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Publications (188)

physics.optics2019

Nonlinear optical response spatial self-hase modulation in MoTe2: correlations between \c{hi}(3) and mobility or effective mass

Lili Hu, Fei Sun, Hui Zhao +1

We report an unambiguous observation of third-order nonlinear optical effect, spatial self-phase modulation (SSPM), in a MoTe2 dispersion. The values of the third order nonlinear o…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Two-dimensional superconductivity in a thick exfoliated kagome film

Fei Sun, Andrea Capa Salinas, Stephen D. Wilson +1

We report the observation of two-dimensional superconductivity (2D SC) in exfoliated kagome metal CsVSb with a thickness far thicker than the atomic limit. By examining the…

cs.CL2020

CLEAR: Contrastive Learning for Sentence Representation

Zhuofeng Wu, Sinong Wang, Jiatao Gu +3

Pre-trained language models have proven their unique powers in capturing implicit language features. However, most pre-training approaches focus on the word-level training objectiv…

cs.IR2020

Privileged Features Distillation at Taobao Recommendations

Chen Xu, Quan Li, Junfeng Ge +7

Features play an important role in the prediction tasks of e-commerce recommendations. To guarantee the consistency of off-line training and on-line serving, we usually utilize the…

cs.IR2026

GoalRank: Group-Relative Optimization for a Large Ranking Model

Kaike Zhang, Xiaobei Wang, Shuchang Liu +7

Mainstream ranking approaches typically follow a Generator-Evaluator two-stage paradigm, where a generator produces candidate lists and an evaluator selects the best one. Recent wo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Creation of independently controllable and long lifetime polar skyrmion textures in ferroelectric-metallic heterostructures

Fei Sun, Jianhua Ren, Hongfang Li +11

Topological textures like vortices, labyrinths and skyrmions formed in ferroic materials have attracted extensive interests during the past decade for their fundamental physics, in…

cs.IR2020

Understanding Echo Chambers in E-commerce Recommender Systems

Yingqiang Ge, Shuya Zhao, Honglu Zhou +4

Personalized recommendation benefits users in accessing contents of interests effectively. Current research on recommender systems mostly focuses on matching users with proper item…

cs.IR2019

Exact-K Recommendation via Maximal Clique Optimization

Yu Gong, Yu Zhu, Lu Duan +5

This paper targets to a novel but practical recommendation problem named exact-K recommendation. It is different from traditional top-K recommendation, as it focuses more on (const…

math.PR2020

Dynamics of an imprecise stochastic multimolecular biochemical reaction model with Lévy jumps

Fei Sun

Population dynamics are often affected by sudden environmental perturbations. Parameters of stochastic models are often imprecise due to various uncertainties. In this paper, we fo…

cs.CL2026

Lowest Span Confidence: A Zero-Shot Metric for Efficient and Black-Box Hallucination Detection in LLMs

Yitong Qiao, Licheng Pan, Yu Mi +4

Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs), i.e., the tendency to generate plausible but non-factual content, pose a significant challenge for their reliable deployment in high…

hep-ph2025

Soft-hard factorization of heavy-quark transport in QCD matter at finite chemical potential

Jiale Lou, Wu Wang, Jiazhen Peng +6

We calculate the collisional energy loss and momentum diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks traversing a hot and dense QCD medium at finite quark chemical potential, . Th…

hep-th2016

Computations of superstring amplitudes in pure spinor formalism via Cadabra

Ke-Sheng Sun, Xiang-Mao Ding, Fei Sun +1

The discovery of pure spinor formalism makes the computation of superstring scattering amplitudes possible. In this paper, we will illustrate how computer algebra system Cadabra is…

hep-ph2023

The Splitting of Chiral and Deconfinement Phase Transitions induced by Rotation

Fei Sun, Kun Xu, Mei Huang

The chiral and deconfinement phase transitions under rotation have been simultaneously investigated in the Polyakov-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model. An interesting observation has…

cs.LG2019

Compositional Network Embedding

Tianshu Lyu, Fei Sun, Peng Jiang +2

Network embedding has proved extremely useful in a variety of network analysis tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and network visualization. Almost all the existin…

cs.CV2018

ChamNet: Towards Efficient Network Design through Platform-Aware Model Adaptation

