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Mingsong Chen

24 accepted papers

2026

Curvature-Aware Captioning: Leveraging Geodesic Attention for 3D Scene Understanding

CVPR 2026

Accurate 3D scene description is fundamental to robotic navigation and augmented reality, yet current dense captioning methods face significant limitations in processing sparse point cloud data.Existing approaches that apply Euclidean embedding spaces struggle to simultaneously preserve fine-grained

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Similarity-Guided Structural Matching Learning for Graph Dataset Condensation

IJCAI 2026

As graph repositories grow in scale and diversity, training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) becomes computationally demanding. However, existing graph condensation methods often fail to retain the intrinsic structural patterns of the original graphs, which are essential in graph-based learning. Therefo

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

TAMPO: Task- and Model-Aware Automatic Prompt Optimization for Robust and Controllable Auto-Routing in LLM-based Systems

ICML 2026poster

Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to adapt to specific tasks while minimizing manual engineering costs. However, since existing APO approaches either rely solely on multi-round iterative procedures or use model-specific generators tailored to optimizing prompts…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

A Novel Underwater Acoustic Signal Denoising Model Based on Complex Convolution Dual-branch Multi-scale Attention Network

ICASSP 2025accepted

With the rapid advancement of underwater target stealth technology, the development of efficient denoising and signal restoration techniques for ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) underwater acoustic target signals has become an urgent research priority. To address this challenge, this paper prop…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CE-FFT: Communication-Efficient Federated Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models via Quantization and In-Context Learning

ICASSP 2025accepted

Although Federated Fine-Tuning (FFT) facilitates the fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) across data owners without compromising their privacy, it suffers from severe communication overheads caused by numerous parameters of LLMs even with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods. To ad…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

EqGAN: Reformation-based Feature Equalization Fusion for Few-shot Image Generation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Due to the absence or mismatch of semantic information, existing few-shot image generation methods suffer from unsatisfactory generation quality and diversity, which have minimal benefits as data augmentation for downstream classification tasks. Reformatting the contextual and textural information o…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FiTGAN: Content Fusion with Style Transformation for Few-shot Image Generation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Due to the semantic entanglement in fusion strategies or unstable training in complicated image transformations, existing few-shot image generation methods still suffer from low generation quality and diversity. To tackle the above problems, we propose a novel fusion- and transformation-based framew…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

MultiSFL: Towards Accurate Split Federated Learning via Multi-Model Aggregation and Knowledge Replay

AAAI 2025technical

Although Split Federated Learning (SFL) effectively enables knowledge sharing among resource-constrained clients, it suffers from low training performance due to the neglect of data heterogeneity and catastrophic forgetting problems. To address these issues, we propose a novel SFL approach named Mu…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

PDDFormer: Pairwise Distance Distribution Graph Transformer for Crystal Material Property Prediction

IJCAI 2025

Crystal structures can be simplified as a periodic point set that repeats across three-dimensional space along an underlying lattice. Traditionally, crystal representation methods rely on descriptors such as lattice parameters, symmetry, and space groups to characterize the structure. However, in re

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

R2Det: Exploring Relaxed Rotation Equivariance in 2D Object Detection

ICLR 2025poster

Group Equivariant Convolution (GConv) empowers models to explore underlying symmetry in data, improving performance. However, real-world scenarios often deviate from ideal symmetric systems caused by physical permutation, characterized by non-trivial actions of a symmetry group, resulting in asymmet…

2025

Rising from Ashes: Generalized Federated Learning via Dynamic Parameter Reset

NeurIPS 2025poster

Although Federated Learning (FL) is promising in privacy-preserving collaborative model training, it faces low inference performance due to heterogeneous data among clients. Due to heterogeneous data in each client, FL training easily learns the specific overfitting features. Existing FL methods ad…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation

CVPR 2024poster

Few-shot image generation as an important yet challenging visual task still suffers from the trade-off between generation quality and diversity. According to the principle of feature-matching learning existing fusion-based methods usually fuse different features by using similarity measurements or a…

2024

FedMut: Generalized Federated Learning via Stochastic Mutation

AAAI 2024technical

Although Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing the raw data of clients, it encounters low-performance problems caused by various heterogeneous scenarios. Due to the limitation of dispatching the same global model to clients for local training, traditional Feder…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2024

Hyperbolic Graph Diffusion Model

AAAI 2024technical

Diffusion generative models (DMs) have achieved promising results in image and graph generation. However, real-world graphs, such as social networks, molecular graphs, and traffic graphs, generally share non-Euclidean topologies and hidden hierarchies. For example, the degree distributions of graphs…

2024

ProEqBEV: Product Group Equivariant BEV Network for 3D Object Detection in Road Scenes of Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2024poster

With the rapid development of autonomous driving systems, 3D object detection based on Bird’s Eye View (BEV) in road scenes has witnessed great progress over the past few years. As a road scene exhibits a part-whole hierarchy between the within objects and the scene itself, simple parts (e.g., roads…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2024

SampDetox: Black-box Backdoor Defense via Perturbation-based Sample Detoxification

NeurIPS 2024poster

The advancement of Machine Learning has enabled the widespread deployment of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) applications. However, the untrustworthy nature of third-party ML services poses backdoor threats. Existing defenses in MLaaS are limited by their reliance on training samples or white-…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Situation-Dependent Causal Influence-Based Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Learning to collaborate has witnessed significant progress in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). However, promoting coordination among agents and enhancing exploration capabilities remain challenges. In multi-agent environments, interactions between agents are limited in specific situations.…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Social Lode: Human Trajectory Prediction with Latent Odes

ICASSP 2024accepted

Human trajectory prediction is crucial in human-computer interaction and even in the safety of autonomous driving. In this work, A new method, called Social Latent Ordinary Differential Equation (Social LODE), is introduced for predicting human trajectories. The backbone of Social LODE consists of a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

WaveAttack: Asymmetric Frequency Obfuscation-based Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2024poster

Due to the increasing popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI), more and more backdoor attacks are designed to mislead Deep Neural Network (DNN) predictions by manipulating training samples or processes. Although backdoor attacks have been investigated in various scenarios, they still suffer from…

2023

InitLight: Initial Model Generation for Traffic Signal Control Using Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2023poster

Due to repetitive trial-and-error style interactions between agents and a fixed traffic environment during the policy learning, existing Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Traffic Signal Control (TSC) methods greatly suffer from long RL training time and poor adaptability of RL agents to other comple…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Eliminating Backdoor Triggers for Deep Neural Networks Using Attention Relation Graph Distillation

IJCAI 2022poster

Due to the prosperity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, more and more backdoors are designed by adversaries to attack Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Although the state-of-the-art method Neural Attention Distillation (NAD) can effectively erase backdoor triggers from DNNs, it still suffers fr…

2022

Geodesic Self-Attention for 3D Point Clouds

NeurIPS 2022accept

Due to the outstanding competence in capturing long-range relationships, self-attention mechanism has achieved remarkable progress in point cloud tasks. Nevertheless, point cloud object often has complex non-Euclidean spatial structures, with the behavior changing dynamically and unpredictably. Most…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

Learning Extremely Lightweight and Robust Model with Differentiable Constraints on Sparsity and Condition Number

ECCV 2022poster

"Learning lightweight and robust deep learning models is an enormous challenge for safety-critical devices with limited computing and memory resources, owing to robustness against adversarial attacks being proportional to network capacity. The community has extensively explored the integration of ad…