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Zhikai Chen

15 accepted papers

2026

HP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editing

CVPR 2026

Common image editing tasks typically adopt powerful generative diffusion models as the leading paradigm for real-world content editing. Meanwhile, although reinforcement learning (RL) methods such as Diffusion-DPO and Flow-GRPO have further improved generation quality, efficiently applying Reinforce

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2026

Relatron: Automating Relational Machine Learning over Relational Databases

ICLR 2026poster

Predictive modeling over relational databases (RDBs) powers applications in various domains, yet remains challenging due to the need to capture both cross-table dependencies and complex feature interactions. Recent Relational Deep Learning (RDL) methods automate feature engineering via message passi…

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2025

A Pre-training Framework for Relational Data with Information-theoretic Principles

NeurIPS 2025poster

Relational databases underpin critical infrastructure across a wide range of domains, yet the design of generalizable pre-training strategies for learning from relational databases remains an open challenge due to task heterogeneity. Specifically, there exist many possible downstream tasks, as tasks…

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2025

Aligning Global Semantics and Local Textures in Generative Video Enhancement

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in video generation have demonstrated the utility of powerful diffusion models. One important direction among them is to enhance the visual quality of the AI-synthesized videos for artistic creation. Nevertheless, solely relying on the knowledge embedded in the pre-trained video diff…

2025

AutoG: Towards automatic graph construction from tabular data

ICLR 2025poster

Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in graph machine learning (GML), with its applications spanning numerous domains. However, the focus of GML has predominantly been on developing powerful models, often overlooking a crucial initial step: constructing suitable graphs from common da…

2025

CausalEval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Causal reasoning (CR) is a crucial aspect of intelligence, essential for problem-solving, decision-making, and understanding the world. While language models (LMs) can generate rationales for their outputs, their ability to reliably perform causal reasoning remains uncertain, often falling short in…

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2024

Label-free Node Classification on Graphs with Large Language Models (LLMs)

ICLR 2024poster

In recent years, there have been remarkable advancements in node classification achieved by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, they necessitate abundant high-quality labels to ensure promising performance. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive zero-shot proficiency on text…

2024

Learning Spatial Adaptation and Temporal Coherence in Diffusion Models for Video Super-Resolution

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion models are just at a tipping point for image super-resolution task. Nevertheless it is not trivial to capitalize on diffusion models for video super-resolution which necessitates not only the preservation of visual appearance from low-resolution to high-resolution videos but also the tempo…

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2024

Position: Graph Foundation Models Are Already Here

ICML 2024spotlight

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) are emerging as a significant research topic in the graph domain, aiming to develop graph models trained on extensive and diverse data to enhance their applicability across various tasks and domains. Developing GFMs presents unique challenges over traditional Graph Neu…

2024

Text-space Graph Foundation Models: Comprehensive Benchmarks and New Insights

NeurIPS 2024poster

Given the ubiquity of graph data and its applications in diverse domains, building a Graph Foundation Model (GFM) that can work well across different graphs and tasks with a unified backbone has recently garnered significant interests. A major obstacle to achieving this goal stems from the fact that…

2023

AnchorFormer: Point Cloud Completion From Discriminative Nodes

CVPR 2023poster

Point cloud completion aims to recover the completed 3D shape of an object from its partial observation. A common strategy is to encode the observed points to a global feature vector and then predict the complete points through a generative process on this vector. Nevertheless, the results may suffe…

2023

Demystifying Structural Disparity in Graph Neural Networks: Can One Size Fit All?

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent studies on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) provide both empirical and theoretical evidence supporting their effectiveness in capturing structural patterns on both homophilic and certain heterophilic graphs. Notably, most real-world homophilic and heterophilic graphs are comprised of a mixture of…

2022

Anti-Forgery: Towards a Stealthy and Robust DeepFake Disruption Attack via Adversarial Perceptual-aware Perturbations

IJCAI 2022poster

DeepFake is becoming a real risk to society and brings potential threats to both individual privacy and political security due to the DeepFaked multimedia are realistic and convincing. However, the popular DeepFake passive detection is an ex-post forensics countermeasure and failed in blocking the d…

2021

MagDR: Mask-Guided Detection and Reconstruction for Defending Deepfakes

CVPR 2021poster

Deepfakes raised serious concerns on the authenticity of visual contents. Prior works revealed the possibility to disrupt deepfakes by adding adversarial perturbations to the source data, but we argue that the threat has not been eliminated yet. This paper presents MagDR, a mask-guided detection and…

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