Xiaoliang Dai, Peizhao Zhang, Bichen Wu +10

This paper proposes an efficient neural network (NN) architecture design methodology called Chameleon that honors given resource constraints. Instead of developing new building blo…

cs.LG2020

MLPerf Inference Benchmark

Vijay Janapa Reddi, Christine Cheng, David Kanter +44

Machine-learning (ML) hardware and software system demand is burgeoning. Driven by ML applications, the number of different ML inference systems has exploded. Over 100 organization…

cs.LG2024

Toward Practical Entity Alignment Method Design: Insights from New Highly Heterogeneous Knowledge Graph Datasets

Xuhui Jiang, Chengjin Xu, Yinghan Shen +7

The flourishing of knowledge graph applications has driven the need for entity alignment (EA) across KGs. However, the heterogeneity of practical KGs, characterized by differing sc…

cs.IR2022

Debiasing Learning for Membership Inference Attacks Against Recommender Systems

Zihan Wang, Na Huang, Fei Sun +5

Learned recommender systems may inadvertently leak information about their training data, leading to privacy violations. We investigate privacy threats faced by recommender systems…

physics.app-ph2023

Simultaneously realizing thermal and electromagnetic cloaking by multi-physical null medium

Yichao Liu, Xiaomin Ma, Kun Chao +6

Simultaneously manipulating multiple physical fields plays an important role in the increasingly complex integrated systems, aerospace equipment, biochemical productions, etc. For…

cs.IR2021

CausCF: Causal Collaborative Filtering for RecommendationEffect Estimation

Xu Xie, Zhaoyang Liu, Shiwen Wu +6

To improve user experience and profits of corporations, modern industrial recommender systems usually aim to select the items that are most likely to be interacted with (e.g., clic…

cs.IR2025

Personalized Denoising Implicit Feedback for Robust Recommender System

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

While implicit feedback is foundational to modern recommender systems, factors such as human error, uncertainty, and ambiguity in user behavior inevitably introduce significant noi…

hep-ph2024

Chiral phase transition and spin alignment of vector meson in the Polarized-Polyakov-loop Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model under rotation

Fei Sun, Jingdong Shao, Rui Wen +2

By using the extrapolation method, a polarized Polykov-loop potential at finite real angular velocity is constructed from the lattice results at finite imaginary angular velocity.…

cs.CL2015

Component-Enhanced Chinese Character Embeddings

Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Fei Sun +1

Distributed word representations are very useful for capturing semantic information and have been successfully applied in a variety of NLP tasks, especially on English. In this wor…

hep-ph2017

125 GeV Higgs decay with lepton flavor violation in the SSM

Hai-Bin Zhang, Tai-Fu Feng, Shu-Min Zhao +2

Recently, the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations have reported direct searches for the 125 GeV Higgs decay with lepton flavor violation, . In this work, we analyze the…

math.OC2016

Nonlinear Consensus Strategies for Multi-Agent Networks in Presence of Communication Delays and Switching Topologies: Real-Time Receding Horizon Approach

Fei Sun, Kamran Turkoglu

This paper presents a novel framework which combines a non-iterative solution of Real-Time Nonlinear Receding Horizon Control (NRHC) methodology to achieve consensus within complex…

hep-ph2014

125 GeV Higgs boson decays in the from supersymmetric standard model

Hai-Bin Zhang, Tai-Fu Feng, Fei Sun +3

Recently the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have reported significant events that are attributed to the neutral Higgs boson with mass around 125 GeV. In this work, we investigate the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Strain engineering of epitaxial oxide heterostructures beyond substrate limitations

Xiong Deng, Chao Chen, Deyang Chen +21

The limitation of commercially available single-crystal substrates and the lack of continuous strain tunability preclude the ability to take full advantage of strain engineering fo…

cs.LG2021

Load-balanced Gather-scatter Patterns for Sparse Deep Neural Networks

Fei Sun, Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang +6

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to be effective in solving many real-life problems, but its high computation cost prohibits those models from being deployed to edge de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Tripling energy storage density through order-disorder transition induced polar nanoregions in PbZrO3 thin films by ion implantation

Yongjian Luo, Changan Wang, Chao Chen +19

Dielectric capacitors are widely used in pulsed power electronic devices due to their ultrahigh power densities and extremely fast charge/discharge speed. To achieve enhanced energ…

cs.AI2024

The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Aaron Grattafiori, Abhimanyu Dubey, Abhinav Jauhri +556

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems are powered by foundation models. This paper presents a new set of foundation models, called Llama 3. It is a herd of language models th…

physics.optics2010

Can Maxwell's Fish Eye Lens Really Give Perfect Imaging? Part II. The case with drains

Fei Sun, Xiaochen Ge, Sailing He

We use both FEM (finite element method) and FDTD (finite difference time domain method) to simulate the field distribution in Maxwell's fish eye lens with one or more passive drain…

cs.IR2021

GRN: Generative Rerank Network for Context-wise Recommendation

Yufei Feng, Binbin Hu, Yu Gong +3

Reranking is attracting incremental attention in the recommender systems, which rearranges the input ranking list into the final rank-ing list to better meet user demands. Most exi…

cs.CL2020

Ranking Enhanced Dialogue Generation

Changying Hao, Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan +3

How to effectively utilize the dialogue history is a crucial problem in multi-turn dialogue generation. Previous works usually employ various neural network architectures (e.g., re…

physics.optics2013

Comment on 'Perfect drain for the Maxwell fish eye lens'

Fei Sun

The non-magnetic loss material has been proposed (2011 New J. Phys. 13 023038) to mimic a passive perfect drain in the Maxwell's fish eye lens (MFL). In this comment, we argue that…

physics.optics2023

Tapered MMI splitters with unconstrained splitting ratio on a thick SOI platform

Matteo Cherchi, Mikko Harjanne, Katherine Bryant +3

We have systematically studied multimode interferometer (MMI) splitters made from multiple tapered sections. The goal is to create a library of robust and low-loss splitters coveri…

hep-ph2023

The rotation effect on the thermodynamics of the QCD matter

Fei Sun, Shuang Li, Rui Wen +2

In this study, we investigate the impact of rotation on the thermodynamic characteristics of QCD matter using the three-flavor NJL model. We examine the temperature, quark chemical…

hep-ph2014

Lepton flavor violation in the SSM with slepton flavor mixing

Hai-Bin Zhang, Tai-Fu Feng, Shu-Min Zhao +1

The SSM, one of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, introduces three right-handed neutrino superfields to solve the problem and violates lepton number. With…

q-fin.MF2026

optimal credit portfolio and consumption with regime switching and default contagion

Fei Sun, Wenyuan Wang, Kaixin Yan

We study optimal portfolio and consumption in a regime-switching multi-name credit market with default contagion. Defaults generate portfolio losses and alter the intensities of su…

cs.CL2025

The Mirage of Model Editing: Revisiting Evaluation in the Wild

Wanli Yang, Fei Sun, Jiajun Tan +5

Despite near-perfect results reported in the literature, the effectiveness of model editing in real-world applications remains unclear. To bridge this gap, we introduce QAEdit, a n…

cs.AI2026

AIoT-based Continuous, Contextualized, and Explainable Driving Assessment for Older Adults

Yimeng Liu, Fangwei Zhang, Maolin Gan +9

The world is undergoing a major demographic shift as older adults become a rapidly growing share of the population, creating new challenges for driving safety. In car-dependent reg…

hep-ph2025

High-precise determination of critical exponents in holographic QCD

Fei Sun, Xun Chen, Shuang Li +1

The precise determination of critical exponents is crucial for understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. These exponents are fundamental…

cs.CL2026

LIRAG: A Lightweight Rerank Reasoning Strategy Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Guo Chen, Junjie Huang, Huaijin Xie +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating retrieved external knowledge into the generation process. Reasoning models i…

