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ZiWei Zhang

31 accepted papers

2026

Controllable Logical Hypothesis Generation for Abductive Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs

ICLR 2026poster

Abductive reasoning in knowledge graphs aims to generate plausible logical hypotheses from observed entities, with broad applications in areas such as clinical diagnosis and scientific discovery. However, due to a lack of controllability, a single observation may yield numerous plausible but redunda…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Discriminative Mixture-of-Experts on Graphs with Reliable Expert Fusion

ICML 2026poster

Graph Mixture-of-Experts (Graph-MoE) offers a way to scale GNNs via adaptive capacity allocation, with the goal of allowing different experts to capture diverse graph patterns. Its effectiveness heavily depends on the coordination between routing decisions and expert specialization. However, through…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Global-Recent Semantic Reasoning on Dynamic Text-Attributed Graphs with Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Dynamic Text-Attribute Graphs (DyTAGs), characterized by time-evolving graph interactions and associated text attributes, are prevalent in real-world applications. Existing methods, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), mostly focus on static TAGs. Extending these ex…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Invariant Conditional Molecular Generation Under Distribution Shift

AAAI 2026technical

Conditional molecular generation, aiming to generate 2D and 3D molecules that satisfy given properties, has achieved remarkable progress, thanks to the advances in deep generative models such as graph diffusion. However, existing methods generally assume that the given conditions for training and te

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Towards Effective, Stealthy, and Persistent Backdoor Attacks Targeting Graph Foundation Models

AAAI 2026technical

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) are pre-trained on diverse source domains and adapted to unseen targets, enabling broad generalization for graph machine learning. Despite that GFMs have attracted considerable attention recently, their vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains largely underexplored. A

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Behavior Importance-Aware Graph Neural Architecture Search for Cross-Domain Recommendation

AAAI 2025technical

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) mitigates data sparsity and cold-start issues in recommendation systems. While recent CDR approaches using graph neural networks (GNNs) capture complex user-item interactions, they rely on manually designed architectures that are often suboptimal and labor-intensive…

2025

GraphKeeper: Graph Domain-Incremental Learning via Knowledge Disentanglement and Preservation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Graph incremental learning (GIL), which continuously updates graph models by sequential knowledge acquisition, has garnered significant interest recently. However, existing GIL approaches focus on task-incremental and class-incremental scenarios within a single domain. Graph domain-incremental learn…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Kill two birds with one stone: generalized and robust AI-generated text detection via dynamic perturbations

NAACL 2025long

The growing popularity of large language models has raised concerns regarding the potential to misuse AI-generated text (AIGT). It becomes increasingly critical to establish an excellent AIGT detection method with high generalization and robustness.While, existing methods either focus on model gener…

2025

Teller: Real-Time Streaming Audio-Driven Portrait Animation with Autoregressive Motion Generation

CVPR 2025poster

In this work, we introduce the first autoregressive framework for real-time, audio-driven portrait animation, a.k.a, talking head. Beyond the challenge of lengthy animation times, a critical challenge in realistic talking head generation lies in preserving the natural movement of diverse body parts.…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Data-Augmented Curriculum Graph Neural Architecture Search under Distribution Shifts

AAAI 2024technical

Graph neural architecture search (NAS) has achieved great success in designing architectures for graph data processing.However, distribution shifts pose great challenges for graph NAS, since the optimal searched architectures for the training graph data may fail to generalize to the unseen test grap…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

Disentangled Continual Graph Neural Architecture Search with Invariant Modular Supernet

ICML 2024poster

The existing graph neural architecture search (GNAS) methods assume that the graph tasks are static during the search process, ignoring the ubiquitous scenarios where sequential graph tasks come in a continual fashion. Moreover, existing GNAS works resort to entangled graph factors during the archit…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2024

Disentangled Graph Self-supervised Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

ICML 2024poster

Graph out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization, aiming to generalize graph neural networks (GNNs) under distribution shifts between training and testing environments, has attracted ever-increasing attention recently. However, existing literature heavily relies on sufficient task-dependent graph labe…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2024

Multimodal Graph Neural Architecture Search under Distribution Shifts

AAAI 2024technical

Multimodal graph neural architecture search (MGNAS) has shown great success for automatically designing the optimal multimodal graph neural network (MGNN) architecture by leveraging multimodal representation, crossmodal information and graph structure in one unified framework. However, existing MGNA…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2023

Adversarially Robust Neural Architecture Search for Graph Neural Networks

CVPR 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) obtain tremendous success in modeling relational data. Still, they are prone to adversarial attacks, which are massive threats to applying GNNs to risk-sensitive domains. Existing defensive methods neither guarantee performance facing new data/tasks or adversarial attack…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2023

