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Xichen Ye

7 accepted papers

2026

Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining Biological Foundation Models at Scale

AAAI 2026technical

Biological foundation models (BioFMs), pretrained on large-scale biological sequences, have recently shown strong potential in providing meaningful representations for diverse downstream bioinformatics tasks. However, such models often rely on millions to billions of training sequences and billions

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2026

When Human Preferences Flip: An Instance-Dependent Robust Loss for RLHF

AAAI 2026technical

Quality of datasets plays an important role in large language model (LLM) alignment. In collecting human feedback, however, preference flipping is ubiquitous and causes corruption in data annotation; the issue necessitates the alignment algorithms with improved robustness against potential flipped p

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2025

Optimized Gradient Clipping for Noisy Label Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Previous research has shown that constraining the gradient of loss function w.r.t. model-predicted probabilities can enhance the model robustness against noisy labels. These methods typically specify a fixed optimal threshold for gradient clipping through validation data to obtain the desired robust…

2025

Towards Robust Influence Functions with Flat Validation Minima

ICML 2025poster

The Influence Function (IF) is a widely used technique for assessing the impact of individual training samples on model predictions. However, existing IF methods often fail to provide reliable influence estimates in deep neural networks, particularly when applied to noisy training data. This issue d…

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2024

DuPL: Dual Student with Trustworthy Progressive Learning for Robust Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2024poster

Recently One-stage Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels has gained increasing interest due to simplification over its cumbersome multi-stage counterpart. Limited by the inherent ambiguity of Class Activation Map (CAM) we observe that one-stage pipelines often encoun…

2023

Active Negative Loss Functions for Learning with Noisy Labels

NeurIPS 2023poster

Robust loss functions are essential for training deep neural networks in the presence of noisy labels. Some robust loss functions use Mean Absolute Error (MAE) as its necessary component. For example, the recently proposed Active Passive Loss (APL) uses MAE as its passive loss function. However, MAE…

2023

GradPU: Positive-Unlabeled Learning via Gradient Penalty and Positive Upweighting

AAAI 2023technical

Positive-unlabeled learning is an essential problem in many real-world applications with only labeled positive and unlabeled data, especially when the negative samples are difficult to identify. Most existing positive-unlabeled learning methods will inevitably overfit the positive class to some exte…

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