cs.IR2021

Revisit Recommender System in the Permutation Prospective

Yufei Feng, Yu Gong, Fei Sun +2

Recommender systems (RS) work effective at alleviating information overload and matching user interests in various web-scale applications. Most RS retrieve the user's favorite cand…

cs.IR2024

The 1st Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems

Kaike Zhang, Yunfan Wu, Yougang lyu +6

Recommender systems are quintessential applications of human-computer interaction. Widely utilized in daily life, they offer significant convenience but also present numerous chall…

math.AT2016

Algebraic K-Theory and Modular Symbols

Fei Sun

In this paper, we calculate the differential of the rank spectral sequence. We generalize Quillen's spectral sequence from Dedekind domain to general integral Noetherian ring…

hep-ph2022

Elastic pion-proton and pion-pion scattering at high energies in holographic QCD

Zhibo Liu, Wei Xie, Fei Sun +2

The total and differential cross sections of high energy pion-proton and pion-pion scattering are investigated in a holographic QCD model, focusing on the Regge regime in which the…

cs.IR2025

LoRec: Large Language Model for Robust Sequential Recommendation against Poisoning Attacks

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

Sequential recommender systems stand out for their ability to capture users' dynamic interests and the patterns of item-to-item transitions. However, the inherent openness of seque…

physics.optics2010

Can Maxwell's fish eye lens really give perfect imaging?

Fei Sun, Sailing He

Both explicit analysis and FEM numerical simulation are used to analyze the field distribution of a line current in the so-called Maxwell's fish eye lens [bounded with a perfectly…

cs.LG2024

MITA: Bridging the Gap between Model and Data for Test-time Adaptation

Yige Yuan, Bingbing Xu, Teng Xiao +4

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing the generalizability of models. However, existing mainstream TTA methods, predominantly operating at ba…

cs.CL2021

Counterfactual Evaluation for Explainable AI

Yingqiang Ge, Shuchang Liu, Zelong Li +6

While recent years have witnessed the emergence of various explainable methods in machine learning, to what degree the explanations really represent the reasoning process behind th…

physics.optics2025

Broadband Simultaneous Beam Steering and Compressing Device Based on Subwavelength Protrusion Metallic Tunnels

Dongguo Zhang, Fei Sun, Qin Liao +2

Beam steering and beamwidth compressing play a role in steering the beam and narrowing its half-power beamwidth, respectively, which are both widely applied in extending the effect…

cs.LG2020

Computation on Sparse Neural Networks: an Inspiration for Future Hardware

Fei Sun, Minghai Qin, Tianyun Zhang +3

Neural network models are widely used in solving many challenging problems, such as computer vision, personalized recommendation, and natural language processing. Those models are…

hep-ph2014

Top quark decay to a 125GeV Higgs in BLMSSM

Tie-Jun Gao, Tai-Fu Feng, Fei Sun +2

In this paper, we calculate the top quark rare decay t-ch in a supersymmetric extension of the standard model where baryon and lepton numbers are local gauge symmetries. Adopting r…

physics.optics2025

Implementation of ultra-broadband optical null media via space-folding

Yichao Liu, Jiale Li, Fei Sun +3

Optical null medium (ONM) has garnered significant attention in electromagnetic wave manipulation. However, existing ONM implementations suffer from either narrow operational bandw…

physics.app-ph2023

On-chip omnidirectional electromagnetic-thermal cloak

Yichao Liu, Hanchuan Chen, Gang Zhao +1

Simultaneously guiding electromagnetic waves and heat flow at any incidence angle to smoothly bypass some electromagnetic/thermal sensitive elements is a key factor to ensure effic…

physics.gen-ph2017

An acoustic metamaterial lens for acoustic point-to-point communication in air

Fei Sun, Shuwei Guo, Borui Li +2

Acoustic metamaterials have become a novel and effective way to control sound waves and design acoustic devices. In this study, we design a 3D acoustic metamaterial lens (AML) to a…

cs.CL2018

Multi-Source Pointer Network for Product Title Summarization

Fei Sun, Peng Jiang, Hanxiao Sun +3

In this paper, we study the product title summarization problem in E-commerce applications for display on mobile devices. Comparing with conventional sentence summarization, produc…

cs.AI2026

Multi-Behavior Sequential Modeling with Transition-Aware Graph Attention Network for E-Commerce Recommendation

