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Xiaoyang Wang

45 accepted papers

2026

DHG-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Hypergraph Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Deep graph models have achieved great success in network representation learning. However, their focus on pairwise relationships restricts their ability to learn pervasive higher-order interactions in real-world systems, which can be naturally modeled as hypergraphs. To tackle this issue, Hypergraph…

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2026

EntRAG: Entity-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

ICML 2026poster

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) remains a challenging task, particularly when queries require precise identification and grounding of fine-grained entities within large-scale knowledge base. Existing methods often treat visual and textual signals in isolation and rely heavily on i…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Graph is a Natural Regularization: Revisiting Vector Quantization for Graph Representation Learning

ICML 2026poster

Vector Quantization (VQ) has recently emerged as a promising approach for learning discrete representations of graph-structured data. However, a fundamental challenge, i.e., codebook collapse, remains underexplored in the graph domain, significantly limiting the expressiveness and generalization of …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Parallel thinking has emerged as a novel approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by exploring multiple reasoning paths concurrently. However, activating such capabilities through training remains challenging. Existing methods mainly rely on supervised fine-t…

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2026

R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data

ICLR 2026poster

Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, existing methods for training such models still rely heavily on vast human-curated tasks and labels, typically via fine-t…

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2025

Bias-Resilient Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Using Normalizing Flows

ICCV 2025poster

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) aims to generate dense labels using sparse annotations, such as image-level labels. Existing class activation map (CAM) generation methods have been able to locate rough objects. However, due to the limited information provided by image level labels, th…

2025

CNC: Cross-modal Normality Constraint for Unsupervised Multi-class Anomaly Detection

AAAI 2025technical

Existing unsupervised distillation-based methods rely on the differences between encoded and decoded features to locate abnormal regions in test images. However, the decoder trained only on normal samples still reconstructs abnormal patch features well, degrading performance. This issue is particula…

2025

DSBench: How Far Are Data Science Agents from Becoming Data Science Experts?

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive language/vision reasoning abilities, igniting the recent trend of building agents for targeted applications such as shopping assistants or AI software engineers. Recently, many data science benchmarks…

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2025

DeFine: Decision-Making with Analogical Reasoning over Factor Profiles

ACL 2025finding

LLMs are ideal for decision-making thanks to their ability to reason over long contexts. However, challenges arise when processing speech transcripts that describe complex scenarios, as they are verbose and include repetition, hedging, and vagueness. E.g., during a company’s earnings call, an execut…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DecAD: Decoupling Anomalies in Latent Space for Multi-Class Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

ICCV 2025poster

Existing distillation-based and reconstruction-based methods have a critical limitation: Autoencoder-based frameworks trained exclusively on normal samples unexpectedly well reconstruct abnormal features, leadingto degraded detection performance. We identify this phenomenon as 'anomaly leakage' (AL)…

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2025

Free Lunch of Image-mask Alignment for Anomaly Image Generation and Segmentation

IJCAI 2025

This paper aims at generating anomalous images and their segmentation labels to address the lack of real-world anomaly samples and privacy issues. Departing from conventional approaches that use masks solely to guide the generation of anomaly images, we propose a dual-branch training strategy for th

2025

HydraRAG: Structured Cross-Source Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. Current hybrid RAG system retrieves evidence from both knowledge graphs (KGs) and text documents to support LLM reasoning. However, it faces challenges like handling multi-hop reasoning, m

2025

MMAPG: A Training-Free Framework for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering via Adaptive Planning Graphs

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Multi-hop question answering requires integrating information from diverse sources, such as images and texts, to derive answers. Existing methods typically rely on sequential retrieval and reasoning, where each step builds on the previous output. However, this single-path paradigm makes t

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2025

PCAN: A Pandemic-Compatible Attentive Neural Network for Retail Sales Forecasting

IJCAI 2025

The outbreak of pandemic has a huge impact on production and consumption in the business world, especially for the retail sector. As a crucial component of decision-support technology in the retail industry, sales forecasting is significant for production planning and optimizing the supply of essent

2025

Router-Tuning: A Simple and Effective Approach for Dynamic Depth

EMNLP 2025

The Mixture of Depths (MoD) was introduced to improve computational efficiency by dynamically skipping less important layers, reducing redundant computation while maintaining model capacity. Despite its promise, existing MoD approaches remain under-explored and face two main challenges: (1) high tra

2024

Continual Segmentation with Disentangled Objectness Learning and Class Recognition

CVPR 2024poster

Most continual segmentation methods tackle the problem as a per-pixel classification task. However such a paradigm is very challenging and we find query-based segmenters with built-in objectness have inherent advantages compared with per-pixel ones as objectness has strong transfer ability and forge…

2024

From Language Modeling to Instruction Following: Understanding the Behavior Shift in LLMs after Instruction Tuning

NAACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, where instruction tuning is the critical step in aligning LLMs with user intentions. In this work, we investigate how the instruction tuning adjusts pre-trained models with a focus on intrinsic changes. Specifically, we first develop sev…

2024

Hypergraph Self-supervised Learning with Sampling-efficient Signals

IJCAI 2024poster

Self-supervised learning (SSL) provides a promising alternative for representation learning on hypergraphs without costly labels. However, existing hypergraph SSL models are mostly based on contrastive methods with the instance-level discrimination strategy, suffering from two significant limitation…

2024

InFoBench: Evaluating Instruction Following Ability in Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

This paper introduces the Decomposed Requirements Following Ratio (DRFR), a new metric for evaluating Large Language Models’ (LLMs) ability to follow instructions. Addressing a gap in current methodologies, DRFR breaks down complex instructions into simpler criteria, facilitating a detailed analysis…

2024

Invariant Aggregator for Defending against Federated Backdoor Attacks

AISTATS 2024poster

Federated learning enables training high-utility models across several clients without directly sharing their private data. As a downside, the federated setting makes the model vulnerable to various adversarial attacks in the presence of malicious clients. Despite the theoretical and empirical succe…

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2024

MMC: Advancing Multimodal Chart Understanding with Large-scale Instruction Tuning

NAACL 2024long

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) and their integration into large multimodal models (LMMs), there has beenimpressive progress in zero-shot completion of user-oriented vision-language tasks. However, a gap remains in the domain of chartimage understanding due to the distinct…

2024

Polarity Calibration for Opinion Summarization

NAACL 2024long

Opinion summarization is automatically generating summaries from a variety of subjective information, such as product reviews or political opinions. The challenge of opinions summarization lies in presenting divergent or even conflicting opinions. We conduct an analysis of previous summarization mod…

2024

SFC: Shared Feature Calibration in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2024technical

Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation has received increasing attention due to its low annotation cost. Existing methods mainly rely on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) to obtain pseudo-labels for training semantic segmentation models. In this work, we are the first to demonstrate that l…

2024

Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation with Effective Feature Fusion and Self Distillation

IROS 2024poster

Monocular depth estimation obtaining scene depth information from a single image is an important task in the field of computer vision. Constrained by the limitations of convolutional networks in conducting long-distance modeling and the underutilization of datasets, the generalization of existing mo…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Skills-in-Context: Unlocking Compositionality in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

We investigate how to elicit compositional generalization capabilities in large language models (LLMs). Compositional generalization empowers LLMs to solve complex problems by combining foundational skills, a critical reasoning ability akin to human intelligence. However, even the most advanced LLMs…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

SportsMetrics: Blending Text and Numerical Data to Understand Information Fusion in LLMs

ACL 2024long

Large language models hold significant potential for integrating various data types, such as text documents and database records, for advanced analytics. However, blending text and numerical data presents substantial challenges. LLMs need to process and cross-reference entities and numbers, handle d…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards the Uncharted: Density-Descending Feature Perturbation for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2024poster

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation allows model to mine effective supervision from unlabeled data to complement label-guided training. Recent research has primarily focused on consistency regularization techniques exploring perturbation-invariant training at both the image and feature levels. In…

2024

When Reasoning Meets Information Aggregation: A Case Study with Sports Narratives

