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Zhichao Hou

8 accepted papers

2026

Hierarchical Multi-Scale Molecular Conformer Generation with Structural Awareness

ICLR 2026poster

Molecular conformer generation is a fundamental task for drug discovery and material design. Although deep generative models have progressed in this area, existing methods often overlook the hierarchical structural organization inherent to molecules, leading to poor-quality generated conformers. To…

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2025

Modulated Diffusion: Accelerating Generative Modeling with Modulated Quantization

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, but their high computation cost in iterative sampling remains a significant bottleneck. In this work, we present an in-depth and insightful study of state-of-the-art acceleration techniques for diffusion models, including caching and quant…

2025

Robustness Reprogramming for Representation Learning

ICLR 2025spotlight

This work tackles an intriguing and fundamental open challenge in representation learning: Given a well-trained deep learning model, can it be reprogrammed to enhance its robustness against adversarial or noisy input perturbations without altering its parameters? To explore this, we revisit the core…

2024

Certified Robustness for Deep Equilibrium Models via Serialized Random Smoothing

NeurIPS 2024poster

Implicit models such as Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have emerged as promising alternative approaches for building deep neural networks. Their certified robustness has gained increasing research attention due to security concerns. Existing certified defenses for DEQs employing interval bound propa…

2024

ProTransformer: Robustify Transformers via Plug-and-Play Paradigm

NeurIPS 2024poster

Transformer-based architectures have dominated various areas of machine learning in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a novel robust attention mechanism designed to enhance the resilience of transformer-based architectures. Crucially, this technique can be integrated into existing transforme…

2024

Robust Graph Neural Networks via Unbiased Aggregation

NeurIPS 2024poster

The adversarial robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been questioned due to the false sense of security uncovered by strong adaptive attacks despite the existence of numerous defenses. In this work, we delve into the robustness analysis of representative robust GNNs and provide a unified r…

2023

Equivariant Spatio-Temporal Attentive Graph Networks to Simulate Physical Dynamics

NeurIPS 2023poster

Learning to represent and simulate the dynamics of physical systems is a crucial yet challenging task. Existing equivariant Graph Neural Network (GNN) based methods have encapsulated the symmetry of physics, \emph{e.g.}, translations, rotations, etc, leading to better generalization ability. Neverth…