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Publications (50)

physics.flu-dyn2023

Non-zero Integral Spin of Acoustic Vortices and Spin-orbit Interaction in Longitudinal Acoustics

Wei Wang, Yang Tan, Jingjing Liu +2

Spin and orbital angular momenta (AM) are of fundamental interest in wave physics. Acoustic wave, as a typical longitudinal wave, has been well studied in terms of orbital AM, but…

cs.LG2026

Exploiting Task Relationships in Continual Learning via Transferability-Aware Task Embeddings

Yanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Xiangyu Chen +4

Continual learning (CL) has been a critical topic in contemporary deep neural network applications, where higher levels of both forward and backward transfer are desirable for an e…

cs.CV2025

Probabilistic Temporal Masked Attention for Cross-view Online Action Detection

Liping Xie, Yang Tan, Shicheng Jing +2

As a critical task in video sequence classification within computer vision, Online Action Detection (OAD) has garnered significant attention. The sensitivity of mainstream OAD mode…

quant-ph2025

Coherence Properties of Rare-Earth Spins in Micrometer-Thin Films

Zihua Chai, Zhaocong Wang, Xinghang Chen +8

Rare-earth ions in bulk crystals are excellent solid-state quantum systems in quantum information science, owing to the exceptional optical and spin coherence properties. However,…

cs.SI2026

Toward Temporal Realism in City-Scale Crisis Response Simulation using LLM Agents

Anping Zhang, Yang Tan, Yuanbo Tang +4

Human collective participation is rarely steady in time: it is bursty, with short episodes of intense activity separated by long quiet intervals. In crisis response and community m…

q-bio.QM2026

Fast and Interpretable Protein Substructure Alignment via Optimal Transport

Zhiyu Wang, Bingxin Zhou, Jing Wang +4

Proteins are essential biological macromolecules that execute life functions. Local structural motifs, such as active sites, are the most critical components for linking structure…

cs.CL2025

VenusFactory: A Unified Platform for Protein Engineering Data Retrieval and Language Model Fine-Tuning

Yang Tan, Chen Liu, Jingyuan Gao +8

Natural language processing (NLP) has significantly influenced scientific domains beyond human language, including protein engineering, where pre-trained protein language models (P…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Tuning of Interlayer Coupling in Large-Area Graphene/WSe2 van der Waals Heterostructure via Ion Irradiation: Optical Evidences and Photonic Applications

Yang Tan, Xiaobiao Liu, Zhiliang He +4

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are receiving great attentions due to their intriguing properties and potentials in many research fields. The flow of charge carriers in vdW he…

q-bio.QM2025

Sequence-Only Prediction of Binding Affinity Changes: A Robust and Interpretable Model for Antibody Engineering

Chen Liu, Mingchen Li, Yang Tan +3

A pivotal area of research in antibody engineering is to find effective modifications that enhance antibody-antigen binding affinity. Traditional wet-lab experiments assess mutants…

cs.LG2021

OTCE: A Transferability Metric for Cross-Domain Cross-Task Representations

Yang Tan, Yang Li, Shao-Lun Huang

Transfer learning across heterogeneous data distributions (a.k.a. domains) and distinct tasks is a more general and challenging problem than conventional transfer learning, where e…

physics.class-ph2024

Giant Acoustic Geometric Spin and Orbital Hall Effect

Wei Wang, Yang Tan, Jingjing Liu +2

Acoustic waves in fluid with spin-0 nature have been long believed not to support spin Hall effect and strong orbital Hall effect that enables experimental observation. Here we rep…

physics.optics2016

Layer compression and enhanced optical properties of few-layer graphene nanosheets induced by ion irradiation

Yang Tan, Zhen Shang, Shavkat Akhmadaliev +2

Graphene has been recognized as an attractive two-dimensional material for fundamental research and wide applications in electronic and photonic devices owing to its unique propert…

cs.CV2024

MALT: Multi-scale Action Learning Transformer for Online Action Detection

Zhipeng Yang, Ruoyu Wang, Yang Tan +1

Online action detection (OAD) aims to identify ongoing actions from streaming video in real-time, without access to future frames. Since these actions manifest at varying scales of…

cs.CV2024

Transferability-Guided Cross-Domain Cross-Task Transfer Learning

Yang Tan, Enming Zhang, Yang Li +2

We propose two novel transferability metrics F-OTCE (Fast Optimal Transport based Conditional Entropy) and JC-OTCE (Joint Correspondence OTCE) to evaluate how much the source model…

cs.CV2024

Practical Transferability Estimation for Image Classification Tasks

Yang Tan, Yang Li, Shao-Lun Huang

Transferability estimation is an essential problem in transfer learning to predict how good the performance is when transferring a source model (or source task) to a target task. R…

cs.LG2026

ViroBench: Benchmarking Nucleotide Foundation Models on Viral Genomics Tasks

Dongxin Ye, Fang Hu, Han Hu +6

Nucleotide sequences constitute the fundamental genetic basis of biological systems, rendering viral genomic analysis critical for biomedical advancement. Despite progress in biolo…

cs.SE2026

Shapley-Guided Neural Repair Approach via Derivative-Free Optimization

Xinyu Sun, Wanwei Liu, Haoang Chi +7

DNNs are susceptible to defects like backdoors, adversarial attacks, and unfairness, undermining their reliability. Existing approaches mainly involve retraining, optimization, con…

cs.CV2025

TMT: Cross-domain Semantic Segmentation with Region-adaptive Transferability Estimation

Enming Zhang, Zhengyu Li, Yanru Wu +5

Recent advances in Vision Transformers (ViTs) have significantly advanced semantic segmentation performance. However, their adaptation to new target domains remains challenged by d…

q-bio.BM2024

Pro-PRIME: A general Temperature-Guided Language model to engineer enhanced Stability and Activity in Proteins

Fan Jiang, Mingchen Li, Jiajun Dong +23

Designing protein mutants of both high stability and activity is a critical yet challenging task in protein engineering. Here, we introduce PRIME, a deep learning model, which can…

cs.CV2019

Justlookup: One Millisecond Deep Feature Extraction for Point Clouds By Lookup Tables

Hongxin Lin, Zelin Xiao, Yang Tan +2

Deep models are capable of fitting complex high dimensional functions while usually yielding large computation load. There is no way to speed up the inference process by classical…

cs.LG2025

Understanding Knowledge Transferability for Transfer Learning: A Survey

Haohua Wang, Jingge Wang, Zijie Zhao +9

Transfer learning has become an essential paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a source task to improve performance on a target task. This a…

cs.IR2025

A PLMs based protein retrieval framework

Yuxuan Wu, Xiao Yi, Yang Tan +3

Protein retrieval, which targets the deconstruction of the relationship between sequences, structures and functions, empowers the advancing of biology. Basic Local Alignment Search…

cs.SD2024

A Comprehensive Survey on Heart Sound Analysis in the Deep Learning Era

Zhao Ren, Yi Chang, Thanh Tam Nguyen +3

Heart sound auscultation has been applied in clinical usage for early screening of cardiovascular diseases. Due to the high demand for auscultation expertise, automatic auscultatio…

physics.app-ph2020

Four-Dimensional Higher-Order Chern Insulator and Its Acoustic Realization

Ze-Guo Chen, Weiwei Zhu, Yang Tan +2

We present a theoretical study and experimental realization of a system that is simultaneously a four-dimensional (4D) Chern insulator and a higher-order topological insulator (HOT…

cs.CL2026

AdaSR: Adaptive Streaming Reasoning with Hierarchical Relative Policy Optimization

Junlong Tong, Wenqi Xu, Yingqi Fan +4

Large reasoning models typically follow a read-then-think paradigm: they observe the complete input, reason over a static context, and then produce the answer. Yet many real-world…

q-bio.QM2023

Multi-level Protein Representation Learning for Blind Mutational Effect Prediction

Yang Tan, Bingxin Zhou, Yuanhong Jiang +2

Directed evolution plays an indispensable role in protein engineering that revises existing protein sequences to attain new or enhanced functions. Accurately predicting the effects…

q-bio.QM2025

VenusMutHub: A systematic evaluation of protein mutation effect predictors on small-scale experimental data

Liang Zhang, Hua Pang, Chenghao Zhang +11

In protein engineering, while computational models are increasingly used to predict mutation effects, their evaluations primarily rely on high-throughput deep mutational scanning (…

q-bio.QM2026

Rank-and-Reason: Multi-Agent Collaboration Accelerates Zero-Shot Protein Mutation Prediction

Yang Tan, Yuanxi Yu, Can Wu +7

Zero-shot mutation prediction is vital for low-resource protein engineering, yet existing protein language models (PLMs) often yield statistically confident results that ignore fun…

cs.CL2024

Retrieval-Enhanced Mutation Mastery: Augmenting Zero-Shot Prediction of Protein Language Model

Yang Tan, Ruilin Wang, Banghao Wu +2

Enzyme engineering enables the modification of wild-type proteins to meet industrial and research demands by enhancing catalytic activity, stability, binding affinities, and other…

physics.app-ph2024

Hopping Transfer Optimizes Avalanche Multiplication in Molybdenum Disulfide

Xiaofan Cai, Ruichang Chen, Xu Gao +6

Recently, avalanche multiplication has been observed in TMDC-based FETs, enhancing sensor performance with high sensitivity. However, the high voltage required for operation can da…

cs.CV2019

Face Recognition from Sequential Sparse 3D Data via Deep Registration

Yang Tan, Hongxin Lin, Zelin Xiao +2

Previous works have shown that face recognition with high accurate 3D data is more reliable and insensitive to pose and illumination variations. Recently, low-cost and portable 3D…

cs.AI2026

Self-evolving AI agents for protein discovery and directed evolution

Yang Tan, Lingrong Zhang, Mingchen Li +5

Protein scientific discovery is bottlenecked by the manual orchestration of information and algorithms, while general agents are insufficient in complex domain projects. VenusFacto…

cs.CL2023

PETA: Evaluating the Impact of Protein Transfer Learning with Sub-word Tokenization on Downstream Applications

Yang Tan, Mingchen Li, Pan Tan +4

Large protein language models are adept at capturing the underlying evolutionary information in primary structures, offering significant practical value for protein engineering. Co…

physics.app-ph2023

Single-sensor and real-time ultrasonic imaging using an AI-driven disordered metasurface

Wei Wang, Jie Hu, Jingjing Liu +5

Non-destructive testing and medical diagnostic techniques using ultrasound has become indispensable in evaluating the state of materials or imaging the internal human body, respect…

cs.CV2026

ViCoStream: Streaming VideoLLMs Can Run Beyond 100 FPS with Stage-Wise Coordinated Inference

Yang Tan, Junlong Tong, Linan Yue +3

Streaming VideoLLMs must continuously process incoming video while maintaining low query latency, making both video-ingestion throughput and query-time responsiveness critical for…

cs.AI2024

Secondary Structure-Guided Novel Protein Sequence Generation with Latent Graph Diffusion

Yutong Hu, Yang Tan, Andi Han +3

The advent of deep learning has introduced efficient approaches for de novo protein sequence design, significantly improving success rates and reducing development costs compared t…

cs.CR2022

Mistakes of A Popular Protocol Calculating Private Set Intersection and Union Cardinality and Its Corrections

Yang Tan, Bo Lv

In 2012, De Cristofaro et al. proposed a protocol to calculate the Private Set Intersection and Union cardinality(PSI-CA and PSU-CA). This protocol's security is based on the famou…

q-bio.BM2024

CPE-Pro: A Structure-Sensitive Deep Learning Method for Protein Representation and Origin Evaluation

