIPS 2026 STODY workshopOral openreview pdf

@inproceedings{
ruscio2026normalizing,
title={Normalizing Flow Maps},
author={Francesco M. Ruscio and Timothy James Hitge and Zhangzhi Peng and Danyal Rehman and Zander W. Blasingame and Michael M. Bronstein and Nicholas Matthew Boffi and Alexander Tong and Joey Bose},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics: From Theoretical Foundations to Scientific Applications},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=guBm2gNlxU}
}

NeurIPSWorkshop

Improved Training of Strong Stochastic Flow Maps Z. W. Blasingame, A. Franca, N. Rindtorff, A. Tong Presented at the NeurIPS 2026 STODY workshop openreview pdf

@inproceedings{
blasingame2026improved,
title={Improved Training of Strong Stochastic Flow Maps},
author={Zander W. Blasingame and Antonio Franca and Niklas Rindtorff and Alexander Tong},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics: From Theoretical Foundations to Scientific Applications},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=2NXYbZdxVt}
}

NeurIPSWorkshop

Global Transport Couplings for Classifier-Free Guided Flows K. Petrović, Z. W. Blasingame, D. Rehman, İ. İ. Ceylan, M. M. Bronstein, {S. Y. Zhang, L. Atanackovic, A. Tong}^† Presented at the NeurIPS 2026 STODY workshop arxiv openreview pdf

@inproceedings{
petrovic2026global,
title={Global Transport Couplings for Classifier-Free Guided Flows},
author={Katarina Petrovi{\'c} and Zander W. Blasingame and Danyal Rehman and {\.I}smail {\.I}lkan Ceylan and Michael M. Bronstein and Stephen Y. Zhang and Lazar Atanackovic and Alexander Tong},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on AI for Stochastic Dynamics: From Theoretical Foundations to Scientific Applications},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=djgrcr9T5Y}
}

ICMLOral

Rex: A Family of Reversible Exponential (Stochastic) Runge–Kutta Solvers Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at ICML (2026)Oral[top 0.7% of submissions] Presented at ICLR 2026 DeLTa and ReALM-GEN workshops arxiv openreview code website slides poster pdf

@inproceedings{blasingame2026rex,
  title     = {Rex: A Family of Reversible Exponential (Stochastic) Runge--Kutta Solvers},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {2026},
}

ICLRWorkshop

Stochastic Few-step Models R. Passaro, Z. W. Blasingame, M. M. Bronstein, A. Tong Presented at ICLR 2026 DeLTa and ReALM-GEN workshops openreview pdf

@inproceedings{passaro2026stochastic,
title={Stochastic Few-step Models},
author={Romeo Passaro and Zander W. Blasingame and Michael M. Bronstein and Alexander Tong},
booktitle={ICLR 2026 2nd Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=nmczKNW73P}
}

2025

NeurIPS

Greed is Good: A Unifying Perspective on Guided Generation Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at NeurIPS (2025) Presented at ICML 2025 EXAIT workshop and ICLR 2025 FPI workshop arxiv openreview slides poster pdf

@inproceedings{blasingame2025greed,
  title     = {Greed is Good: A Unifying Perspective on Guided Generation},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2025},
}

Ph.D. Thesis

On Guided and Reversible Solvers for Neural Differential Equations Z. W. Blasingame Clarkson University (2025) slides

@phdthesis{blasingame2025thesis,
  title  = {On Guided and Reversible Solvers for Neural Differential Equations},
  author = {Blasingame, Zander W.},
  school = {Clarkson University},
  year   = {2025},
}

ICLRWorkshop

A Reversible Solver for Diffusion SDEs Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Presented at ICLR 2025 DeLTa workshop arxiv openreview poster pdf

@inproceedings{blasingame2025reversible,
  title     = {A Reversible Solver for Diffusion {SDE}s},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {ICLR 2025 Workshop on Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy},
  year      = {2025},
}

