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Zhangtao Cheng

12 accepted papers

2026

Modality-Balanced Collaborative Distillation for Multi-Modal Domain Generalization

AAAI 2026technical

Weight Averaging (WA) has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing generalization by promoting convergence to a flat loss landscape, which correlates with stronger out-of-distribution performance. However, applying WA directly to multi-modal domain generalization (MMDG) is challenging: differen

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

In-context Prompt-augmented Micro-video Popularity Prediction

AAAI 2025technical

Micro-video popularity prediction (MVPP) plays a crucial role in various downstream applications. Recently, multimodal methods that integrate multiple modalities to predict the popularity have exhibited impressive performance. However, these methods face several unresolved issues: (1) limited contex…

2025

Retrieval-Augmented Dynamic Prompt Tuning for Incomplete Multimodal Learning

AAAI 2025technical

Multimodal learning with incomplete modality is practical and challenging. Recently, researchers have focused on enhancing the robustness of pre-trained MultiModal Transformers (MMTs) under missing modality conditions by applying learnable prompts. However, these prompt-based methods face several li…

2024

Counterfactual Graph Learning for Anomaly Detection with Feature Disentanglement and Generation (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Graph anomaly detection has received remarkable research interests, and various techniques have been employed for enhancing detection performance. However, existing models tend to learn dataset-specific spurious correlations based on statistical associations. A well-trained model might suffer from p…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Decoupling User Relationships Guides Information Diffusion Prediction (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Information diffusion prediction is a critical task for many social network applications. However, current methods are mainly limited by the following aspects: user relationships behind resharing behaviors are complex and entangled. To address these issues, we propose MHGFormer, a novel multi-channe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Explainable Earnings Call Representation Learning (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Earnings call transcripts hold valuable insights that are vital for investors and analysts when making informed decisions. However, extracting these insights from lengthy and complex transcripts can be a challenging task. The traditional manual examination is not only time-consuming but also prone t…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Faithful Trip Recommender Using Diffusion Guidance (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Trip recommendation aims to plan user’s travel based on their specified preferences. Traditional heuristic and statistical approaches often fail to capture the intricate nuances of user intentions, leading to subpar performance. Recent deep-learning methods show attractive accuracy but struggle to g…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Graph Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Model-Based Graph Enhancement (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Graph anomaly detection has gained significant research interest across various domains. Due to the lack of labeled data, contrastive learning has been applied in detecting anomalies and various scales of contrastive strategies have been initiated. However, these methods might force two instances (e…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Interpreting Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Temporal knowledge graph reasoning is an essential task that holds immense value in diverse real-world applications. Existing studies mainly focus on leveraging structural and sequential dependencies, excelling in tasks like entity and link prediction. However, they confront a notable interpretabili…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Multi-Scale Dynamic Graph Learning for Time Series Anomaly Detection (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

The success of graph neural networks (GNNs) has spurred numerous new works leveraging GNNs for modeling multivariate time series anomaly detection. Despite their achieved performance improvements, most of them only consider static graph to describe the spatial-temporal dependencies between time seri…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

THGFormer: Time-Aware Hypergraph Learning for Multimodal Social Media Popularity Prediction (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Social media popularity prediction of multimodal user-generated content (UGC) is a crucial task for many real-world applications. However, existing efforts are often limited by missing inter-instance correlations and UGC temporal patterns. To address these issues, we propose a novel time-aware hyper…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

CasODE: Modeling Irregular Information Cascade via Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2023technical

Predicting information cascade popularity is a fundamental problem for understanding the nature of information propagation on social media. However, existing works fail to capture an essential aspect of information propagation: the temporal irregularity of cascade event -- i.e., users' re-tweetings…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar