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Zhichen Zeng

13 accepted papers

2026

AvAtar: Learning to Align via Active Optimal Transport

ICML 2026poster

Alignment plays a fundamental role in many machine learning problems, such as multi-network analysis, multimodal learning, and point cloud registration. Recent works increasingly leverage optimal transport (OT) for distributional alignment, whose effectiveness largely depends on sparse supervision t…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression

ICLR 2026poster

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in various domains. While efficient alternatives to Softmax Attention have been widely studied, the search for more expressive mechanisms grounded in theoretical insight—even at greater computational cost—has been relatively underexplored. I…

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2026

PLANETALIGN: A Comprehensive Python Library for Benchmarking Network Alignment

ICLR 2026poster

Network alignment (NA) aims to identify node correspondence across different networks and serves as a critical cornerstone behind various downstream multi-network learning tasks. Despite growing research in NA, there lacks a comprehensive library that facilitates the systematic development and bench…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Tactic: Adaptive Sparse Attention with Clustering and Distribution Fitting for Long-Context LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Long-context models are essential for many applications but face inefficiencies in loading large KV caches during decoding. Prior methods enforce fixed token budgets for sparse attention, assuming a set number of tokens can approximate full attention. However, these methods overlook variations in th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Improving LLM General Preference Alignment via Optimistic Online Mirror Descent

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Many existing alignment approaches rely on the Bradley-Terry (BT) model assumption, which assumes the existence of a ground-truth reward for ea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Matcha: Mitigating Graph Structure Shifts with Test-Time Adaptation

ICLR 2025poster

Powerful as they are, graph neural networks (GNNs) are known to be vulnerable to distribution shifts. Recently, test-time adaptation (TTA) has attracted attention due to its ability to adapt a pre-trained model to a target domain, without re-accessing the source domain. However, existing TTA algorit…

2025

SeerAttention: Self-distilled Attention Gating for Efficient Long-context Prefilling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Attention is the cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet its quadratic complexity hinders efficiency and scalability, especially for long-context processing. A promising approach is to leverage sparsity in attention. However, existing sparsity-based solutions predominantly rely on p…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Class-Imbalanced Graph Learning without Class Rebalancing

ICML 2024poster

Class imbalance is prevalent in real-world node classification tasks and poses great challenges for graph learning models. Most existing studies are rooted in a class-rebalancing (CR) perspective and address class imbalance with class-wise reweighting or resampling. In this work, we approach the roo…

2024

Discrete-state Continuous-time Diffusion for Graph Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Graph is a prevalent discrete data structure, whose generation has wide applications such as drug discovery and circuit design. Diffusion generative models, as an emerging research focus, have been applied to graph generation tasks. Overall, according to the space of states and time steps, diffusion…

2024

Graph Mixup on Approximate Gromov–Wasserstein Geodesics

ICML 2024poster

Mixup, which generates synthetic training samples on the data manifold, has been shown to be highly effective in augmenting Euclidean data. However, finding a proper data manifold for graph data is non-trivial, as graphs are non-Euclidean data in disparate spaces. Though efforts have been made, most…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

Hierarchical Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport for Network Alignment

AAAI 2024technical

Finding node correspondence across networks, namely multi-network alignment, is an essential prerequisite for joint learning on multiple networks. Despite great success in aligning networks in pairs, the literature on multi-network alignment is sparse due to the exponentially growing solution space…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2024

SLOG: An Inductive Spectral Graph Neural Network Beyond Polynomial Filter

ICML 2024poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited superb power in many graph related tasks. Existing GNNs can be categorized into spatial GNNs and spectral GNNs. The spatial GNNs primarily capture the local information around each node, while the spectral GNNs are able to operate on the frequency signals…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar