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Yijun Tian

21 accepted papers

2026

Adaptive and Context-rich Generative Self-supervised Learning on Graphs

AAAI 2026technical

Generative self-supervised learning on graphs has emerged as a popular learning paradigm and demonstrated its efficacy in handling non-Euclidean data. However, several remaining issues limit the capability of existing methods: 1) the disregard of uneven node significance in masking, 2) the underutil

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Pareto-Based Heterogeneous Knowledge Distillation for MLPs on Graphs

AAAI 2026technical

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in capturing effective information in heterogeneous graphs, achieving outstanding performance in various learning tasks. However, the heavy dependency of HGNNs on neighbors information may result in high latency, w

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Democratizing Large Language Models via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning

EMNLP 2024main

Personalization in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important, aiming to align the LLMs’ interactions, content, and recommendations with individual user preferences. Recent advances have highlighted effective prompt design by enriching user queries with non-parametric knowledge through b…

2024

G-Retriever: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering

NeurIPS 2024poster

Given a graph with textual attributes, we enable users to `chat with their graph': that is, to ask questions about the graph using a conversational interface. In response to a user's questions, our method provides textual replies and highlights the relevant parts of the graph. While existing works i…

2024

Graph Neural Prompting with Large Language Models

AAAI 2024technical

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable generalization capability with exceptional performance in various language modeling tasks. However, they still exhibit inherent limitations in precisely capturing and returning grounded knowledge. While existing work has explored utilizing knowledge…

2024

Learning to Predict Mutational Effects of Protein-Protein Interactions by Microenvironment-aware Hierarchical Prompt Learning

ICML 2024poster

Protein-protein bindings play a key role in a variety of fundamental biological processes, and thus predicting the effects of amino acid mutations on protein-protein binding is crucial. To tackle the scarcity of annotated mutation data, pre-training with massive unlabeled data has emerged as a promi…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

MAPE-PPI: Towards Effective and Efficient Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction via Microenvironment-Aware Protein Embedding

ICLR 2024spotlight

Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) are fundamental in various biological processes and play a key role in life activities. The growing demand and cost of experimental PPI assays require computational methods for efficient PPI prediction. While existing methods rely heavily on protein sequence for P…

2024

Mitigating Emergent Robustness Degradation while Scaling Graph Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Although graph neural networks have exhibited remarkable performance in various graph tasks, a significant concern is their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Consequently, many defense methods have been proposed to alleviate the deleterious effects of adversarial attacks and learn robust graph r…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

S3GCL: Spectral, Swift, Spatial Graph Contrastive Learning

ICML 2024poster

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a highly effective self-supervised approach in graph representation learning. However, prevailing GCL methods confront two primary challenges: 1) They predominantly operate under homophily assumptions, focusing on low-frequency signals in node features…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards Safer Large Language Models through Machine Unlearning

ACL 2024findings

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated their vast potential across various domains, attributed to their extensive pretraining knowledge and exceptional generalizability. However, LLMs often encounter challenges in generating harmful content when faced with problematic…

2023

Boosting Graph Neural Networks via Adaptive Knowledge Distillation

AAAI 2023technical

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse graph mining tasks. While sharing the same message passing framework, our study shows that different GNNs learn distinct knowledge from the same graph. This implies potential performance improvement by distilling the complemen…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2023

Character As Pixels: A Controllable Prompt Adversarial Attacking Framework for Black-Box Text Guided Image Generation Models

IJCAI 2023poster

In this paper, we study a controllable prompt adversarial attacking problem for text guided image generation (Text2Image) models in the black-box scenario, where the goal is to attack specific visual subjects (e.g., changing a brown dog to white) in a generated image by slightly, if not imperceptibl…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
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

Graph-based Molecular Representation Learning

IJCAI 2023poster

Molecular representation learning (MRL) is a key step to build the connection between machine learning and chemical science. In particular, it encodes molecules as numerical vectors preserving the molecular structures and features, on top of which the downstream tasks (e.g., property prediction) can…

2023

Heterogeneous Graph Masked Autoencoders

AAAI 2023technical

Generative self-supervised learning (SSL), especially masked autoencoders, has become one of the most exciting learning paradigms and has shown great potential in handling graph data. However, real-world graphs are always heterogeneous, which poses three critical challenges that existing methods ign…

2023

Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency

ICLR 2023top-25%

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their efficacy in dealing with non-Euclidean structural data, they are difficult to be deployed in real applications due to the scalability constraint imposed by the multi-hop data dependency. Existing methods attempt to address this scalability i…

2023

When Sparsity Meets Contrastive Models: Less Graph Data Can Bring Better Class-Balanced Representations

ICML 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models for non-Euclidean data, but their training is often accentuated by massive unnecessary computation: on the one hand, training on non-Euclidean data has relatively high computational cost due to its irregular density properties; on the other hand, the…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2022

Recipe2Vec: Multi-modal Recipe Representation Learning with Graph Neural Networks

IJCAI 2022poster

Learning effective recipe representations is essential in food studies. Unlike what has been developed for image-based recipe retrieval or learning structural text embeddings, the combined effect of multi-modal information (i.e., recipe images, text, and relation data) receives less attention. In th…

2022

RecipeRec: A Heterogeneous Graph Learning Model for Recipe Recommendation

IJCAI 2022poster

Recipe recommendation systems play an essential role in helping people decide what to eat. Existing recipe recommendation systems typically focused on content-based or collaborative filtering approaches, ignoring the higher-order collaborative signal such as relational structure information among us…