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Publications (69)

cs.LG2026

Beyond the Class Subspace: Teacher-Guided Training for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection in Single-Domain Models

Hong Yang, Devroop Kar, Qi Yu +2

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods perform well on multi-domain benchmarks, yet many practical systems are trained on single-domain data. We show that this regime induces…

cs.IR2022

A Dynamic Meta-Learning Model for Time-Sensitive Cold-Start Recommendations

Krishna Prasad Neupane, Ervine Zheng, Yu Kong +1

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to t…

physics.chem-ph2022

A -Machine Learning Approach for Force Fields, Illustrated by a CCSD(T) 4-body Correction to the MB-pol Water Potential

Chen Qu, Qi Yu, Riccardo Conte +3

-Machine Learning (-ML) has been shown to effectively and efficiently bring a low-level ML potential energy surface to CCSD(T) quality. Here we propose extending this appro…

cs.LG2023

Learn to Accumulate Evidence from All Training Samples: Theory and Practice

Deep Pandey, Qi Yu

Evidential deep learning, built upon belief theory and subjective logic, offers a principled and computationally efficient way to turn a deterministic neural network uncertainty-aw…

cs.LG2026

PLANETALIGN: A Comprehensive Python Library for Benchmarking Network Alignment

Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Yuchen Yan +5

Network alignment (NA) aims to identify node correspondence across different networks and serves as a critical cornerstone behind various downstream multi-network learning tasks. D…

cs.LG2022

Evidential Conditional Neural Processes

Deep Shankar Pandey, Qi Yu

The Conditional Neural Process (CNP) family of models offer a promising direction to tackle few-shot problems by achieving better scalability and competitive predictive performance…

cs.AI2021

Uncertainty-Aware Multiple Instance Learning from Large-Scale Long Time Series Data

Yuansheng Zhu, Weishi Shi, Deep Shankar Pandey +4

We propose a novel framework to classify large-scale time series data with long duration. Long time seriesclassification (L-TSC) is a challenging problem because the dataoften cont…

cs.DL2013

Entitymetrics: Measuring the Impact of Entities

Ying Ding, Min Song, Jia Han +4

This paper proposes entitymetrics to measure the impact of knowledge units. Entitymetrics highlight the importance of entities embedded in scientific literature for further knowled…

cs.CV2026

MapSR: Prompt-Driven Land Cover Map Super-Resolution via Vision Foundation Models

Ruiqi Wang, Qi Yu, Jie Ma +1

High-resolution (HR) land-cover mapping is often constrained by the high cost of dense HR annotations. We revisit this problem from the perspective of map super-resolution, which e…

eess.SY2023

Model-free Quantum Gate Design and Calibration using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Omar Shindi, Qi Yu, Parth Girdhar +1

High-fidelity quantum gate design is important for various quantum technologies, such as quantum computation and quantum communication. Numerous control policies for quantum gate d…

cs.CR2025

MADAR: Efficient Continual Learning for Malware Analysis with Distribution-Aware Replay

Mohammad Saidur Rahman, Scott Coull, Qi Yu +1

Millions of new pieces of malicious software (i.e., malware) are introduced each year. This poses significant challenges for antivirus vendors, who use machine learning to detect a…

cs.LG2026

Scalable Optimal Transport Algorithm for Network Alignment

Elaheh Hassani, Durga Mandarapu, Qi Yu +2

Network alignment identifies node correspondences across different networks and is a fundamental primitive in many data science applications, including social network analysis, fra…

cs.CL2026

Harnessing Consistency for Robust Test-Time LLM Ensemble

Zhichen Zeng, Qi Yu, Xiao Lin +6

Different large language models (LLMs) exhibit diverse strengths and weaknesses, and LLM ensemble serves as a promising approach to integrate their complementary capabilities. Desp…

eess.SP2020

Dictionary Learning with BLOTLESS Update

Qi Yu, Wei Dai, Zoran Cvetkovic +1

Algorithms for learning a dictionary to sparsely represent a given dataset typically alternate between sparse coding and dictionary update stages. Methods for dictionary update aim…

cs.NE2023

Scaling Up Dynamic Graph Representation Learning via Spiking Neural Networks

Jintang Li, Zhouxin Yu, Zulun Zhu +6

Recent years have seen a surge in research on dynamic graph representation learning, which aims to model temporal graphs that are dynamic and evolving constantly over time. However…

physics.chem-ph2022

q-AQUA: a many-body CCSD(T) water potential, including 4-body interactions, demonstrates the quantum nature of water from clusters to the liquid phase

Qi Yu, Chen Qu, Paul L. Houston +3

Many model potential energy surfaces (PESs) have been reported for water; however, none are strictly from "first principles". Here we report such a potential, based on a many-body…

physics.chem-ph2025

"Gold-Standard" -Machine Learned and Transferable Potential for Linear Alkanes

Chen Qu, Thomas C. Allison, Apurba Nandi +4

The conformational properties of linear alkanes, CH, have been of intense interest for many years. Experiments and corresponding electronic structure calculations were…

quant-ph2020

On the capability of a class of quantum sensors

Qi Yu, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong +1

Quantum sensors may provide extremely high sensitivity and precision to extract key information in a quantum or classical physical system. A fundamental question is whether a quant…

cs.LG2025

Can We Ignore Labels In Out of Distribution Detection?

Hong Yang, Qi Yu, Travis Desell

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods have recently become more prominent, serving as a core element in safety-critical autonomous systems. One major purpose of OOD detection…

physics.chem-ph2026

Monomeric machine learning potential for general covalent molecules: linear alkanes as an example

Xinze Li, Ruitao Ma, Chen Qu +2

Machine-learning potentials (MLPs) have become important tools for modern molecular simulations. However, developing models that simultaneously achieve high accuracy and high compu…

physics.chem-ph2022

Quantum calculations on a new CCSD(T) machine-learned PES reveal the leaky nature of gas-phase and ethanol conformers

Apurba Nandi, Riccardo Conte, Chen Qu +3

Ethanol is a molecule of fundamental interest in combustion, astrochemistry, and condensed phase as a solvent. It is characterized by two methyl rotors and () and $ga…

cs.CV2021

Deep Reinforced Attention Regression for Partial Sketch Based Image Retrieval

Dingrong Wang, Hitesh Sapkota, Xumin Liu +1

Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) aims at finding a specific image from a large gallery given a query sketch. Despite the widespread applicability of FG-SBIR in m…

cs.CV2021

DRIVE: Deep Reinforced Accident Anticipation with Visual Explanation

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

Traffic accident anticipation aims to accurately and promptly predict the occurrence of a future accident from dashcam videos, which is vital for a safety-guaranteed self-driving s…

cs.CV2022

Bayesian Nonparametric Submodular Video Partition for Robust Anomaly Detection

Hitesh Sapkota, Qi Yu

Multiple-instance learning (MIL) provides an effective way to tackle the video anomaly detection problem by modeling it as a weakly supervised problem as the labels are usually onl…

physics.chem-ph2024

No Headache for PIPs: A PIP Potential for Aspirin Outperforms Other Machine-Learned Potentials

Paul L. Houston, Chen Qu, Qi Yu +4

Assessments of machine-learned (ML) potentials are an important aspect of the rapid development of this field. We recently reported an assessment of the linear-regression permutati…

quant-ph2025

Tracking Quantum Dynamics in an Optical Cavity for Recovering Purity and Squeezing via Quantum State Smoothing

Shota Yokoyama, Kiarn T. Laverick, David McManus +6

Tracking the dynamics of a quantum system is conventionally achieved by monitoring the system continuously in time and filtering the information contained in measurement records vi…

cs.CV2022

Multidimensional Belief Quantification for Label-Efficient Meta-Learning

Deep Pandey, Qi Yu

Optimization-based meta-learning offers a promising direction for few-shot learning that is essential for many real-world computer vision applications. However, learning from few s…

physics.optics2019

Rectangular SNAP microresonator fabricated with a femtosecond laser

Qi Yu, Sajid Zaki, Yong Yang +3

SNAP microresonators, which are fabricated by nanoscale effective radius variation (ERV) of the optical fiber with sub-angstrom precision, can be potentially used as miniature clas…

cs.LG2024

Reinforced Compressive Neural Architecture Search for Versatile Adversarial Robustness

Dingrong Wang, Hitesh Sapkota, Zhiqiang Tao +1

Prior neural architecture search (NAS) for adversarial robustness works have discovered that a lightweight and adversarially robust neural network architecture could exist in a non…

eess.SY2020

Hybrid filtering for a class of nonlinear quantum systems subject to classical stochastic disturbances

Qi Yu, Daoyi Dong, Ian R. Petersen

A hybrid quantum-classical filtering problem, where a qubit system is disturbed by a classical stochastic process, is investigated. The strategy is to model the classical disturban…

cs.SE2026

When Does Restricting a Coding Agent to execute_code Help? A Regime Agent-Design Ablation

Hong Yang, Qi Yu, Travis Desell

Modern coding agents expose multiple tool surfaces -- IDE primitives, bash, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) code-execution -- and the field has shipped three contradictory claims…

cs.CV2022

Towards Open Set Video Anomaly Detection

Yuansheng Zhu, Wentao Bao, Qi Yu

Open Set Video Anomaly Detection (OpenVAD) aims to identify abnormal events from video data where both known anomalies and novel ones exist in testing. Unsupervised models learned…

physics.optics2020

Comprehensive fabrication of SNAP microresonators by a femtosecond laser

Qi Yu, Zhen Zhang, Xuewen Shu

Surface nanoscale axial photonics (SNAP) microresonators with nanoscale effective radius variation (ERV) along optical fiber axis can be fabricated by inscribing axially oriented l…

physics.chem-ph2025

The quantum nature of ubiquitous vibrational features revealed for ethylene glycol

Apurba Nandi, Riccardo Conte, Priyanka Pandey +4

Vibrational properties of molecules are of widespread interest and importance in chemistry and biochemistry. The reliability of widely employed approximate computational methods is…

eess.IV2026

Combined Dictionary Unfolding Network with Gradient-Adaptive Fidelity for Transferable Multi-Source Fusion

Ge Luo, Jun-Jie Huang, Qi Yu +6

Deep Unfolding Network-based methods have emerged as effective solutions for multi-source image fusion by combining model-driven iterative optimization with data-driven deep learni…

cs.SE2020

Presenting and Evaluating the Impact of Experiential Learning in Computing Accessibility Education

Weishi Shi, Samuel Malachowsky, Yasmine El-Glaly +2

Studies indicate that much of the software created today is not accessible to all users, indicating that developers don't see the need to devote sufficient resources to creating ac…

physics.chem-ph2018

Spectral analyses of trans- and cis-DOCO transients via comb spectroscopy

Thinh Q. Bui, P. Bryan Changala, Bryce J. Bjork +5

We use time-resolved direct frequency comb spectroscopy in the mid-infrared to obtain high-resolution rovibrational spectra of products produced from the OD+CO reaction. In this wo…

cs.CV2021

Evidential Deep Learning for Open Set Action Recognition

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

In a real-world scenario, human actions are typically out of the distribution from training data, which requires a model to both recognize the known actions and reject the unknown.…

cs.IR2019

edge2vec: Representation learning using edge semantics for biomedical knowledge discovery

Zheng Gao, Gang Fu, Chunping Ouyang +8

Representation learning provides new and powerful graph analytical approaches and tools for the highly valued data science challenge of mining knowledge graphs. Since previous grap…

cs.CV2022

OpenTAL: Towards Open Set Temporal Action Localization

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

Temporal Action Localization (TAL) has experienced remarkable success under the supervised learning paradigm. However, existing TAL methods are rooted in the closed set assumption,…

quant-ph2017

Hybrid Filtering for a Class of Quantum Systems with Classical Disturbances

Qi Yu, Daoyi Dong, Ian R. Petersen +1

A filtering problem for a class of quantum systems disturbed by a classical stochastic process is investigated in this paper. The classical disturbance process, which is assumed to…

quant-ph2018

Quantum speed-up in solving the maximal clique problem

Weng-Long Chang, Qi Yu, Zhaokai Li +3

The maximal clique problem, to find the maximally sized clique in a given graph, is classically an NP-complete computational problem, which has potential applications ranging from…

eess.SY2020

Generation of accessible sets in the dynamical modelling of quantum network systems