Hanqi Jin, Gaoming Yang, Zhangming Chan +7

User interactions on e-commerce platforms are inherently diverse, involving behaviors such as clicking, favoriting, adding to cart, and purchasing. The transitions between these be…

cs.AI2024

The Butterfly Effect of Model Editing: Few Edits Can Trigger Large Language Models Collapse

Wanli Yang, Fei Sun, Xinyu Ma +3

Although model editing has shown promise in revising knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs), its impact on the inherent capabilities of LLMs is often overlooked. In this work, w…

cs.CL2024

Fact-Level Confidence Calibration and Self-Correction

Yige Yuan, Bingbing Xu, Hexiang Tan +5

Confidence calibration in LLMs, i.e., aligning their self-assessed confidence with the actual accuracy of their responses, enabling them to self-evaluate the correctness of their o…

cs.CL2025

A Survey on Unlearning in Large Language Models

Ruichen Qiu, Jiajun Tan, Jiayue Pu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities, but their training on massive corpora poses significant risks from memorized sensitive information. To mitigate th…

cs.IR2019

Value-aware Recommendation based on Reinforced Profit Maximization in E-commerce Systems

Changhua Pei, Xinru Yang, Qing Cui +5

Existing recommendation algorithms mostly focus on optimizing traditional recommendation measures, such as the accuracy of rating prediction in terms of RMSE or the quality of top-…

cs.CV2022

MILAN: Masked Image Pretraining on Language Assisted Representation

Zejiang Hou, Fei Sun, Yen-Kuang Chen +2

Self-attention based transformer models have been dominating many computer vision tasks in the past few years. Their superb model qualities heavily depend on the excessively large…

cs.IR2021

Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Xu Xie, Fei Sun, Zhaoyang Liu +4

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactio…

cs.DC2022

Shfl-BW: Accelerating Deep Neural Network Inference with Tensor-Core Aware Weight Pruning

Guyue Huang, Haoran Li, Minghai Qin +3

Weight pruning in deep neural networks (DNNs) can reduce storage and computation cost, but struggles to bring practical speedup to the model inference time. Tensor-cores can signif…

cs.IR2021

Explore User Neighborhood for Real-time E-commerce Recommendation

Xu Xie, Fei Sun, Xiaoyong Yang +4

Recommender systems play a vital role in modern online services, such as Amazon and Taobao. Traditional personalized methods, which focus on user-item (UI) relations, have been wid…

cs.RO2016

Web Based Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot

Chien Liang Fok, Fei Sun, Matt Mangum +3

The Cloud-based Advanced Robotics Laboratory (CARL) integrates a whole body controller and web-based teleoperation to enable any device with a web browser to access and control a h…

physics.app-ph2026

Decoupling heat and electricity: A thermal invisible gateway

Jiahao Li, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +4

The Wiedemann-Franz law couples electrical and thermal conductivity, making high electrical conduction with low thermal conduction a major challenge. To overcome this, we designed…

cs.CL2026

Resisting Contextual Interference in RAG via Parametric-Knowledge Reinforcement

Chenyu Lin, Yilin Wen, Du Su +5

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves performance on knowledge-intensive tasks but can be derailed by wrong, irrelevant, or conflicting retrieved text, causing models to re…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Reasoning: Reinforcement Learning Unlocks Parametric Knowledge in LLMs

Wanli Yang, Hongyu Zang, Junwei Zhang +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in LLM reasoning, but whether it can also improve direct recall of parametric knowledge remains an open question. We stu…

cs.LG2023

Adversarial Camouflage for Node Injection Attack on Graphs

Shuchang Tao, Qi Cao, Huawei Shen +4

Node injection attacks on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention recently, due to their ability to degrade GNN performance with high attack success rates.…

cs.IR2020

Learning Personalized Risk Preferences for Recommendation

Yingqiang Ge, Shuyuan Xu, Shuchang Liu +3

The rapid growth of e-commerce has made people accustomed to shopping online. Before making purchases on e-commerce websites, most consumers tend to rely on rating scores and revie…

math.OC2016

Estimation of CD4+ T Cell Count Parameters in HIV/AIDS Patients Based on Real-time Nonlinear Receding Horizon Control

