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Publications (62)

math.FA2014

Strong convergence for the modified Mann's iteration of -strict pseudocontraction

Yisheng Song, Hongjun Wang

In this paper, for an -strict pseudocontraction , we prove strong convergence of the modified Mann's iteration defined by $$x_{n+1}=β_{n}u+γ_nx_n+(1-β_{n}-γ_n)[α_{n}Tx_…

cs.IT2021

High-performance Estimation of Jamming Covariance Matrix for IRS-aided Directional Modulation Network with a Malicious Attacker

Hangjia He, Ting Su, Hongjun Wang +4

In this paper, we investigate the anti-jamming problem of a directional modulation (DM) system with the aid of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). As an efficient tool to combat…

cs.CV2025

MultiEdit: Advancing Instruction-based Image Editing on Diverse and Challenging Tasks

Mingsong Li, Lin Liu, Hongjun Wang +7

Current instruction-based image editing (IBIE) methods struggle with challenging editing tasks, as both editing types and sample counts of existing datasets are limited. Moreover,…

cs.LG2026

TrajGPT-R: Generating Urban Mobility Trajectory with Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Generative Pre-trained Transformer

Jiawei Wang, Chuang Yang, Jiawei Yong +6

Mobility trajectories are essential for understanding urban dynamics and enhancing urban planning, yet access to such data is frequently hindered by privacy concerns. This research…

cs.CV2025

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images: Methods and Results

Xin Li, Yeying Jin, Xin Jin +134

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 Challenge on Day and Night Raindrop Removal for Dual-Focused Images. This challenge received a wide range of impressive solutions, which are devel…

cs.LG2024

Evaluating the Generalization Ability of Spatiotemporal Model in Urban Scenario

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Tong Pan +4

Spatiotemporal neural networks have shown great promise in urban scenarios by effectively capturing temporal and spatial correlations. However, urban environments are constantly ev…

cs.LG2024

TrafPS: A Shapley-based Visual Analytics Approach to Interpret Traffic

Zezheng Feng, Yifan Jiang, Hongjun Wang +5

Recent achievements in deep learning (DL) have shown its potential for predicting traffic flows. Such predictions are beneficial for understanding the situation and making decision…

cs.LG2022

GOF-TTE: Generative Online Federated Learning Framework for Travel Time Estimation

Zhiwen Zhang, Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen +3

Estimating the travel time of a path is an essential topic for intelligent transportation systems. It serves as the foundation for real-world applications, such as traffic monitori…

cs.CV2018

Crowd Counting using Deep Recurrent Spatial-Aware Network

Lingbo Liu, Hongjun Wang, Guanbin Li +2

Crowd counting from unconstrained scene images is a crucial task in many real-world applications like urban surveillance and management, but it is greatly challenged by the camera'…

cs.CV2026

Scaling Parallel Sequence Models to Foundation-Scale Vision Encoders

Yitong Jiang, Hongjun Wang, Collin McCarthy +15

Vision foundation models are bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of self-attention, which limits usable resolution and increases the cost of large-scale pretraining. Subquadratic al…

cs.LG2025

Resilience Inference for Supply Chains with Hypergraph Neural Network

Zetian Shen, Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen +1

Supply chains are integral to global economic stability, yet disruptions can swiftly propagate through interconnected networks, resulting in substantial economic impacts. Accurate…

cs.LG2025

Generalist++: A Meta-learning Framework for Mitigating Trade-off in Adversarial Training

Yisen Wang, Yichuan Mo, Hongjun Wang +2

Despite the rapid progress of neural networks, they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, for which adversarial training (AT) is currently the most effective defense. W…

cs.AI2022

Route to Time and Time to Route: Travel Time Estimation from Sparse Trajectories

Zhiwen Zhang, Hongjun Wang, Zipei Fan +3

Due to the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, many online web apps (e.g., Google Map and Uber) estimate the travel time of trajectory data collected by mob…

cs.CV2025

Not All Degradations Are Equal: A Targeted Feature Denoising Framework for Generalizable Image Super-Resolution

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Zhengwei Yin +2

Generalizable Image Super-Resolution aims to enhance model generalization capabilities under unknown degradations. To achieve this goal, the models are expected to focus only on im…

cs.CL2020

Distributional Discrepancy: A Metric for Unconditional Text Generation

Ping Cai, Xingyuan Chen, Peng Jin +2

The purpose of unconditional text generation is to train a model with real sentences, then generate novel sentences of the same quality and diversity as the training data. However,…

cs.CV2026

See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View

Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen +5

UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized a…

cs.CV2025

What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representation Learning from Atypical Videos

Qiyue Sun, Qiming Huang, Yang Yang +2

Humans usually show exceptional generalisation and discovery ability in the open world, when being shown uncommon new concepts. Whereas most existing studies in the literature focu…

cs.CV2025

Fin3R: Fine-tuning Feed-forward 3D Reconstruction Models via Monocular Knowledge Distillation

Weining Ren, Hongjun Wang, Xiao Tan +1

We present Fin3R, a simple, effective, and general fine-tuning method for feed-forward 3D reconstruction models. The family of feed-forward reconstruction model regresses pointmap…

cs.CV2025

Panoptic Captioning: An Equivalence Bridge for Image and Text

Kun-Yu Lin, Hongjun Wang, Weining Ren +1

This work introduces panoptic captioning, a novel task striving to seek the minimum text equivalent of images, which has broad potential applications. We take the first step toward…

cs.LG2025

Towards Resilient Transportation: A Conditional Transformer for Accident-Informed Traffic Forecasting

Hongjun Wang, Jiawei Yong, Jiawei Wang +2

Traffic prediction remains a key challenge in spatio-temporal data mining, despite progress in deep learning. Accurate forecasting is hindered by the complex influence of external…

cs.LG2024

Unveiling the Inflexibility of Adaptive Embedding in Traffic Forecasting

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Lingyu Zhang +2

Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNNs) and Transformers have shown significant promise in traffic forecasting by effectively modeling temporal and spatial correlations. How…

cs.LG2026

MHPO: Modulated Hazard-aware Policy Optimization for Stable Reinforcement Learning

Hongjun Wang, Wei Liu, Weibo Gu +2

Regulating the importance ratio is critical for the training stability of Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) based frameworks. However, prevailing ratio control methods, suc…

cs.LG2018

Restricted Boltzmann Machines with Gaussian Visible Units Guided by Pairwise Constraints

Jielei Chu, Hongjun Wang, Hua Meng +2

Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) and their variants are usually trained by contrastive divergence (CD) learning, but the training procedure is an unsupervised learning approach…

eess.IV2025

HarmoQ: Harmonized Post-Training Quantization for High-Fidelity Image

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Xuan Song +1

Post-training quantization offers an efficient pathway to deploy super-resolution models, yet existing methods treat weight and activation quantization independently, missing their…

cs.LG2021

Multi-local Collaborative AutoEncoder

Jielei Chu, Hongjun Wang, Jing Liu +2

The excellent performance of representation learning of autoencoders have attracted considerable interest in various applications. However, the structure and multi-local collaborat…

cs.CL2026

AECBench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Knowledge Evaluation of Large Language Models in the AEC Field

Chen Liang, Zhaoqi Huang, Haofen Wang +8

Large language models (LLMs), as a novel information technology, are seeing increasing adoption in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) field. They have shown thei…

cs.LG2022

Self-Ensemble Adversarial Training for Improved Robustness

Hongjun Wang, Yisen Wang

Due to numerous breakthroughs in real-world applications brought by machine intelligence, deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely employed in critical applications. However, predict…

cs.CV2024

Dissecting Out-of-Distribution Detection and Open-Set Recognition: A Critical Analysis of Methods and Benchmarks

Hongjun Wang, Sagar Vaze, Kai Han

Detecting test-time distribution shift has emerged as a key capability for safely deployed machine learning models, with the question being tackled under various guises in recent y…

cs.CV2020

Adding A Filter Based on The Discriminator to Improve Unconditional Text Generation

Xingyuan Chen, Ping Cai, Peng Jin +3

The autoregressive language model (ALM) trained with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is widely used in unconditional text generation. Due to exposure bias, the generated texts…

cs.LG2020

Unsupervised Feature Learning Architecture with Multi-clustering Integration RBM

Jielei Chu, Hongjun Wang, Jing Liu +2

In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised feature learning architecture, which consists of a multi-clustering integration module and a variant of RBM termed multi-clustering i…

cs.LG2024

Robust Traffic Forecasting against Spatial Shift over Years

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Tong Pan +4

Recent advancements in Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks (ST-GNNs) and Transformers have demonstrated promising potential for traffic forecasting by effectively capturing both t…

cs.LG2025

GSPN-2: Efficient Parallel Sequence Modeling

Hongjun Wang, Yitong Jiang, Collin McCarthy +12

Efficient vision transformer remains a bottleneck for high-resolution images and long-video related real-world applications. Generalized Spatial Propagation Network (GSPN) addresse…

cs.LG2022

ST-ExpertNet: A Deep Expert Framework for Traffic Prediction

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Zipei Fan +3

Recently, forecasting the crowd flows has become an important research topic, and plentiful technologies have achieved good performances. As we all know, the flow at a citywide lev…

cs.RO2024

Accurate Cutting-point Estimation for Robotic Lychee Harvesting through Geometry-aware Learning

Gengming Zhang, Hao Cao, Kewei Hu +4

Accurately identifying lychee-picking points in unstructured orchard environments and obtaining their coordinate locations is critical to the success of lychee-picking robots. Howe…

cs.CV2025

Accelerating Flood Warnings by 10 Hours: The Power of River Network Topology in AI-enhanced Flood Forecasting

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Yinqiang Zheng +1

Climate change-driven floods demand advanced forecasting models, yet Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) underutilize river network topology due to tree-like structures causing over-squas…

cs.LG2024

STGformer: Efficient Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer for Traffic Forecasting

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Tong Pan +4

Traffic forecasting is a cornerstone of smart city management, enabling efficient resource allocation and transportation planning. Deep learning, with its ability to capture comple…

cs.AI2023

Multitask Weakly Supervised Learning for Origin Destination Travel Time Estimation

Hongjun Wang, Zhiwen Zhang, Zipei Fan +4

Travel time estimation from GPS trips is of great importance to order duration, ridesharing, taxi dispatching, etc. However, the dense trajectory is not always available due to the…

cs.CV2019

The Detection of Distributional Discrepancy for Text Generation

Xingyuan Chen, Ping Cai, Peng Jin +4

The text generated by neural language models is not as good as the real text. This means that their distributions are different. Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) are used to allev…

cs.CV2025

HiLo: A Learning Framework for Generalized Category Discovery Robust to Domain Shifts

Hongjun Wang, Sagar Vaze, Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is a challenging task in which, given a partially labelled dataset, models must categorize all unlabelled instances, regardless of whether they…

cs.LG2021

Micro-supervised Disturbance Learning: A Perspective of Representation Probability Distribution

Jielei Chu, Jing Liu, Hongjun Wang +3

The instability is shown in the existing methods of representation learning based on Euclidean distance under a broad set of conditions. Furthermore, the scarcity and high cost of…

cs.CV2020

A Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Method for Probabilistic Adversarial Attack and Learning

Hongjun Wang, Guanbin Li, Xiaobai Liu +1

Although deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on multiple computer vision tasks, researches on adversarial learning have shown that de…

cs.CV2026

LLaDA2.0-Uni: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Diffusion Large Language Model

Inclusion AI, Tiwei Bie, Haoxing Chen +15

We present LLaDA2.0-Uni, a unified discrete diffusion large language model (dLLM) that supports multimodal understanding and generation within a natively integrated framework. Its…

cs.LG2022

Easy Begun is Half Done: Spatial-Temporal Graph Modeling with ST-Curriculum Dropout

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Tong Pan +7

Spatial-temporal (ST) graph modeling, such as traffic speed forecasting and taxi demand prediction, is an important task in deep learning area. However, for the nodes in graph, the…

cs.CV2026

STBridge: Shared-Target Alignment for Bridging Understanding and Generation in UMMs

Ye Wang, Hongjun Wang, Hao Fang +7

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate visual understanding and generation within a single architecture, but architectural unification alone does not ensure semantic con…

cs.CV2026

Generalized Category Discovery under Domain Shifts: From Vision to Vision-Language Models

Hongjun Wang, Po Hu, Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to categorize unlabelled instances from both known and unknown classes by transferring knowledge from labelled data of known classes. Exis…

astro-ph.GA2022

Baseline correction for FAST radio recombination lines: a modified penalized least squares smoothing technique

