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Publications (35)

q-bio.NC2023

AI of Brain and Cognitive Sciences: From the Perspective of First Principles

Luyao Chen, Zhiqiang Chen, Longsheng Jiang +13

Nowadays, we have witnessed the great success of AI in various applications, including image classification, game playing, protein structure analysis, language translation, and con…

q-bio.BM2020

Pre-training of Graph Neural Network for Modeling Effects of Mutations on Protein-Protein Binding Affinity

Xianggen Liu, Yunan Luo, Sen Song +1

Modeling the effects of mutations on the binding affinity plays a crucial role in protein engineering and drug design. In this study, we develop a novel deep learning based framewo…

cs.CV2017

Estimation of the volume of the left ventricle from MRI images using deep neural networks

Fangzhou Liao, Xi Chen, Xiaolin Hu +1

Segmenting human left ventricle (LV) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and calculating its volume are important for diagnosing cardiac diseases. In 2016, Kaggle organized…

eess.SY2024

Brain-Like Replay Naturally Emerges in Reinforcement Learning Agents

Jiyi Wang, Likai Tang, Huimiao Chen +2

Replay is a powerful strategy to promote learning in artificial intelligence and the brain. However, the conditions to generate it and its functional advantages have not been fully…

q-bio.NC2024

Contrastive Learning of Shared Spatiotemporal EEG Representations Across Individuals for Naturalistic Neuroscience

Xinke Shen, Lingyi Tao, Xuyang Chen +3

Neural representations induced by naturalistic stimuli offer insights into how humans respond to stimuli in daily life. Understanding neural mechanisms underlying naturalistic stim…

cs.NE2018

CaMKII activation supports reward-based neural network optimization through Hamiltonian sampling

Zhaofei Yu, David Kappel, Robert Legenstein +3

Synaptic plasticity is implemented and controlled through over thousand different types of molecules in the postsynaptic density and presynaptic boutons that assume a staggering ar…

cs.CL2018

Zooming Network

Yukun Yan, Daqi Zheng, Zhengdong Lu +1

Structural information is important in natural language understanding. Although some current neural net-based models have a limited ability to take local syntactic information, the…

cs.AI2025

Hierarchical Reasoning Model

Guan Wang, Jin Li, Yuhao Sun +6

Reasoning, the process of devising and executing complex goal-oriented action sequences, remains a critical challenge in AI. Current large language models (LLMs) primarily employ C…

eess.SP2026

EEG-JEPA: Structured Latent Prediction for EEG Foundation Models

Jinhao Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Xueqiao Han +8

Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models aim to learn reusable representations from large-scale unlabeled recordings. A common pretraining strategy is masked waveform reconst…

cs.HC2024

Dynamic-Attention-based EEG State Transition Modeling for Emotion Recognition

Xinke Shen, Runmin Gan, Kaixuan Wang +5

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion decoding can objectively quantify people's emotional state and has broad application prospects in human-computer interaction and early dete…

q-bio.NC2025

Capturing Aperiodic Temporal Dynamics of EEG Signals through Stochastic Fluctuation Modeling

Yuhao Sun, Zhiyuan Ma, Xinke Shen +3

Electrophysiological brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), exhibit both periodic and aperiodic components, with the latter often modeled as 1/f noise and considered…

q-bio.NC2026

Training-Driven Representational Geometry Modularization Predicts Brain Alignment in Language Models

Yixuan Liu, Zhiyuan Ma, Likai Tang +5

How large language models (LLMs) align with the neural representation and computation of human language is a central question in cognitive science. Using representational geometry…

cs.CL2017

Event Identification as a Decision Process with Non-linear Representation of Text

Yukun Yan, Daqi Zheng, Zhengdong Lu +1

We propose scale-free Identifier Network(sfIN), a novel model for event identification in documents. In general, sfIN first encodes a document into multi-scale memory stacks, then…

cs.LG2026

Signal-Adaptive Trust Regions for Gradient-Free Optimization of Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks

Jinhao Li, Yuhao Sun, Zhiyuan Ma +5

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) are a promising substrate for energy-efficient control policies, but training them for high-dimensional, long-horizon reinforcement learni…

cs.NE2023

Evolving Connectivity for Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks

Guan Wang, Yuhao Sun, Sijie Cheng +1

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) hold great potential for advancing artificial general intelligence, as they draw inspiration from the biological nervous system and show p…

cs.CL2024

OpenChat: Advancing Open-source Language Models with Mixed-Quality Data

Guan Wang, Sijie Cheng, Xianyuan Zhan +3

Nowadays, open-source large language models like LLaMA have emerged. Recent developments have incorporated supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning fine-tuning (RLFT…

cs.LG2021

Simulated annealing for optimization of graphs and sequences

Xianggen Liu, Pengyong Li, Fandong Meng +5

Optimization of discrete structures aims at generating a new structure with the better property given an existing one, which is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Different…

cs.LG2020

Learn molecular representations from large-scale unlabeled molecules for drug discovery