AutoGT: Automated Graph Transformer Architecture Search

ICLR 2023top-5%

Although Transformer architectures have been successfully applied to graph data with the advent of Graph Transformer, current design of Graph Transformer still heavily relies on human labor and expertise knowledge to decide proper neural architectures and suitable graph encoding strategies at each T…

Cited by 27SourcePDFScholar
2023

Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Attention Neural Architecture Search

AAAI 2023technical

Dynamic heterogeneous graph neural networks (DHGNNs) have been shown to be effective in handling the ubiquitous dynamic heterogeneous graphs. However, the existing DHGNNs are hand-designed, requiring extensive human efforts and failing to adapt to diverse dynamic heterogeneous graph scenarios. In th…

2023

Environment-Aware Dynamic Graph Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

NeurIPS 2023poster

Dynamic graph neural networks (DGNNs) are increasingly pervasive in exploiting spatio-temporal patterns on dynamic graphs. However, existing works fail to generalize under distribution shifts, which are common in real-world scenarios. As the generation of dynamic graphs is heavily influenced by late…

2023

Multi-task Graph Neural Architecture Search with Task-aware Collaboration and Curriculum

NeurIPS 2023poster

Graph neural architecture search (GraphNAS) has shown great potential for automatically designing graph neural architectures for graph related tasks. However, multi-task GraphNAS capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously has been largely unexplored in literature, posing great challenges to c…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

Spectral Invariant Learning for Dynamic Graphs under Distribution Shifts

NeurIPS 2023poster

Dynamic graph neural networks (DyGNNs) currently struggle with handling distribution shifts that are inherent in dynamic graphs. Existing work on DyGNNs with out-of-distribution settings only focuses on the time domain, failing to handle cases involving distribution shifts in the spectral domain. In…

2023

Unsupervised Graph Neural Architecture Search with Disentangled Self-Supervision

NeurIPS 2023poster

The existing graph neural architecture search (GNAS) methods heavily rely on supervised labels during the search process, failing to handle ubiquitous scenarios where supervisions are not available. In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised graph neural architecture search, which remains u…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2022

Dynamic Graph Neural Networks Under Spatio-Temporal Distribution Shift

NeurIPS 2022accept

Dynamic graph neural networks (DyGNNs) have demonstrated powerful predictive abilities by exploiting graph structural and temporal dynamics. However, the existing DyGNNs fail to handle distribution shifts, which naturally exist in dynamic graphs, mainly because the patterns exploited by DyGNNs may b…

Cited by 74SourcePDFScholar
2022

Graph Neural Architecture Search Under Distribution Shifts

ICML 2022spotlight

Graph neural architecture search has shown great potentials for automatically designing graph neural network (GNN) architectures for graph classification tasks. However, when there is a distribution shift between training and testing graphs, the existing approaches fail to deal with the problem of a…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2022

Learning Invariant Graph Representations for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

NeurIPS 2022accept

Graph representation learning has shown effectiveness when testing and training graph data come from the same distribution, but most existing approaches fail to generalize under distribution shifts. Invariant learning, backed by the invariance principle from causality, can achieve guaranteed general…

Cited by 134SourcePDFScholar
2022

Learning to Solve Travelling Salesman Problem with Hardness-Adaptive Curriculum

AAAI 2022technical

Various neural network models have been proposed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems such as the travelling salesman problem (TSP). Existing learning-based TSP methods adopt a simple setting that the training and testing data are independent and identically distributed. However, the existi…

2022

NAS-Bench-Graph: Benchmarking Graph Neural Architecture Search

NeurIPS 2022accept

Graph neural architecture search (GraphNAS) has recently aroused considerable attention in both academia and industry. However, two key challenges seriously hinder the further research of GraphNAS. First, since there is no consensus for the experimental setting, the empirical results in different re…

2022

Parametric Visual Program Induction with Function Modularization

ICML 2022spotlight

Generating programs to describe visual observations has gained much research attention recently. However, most of the existing approaches are based on non-parametric primitive functions, making them unable to handle complex visual scenes involving many attributes and details. In this paper, we propo…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2021

Disentangled Contrastive Learning on Graphs

NeurIPS 2021poster

Recently, self-supervised learning for graph neural networks (GNNs) has attracted considerable attention because of their notable successes in learning the representation of graph-structure data. However, the formation of a real-world graph typically arises from the highly complex interaction of man…

Cited by 114SourcePDFScholar