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Mingxuan Ju

13 accepted papers

2026

Plain Transformers are Surprisingly Powerful Link Predictors

ICML 2026poster

Link prediction is a core challenge in graph machine learning, demanding models that capture rich and complex topological dependencies. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the standard solution, state-of-the-art pipelines often rely on explicit structural heuristics or memory-intensive node embed…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

A Pre-training Framework for Relational Data with Information-theoretic Principles

NeurIPS 2025poster

Relational databases underpin critical infrastructure across a wide range of domains, yet the design of generalizable pre-training strategies for learning from relational databases remains an open challenge due to task heterogeneity. Specifically, there exist many possible downstream tasks, as tasks…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Learning Along the Arrow of Time: Hyperbolic Geometry for Backward-Compatible Representation Learning

ICML 2025poster

Backward compatible representation learning enables updated models to integrate seamlessly with existing ones, avoiding to reprocess stored data. Despite recent advances, existing compatibility approaches in Euclidean space neglect the uncertainty in the old embedding models and force the new model…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

From Coarse to Fine: Enable Comprehensive Graph Self-supervised Learning with Multi-granular Semantic Ensemble

ICML 2024oral

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has gained increasing attention in the graph learning community, owing to its capability of enabling powerful models pre-trained on large unlabeled graphs for general purposes, facilitating quick adaptation to specific domains. Though promising, existing graph SSL fram…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

How Does Message Passing Improve Collaborative Filtering?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Collaborative filtering (CF) has exhibited prominent results for recommender systems and been broadly utilized for real-world applications. A branch of research enhances CF methods by message passing (MP) used in graph neural networks, due to its strong capabilities of extracting knowledge from grap…

2023

Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization

ICLR 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of graph learning tasks, however, it has been demonstrated that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising serious security concerns. A lot of studies have been developed to train GNNs in a noisy environment an…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2023

Generate rather than Retrieve: Large Language Models are Strong Context Generators

ICLR 2023poster

Knowledge-intensive tasks, such as open-domain question answering (QA), require access to a large amount of world or domain knowledge. A common approach for knowledge-intensive tasks is to employ a retrieve-then-read pipeline that first retrieves a handful of relevant contextual documents from an ex…

2023

GraphPatcher: Mitigating Degree Bias for Graph Neural Networks via Test-time Augmentation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) exhibit strong biases towards the node degree: they usually perform satisfactorily on high-degree nodes with rich neighbor information but struggle with low-degree nodes. Existing works tackle this problem by deriving either designated GNN…

2023

Let Graph Be the Go Board: Gradient-Free Node Injection Attack for Graph Neural Networks via Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2023technical

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have drawn significant attentions over the years and been broadly applied to essential applications requiring solid robustness or vigorous security standards, such as product recommendation and user behavior modeling. Under these scenarios, exploiting GNN's vulnerabiliti…

2023

Multi-task Self-supervised Graph Neural Networks Enable Stronger Task Generalization

ICLR 2023poster

Self-supervised learning (SSL) for graph neural networks (GNNs) has attracted increasing attention from the graph machine learning community in recent years, owing to its capability to learn performant node embeddings without costly label information. One weakness of conventional SSL frameworks for…

2022

Adaptive Kernel Graph Neural Network

AAAI 2022technical

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated great success in representation learning for graph-structured data. The layer-wise graph convolution in GNNs is shown to be powerful at capturing graph topology. During this process, GNNs are usually guided by pre-defined kernels such as Laplacian matri…

2022

Grape: Knowledge Graph Enhanced Passage Reader for Open-domain Question Answering

EMNLP 2022finding

A common thread of open-domain question answering (QA) models employs a retriever-reader pipeline that first retrieves a handful of relevant passages from Wikipedia and then peruses the passages to produce an answer. However, even state-of-the-art readers fail to capture the complex relationships be…

2021

Disentangled Representation Learning in Heterogeneous Information Network for Large-scale Android Malware Detection in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond

AAAI 2021technical

In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many social activities have moved online; society's overwhelming reliance on the complex cyberspace makes its security more important than ever. In this paper, we propose and develop an intelligent system named Dr.HIN to protect users against the evolving…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar