21 accepted papers
Molecular representation learning has achieved remarkable progress in molecular property prediction, yet out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization remains challenging. In practice, training data typically cover only a limited portion of the chemical space, causing models to rely on environment-depend…
By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a cornerstone of the modern autonomous agent ecosystem. However, it creates novel attack surfaces due to untrusted external tools. While prior work has focused o
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable visual understanding, yet their reliability in interactive settings is severely undermined by {hallucination snowballing}: a phenomenon where initial errors amplify across conversational turns, leading to a collapse in coherence. This f…
Explainability for graph neural networks (GNNs) aims to unveil the complex decision logic of learned models by identifying the most influential structures in the input graph, thereby improving transparency and trustworthiness. Existing post-hoc explainers typically extract a sparse key subgraph at a…
Video-based multimodal large language models (V-MLLMs) have shown vulnerability to adversarial examples in video-text multimodal tasks. However, the transferability of adversarial videos to unseen models—a common and practical real-world scenario—remains unexplored. In this paper, we pioneer an in
LLMs can exhibit age biases, resulting in unequal treatment of individuals across age groups. While much research has addressed racial and gender biases, age bias remains little explored. The scarcity of instruction-tuning and preference datasets for age bias hampers its detection and measurement, a…
Graph Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (GODE) integrate the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) framework with differential equations, effectively modeling latent space uncertainty and continuous dynamics, excelling in graph data evolution and incompleteness. However, existing GODE face challenges i…
Cold-start sequential recommendation, where user interaction histories are sparse or minimal, remains a significant challenge in recommendation systems. Current meta-learning-based approaches rely heavily on the interaction histories of regular users to construct meta-tasks, aiming to acquire prior…
Dynamic graph representation learning using Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exploits the temporal spiking behavior of neurons, offering advantages in capturing the temporal evolution and sparsity of dynamic graphs. However, existing SNN-based methods often fail to effectively capture the impact of la…
Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has become a hot topic in the field of graph representaion learning. In contrast to traditional supervised learning relying on a large number of labels, GCL exploits augmentation techniques to generate multiple views and positive/negative pairs, both of which greatly…
Graph Neural Networks are powerful tools for modeling graph-structured data but their interpretability remains a significant challenge. Existing model-agnostic GNN explainers aim to identify critical subgraphs or node features relevant to task predictions but often rely on GNN predictions for superv…
Multi-hop question answering (MHQA) aims to utilize multi-source intensive documents retrieved to derive the answer. However, it is very challenging to model the importance of knowledge retrieved. Previous approaches primarily emphasize single-step and multi-step iterative decomposition or retrieval…
Cascade Ranking is a prevalent architecture in large-scale top-k selection systems like recommendation and advertising platforms. Traditional training methods focus on single-stage optimization, neglecting interactions between stages. Recent advances have introduced interaction-aware training paradi…
Graph contrastive learning has attracted great interest as a dominant and promising self-supervised representation learning approach in recent years. While existing works follow the basic principle of pulling positive pairs closer and pushing negative pairs far away, they still suffer from several c…
Understanding the vulnerabilities of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) to jailbreak attacks is essential for their responsible real-world deployment. Most previous work requires access to model gradients, or is based on human knowledge (prompt engineering) to complete jailbreak, and they hardly c
Most existing rationalization approaches are susceptible to degeneration accumulation due to a lack of effective control over the learning direction of the model during training. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach AGR (Agent-Guided Rationalization), guiding the next action of the mod…
Referring Expression Comprehension (REC), which aims to ground a local visual region via natural language, is a task that heavily relies on multimodal alignment. Most existing methods utilize powerful pre-trained models to transfer visual/linguistic knowledge by full fine-tuning. However, full fine-…
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) attracts extra attention in medical image processing because no additional labels are required when adapting to different distributions. In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised domain adaptation framework named as Domain Expansion and PseudoLabeling (DEPL).…
Vision-language pre-training (VLP) models have shown vulnerability to adversarial examples in multimodal tasks. Furthermore, malicious adversaries can be deliberately transferred to attack other black-box models. However, existing work has mainly focused on investigating white-box attacks. In this p…
In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network based on adaptive multi-scale feature aggregation and boundary-aware for lateral ventricle segmentation (MB-Net), which mainly includes three parts, i.e., an adaptive multi-scale feature aggregation module (AMSFM), an embedded boundary r…
When deploying person re-identification (ReID) model in safety-critical applications, it is pivotal to understanding the robustness of the model against a diverse array of image corruptions. However, current evaluations of person ReID only consider the performance on clean datasets and ignore images…