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Xiaocong Du

8 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Isolated Investor: Predicting Startup Success via Roleplay-Based Collective Agents

IJCAI 2026

Due to the high value and high failure rates of startups, predicting their success is a critical challenge. Existing approaches typically model startup success from a single decision-maker's perspective, overlooking the collective dynamics that dominate real-world venture capital (VC) decision-makin

Cited by 0Scholar
2025

MQuAKE-Remastered: Multi-Hop Knowledge Editing Can Only Be Advanced with Reliable Evaluations

ICLR 2025spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) can give out erroneous answers to factually rooted questions either as a result of undesired training outcomes or simply because the world has moved on after a certain knowledge cutoff date. Under such scenarios, *knowledge editing* often comes to the rescue by deliverin…

2025

Picturized and Recited with Dialects: A Multimodal Chinese Representation Framework for Sentiment Analysis of Classical Chinese Poetry

IJCAI 2025

Classical Chinese poetry is a vital and enduring part of Chinese literature, conveying profound emotional resonance. Existing studies analyze sentiment based on textual meanings, overlooking the unique rhythmic and visual features inherent in poetry,especially since it is often recited and accompani

2024

For the Misgendered Chinese in Gender Bias Research: Multi-Task Learning with Knowledge Distillation for Pinyin Name Gender Prediction

IJCAI 2024poster

Achieving gender equality is a pivotal factor in realizing the UN's Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Gender bias studies work towards this and rely on name-based gender inference tools to assign individual gender labels when gender information is unavailable. However, these tools often inac…

2024

Layer Compression of Deep Networks with Straight Flows

AAAI 2024technical

Very deep neural networks lead to significantly better performance on various real tasks. However, it usually causes slow inference and is hard to be deployed on real-world devices. How to reduce the number of layers to save memory and to accelerate the inference is an eye-catching topic. In thi…

2022

Future gradient descent for adapting the temporal shifting data distribution in online recommendation systems

UAI 2022poster

One of the key challenges of learning an online recommendation model is the temporal domain shift, which causes the mismatch between the training and testing data distribution and hence domain generalization error. To overcome, we propose to learn a meta future gradient generator that forecasts the…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

Harmless Transfer Learning for Item Embeddings

NAACL 2022findings

Learning embedding layers (for classes, words, items, etc.) is a key component of lots of applications, ranging from natural language processing, recommendation systems to electronic health records, etc. However, the frequency of real-world items follows a long-tail distribution in these application…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2020

Efficient and Modularized Training on FPGA for Real-time Applications

IJCAI 2020poster

Training of deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) requires a tremendous amount of computation and memory and thus, GPUs are widely used to meet the computation demands of these complex training tasks. However, lacking the flexibility to exploit architectural optimizations, GPUs have poor energy ef…