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Zirui Zhou

12 accepted papers

2025

Decompositional Neural Scene Reconstruction with Generative Diffusion Prior

CVPR 2025poster

Decompositional reconstruction of 3D scenes, with complete shapes and detailed texture of all objects within, is intriguing for downstream applications but remains challenging, particularly with sparse views as input. Recent approaches incorporate semantic or geometric regularization to address this…

2025

Evaluating LLM Reasoning in the Operations Research Domain with ORQA

AAAI 2025technical

In this paper, we introduce and apply Operations Research Question Answering (ORQA), a new benchmark, to assess the generalization capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the specialized technical domain of Operations Research (OR). This benchmark is designed to evaluate whether LLMs can emu…

2025

GeoPro-Net: Learning Interpretable Spatiotemporal Prediction Models Through Statistically-Guided Geo-Prototyping

AAAI 2025technical

The problem of forecasting spatiotemporal events such as crimes and accidents is crucial to public safety and city management. Besides accuracy, interpretability is also a key requirement for spatiotemporal forecasting models to justify the decisions. Merely presenting predicted scores fails to conv…

2025

Learn2Aggregate: Supervised Generation of Chvatal-Gomory Cuts Using Graph Neural Networks

AAAI 2025technical

We present Learn2Aggregate, a machine learning (ML) framework for optimizing the generation of Chvatal-Gomory (CG) cuts in mixed integer linear programming (MILP). The framework trains a graph neural network to classify useful constraints for aggregation in CG cut generation. The ML-driven CG separa…

2024

Fair and Efficient Contribution Valuation for Vertical Federated Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Federated learning is an emerging technology for training machine learning models across decentralized data sources without sharing data. Vertical federated learning, also known as feature-based federated learning, applies to scenarios where data sources have the same sample IDs but different featur…

Cited by 49SourcePDFScholar
2024

Towards Human-aligned Evaluation for Linear Programming Word Problems

COLING 2024main

Math Word Problem (MWP) is a crucial NLP task aimed at providing solutions for given mathematical descriptions. A notable sub-category of MWP is the Linear Programming Word Problem (LPWP), which holds significant relevance in real-world decision-making and operations research. While the recent rise…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Smart Initial Basis Selection for Linear Programs

ICML 2023poster

The simplex method, introduced by Dantzig more than half a century ago, is still to date one of the most efficient methods for solving large-scale linear programming (LP) problems. While the simplex method is known to have the finite termination property under mild assumptions, the number of iterati…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2022

Augmenting Operations Research with Auto-Formulation of Optimization Models From Problem Descriptions

EMNLP 2022industry

We describe an augmented intelligence system for simplifying and enhancing the modeling experience for operations research. Using this system, the user receives a suggested formulation of an optimization problem based on its description. To facilitate this process, we build an intuitive user interfa…

2021

Optimal Non-Convex Exact Recovery in Stochastic Block Model via Projected Power Method

ICML 2021spotlight

In this paper, we study the problem of exact community recovery in the symmetric stochastic block model, where a graph of $n$ vertices is randomly generated by partitioning the vertices into $K \ge 2$ equal-sized communities and then connecting each pair of vertices with probability that depends on…

2021

Personalized Cross-Silo Federated Learning on Non-IID Data

AAAI 2021technical

Non-IID data present a tough challenge for federated learning. In this paper, we explore a novel idea of facilitating pairwise collaborations between clients with similar data. We propose FedAMP, a new method employing federated attentive message passing to facilitate similar clients to collaborate…

Cited by 744SourcePDFScholar
2020

A Nearly-Linear Time Algorithm for Exact Community Recovery in Stochastic Block Model

ICML 2020poster

Learning community structures in graphs that are randomly generated by stochastic block models (SBMs) has received much attention lately. In this paper, we focus on the problem of exactly recovering the communities in a binary symmetric SBM, where a graph of $n$ vertices is partitioned into two equa…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2015

\ell_1,p-Norm Regularization: Error Bounds and Convergence Rate Analysis of First-Order Methods

ICML 2015poster

Recently, \ell_1,p-regularization has been widely used to induce structured sparsity in the solutions to various optimization problems. Motivated by the desire to analyze the convergence rate of first-order methods, we show that for a large class of \ell_1,p-regularized problems, an error bound cond…

Cited by 51SourcePDFScholar