EMNLP 2024main

Reasoning is most powerful when an LLM accurately aggregates relevant information. We examine the critical role of information aggregation in reasoning by requiring the LLM to analyze sports narratives. To succeed at this task, an LLM must infer points from actions, identify related entities, attrib…

2023

DecipherPref: Analyzing Influential Factors in Human Preference Judgments via GPT-4

EMNLP 2023long main

Human preference judgments are pivotal in guiding large language models (LLMs) to produce outputs that align with human values. Human evaluations are also used in summarization tasks to compare outputs from various systems, complementing existing automatic metrics. Despite their significance, howeve…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

FastRecon: Few-shot Industrial Anomaly Detection via Fast Feature Reconstruction

ICCV 2023poster

In industrial anomaly detection, data efficiency and the ability for fast migration across products become the main concerns when developing detection algorithms. Existing methods tend to be data-hungry and work in the one-model-one-category way, which hinders their effectiveness in real-world indus…

Cited by 58PDFScholar
2023

Generating User-Engaging News Headlines

ACL 2023long

The potential choices for news article headlines are enormous, and finding the right balance between conveying the essential message and capturing the reader’s attention is key to effective headlining. However, presenting the same news headline to all readers is a suboptimal strategy, because it doe…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2023

Hunting Sparsity: Density-Guided Contrastive Learning for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2023poster

Recent semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods combine pseudo labeling and consistency regularization to enhance model generalization from perturbation-invariant training. In this work, we argue that adequate supervision can be extracted directly from the geometry of feature space. Inspired by…

2023

OASum: Large-Scale Open Domain Aspect-based Summarization

ACL 2023findings

Aspect or query-based summarization has recently caught more attention, as it can generate differentiated summaries based on users’ interests. However, the current dataset for aspect or query-based summarization either focuses on specific domains, on a relatively small scale, or contains only a few…

2022

CARD: Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation via Class-agnostic Relation based Denoising

IJCAI 2022poster

Recent semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods focus on mining extra supervision from unlabeled data by generating pseudo labels. However, noisy labels are inevitable in this process which prevent effective self-supervision. This paper proposes that noisy labels can be corrected based on seman…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Meta-learning without data via Wasserstein distributionally-robust model fusion

UAI 2022poster

Existing meta-learning works assume that each task has available training and testing data. However, there are many available pre-trained models without accessing their training data in practice. We often need a single model to solve different tasks simultaneously as this is much more convenient to…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2022

Salience Allocation as Guidance for Abstractive Summarization

EMNLP 2022main

Abstractive summarization models typically learn to capture the salient information from scratch implicitly.Recent literature adds extractive summaries as guidance for abstractive summarization models to provide hints of salient content and achieves better performance.However, extractive summaries a…

2022

Toward Unifying Text Segmentation and Long Document Summarization

EMNLP 2022main

Text segmentation is important for signaling a document’s structure. Without segmenting a long document into topically coherent sections, it is difficult for readers to comprehend the text, let alone find important information. The problem is only exacerbated by a lack of segmentation in transcripts…

2022

Towards Abstractive Grounded Summarization of Podcast Transcripts

ACL 2022long

Podcasts have shown a recent rise in popularity. Summarization of podcasts is of practical benefit to both content providers and consumers. It helps people quickly decide whether they will listen to a podcast and/or reduces the cognitive load of content providers to write summaries. Nevertheless, po…

2022

Z-LaVI: Zero-Shot Language Solver Fueled by Visual Imagination

EMNLP 2022main

Large-scale pretrained language models have made significant advances in solving downstream language understanding tasks. However, they generally suffer from reporting bias, the phenomenon describing the lack of explicit commonsense knowledge in written text, e.g., ”an orange is orange”. To overcome…

2021

NaturalConv: A Chinese Dialogue Dataset Towards Multi-turn Topic-driven Conversation

AAAI 2021technical

In this paper, we propose a Chinese multi-turn topic-driven conversation dataset, NaturalConv, which allows the participants to chat anything they want as long as any element from the topic is mentioned and the topic shift is smooth. Our corpus contains 19.9K conversations from six domains, and 400K…

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