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20172026
most citedSolve Traveling Salesman Problem by Monte Carlo Tree Search and Deep Neural Network

12 citations · 19 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Fused Bayesian Flow Networks for Dual-Target Molecular Design

Jingyuan Zhou, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Dual-target drug design aims to generate 3D molecules that can simultaneously interact with two target proteins, offering a promising route for discovering polypharmacological comp…

q-bio.BM2026

PepLLM: ESM-Guided Llama for Structured Protein-Peptide Binding Interface Analysis

Hao Qian, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Protein-peptide interactions are central to cellular regulation and peptide-based drug discovery, yet existing computational methods mainly focus on interaction classification, bin…

cs.LG2026

Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models for Molecular Generation via Reinforcement Learning and Fast Sampling

Guang Lin, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Generating molecules that simultaneously satisfy drug-like properties and conform to the 3D structure of a target protein is a core challenge in structure-based drug design (SBDD).…

cs.CV2026

CardioLens: Revealing the Clinical Reality Gap of MLLMs via Multi-Sequence Cardiac MRI Evaluations

Zixian Su, Hongkai Zhang, Fan Gao +12

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on public medical benchmarks, yet existing evaluations often remain weak proxies for clinical use, relying on…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Ground-Truth: Leveraging Image Quality Priors for Real-World Image Restoration

Fengyang Xiao, Peng Hu, Lei Xu +7

Real-world image restoration aims to restore high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) inputs captured under uncontrolled conditions. Existing methods typically depen…

cs.IR2026

UniRank: End-to-End Domain-Specific Reranking of Hybrid Text-Image Candidates

Yupei Yang, Lin Yang, Wanxi Deng +3

Reranking is a critical component in many information retrieval pipelines. Despite remarkable progress in text-only settings, multimodal reranking remains challenging, particularly…

cs.LG2026

Factored Causal Representation Learning for Robust Reward Modeling in RLHF

Yupei Yang, Lin Yang, Wanxi Deng +5

A reliable reward model is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences through reinforcement learning from human feedback. However, standard reward models a…

q-bio.BM2025

Generative design and validation of therapeutic peptides for glioblastoma based on a potential target ATP5A

Hao Qian, Pu You, Lin Zeng +5

Glioblastoma (GBM) remains the most aggressive tumor, urgently requiring novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we present a dry-to-wet framework combining generative modeling and exp…

cs.LG2025

Full-Atom Peptide Design via Riemannian-Euclidean Bayesian Flow Networks

Hao Qian, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Diffusion and flow matching models have recently emerged as promising approaches for peptide binder design. Despite their progress, these models still face two major challenges. Fi…

cs.CV2025

Text to Sketch Generation with Multi-Styles

Tengjie Li, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Recent advances in vision-language models have facilitated progress in sketch generation. However, existing specialized methods primarily focus on generic synthesis and lack mechan…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Prior-Guided Flow Matching for Target-Aware Molecule Design with Learnable Atom Number

Jingyuan Zhou, Hao Qian, Shikui Tu +1

Structure-based drug design (SBDD), aiming to generate 3D molecules with high binding affinity toward target proteins, is a vital approach in novel drug discovery. Although recent…

cs.CL2025

Hallucination-Resistant Relation Extraction via Dependency-Aware Sentence Simplification and Two-tiered Hierarchical Refinement

Yupei Yang, Fan Feng, Lin Yang +5

Relation extraction (RE) enables the construction of structured knowledge for many downstream applications. While large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in this task…

cs.LG2024

Boosting Efficiency in Task-Agnostic Exploration through Causal Knowledge

Yupei Yang, Biwei Huang, Shikui Tu +1

The effectiveness of model training heavily relies on the quality of available training resources. However, budget constraints often impose limitations on data collection efforts.…

cs.LG2024

Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Causality-Guided Self-Adaptive Representations

Yupei Yang, Biwei Huang, Fan Feng +3

General intelligence requires quick adaption across tasks. While existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods have made progress in generalization, they typically assume only distr…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

PFB-Diff: Progressive Feature Blending Diffusion for Text-driven Image Editing

Wenjing Huang, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Diffusion models have demonstrated their ability to generate diverse and high-quality images, sparking considerable interest in their potential for real image editing applications.…

cs.CV2022

Linking Sketch Patches by Learning Synonymous Proximity for Graphic Sketch Representation

Sicong Zang, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Graphic sketch representations are effective for representing sketches. Existing methods take the patches cropped from sketches as the graph nodes, and construct the edges based on…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

IA-FaceS: A Bidirectional Method for Semantic Face Editing

Wenjing Huang, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Semantic face editing has achieved substantial progress in recent years. Known as a growingly popular method, latent space manipulation performs face editing by changing the latent…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Deep Rival Penalized Competitive Learning for Low-resolution Face Recognition

Peiying Li, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Current face recognition tasks are usually carried out on high-quality face images, but in reality, most face images are captured under unconstrained or poor conditions, e.g., by v…

cs.LG2020★ 12 cited

Solve Traveling Salesman Problem by Monte Carlo Tree Search and Deep Neural Network

Zhihao Xing, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

We present a self-learning approach that combines deep reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo tree search to solve the traveling salesman problem. The proposed approach has two adv…

stat.ME2017

A Comparative Study of Joint-SNVs Analysis Methods and Detection of Susceptibility Genes for Gastric Cancer in Korean Population

Jin-Xiong Lv, Shikui Tu, Lei Xu

Many joint-SNVs (single-nucleotide variants) analysis methods were proposed to tackle the "missing heritability" problem, which emphasizes that the joint genetic variants can expla…