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20182025
most citedSDE-Net: Equipping Deep Neural Networks with Uncertainty Estimates

60 citations · 132 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.AI2025

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing

Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng +5

Precise attribute intensity control--generating Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with specific, user-defined attribute intensities--is crucial for AI systems adaptable to diverse…

cs.LG2025

Two Birds with One Stone: Enhancing Uncertainty Quantification and Interpretability with Graph Functional Neural Process

Lingkai Kong, Haotian Sun, Yuchen Zhuang +3

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools on graph data. However, their predictions are mis-calibrated and lack interpretability, limiting their adoption in critical applicat…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

LLM-Augmented Chemical Synthesis and Design Decision Programs

Haorui Wang, Jeff Guo, Lingkai Kong +4

Retrosynthesis, the process of breaking down a target molecule into simpler precursors through a series of valid reactions, stands at the core of organic chemistry and drug develop…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Learning Graph Structures and Uncertainty for Accurate and Calibrated Time-series Forecasting

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Rodriguez +2

Multi-variate time series forecasting is an important problem with a wide range of applications. Recent works model the relations between time-series as graphs and have shown that…

cs.LG2024

Time-Series Forecasting for Out-of-Distribution Generalization Using Invariant Learning

Haoxin Liu, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong +3

Time-series forecasting (TSF) finds broad applications in real-world scenarios. Due to the dynamic nature of time-series data, it is crucial to equip TSF models with out-of-distrib…

cs.NE2024★ 6 cited

Efficient Evolutionary Search Over Chemical Space with Large Language Models

Haorui Wang, Marta Skreta, Cher-Tian Ser +11

Molecular discovery, when formulated as an optimization problem, presents significant computational challenges because optimization objectives can be non-differentiable. Evolutiona…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Time-MMD: Multi-Domain Multimodal Dataset for Time Series Analysis

Haoxin Liu, Shangqing Xu, Zhiyuan Zhao +8

Time series data are ubiquitous across a wide range of real-world domains. While real-world time series analysis (TSA) requires human experts to integrate numerical series data wit…

cs.AI2024

Aligning Large Language Models with Representation Editing: A Control Perspective

Lingkai Kong, Haorui Wang, Wenhao Mu +7

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human objectives is crucial for real-world applications. However, fine-tuning LLMs for alignment often suffers from unstable training and…

cs.LG2024

Diffusion Models as Constrained Samplers for Optimization with Unknown Constraints

Lingkai Kong, Yuanqi Du, Wenhao Mu +8

Addressing real-world optimization problems becomes particularly challenging when analytic objective functions or constraints are unavailable. While numerous studies have addressed…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

TPD: Enhancing Student Language Model Reasoning via Principle Discovery and Guidance

Haorui Wang, Rongzhi Zhang, Yinghao Li +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently showcased remarkable reasoning abilities. However, larger models often surpass their smaller counterparts in reasoning tasks, posing the…

cs.LG2023

When Rigidity Hurts: Soft Consistency Regularization for Probabilistic Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Rodríguez +2

Probabilistic hierarchical time-series forecasting is an important variant of time-series forecasting, where the goal is to model and forecast multivariate time-series that have un…

cs.LG2023

DF2: Distribution-Free Decision-Focused Learning

Lingkai Kong, Wenhao Mu, Jiaming Cui +4

Decision-focused learning (DFL), which differentiates through the KKT conditions, has recently emerged as a powerful approach for predict-then-optimize problems. However, under pro…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Graph Generation

Lingkai Kong, Jiaming Cui, Haotian Sun +3

Diffusion-based graph generative models have recently obtained promising results for graph generation. However, existing diffusion-based graph generative models are mostly one-shot…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

DyGen: Learning from Noisy Labels via Dynamics-Enhanced Generative Modeling

Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, Lingkai Kong +2

Learning from noisy labels is a challenge that arises in many real-world applications where training data can contain incorrect or corrupted labels. When fine-tuning language model…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 3 cited

MUBen: Benchmarking the Uncertainty of Molecular Representation Models

Yinghao Li, Lingkai Kong, Yuanqi Du +4

Large molecular representation models pre-trained on massive unlabeled data have shown great success in predicting molecular properties. However, these models may tend to overfit t…

cs.CL2023★ 13 cited

AdaPlanner: Adaptive Planning from Feedback with Language Models

Haotian Sun, Yuchen Zhuang, Lingkai Kong +2

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated the potential in acting as autonomous agents for sequential decision-making tasks. However, most existing methods either tak…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

End-to-End Stochastic Optimization with Energy-Based Model

Lingkai Kong, Jiaming Cui, Yuchen Zhuang +3

Decision-focused learning (DFL) was recently proposed for stochastic optimization problems that involve unknown parameters. By integrating predictive modeling with an implicitly di…

cs.LG2022

When Rigidity Hurts: Soft Consistency Regularization for Probabilistic Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Rodríguez +2

Probabilistic hierarchical time-series forecasting is an important variant of time-series forecasting, where the goal is to model and forecast multivariate time-series that have un…

cs.LG2022

Momentum Stiefel Optimizer, with Applications to Suitably-Orthogonal Attention, and Optimal Transport

Lingkai Kong, Yuqing Wang, Molei Tao

The problem of optimization on Stiefel manifold, i.e., minimizing functions of (not necessarily square) matrices that satisfy orthogonality constraints, has been extensively studie…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

AcTune: Uncertainty-aware Active Self-Training for Semi-Supervised Active Learning with Pretrained Language Models

Yue Yu, Lingkai Kong, Jieyu Zhang +2

While pre-trained language model (PLM) fine-tuning has achieved strong performance in many NLP tasks, the fine-tuning stage can be still demanding in labeled data. Recent works hav…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

CAMul: Calibrated and Accurate Multi-view Time-Series Forecasting

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Rodríguez +2

Probabilistic time-series forecasting enables reliable decision making across many domains. Most forecasting problems have diverse sources of data containing multiple modalities an…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

When in Doubt: Neural Non-Parametric Uncertainty Quantification for Epidemic Forecasting

Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Rodríguez +2

Accurate and trustworthy epidemic forecasting is an important problem that has impact on public health planning and disease mitigation. Most existing epidemic forecasting models di…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

Calibrated Language Model Fine-Tuning for In- and Out-of-Distribution Data

Lingkai Kong, Haoming Jiang, Yuchen Zhuang +3

Fine-tuned pre-trained language models can suffer from severe miscalibration for both in-distribution and out-of-distribution (OOD) data due to over-parameterization. To mitigate t…

cs.LG2020★ 60 cited

SDE-Net: Equipping Deep Neural Networks with Uncertainty Estimates

Lingkai Kong, Jimeng Sun, Chao Zhang

Uncertainty quantification is a fundamental yet unsolved problem for deep learning. The Bayesian framework provides a principled way of uncertainty estimation but is often not scal…