HASP

Feasibility of Scalable Performance Counter Malware Detection Framework Using LightGBM C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame Published at HASP (2025)

@inproceedings{woralert2025feasibility,
  title     = {Feasibility of Scalable Performance Counter Malware Detection Framework Using LightGBM},
  author    = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP '25)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  pages     = {55--63},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.1145/3768725.3768735},
}

ASAP

Scalable Malware Detection Framework Using Performance Counters and Gradient Boosting C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame Published at IEEE ASAP (2025)

@inproceedings{woralert2025scalable,
  title     = {Scalable Malware Detection Framework Using Performance Counters and Gradient Boosting},
  author    = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE 36th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP)},
  pages     = {180--181},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.1109/ASAP65064.2025.00041},
}

IEEE MOST

Poster: Adapting Pretrained Vision Transformers with LoRA Against Attack Vectors R. E. Neddo, S. Willis, Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IEEE MOST (2025)

@inproceedings{neddo2025vit,
  title     = {Poster: Adapting Pretrained Vision Transformers with {LoRA} Against Attack Vectors},
  author    = {Neddo, Richard E. and Willis, Sean and Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST)},
  year      = {2025},
}

2024

NeurIPS

AdjointDEIS: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at NeurIPS (2024) Presented at NeurIPS - New Frontiers in Adversarial Machine Learning arxiv openreview code website slides poster pdf

@inproceedings{blasingame2024adjointdeis,
  title     = {Adjoint{DEIS}: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2024},
}

IJCBSpotlight

Greedy-DiM: Greedy Algorithms for Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IJCB (2024)Spotlight arxiv code website poster pdf

@inproceedings{blasingame2024greedydim,
  title     = {Greedy-DiM: Greedy Algorithms for Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
  pages     = {1--11},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/IJCB62174.2024.10744517},
}

IEEE TBIOM

Leveraging Diffusion for Strong and High Quality Face Morphing Attacks Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IEEE TBIOM (2024) Presented at IJCB (Oral) arxiv code website slides poster pdf

@article{blasingame2024dim,
  title   = {Leveraging Diffusion for Strong and High Quality Face Morphing Attacks},
  author  = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science},
  volume  = {6},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {118--131},
  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.1109/TBIOM.2024.3349857},
}

IEEE S&P

Fast-DiM: Towards Fast Diffusion Morphs Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IEEE Security & Privacy (2024) arxiv code website pdf

@article{blasingame2024fastdim,
  title   = {Fast-DiM: Towards Fast Diffusion Morphs},
  author  = {Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  journal = {IEEE Security \& Privacy},
  volume  = {22},
  number  = {4},
  pages   = {103--114},
  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.1109/MSEC.2024.3410112},
}

IJCB

The Impact of Print-Scanning in Heterogeneous Morph Evaluation Scenarios R. E. Neddo, Z. W. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IJCB (2024) arxiv poster pdf

@inproceedings{neddo2024printscan,
  title     = {The Impact of Print-Scanning in Heterogeneous Morph Evaluation Scenarios},
  author    = {Neddo, Richard E. and Blasingame, Zander W. and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
  pages     = {1--10},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1109/IJCB62174.2024.10744441},
}

HASP

Towards Effective Machine Learning Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-Level Hardware Information C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame Published at HASP (2024)

@inproceedings{woralert2024towards,
  title     = {Towards Effective Machine Learning Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-Level Hardware Information},
  author    = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP '24)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  pages     = {10--18},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.1145/3696843.3696847},
}

2023

IEEE TCAS-I

HARD-Lite: A Lightweight Hardware Anomaly Realtime Detection Framework Targeting Ransomware C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame Published at IEEE TCAS-I (2023)

@article{woralert2023hardlite,
  title   = {HARD-Lite: A Lightweight Hardware Anomaly Realtime Detection Framework Targeting Ransomware},
  author  = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers},
  volume  = {70},
  number  = {12},
  pages   = {5036--5047},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1109/TCSI.2023.3299532},
}