Wenrui Gou, Wenhui Ge, Yang Tan +3

Protein structures are important for understanding their functions and interactions. Currently, many protein structure prediction methods are enriching the structure database. Disc…

cs.LG2025

Immunogenicity Prediction with Dual Attention Enables Vaccine Target Selection

Song Li, Yang Tan, Song Ke +2

Immunogenicity prediction is a central topic in reverse vaccinology for finding candidate vaccines that can trigger protective immune responses. Existing approaches typically rely…

cs.CV2025

Transfer Risk Map: Mitigating Pixel-level Negative Transfer in Medical Segmentation

Shutong Duan, Jingyun Yang, Yang Tan +3

How to mitigate negative transfer in transfer learning is a long-standing and challenging issue, especially in the application of medical image segmentation. Existing methods for r…

eess.IV2023

Finding the Most Transferable Tasks for Brain Image Segmentation

Yicong Li, Yang Tan, Jingyun Yang +2

Although many studies have successfully applied transfer learning to medical image segmentation, very few of them have investigated the selection strategy when multiple source task…

physics.app-ph2017

Ultrasensitive biosensor based on Nd:YAG waveguide laser: Tumor cell and Dextrose solution

Guanhua Li, Huiyuan Li, Rumei Gong +3

This work demonstrates the Nd:YAG waveguide laser as an efficient platform for the bio-sensing. The waveguide was fabricated in the Nd:YAG crystal by the cooperation of the ultrafa…

cs.LG2025

VenusX: Unlocking Fine-Grained Functional Understanding of Proteins

Yang Tan, Wenrui Gou, Bozitao Zhong +3

Deep learning models have driven significant progress in predicting protein function and interactions at the protein level. While these advancements have been invaluable for many b…

cs.CL2024

Simple, Efficient and Scalable Structure-aware Adapter Boosts Protein Language Models

Yang Tan, Mingchen Li, Bingxin Zhou +7

Fine-tuning Pre-trained protein language models (PLMs) has emerged as a prominent strategy for enhancing downstream prediction tasks, often outperforming traditional supervised lea…

cs.CL2023

MedChatZH: a Better Medical Adviser Learns from Better Instructions

Yang Tan, Mingchen Li, Zijie Huang +2

Generative large language models (LLMs) have shown great success in various applications, including question-answering (QA) and dialogue systems. However, in specialized domains li…

cs.CV2024

Transferability Estimation for Semantic Segmentation Task

Yang Tan, Yang Li, Shao-Lun Huang

Transferability estimation is a fundamental problem in transfer learning to predict how good the performance is when transferring a source model (or source task) to a target task.…

cs.CV2025

Team PA-VCG's Solution for Competition on Understanding Chinese College Entrance Exam Papers in ICDAR'25

Wei Wu, Wenjie Wang, Yang Tan +6

This report presents Team PA-VGG's solution for the ICDAR'25 Competition on Understanding Chinese College Entrance Exam Papers. In addition to leveraging high-resolution image proc…

eess.IV2020

Smart Cameras

David J. Brady, Minghao Hu, Chengyu Wang +6

We review camera architecture in the age of artificial intelligence. Modern cameras use physical components and software to capture, compress and display image data. Over the past…

q-bio.QM2024

ProtSolM: Protein Solubility Prediction with Multi-modal Features

Yang Tan, Jia Zheng, Liang Hong +1

Understanding protein solubility is essential for their functional applications. Computational methods for predicting protein solubility are crucial for reducing experimental costs…

q-bio.QM2024

Protein Representation Learning with Sequence Information Embedding: Does it Always Lead to a Better Performance?

Yang Tan, Lirong Zheng, Bozitao Zhong +2

Deep learning has become a crucial tool in studying proteins. While the significance of modeling protein structure has been discussed extensively in the literature, amino acid type…