Fei Sun, Kamran Turkoglu

An increasing number of control techniques are introduced to HIV infection problem to explore the options of helping clinical testing, optimizing drug treatments and to study the d…

cs.IR2025

From Generation to Consumption: Personalized List Value Estimation for Re-ranking

Kaike Zhang, Xiaobei Wang, Xiaoyu Yang +5

Re-ranking is critical in recommender systems for optimizing the order of recommendation lists, thus improving user satisfaction and platform revenue. Most existing methods follow…

cs.MA2026

Agent System Operations: Categorization, Challenges, and Future Directions

Zexin Wang, Changhua Pei, Yuanhao Liu +10

As the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, LLM-based agent systems offer advantages in flexibility and interpretability over traditional sys…

cs.CV2018

2018 Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge

Sergei Alyamkin, Matthew Ardi, Achille Brighton +38

The Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC, https://rebootingcomputing.ieee.org/lpirc) is an annual competition started in 2015. The competition identifies the best technolog…

cs.IR2025

Interactive Recommendation Agent with Active User Commands

Jiakai Tang, Yujie Luo, Xunke Xi +12

Traditional recommender systems rely on passive feedback mechanisms that limit users to simple choices such as like and dislike. However, these coarse-grained signals fail to captu…

cs.IR2022

Graph Neural Networks in Recommender Systems: A Survey

Shiwen Wu, Fei Sun, Wentao Zhang +2

With the explosive growth of online information, recommender systems play a key role to alleviate such information overload. Due to the important application value of recommender s…

math.OC2015

Real-Time Non-Linear Receding Horizon Control Methodology for Estimation of Time-Varying Parameters

Fei Sun, Kamran Turkoglu

In control and engineering community, models generally contain a number of parameters which are unknown or roughly known. A complete knowledge of these parameters is critical to de…

cs.IR2024

Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

Adversarial Collaborative Filtering (ACF), which typically applies adversarial perturbations at user and item embeddings through adversarial training, is widely recognized as an ef…

physics.app-ph2019

Thermal-null medium (TNM): a novel material to achieve feasible thermodynamics devices beyond conventional challenges

Hooman Barati Sedeh, Mohammad Hosein Fakheri, Ali Abdolali +1

Recently, heat manipulation has gained the attention of scientific community due to its several applications. In this letter, based on transformation thermodynamic (TT) methodology…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Pressure enhanced interplay among lattice, spin and charge in La2FeMnO6 mixed perovskite

Nana Li, Fengren Fan, Fei Sun +16

Spin crossover plays a central role in the structural instability, net magnetic moment modification, metallization, and even in superconductivity in corresponding materials. Most r…

cs.IR2021

Unified Conversational Recommendation Policy Learning via Graph-based Reinforcement Learning

Yang Deng, Yaliang Li, Fei Sun +2

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) enable the traditional recommender systems to explicitly acquire user preferences towards items and attributes through interactive conversa…

physics.optics2023

Second order add/drop filter with a single ring resonator

Matteo Cherchi, Fei Sun, Markku Kapulainen +3

We show theoretically and experimentally how a flat-top second-order response can be achieved with a self-coupled single add-drop ring resonator based on two couplers with differen…

cs.IR2022

Studying the Impact of Data Disclosure Mechanism in Recommender Systems via Simulation

