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Lingxiao Zhao

11 accepted papers

2025

T-REG: Preference Optimization with Token-Level Reward Regularization

ACL 2025long

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been pivotal in enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively follow instructions and produce meaningful alignment by leveraging human preference data. Traditionally, RLHF involves generating responses to a query and using a separate rewar…

2024

Improving Multilingual Instruction Finetuning via Linguistically Natural and Diverse Datasets

EMNLP 2024finding

Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced instruction-following capabilities. However, most Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) datasets are predominantly in English, limiting model performance in other languages. Traditional methods for creating multilingual IFT datasets—su…

2024

On the Expressive Power of Spectral Invariant Graph Neural Networks

ICML 2024poster

Incorporating spectral information to enhance Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has shown promising results but raises a fundamental challenge due to the inherent ambiguity of eigenvectors. Various architectures have been proposed to address this ambiguity, referred to as spectral invariant architectures…

2024

Pard: Permutation-Invariant Autoregressive Diffusion for Graph Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Graph generation has been dominated by autoregressive models due to their simplicity and effectiveness, despite their sensitivity to ordering. Yet diffusion models have garnered increasing attention, as they offer comparable performance while being permutation-invariant. Current graph diffusion mode…

2023

Sign and Basis Invariant Networks for Spectral Graph Representation Learning

ICLR 2023top-25%

We introduce SignNet and BasisNet---new neural architectures that are invariant to two key symmetries displayed by eigenvectors: (i) sign flips, since if v is an eigenvector then so is -v; and (ii) more general basis symmetries, which occur in higher dimensional eigenspaces with infinitely many choi…

2022

From Stars to Subgraphs: Uplifting Any GNN with Local Structure Awareness

ICLR 2022poster

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are a common type of Graph Neural Network (GNN), in which each node’s representation is computed recursively by aggregating representations (“messages”) from its immediate neighbors akin to a star-shaped pattern. MPNNs are appealing for being efficient and sca…

2022

Graph Condensation for Graph Neural Networks

ICLR 2022poster

Given the prevalence of large-scale graphs in real-world applications, the storage and time for training neural models have raised increasing concerns. To alleviate the concerns, we propose and study the problem of graph condensation for graph neural networks (GNNs). Specifically, we aim to condens…

2022

Hyperparameter Sensitivity in Deep Outlier Detection: Analysis and a Scalable Hyper-Ensemble Solution

NeurIPS 2022accept

Outlier detection (OD) literature exhibits numerous algorithms as it applies to diverse domains. However, given a new detection task, it is unclear how to choose an algorithm to use, nor how to set its hyperparameter(s) (HPs) in unsupervised settings. HP tuning is an ever-growing problem with the ar…

2020

Beyond Homophily in Graph Neural Networks: Current Limitations and Effective Designs

NeurIPS 2020poster

We investigate the representation power of graph neural networks in the semi-supervised node classification task under heterophily or low homophily, i.e., in networks where connected nodes may have different class labels and dissimilar features. Many popular GNNs fail to generalize to this setting,…