Qi Yu, Yuanlong Wang, Daoyi Dong +2

In this paper, we consider the dynamical modeling of a class of quantum network systems consisting of qubits. Qubit probes are employed to measure a set of selected nodes of the qu…

cs.CV2023

On Model Explanations with Transferable Neural Pathways

Xinmiao Lin, Wentao Bao, Qi Yu +1

Neural pathways as model explanations consist of a sparse set of neurons that provide the same level of prediction performance as the whole model. Existing methods primarily focus…

physics.chem-ph2024

Quantum mechanical deconstruction of vibrational energy transfer rate and pathways modified by collective vibrational strong coupling

Qi Yu, Dong H. Zhang, Joel M. Bowman

Recent experiments have demonstrated that vibrational strong coupling (VSC) between molecular vibrations and the optical cavity field can modify vibrational energy transfer (VET) p…

cs.CV2025

ProDisc-VAD: An Efficient System for Weakly-Supervised Anomaly Detection in Video Surveillance Applications

Tao Zhu, Qi Yu, Xinru Dong +4

Weakly-supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) using Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) suffers from label ambiguity, hindering discriminative feature learning. We propose ProDis…

cs.LG2025

Generalized Regularized Evidential Deep Learning Models: Theory and Comprehensive Evaluation

Deep Shankar Pandey, Hyomin Choi, Qi Yu

Evidential deep learning (EDL) models, based on Subjective Logic, introduce a principled and computationally efficient way to make deterministic neural networks uncertainty-aware.…

cs.CV2020

Object-Aware Centroid Voting for Monocular 3D Object Detection

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

Monocular 3D object detection aims to detect objects in a 3D physical world from a single camera. However, recent approaches either rely on expensive LiDAR devices, or resort to de…

cs.LG2026

AvAtar: Learning to Align via Active Optimal Transport

Qi Yu, Ruizhong Qiu, Zhichen Zeng +3

The paper introduces AvAtar, an active learning framework that selects informative supervision points to improve optimal transport‑based alignment by measuring each candidate's gra…

#optimal transport#active learning#alignment#gradient-based selection
physics.chem-ph2021

Permutationally invariant polynomial regression for energies and gradients, using reverse differentiation, achieves orders of magnitude speed-up with high precision compared to other machine learning methods

Paul L. Houston, Chen Qu, Apurba Nandi +3

Permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) regression has been used to obtain machine-learned (ML) potential energy surfaces, including analytical gradients, for many molecules and…

cs.CV2023

Latent Space Energy-based Model for Fine-grained Open Set Recognition

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

Fine-grained open-set recognition (FineOSR) aims to recognize images belonging to classes with subtle appearance differences while rejecting images of unknown classes. A recent tre…

physics.chem-ph2022

Multidimensional quantum calculation of the infrared spectra under polaritonic vibrational strong and ultrastrong coupling

Qi Yu

Recent experiments and theory demonstrate that the the ground state properties and chemical reactivity of molecules can be modified inside an optical cavity. The vibrational strong…

cs.AI2025

Joint Optimal Transport and Embedding for Network Alignment

Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Yuchen Yan +3

Network alignment, which aims to find node correspondence across different networks, is the cornerstone of various downstream multi-network and Web mining tasks. Most of the embedd…

physics.chem-ph2024

Extending the atomic decomposition and many-body representation, a chemistry-motivated monomer-centered approach for machine learning potentials

Qi Yu, Ruitao Ma, Chen Qu +6

Most widely used machine learned (ML) potentials for condensed phase applications rely on many-body permutationally invariant polynomial (PIP) or atom-centered neural networks (NN)…

eess.SY2021

Simultaneous estimation of parameters and the state of an optical parametric oscillator system

Qi Yu, Shota Yokoyama, Daoyi Dong +2

In this paper, we consider the filtering problem of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The OPO pump power may fluctuate due to environmental disturbances, resulting in uncerta…

cs.LG2022

Balancing Bias and Variance for Active Weakly Supervised Learning

Hitesh Sapkota, Qi Yu

As a widely used weakly supervised learning scheme, modern multiple instance learning (MIL) models achieve competitive performance at the bag level. However, instance-level predict…

cs.LG2016

DLAU: A Scalable Deep Learning Accelerator Unit on FPGA

Chao Wang, Qi Yu, Lei Gong +3

As the emerging field of machine learning, deep learning shows excellent ability in solving complex learning problems. However, the size of the networks becomes increasingly large…

quant-ph2026

Control-centric quantum noise spectroscopy of time-ordered polyspectra

Kaiah Steven, Elliot Coupe, Qi Yu +1

Precise environmental-noise characterisation in open quantum systems is a key step toward high-fidelity quantum control and targeted decoherence suppression in computing and sensin…

stat.ME2024

Time-In-Range Analyses of Functional Data Subject to Missing with Applications to Inpatient Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Qi Yu, Guillermo E. Umpierrez, Limin Peng

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been increasingly used in US hospitals for the care of patients with diabetes. Time in range (TIR), which measures the percent of time over…

physics.chem-ph2026

Fidelity of Machine Learned Potentials: Quantitative Assessment for Protonated Oxalate

Chen Qu, Paul L. Houston, Qi Yu +5

There has been a veritable explosion of methods and software to perform machine-learned regression on datasets of electronic energies and forces to develop high-dimensional machine…

cs.LG2025

FuXi-Air: Urban Air Quality Forecasting Based on Emission-Meteorology-Pollutant multimodal Machine Learning

Zhixin Geng, Xu Fan, Xiqiao Lu +9

Air pollution has emerged as a major public health challenge in megacities. Numerical simulations and single-site machine learning approaches have been widely applied in air qualit…

cs.LG2022

Spiking Graph Convolutional Networks

Zulun Zhu, Jiaying Peng, Jintang Li +3

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) achieve an impressive performance due to the remarkable representation ability in learning the graph information. However, GCNs, when implemente…

physics.chem-ph2024

Can We Learn the Energy of Sublimation of Ice from Water Clusters?

Joe Bowman, Qi Yu, Chen Qu +2

This short paper reports a study of the electronic dissociation energies, De, of water clusters from direct ab initio (mostly CCSD(T)) calculations and the q-AQUA and MB-pol potent…

physics.chem-ph2022

The MD17 Datasets from the Perspective of Datasets for Gas-Phase "Small" Molecule Potentials

Joel M. Bowman, Chen Qu Riccardo Conte, Apurba Nandi +2

There has been great progress in developing methods for machine-learned potential energy surfaces. There have also been important assessments of these methods by comparing so-calle…

physics.chem-ph2024

-Machine Learning to Elevate DFT-based Potentials and a Force Field to the CCSD(T) Level Illustrated for Ethanol

Apurba Nandi, Priyanka Pandey, Paul L. Houston +5

Progress in machine learning has facilitated the development of potentials that offer both the accuracy of first-principles techniques and vast increases in the speed of evaluation…

cs.DC2024

Workflows Community Summit 2024: Future Trends and Challenges in Scientific Workflows

Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Deborah Bard, Kyle Chard +108

The Workflows Community Summit gathered 111 participants from 18 countries to discuss emerging trends and challenges in scientific workflows, focusing on six key areas: time-sensit…

cs.AI2020

Improving the Decision-Making Process of Self-Adaptive Systems by Accounting for Tactic Volatility

Jeffrey Palmerino, Qi Yu, Travis Desell +1

When self-adaptive systems encounter changes within their surrounding environments, they enact tactics to perform necessary adaptations. For example, a self-adaptive cloud-based sy…

cs.LG2026

Domain Feature Collapse: Implications for Out-of-Distribution Detection and Solutions

Hong Yang, Devroop Kar, Qi Yu +2

Why do state-of-the-art OOD detection methods exhibit catastrophic failure when models are trained on single-domain datasets? We provide the first theoretical explanation for this…

cs.CV2020

Uncertainty-based Traffic Accident Anticipation with Spatio-Temporal Relational Learning

Wentao Bao, Qi Yu, Yu Kong

Traffic accident anticipation aims to predict accidents from dashcam videos as early as possible, which is critical to safety-guaranteed self-driving systems. With cluttered traffi…