Ziqian Chen, Fei Sun, Yifan Tang +3

Recently, privacy issues in web services that rely on users' personal data have raised great attention. Unlike existing privacy-preserving technologies such as federated learning a…

cs.CV2020

Learning in the Frequency Domain

Kai Xu, Minghai Qin, Fei Sun +3

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks. Existing neural networks mainly operate in the spatial domain with fixed input sizes. For practical…

cs.LG2024

Pruning Foundation Models for High Accuracy without Retraining

Pu Zhao, Fei Sun, Xuan Shen +4

Despite the superior performance, it is challenging to deploy foundation models or large language models (LLMs) due to their massive parameters and computations. While pruning is a…

cs.AI2025

A Survey on AgentOps: Categorization, Challenges, and Future Directions

Zexin Wang, Jingjing Li, Quan Zhou +7

As the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, LLM-based agent systems offer advantages in flexibility and interpretability over traditional sys…

physics.app-ph2024

Broadband planar electromagnetic hyper-lens with uniform magnification in air

Ran Sun, Fei Sun, Hanchuan Chen +2

A planar hyper-lens, capable of creating sub-wavelength imaging for broadband electromagnetic wave, is designed based on electromagnetic null medium. Subsequently, a scheme for the…

nucl-th2018

Estimation of the chiral magnetic effect considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium

Sheng-Qin Feng, Xin Ai, Lei Pei +3

The magnetic field plays a major role in the searching of the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. If the lifetime of the magnetic field is too short, as ex…

physics.optics2026

Topological-Charge-Enabled Photonic Doping in ENZ Media

Zhicheng Xiong, Fei Sun, Weiqi Yuan +4

Conventional photonic doping schemes predominantly employ circular or rectangular dielectric dopants with zero topological charge, where the effective permeability can only be tune…

physics.optics2026

Cloaking of Arbitrarily Shaped Large-Scale Objects Through the Injection of Electromagnetic Invisibility Genes

Zirui Xie, Fei Sun, Yichao Liu +3

Full-space electromagnetic invisibility mainly includes light-bending and scattering-cancellation cloaking. Light-bending cloaking causes double-blind phenomenon and is incompatibl…

cs.IR2025

LLM4MEA: Data-free Model Extraction Attacks on Sequential Recommenders via Large Language Models

Shilong Zhao, Fei Sun, Kaike Zhang +6

Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of sequential recommender systems to Model Extraction Attacks (MEAs). MEAs collect responses from recommender systems to replicat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Reversibly Strain Engineering and Electric-Field Control of Crystal Symmetry in Multiferroic Oxides

Fei Sun, Chao Chen, Deyang Chen +5

Multiferroic oxides, such as BiFeO3, have garnered significant attention due to their coupled ferroelectric, magnetic, and elastic properties, offering exciting opportunities for m…

cs.CL2024

When to Trust LLMs: Aligning Confidence with Response Quality

Shuchang Tao, Liuyi Yao, Hanxing Ding +6

Despite the success of large language models (LLMs) in natural language generation, much evidence shows that LLMs may produce incorrect or nonsensical text. This limitation highlig…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Speculative Decoding for Llama at Scale: Challenges and Solutions

Bangsheng Tang, Carl Chengyan Fu, Fei Kou +35

Speculative decoding is a standard method for accelerating the inference speed of large language models. However, scaling it for production environments poses several engineering c…

cs.CL2026

SAEExplainer: Interpreting SAE Features with Activation-Guided Preference Optimization

Jingyi He, Haiyan Zhao, Ruxue Shi +4

Although Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have mitigated the opacity of large language models (LLMs) by decomposing dense representations into sparse features, explaining these features…

cs.IR2020

MTBRN: Multiplex Target-Behavior Relation Enhanced Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Yufei Feng, Fuyu Lv, Binbin Hu +5

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many industrial systems, such as display advertising and recommender systems. Recently, modeling user behavior sequences…

q-fin.RM2020

Regulator-based risk statistics for portfolios

Xiaochuan Deng, Fei Sun

Risk statistic is a critical factor not only for risk analysis but also for financial application. However, the traditional risk statistics may fail to describe the characteristics…

cs.LG2024

Is Flash Attention Stable?

Alicia Golden, Samuel Hsia, Fei Sun +8

Training large-scale machine learning models poses distinct system challenges, given both the size and complexity of today's workloads. Recently, many organizations training state-…