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Zhichun Guo

15 accepted papers

2025

Artificial Intelligence in Spectroscopy: Advancing Chemistry from Prediction To Generation and Beyond

IJCAI 2025

The rapid advent of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) has catalyzed major transformations in chemistry, yet the application of these methods to spectroscopic and spectrometric data—termed Spectroscopy Machine Learning (SpectraML)—remains relatively underexplored. Modern spectros

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2025

You Only Spectralize Once: Taking a Spectral Detour to Accelerate Graph Neural Network

NeurIPS 2025poster

Training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often relies on repeated, irregular, and expensive message-passing operations over all nodes (e.g., $N$), leading to high computational overhead. To alleviate this inefficiency, we revisit the GNNs training from a spectral perspective. In many real-world graphs,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Can LLMs Solve Molecule Puzzles? A Multimodal Benchmark for Molecular Structure Elucidation

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant problem-solving capabilities across predictive and generative tasks in chemistry. However, their proficiency in multi-step chemical reasoning remains underexplored. We introduce a new challenge: molecular structure elucidation, which involves de…

2024

How Does Message Passing Improve Collaborative Filtering?

NeurIPS 2024poster

Collaborative filtering (CF) has exhibited prominent results for recommender systems and been broadly utilized for real-world applications. A branch of research enhances CF methods by message passing (MP) used in graph neural networks, due to its strong capabilities of extracting knowledge from grap…

2024

Pure Message Passing Can Estimate Common Neighbor for Link Prediction

NeurIPS 2024poster

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) have emerged as the {\em de facto} standard in graph representation learning. However, when it comes to link prediction, they are not always superior to simple heuristics such as Common Neighbor (CN). This discrepancy stems from a fundamental limitation: while…

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…

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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

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

Link Prediction with Non-Contrastive Learning

ICLR 2023poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are prominent in the graph machine learning domain, owing to their strong performance across various tasks. A recent focal area is the space of graph self-supervised learning (SSL), which aims to derive useful node representations without labeled data. Notably, many stat…

2023

Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation

ICML 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown exceptional performance in the task of link prediction. Despite their effectiveness, the high latency brought by non-trivial neighborhood data dependency limits GNNs in practical deployments. Conversely, the known efficient MLPs are much less effective than GN…

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2023

What can Large Language Models do in chemistry? A comprehensive benchmark on eight tasks

NeurIPS 2023poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong abilities in natural language processing tasks have emerged and have been applied in various kinds of areas such as science, finance and software engineering. However, the capability of LLMs to advance the field of chemistry remains unclear. In this paper, ra…

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…