Pengyong Li, Jun Wang, Yixuan Qiao +6

How to produce expressive molecular representations is a fundamental challenge in AI-driven drug discovery. Graph neural network (GNN) has emerged as a powerful technique for model…

cs.LG2026

LI-DSN: A Layer-wise Interactive Dual-Stream Network for EEG Decoding

Chenghao Yue, Zhiyuan Ma, Zhongye Xia +4

Electroencephalography (EEG) provides a non-invasive window into brain activity, offering high temporal resolution crucial for understanding and interacting with neural processes t…

cs.CL2022

Local Hypergraph-based Nested Named Entity Recognition as Query-based Sequence Labeling

Yukun Yan, Sen Song

There has been a growing academic interest in the recognition of nested named entities in many domains. We tackle the task with a novel local hypergraph-based method: We first prop…

q-bio.NC2026

CRCC: Contrast-Based Robust Cross-Subject and Cross-Site Representation Learning for EEG

Xiaobin Wong, Zhonghua Zhao, Haoran Guo +5

EEG-based neural decoding models often fail to generalize across acquisition sites due to structured, site-dependent biases implicitly exploited during training. We reformulate cro…

cs.CL2019

Unsupervised Paraphrasing by Simulated Annealing

Xianggen Liu, Lili Mou, Fandong Meng +3

Unsupervised paraphrase generation is a promising and important research topic in natural language processing. We propose UPSA, a novel approach that accomplishes Unsupervised Para…

cs.LG2026

Riemannian Attention Mechanisms for Transformers: A Theoretical Framework and Architecture Design

Sen Song

All Transformer-based large language models compute attention via the Euclidean inner product, an architectural choice that Dong et al. (2021) proved causes representational rank t…

cs.CL2024

UniMem: Towards a Unified View of Long-Context Large Language Models

Junjie Fang, Likai Tang, Hongzhe Bi +12

Long-context processing is a critical ability that constrains the applicability of large language models (LLMs). Although there exist various methods devoted to enhancing the long-…

cs.IR2018

JUMPER: Learning When to Make Classification Decisions in Reading

Xianggen Liu, Lili Mou, Haotian Cui +2

In early years, text classification is typically accomplished by feature-based machine learning models; recently, deep neural networks, as a powerful learning machine, make it poss…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking EEG-Based Disease Diagnosis: Decoupling Instance Representation Learning from Subject-Level Supervision

Zhiyuan Ma, Zeyuan Li, Zhiyi Lu +7

The paper introduces BridgeMIL, a two-stage method that first learns EEG instance representations without using inherited labels and then applies subject-level supervision via a mu…

#electroencephalography#disease diagnosis#multiple instance learning#self-supervised learning
cs.AI2026

DSAINet: An Efficient Dual-Scale Attentive Interaction Network for General EEG Decoding

Zhiyuan Ma, Zeyuan Li, Zihao Qiu +6

In real-world applications of noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG), specialized decoders often show limited generalizability across diverse tasks under subject-independent sett…

cs.CL2025

KARE-RAG: Knowledge-Aware Refinement and Enhancement for RAG

Yongjian Li, HaoCheng Chu, Yukun Yan +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to access broader knowledge sources, yet factual inconsistencies persist due to noise in retrieved documen…

cs.CL2025

Improve Decoding Factuality by Token-wise Cross Layer Entropy of Large Language Models

Jialiang Wu, Yi Shen, Sijia Liu +4

Despite their impressive capacities, Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with the hallucination issue of generating inaccurate or fabricated content even when they possess…

cs.CV2017

Evaluate the Malignancy of Pulmonary Nodules Using the 3D Deep Leaky Noisy-or Network

Fangzhou Liao, Ming Liang, Zhe Li +2

Automatic diagnosing lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) scans involves two steps: detect all suspicious lesions (pulmonary nodules) and evaluate the whole-lung/pulmonary mal…

cs.HC2022

Contrastive Learning of Subject-Invariant EEG Representations for Cross-Subject Emotion Recognition

Xinke Shen, Xianggen Liu, Xin Hu +2

EEG signals have been reported to be informative and reliable for emotion recognition in recent years. However, the inter-subject variability of emotion-related EEG signals still p…

cs.CV2014

Attentional Neural Network: Feature Selection Using Cognitive Feedback

Qian Wang, Jiaxing Zhang, Sen Song +1

Attentional Neural Network is a new framework that integrates top-down cognitive bias and bottom-up feature extraction in one coherent architecture. The top-down influence is espec…

cs.CL2026

Dual-Enhancement Product Bundling: Bridging Interactive Graph and Large Language Model

Zhe Huang, Peng Wang, Yan Zheng +2

Product bundling boosts e-commerce revenue by recommending complementary item combinations. However, existing methods face two critical challenges: (1) collaborative filtering appr…

cs.NE2021

Brain-inspired global-local learning incorporated with neuromorphic computing

Yujie Wu, Rong Zhao, Jun Zhu +11

Two main routes of learning methods exist at present including error-driven global learning and neuroscience-oriented local learning. Integrating them into one network may provide…

cs.CL2026

Why Attend to Everything? Focus is the Key

Hengshuai Yao, Xing Chen, Ahmed Murtadha +8

Standard attention scales quadratically with sequence length. Efficient attention methods reduce this O(n^2) cost, but when retrofitted into pretrained models, they often degrade p…