32 accepted papers
This paper investigates fairness-aware graph adaptation, aiming to transfer knowledge from a labeled source graph to an unlabeled target graph while explicitly accounting for fairness. Most prior methods rely on adversarial learning to learn invariant graph representations of sensitive attributes. H…
In this paper, we study the problem of robust multi-label hashing, where label noise hinders the learning of a reliable semantic structure from data. Many existing methods rely on heuristic sample selection or consistency-based training, but lack a unified mechanism to validate and refine supervisio
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in various graph machine learning scenarios. Existing literature primarily assumes well-annotated training graphs, while the reliability of labels is not guaranteed in real-world scenarios. Recently, efforts have been made to address the problem of …
Cross-modal retrieval is a significant task that aims to learn the semantic correspondence between visual and textual modalities. Unsupervised hashing methods can efficiently manage large-scale data and can be effectively applied to cross-modal retrieval studies. However, existing methods typically…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable capabilities in learning from graph-structured data with various applications such as social analysis and bioinformatics. However, the presence of label noise in real scenarios poses a significant challenge in learning robust GNNs, and their effecti…
In many real-world scenarios, precisely labeling graph data is costly or impractical, especially in domains like molecular biology or social networks, where annotation requires expert effort. This challenge motivates partial-label graph learning, where each graph is weakly annotated with a candidate…
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has equipped large language models (LLMs) with the capability of reasoning over complicated logical problems through policy optimization. However, conventional methods require complete annotation of the entire dataset and allocate computation unif…
Post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for unlocking their task generalization potential and domain-specific capabilities. However, the current LLM post-training paradigm faces significant data challenges, including the high costs of manual annotation and diminishing marginal retur…
Test-time adaptation aims to adapt a well-trained model to potential distribution shifts at test time using only unlabeled test data, without access to the original training data. While previous efforts mainly focus on a single modality, test-time distribution shift in the multi-modal setting is mor…
This paper studies the problem of class-imbalanced graph classification, which aims at effectively classifying the graph categories in scenarios with imbalanced class distributions. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success, their modeling ability on imbalanced graph-struct…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown strong performance in graph fairness learning, which aims to ensure that predictions are unbiased with respect to sensitive attributes. However, existing approaches usually assume that training and test data share the same distribution, which rarely holds in t…
Recommender systems are widely used in various real-world applications, but they often encounter the persistent challenge of the user cold-start problem. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), which leverages user interactions from one domain to improve prediction performance in another, has emerged as…
Large language models (LLMs) have been used in many zero-shot learning problems, with their strong generalization ability. Recently, adopting LLMs in text-attributed graphs (TAGs) has drawn increasing attention. However, the adoption of LLMs faces two major challenges: limited information on graph s…
Traffic flow forecasting aims to predict future traffic flows based on historical traffic conditions and the road network. It is an important problem in intelligent transportation systems, with a plethora of methods being proposed. Existing efforts mainly focus on capturing and utilizing spatio-temp…
Masked Language Models (MLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many self-supervised representation learning tasks. MLMs are trained by randomly masking portions of the input sequences with $\texttt{[MASK]}$ tokens and learning to reconstruct the original content based on the remaining context. Th…
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced rapid development in recent years. However, in the financial domain, there is a notable lack of effective and specialized multimodal evaluation datasets. To advance the development of MLLMs in the finance domain, we introduce FinMME, encompas…
Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays an important role in a wide range of location-based social network ap- plications, aiming to accurately predicting users’ next visits based on their historical check-in records. Previous efforts have primarily focused on the modifications of existing sequ…
This paper studies the problem of text-attributed hypergraph self-supervised representation learning, which aims to generate discriminative representations of hypergraphs without any annotations for downstream tasks. However, real-world hypergraphs could contain incomplete signals, which could deter
This paper studies the problem of dynamical system modeling, which involves the evolution of multiple interacting objects. Recent data-driven methods often utilize graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn these interactions by optimizing the neural network in an end-to-end fashion. While large language…
Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have recently achieved great success in processing and understanding information from diverse modalities (e.g., text, audio, and visual signals). Despite their growing popularity, there remains a lack of comprehensive evaluation measuring the audio-visual ca
Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving efficiency while maintaining model capabilities. We present N…
This paper studies the problem of learning hash codes from noisy supervision, which is a practical yet challenging task. This problem is important in extensive real-world applications such as image retrieval and cross-modal retrieval. However, most of the existing methods focus on label denoising to…
SMILES, a crucial textual representation of molecular structures, has garnered significant attention as a foundation for pre-trained language models (LMs). However, most existing pre-trained SMILES LMs focus solely on the single-token level supervision during pre-training, failing to fully leverage…
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is crucial in adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific domain or task. However, only a limited amount of labeled data is available in practical applications, which poses a severe challenge for SFT in yielding satisfactory results. Therefore, a data-efficient f…
Unsupervised Graph Domain Adaptation (UGDA) leverages labeled source domain graphs to achieve effective performance in unlabeled target domains despite distribution shifts. However, existing methods often yield suboptimal results due to the entanglement of causal-spurious features and the failure of…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained superior performance in graph-based prediction tasks with a variety of applications such as social analysis and drug discovery. Despite the remarkable progress, their performance often degrades on test graphs with distribution shifts. Existing domain adaptati…
Test-time adaptation aims to adapt a well-trained model using test data only, without accessing training data. It is a crucial topic in machine learning, enabling a wide range of applications in the real world, especially when it comes to data privacy. While existing works on test-time adaptation pr…
Graph-structured data, prevalent in domains ranging from social networks to biochemical analysis, serve as the foundation for diverse real-world systems. While graph neural networks demonstrate proficiency in modeling this type of data, their success is often reliant on significant amounts of labele…
This paper studies the problem of rigid dynamics modeling, which has a wide range of applications in robotics, graphics, and mechanical design. The problem is partly solved by graph neural network (GNN) simulators. However, these approaches cannot effectively handle the relationship between intrinsi…
In this paper, we study semi-supervised graph classification, which aims at accurately predicting the categories of graphs in scenarios with limited labeled graphs and abundant unlabeled graphs. Despite the promising capability of graph neural networks (GNNs), they typically require a large number o…
This paper studies the problem of modeling multi-agent dynamical systems, where agents could interact mutually to influence their behaviors. Recent research predominantly uses geometric graphs to depict these mutual interactions, which are then captured by powerful graph neural networks (GNNs). Howe…
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved impressive performance in graph domain adaptation. However, extensive source graphs could be unavailable in real-world scenarios due to privacy and storage concerns. To this end, we investigate an underexplored yet practical problem of source-free graph dom…