AsianHOSTOral

A Comparison of One-class and Two-class Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-level Hardware Information C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame, Z. Yang Published at AsianHOST (2023)Oral

@inproceedings{woralert2023comparison,
  title     = {A Comparison of One-class and Two-class Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-level Hardware Information},
  author    = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander and Yang, Zhiliu},
  booktitle = {2023 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)},
  pages     = {1--6},
  year      = {2023},
  doi       = {10.1109/AsianHOST59942.2023.10409333},
}

2022

AsianHOSTBest Paper Nominee

HARD-Lite: A Lightweight Hardware Anomaly Realtime Detection Framework Targeting Ransomware C. Woralert, C. Liu, Z. Blasingame Published at AsianHOST (2022)Best Paper Nominee

@inproceedings{woralert2022hardlite,
  title     = {HARD-Lite: A Lightweight Hardware Anomaly Realtime Detection Framework Targeting Ransomware},
  author    = {Woralert, Chutitep and Liu, Chen and Blasingame, Zander},
  booktitle = {2022 Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST)},
  pages     = {1--6},
  year      = {2022},
  doi       = {10.1109/AsianHOST56390.2022.10022111},
}

2021

IJCBOral

Leveraging Adversarial Learning for the Detection of Morphing Attacks Z. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at IJCB (2021)Oral slides

@inproceedings{blasingame2021leveraging,
  title     = {Leveraging Adversarial Learning for the Detection of Morphing Attacks},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
  pages     = {1--8},
  year      = {2021},
  doi       = {10.1109/IJCB52358.2021.9484383},
}

ICANNOral

Feature Creation Towards the Detection of Non-control-Flow Hijacking Attacks Z. Blasingame, C. Liu, X. Yao Published at ICANN (2021)Oral slides

@inproceedings{blasingame2021feature,
  title     = {Feature Creation Towards the Detection of Non-control-Flow Hijacking Attacks},
  author    = {Blasingame, Zander and Liu, Chen and Yao, Xin},
  booktitle = {Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning -- ICANN 2021},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  pages     = {153--164},
  year      = {2021},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-86362-3\_13},
}

2019

HASP

Detecting Non-Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks Using Contextual Execution Information G. Torres, Z. Yang, Z. Blasingame, J. Bruska, C. Liu Published at HASP (2019)

@inproceedings{torres2019detecting,
  title     = {Detecting Non-Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks Using Contextual Execution Information},
  author    = {Torres, Gildo and Yang, Zhiliu and Blasingame, Zander and Bruska, James and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP '19)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  articleno = {1},
  year      = {2019},
  doi       = {10.1145/3337167.3337168},
}

2018

RESEC

Detecting Data Exploits Using Low-Level Hardware Information: A Short Time Series Approach C. Liu, Z. Yang, Z. Blasingame, G. Torres, J. Bruska Published at RESEC (2018)

@inproceedings{liu2018detecting,
  title     = {Detecting Data Exploits Using Low-Level Hardware Information: A Short Time Series Approach},
  author    = {Liu, Chen and Yang, Zhiliu and Blasingame, Zander and Torres, Gildo and Bruska, James},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Radical and Experiential Security (RESEC '18)},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  pages     = {41--47},
  year      = {2018},
  doi       = {10.1145/3203422.3203433},
}

2017

SPIE

Verification of OpenSSL Version via Hardware Performance Counters J. Bruska, Z. Blasingame, C. Liu Published at SPIE Disruptive Technologies in Sensors and Sensor Systems (2017)

@inproceedings{bruska2017verification,
  title     = {Verification of OpenSSL version via hardware performance counters},
  author    = {Bruska, James and Blasingame, Zander and Liu, Chen},
  booktitle = {Disruptive Technologies in Sensors and Sensor Systems},
  volume    = {10206},
  pages     = {102060A},
  publisher = {SPIE},
  year      = {2017},
  doi       = {10.1117/12.2263029},
}