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YouYong Kong

24 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Point Predictions: Manifold Expansion and Dual Alignment for Robust Time Series Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Knowledge Distillation (KD) promises to bridge the gap between the high computational costs of Transformer-based models and the expressiveness limitations of linear models in long-term time series forecasting. Existing time series distillation methods inherit the computer vision paradigm, constraini…

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2026

SARL: Structure-Aligned Reinforcement Learning for Bridging the Perception-Action Gap in Airspace

ICML 2026poster

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has been widely applied to automated aircraft conflict resolution due to its strong capability for cooperative control and distributed decision-making. However, existing approaches typically assume a fixed number of aircraft and neglect the unique characteri…

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2025

Exploring Rationale Learning for Continual Graph Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Catastrophic forgetting poses a significant challenge for graph neural networks in continuously updating their knowledge base with data streams. To address this issue, much of the research has focused on node-level continual learning using parameter regularization or rehearsal-based strategies, whil…

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2025

HePa: Heterogeneous Graph Prompting for All-Level Classification Tasks

AAAI 2025technical

Heterogeneous graphs, which are common in real-world downstream tasks, have recently sparked a wave of research interest. The performance of end-to-end heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) greatly relies on supervised training for specific tasks. To reduce the labeling cost, the "pretrain-fin…

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2025

Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Attention Network for Fine-grained Brain Cognitive State Recognition

ICASSP 2025accepted

Brain cognitive state recognition based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI) can capture brain functional activities under different tasks and help understand the neural mechanisms of the brain, which has always been one of the focuses of neuroscience research. Different from the predictio…

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2025

Learning Heterogeneous Tissues with Mixture of Experts for Gigapixel Whole Slide Images

CVPR 2025poster

Analyzing gigapixel Whole Slide Images (WSIs) is challenging due to the complex pathological tissue environment and the absence of target-driven domain knowledge. Previous methods incorporated pathological priors to mitigate this issue but relied on additional inference steps and specialized workflo…

2025

M2F2Net: Multi-stage Mixed Feature Fusion Network For Remote Sensing Change Detection

ICASSP 2025accepted

Remote sensing image change detection (CD) seeks to analyze and discern changes in surface objects through the use of multi-temporal remote sensing imagery. However, as image resolution advances, existing methods often fall short in capturing comprehensive visual feature representations, and their n…

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2025

Suit the Node Pair to the Case: A Multi-Scale Node Pair Grouping Strategy for Graph-MLP Distillation

IJCAI 2025

Graph Neural Network (GNN) is powerful in solving various graph-related tasks, while its message passing mechanism may lead to latency during inference time. Multi-Layer-Perceptron (MLP) can achieve fast inference speed but with limited performance. One solution to fill this gap is through Knowledge

2025

Topology-Aware Dynamic Reweighting for Distribution Shifts on Graph

ICML 2025poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for node classification tasks but often fail to generalize when training and test nodes come from different distributions, limiting their practicality. To address this challenge, recent approaches have adopted invariant learning and sample reweighting tec…

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2024

Embedded Feature Similarity Optimization with Specific Parameter Initialization for 2D/3D Medical Image Registration

ICASSP 2024accepted

We present a novel deep learning-based framework: Embedded Feature Similarity Optimization with Specific Parameter Initialization (SOPI) for 2D/3D medical image registration which is a most challenging problem due to the difficulty such as dimensional mismatch, heavy computation load and lack of gol…

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2024

Leveraging Tumor Heterogeneity: Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning for Cancer Survival Prediction in Whole Slide Images

NeurIPS 2024poster

Survival prediction is a significant challenge in cancer management. Tumor micro-environment is a highly sophisticated ecosystem consisting of cancer cells, immune cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, nerves and extracellular matrix. The intratumor heterogeneity and the interaction across multiple…

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2024

Multiscale Low-Frequency Memory Network for Improved Feature Extraction in Convolutional Neural Networks

AAAI 2024technical

Deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have driven major transformations in diverse research areas. However, their limitations in handling low-frequency in-formation present obstacles in certain tasks like interpreting global structures or managing smooth transition images. Despite t…

2024

ST-LDM: A Universal Framework for Text-Grounded Object Generation in Real Images

ECCV 2024poster

"We present a novel image editing scenario termed Text-grounded Object Generation (TOG), defined as generating a new object in the real image spatially conditioned by textual descriptions. Existing diffusion models exhibit limitations of spatial perception in complex real-world scenes, relying on ad…

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2023

Brainnetformer: Decoding Brain Cognitive States with Spatial-Temporal Cross Attention

ICASSP 2023accepted

Learning about the cognitive state of the brain has always been a popular topic. Based on the fact that fluctuations of brain signals and functional connectome (FC) relate to specific human behaviors, deep learning based methods have shown promising results on the prediction of such behaviors by ana…

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2023

Graph Contrastive Learning with Learnable Graph Augmentation

ICASSP 2023accepted

Graph contrastive learning has gained popularity due to its success in self-supervised graph representation learning. Augmented views in contrastive learning greatly determine the quality of the learned representations. Handcrafted data augmentations in previous work require tedious trial-and- error…

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2023

RH-BrainFS: Regional Heterogeneous Multimodal Brain Networks Fusion Strategy

NeurIPS 2023poster

Multimodal fusion has become an important research technique in neuroscience that completes downstream tasks by extracting complementary information from multiple modalities. Existing multimodal research on brain networks mainly focuses on two modalities, structural connectivity (SC) and functional…

2023

Topgformer: Topological-Based Graph Transformer for Mapping Brain Structural Connectivity to Functional Connectivity

ICASSP 2023accepted

Exploring the mapping between structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) is of essential importance to understanding the working mechanism of the human brain. Traditional methods are difficult to represent the complex relationship of high-order interaction between SC and FC. Recen…

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2023

Topology Uncertainty Modeling For Imbalanced Node Classification on Graphs

ICASSP 2023accepted

Most existing graph neural networks work under a class-balanced assumption, while ignoring class-imbalanced scenarios that widely exist in real-world graphs. Although there are many methods in other fields that can alleviate this issue, they do not consider the special topology of the non-Euclidean…

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2022

Feature Space Message Passing Network for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation

ICASSP 2022accepted

Accurate semantic segmentation of medical images is of significant importance for subsequent processing and analysis. The encoder-decoder deep learning framework has been widely applied for numerous medical image segmentation tasks. However, most existing approaches are restricted by the limited rec…

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2022

Hierarchical Diffusion Scattering Graph Neural Network

IJCAI 2022poster

Graph neural network (GNN) is popular now to solve the tasks in non-Euclidean space and most of them learn deep embeddings by aggregating the neighboring nodes. However, these methods are prone to some problems such as over-smoothing because of the single-scale perspective field and the nature of lo…

2022

Spatio-Temporal Attention Graph Convolution Network for Functional Connectome Classification

ICASSP 2022accepted

Numerous evidence has demonstrated the pathophysiology of a number of mental disorders is intimately associated with abnormal changes of dysfunctional integration of brain network. Functional connectome (FC) exhibits a strong discriminative power for mental disorder identification. However, existing…

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2022

Temporal Cross-Graph Network for Brain Functional Activity Prediction

ICASSP 2022accepted

Prediction of brain functional activity is of great significance for neuroscience research. The brain functional activities at different regions are highly related, and their relationships can be captured with functional connectivity and structural connectivity. The existing works are challenging to…

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2020

Deep Complementary Joint Model for Complex Scene Registration and Few-shot Segmentation on Medical Images

ECCV 2020poster

Deep learning-based medical image registration and segmentation joint models utilize the complementarity (augmentation data or weakly supervised data from registration, region constraints from segmentation) to bring mutual improvement in complex scene and few-shot situation. However, further adoptio…