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Publications (7)

cs.AI2026

Semi-Supervised Text-Attributed Graph Distillation

Yurui Lai, Samir Moustafa, Renchi Yang +1

{\em Text-Attributed Graphs} (TAGs) have emerged as an expressive data model for integrating graph topology with rich textual semantics. Existing representation learning methods ov…

cs.LG2025

Simple yet Effective Graph Distillation via Clustering

Yurui Lai, Taiyan Zhang, Renchi Yang

Despite plentiful successes achieved by graph representation learning in various domains, the training of graph neural networks (GNNs) still remains tenaciously challenging due to…

cs.CV2023

Denoised Internal Models: a Brain-Inspired Autoencoder against Adversarial Attacks

Kaiyuan Liu, Xingyu Li, Yurui Lai +6

Despite its great success, deep learning severely suffers from robustness; that is, deep neural networks are very vulnerable to adversarial attacks, even the simplest ones. Inspire…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Large Language Models for Effective Label-free Node Classification in Text-Attributed Graphs

Taiyan Zhang, Renchi Yang, Yurui Lai +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become the preferred models for node classification in graph data due to their robust capabilities in integrating graph structures and attributes.…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Semi-Supervised Node Classification with Self-Supervised Graph Clustering

Songbo Wang, Renchi Yang, Yurui Lai +2

The emergence of graph neural networks (GNNs) has offered a powerful tool for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Subsequent studies have achieved further improvements throu…

cs.LG2024

Self-attention Dual Embedding for Graphs with Heterophily

Yurui Lai, Taiyan Zhang, Rui Fan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been highly successful for the node classification task. GNNs typically assume graphs are homophilic, i.e. neighboring nodes are likely to belong…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Topology-aware Data Augmentation for High-Degree Graph Neural Networks

Yurui Lai, Xiaoyang Lin, Renchi Yang +1

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a potent tool for learning on graph-structured data and won fruitful successes in varied fields. The majority of GNNs…