Bin Liu, Lixin Wang, Junzhi Wang +2

A pilot project has been proceeded to map 1 deg on the Galactic plane for radio recombination lines (RRLs) using the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). The…

cs.CV2025

Parallel Sequence Modeling via Generalized Spatial Propagation Network

Hongjun Wang, Wonmin Byeon, Jiarui Xu +6

We present the Generalized Spatial Propagation Network (GSPN), a new attention mechanism optimized for vision tasks that inherently captures 2D spatial structures. Existing attenti…

cs.CV2025

Robustifying Fourier Features Embeddings for Implicit Neural Representations

Mingze Ma, Qingtian Zhu, Yifan Zhan +3

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) employ neural networks to represent continuous functions by mapping coordinates to the corresponding values of the target function, with appl…

physics.soc-ph2024

Worldwide wildfire spreading and its severity described by the SIR model

Tong Pan, Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen +1

Global wildfire spreading dynamics and severity are analyzed using the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) compartment model. We use the novel FireTracks (FT) Scientific Dataset c…

cs.CV2026

Motion Blur Robust Wheat Pest Damage Detection with Dynamic Fuzzy Feature Fusion

Han Zhang, Yanwei Wang, Fang Li +1

Motion blur caused by camera shake produces ghosting artifacts that substantially degrade edge side object detection. Existing approaches either suppress blur as noise and lose dis…

cs.CV2024

Learning to Balance: Diverse Normalization for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Zhengwei Yin +2

Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification (CC-ReID) involves recognizing individuals in images regardless of clothing status. In this paper, we empirically and experimentally demonst…

cs.LG2023

Causal-Based Supervision of Attention in Graph Neural Network: A Better and Simpler Choice towards Powerful Attention

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Lun Du +3

Recent years have witnessed the great potential of attention mechanism in graph representation learning. However, while variants of attention-based GNNs are setting new benchmarks…

cs.HC2022

TrafPS: A Visual Analysis System Interpreting Traffic Prediction in Shapley

Yifan Jiang, Zezheng Feng, Hongjun Wang +2

In recent years, deep learning approaches have been proved good performance in traffic flow prediction, many complex models have been proposed to make traffic flow prediction more…

cs.CV2020

Transferable, Controllable, and Inconspicuous Adversarial Attacks on Person Re-identification With Deep Mis-Ranking

Hongjun Wang, Guangrun Wang, Ya Li +2

The success of DNNs has driven the extensive applications of person re-identification (ReID) into a new era. However, whether ReID inherits the vulnerability of DNNs remains unexpl…

cs.LG2025

Unsupervised Multi-Attention Meta Transformer for Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis

Hanyang Wang, Yuxuan Yang, Hongjun Wang +1

The intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating mechanical equipment usually requires a large amount of labeled sample data. However, in practical industrial applications, acquiring en…

cs.CV2024

Navigating Beyond Dropout: An Intriguing Solution Towards Generalizable Image Super Resolution

Hongjun Wang, Jiyuan Chen, Yinqiang Zheng +1

Deep learning has led to a dramatic leap on Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) performances in recent years. %Despite the substantial advancement% While most existing work assume…

math.SP2021

Eigenvalues of Laplace operators on non-bipartite graphs

Hongjun Wang, Hongmei Song, Jia Zhao

This paper considers the comparison between the eigenvalues of Laplace operators with the standard conditions and the anti-standard conditions on non-bipartite graphs which are equ…

cs.CV2023

Generalist: Decoupling Natural and Robust Generalization

Hongjun Wang, Yisen Wang

Deep neural networks obtained by standard training have been constantly plagued by adversarial examples. Although adversarial training demonstrates its capability to defend against…

cs.CV2025

SPTNet: An Efficient Alternative Framework for Generalized Category Discovery with Spatial Prompt Tuning

Hongjun Wang, Sagar Vaze, Kai Han

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabelled images from both `seen' and `unseen' classes by transferring knowledge from a set of labelled `seen' class images.…

cs.HC2024

HoLens: A Visual Analytics Design for Higher-order Movement Modeling and Visualization

Zezheng Feng, Fang Zhu, Hongjun Wang +4

Higher-order patterns reveal sequential multistep state transitions, which are usually superior to origin-destination analysis, which depicts only first-order geospatial movement p…

cs.MM2026

Leum-VL Technical Report

Yuxuan He, Chaiming Huang, Yifan Wu +4

A short video succeeds not simply because of what it shows, but because of how it schedules attention -- yet current multimodal models lack the structural grammar to parse or produ…

cs.RO2026

Deliberate Before You Fly: Vision-Guided Spatial Deliberation for UAV See-and-Reach Navigation

Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Bohang Liu +4

UAV see-and-reach navigation requires an aerial agent to approach a language-specified target visible in its initial view and stop reliably near it. Existing methods typically map…