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Caihua Shan

16 accepted papers

2026

Kuramoto Oscillatory Phase Encoding: Neuro-inspired Synchronization for Improved Learning Efficiency

ICML 2026poster

Spatiotemporal neural dynamics and oscillatory synchronization are widely implicated in biological information processing and have been hypothesized to support flexible coordination such as feature binding. By contrast, most deep learning architectures represent and propagate information through act…

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2026

VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL

ICLR 2026poster

With the rapid advancement of AI-generated videos, there is an urgent need for effective detection tools to mitigate societal risks such as misinformation and reputational harm. In addition to accurate classification, it is essential that detection models provide interpretable explanations to ensure…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Chain-of-Model Learning for Language Model

NeurIPS 2025poster

In this paper, we propose a novel learning paradigm, termed *Chain-of-Model* (CoM), which incorporates the causal relationship into the hidden states of each layer as a chain style. thereby introducing great scaling efficiency in model training and inference flexibility in deployment.We introduce th…

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2025

How Do Large Language Models Understand Graph Patterns? A Benchmark for Graph Pattern Comprehension

ICLR 2025poster

Benchmarking the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in graph-related tasks is becoming an increasingly popular and crucial area of research. Recent studies have shown that LLMs exhibit a preliminary ability to understand graph structures and node features. However, the pote…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

Omni-DNA: A Genomic Model Supporting Sequence Understanding, Long-context, and Textual Annotation

NeurIPS 2025poster

The interpretation of genomic sequences is crucial for understanding biological processes. To handle the growing volume of DNA sequence data, Genomic Foundation Models (GFMs) have been developed by adapting architectures and training paradigms from Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their remarka…

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2025

Towards Graph Foundation Models: Training on Knowledge Graphs Enables Transferability to General Graphs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Inspired by the success of large language models, there is a trend toward developing graph foundation models to conduct diverse downstream tasks in various domains. However, current models often require extra fine-tuning to apply their learned structural and semantic representations to new graphs, w…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

When Do LLMs Help With Node Classification? A Comprehensive Analysis

ICML 2025poster

Node classification is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with broad applications across various fields. Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled LLM-based approaches for this task. Although many studies demonstrate the impressive performance of LLM-based methods, the lac…

2024

Can Graph Learning Improve Planning in LLM-based Agents?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Task planning in language agents is emerging as an important research topic alongside the development of large language models (LLMs). It aims to break down complex user requests in natural language into solvable sub-tasks, thereby fulfilling the original requests. In this context, the sub-tasks can…

2024

Training-free Multi-objective Diffusion Model for 3D Molecule Generation

ICLR 2024poster

Searching for novel and diverse molecular candidates is a critical undertaking in drug and material discovery. Existing approaches have successfully adapted the diffusion model, the most effective generative model in image generation, to create 1D SMILES strings, 2D chemical graphs, or 3D molecular…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2023

CircuitNet: A Generic Neural Network to Realize Universal Circuit Motif Modeling

ICML 2023poster

The successes of artificial neural networks (ANNs) are largely attributed to mimicking the human brain structures. Recent advances in neuroscience revealed that neurons interact with each other through various kinds of connectivity patterns to process information, in which the common connectivity pa…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Explaining Temporal Graph Models through an Explorer-Navigator Framework

ICLR 2023poster

While GNN explanation has recently received significant attention, existing works are consistently designed for static graphs. Due to the prevalence of temporal graphs, many temporal graph models have been proposed, but explaining their predictions remains to be explored. To bridge the gap, in this…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning Decomposed Spatial Relations for Multi-Variate Time-Series Modeling

AAAI 2023technical

Modeling multi-variate time-series (MVTS) data is a long-standing research subject and has found wide applications. Recently, there is a surge of interest in modeling spatial relations between variables as graphs, i.e., first learning one static graph for each dataset and then exploiting the graph s…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2022

Finding Global Homophily in Graph Neural Networks When Meeting Heterophily

ICML 2022spotlight

We investigate graph neural networks on graphs with heterophily. Some existing methods amplify a node’s neighborhood with multi-hop neighbors to include more nodes with homophily. However, it is a significant challenge to set personalized neighborhood sizes for different nodes. Further, for other ho…

2022

RendNet: Unified 2D/3D Recognizer With Latent Space Rendering

CVPR 2022oral

Vector graphics (VG) have been ubiquitous in our daily life with vast applications in engineering, architecture, designs, etc. The VG recognition process of most existing methods is to first render the VG into raster graphics (RG) and then conduct recognition based on RG formats. However, this proce…

Cited by 4PDFScholar
2021

Recognizing Vector Graphics without Rasterization

NeurIPS 2021poster

In this paper, we consider a different data format for images: vector graphics. In contrast to raster graphics which are widely used in image recognition, vector graphics can be scaled up or down into any resolution without aliasing or information loss, due to the analytic representation of the prim…

2021

Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Explainer for Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2021poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as revolutionary technologies for machine learning tasks on graphs. In GNNs, the graph structure is generally incorporated with node representation via the message passing scheme, making the explanation much more challenging. Given a trained GNN mod…

Cited by 81SourcePDFScholar