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20162026
most citedA Flexible Generative Framework for Graph-based Semi-supervised Learning

39 citations · 173 across the 38 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.LG2026

Distilling Diffusion Score Discrepancy for Efficient Training Data Attribution

Shixuan Liu, Joan Serrà, Kin Wai Cheuk +6

Training data attribution for diffusion models aims to identify the training samples that influence a generated instance, but existing methods either require costly per-sample grad…

cs.LG2026

A Unified Theory of Random Projection for Influence Functions

Pingbang Hu, Yuzheng Hu, Jiaqi W. Ma +1

Influence functions and related data attribution scores take the form of , where is a curvature operator. In modern overparametrized models,…

cs.AI2026

FlyAOC: Evaluating Agentic Ontology Curation of Drosophila Scientific Knowledge Bases

Xingjian Zhang, Sophia Moylan, Ziyang Xiong +3

Scientific knowledge bases accelerate discovery by curating findings from primary literature into structured, queryable formats for both human researchers and emerging AI systems.…

cs.CL2026

Your Reasoning Benchmark May Not Test Reasoning: Revealing Perception Bottleneck in Abstract Reasoning Benchmarks

Xinhe Wang, Jin Huang, Xingjian Zhang +2

Reasoning benchmarks such as the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) and ARC-AGI are widely used to assess progress in artificial intelligence and are often interpreted as probe…

cs.LG2025

Exploring Training Data Attribution under Limited Access Constraints

Shiyuan Zhang, Junwei Deng, Juhan Bae +1

Training data attribution (TDA) plays a critical role in understanding the influence of individual training data points on model predictions. Gradient-based TDA methods, popularize…

cs.LG2025

Who Gets Credit or Blame? Attributing Accountability in Modern AI Systems

Shichang Zhang, Hongzhe Du, Jiaqi W. Ma +1

Modern AI systems are typically developed through multiple stages-pretraining, fine-tuning rounds, and subsequent adaptation or alignment, where each stage builds on the previous o…

cs.LG2025

Daunce: Data Attribution through Uncertainty Estimation

Xingyuan Pan, Chenlu Ye, Joseph Melkonian +2

Training data attribution (TDA) methods aim to identify which training examples influence a model's predictions on specific test data most. By quantifying these influences, TDA sup…

cs.LG2025

Measuring Fine-Grained Relatedness in Multitask Learning via Data Attribution

Yiwen Tu, Ziqi Liu, Jiaqi W. Ma +1

Measuring task relatedness and mitigating negative transfer remain a critical open challenge in Multitask Learning (MTL). This work extends data attribution -- which quantifies the…

cs.LG2025

Taming Hyperparameter Sensitivity in Data Attribution: Practical Selection Without Costly Retraining

Weiyi Wang, Junwei Deng, Yuzheng Hu +5

Data attribution methods, which quantify the influence of individual training data points on a machine learning model, have gained increasing popularity in data-centric application…

cs.LG2025

A Snapshot of Influence: A Local Data Attribution Framework for Online Reinforcement Learning

Yuzheng Hu, Fan Wu, Haotian Ye +5

Online reinforcement learning (RL) excels in complex, safety-critical domains but suffers from sample inefficiency, training instability, and limited interpretability. Data attribu…

cs.LG2025

GraSS: Scalable Data Attribution with Gradient Sparsification and Sparse Projection

Pingbang Hu, Joseph Melkonian, Weijing Tang +2

Gradient-based data attribution methods, such as influence functions, are critical for understanding the impact of individual training samples without requiring repeated model retr…

cs.SI2025

Efficient Estimation of Shortest-Path Distance Distributions to Samples in Graphs

Alan Zhu, Jiaqi Ma, Qiaozhu Mei

As large graph datasets become increasingly common across many fields, sampling is often needed to reduce the graphs into manageable sizes. This procedure raises critical questions…

cs.LG2025

Detecting and Filtering Unsafe Training Data via Data Attribution with Denoised Representation

Yijun Pan, Taiwei Shi, Jieyu Zhao +1

Large language models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to even small amounts of unsafe training data, making effective detection and filtering essential for trustworthy model developmen…

cs.CL2025

Improving Influence-based Instruction Tuning Data Selection for Balanced Learning of Diverse Capabilities

Qirun Dai, Dylan Zhang, Jiaqi W. Ma +1

Selecting appropriate training data is crucial for instruction fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs), which aims to (1) elicit strong capabilities, and (2) achieve balanced p…

cs.LG2024

A Versatile Influence Function for Data Attribution with Non-Decomposable Loss

Junwei Deng, Weijing Tang, Jiaqi W. Ma

Influence function, a technique rooted in robust statistics, has been adapted in modern machine learning for a novel application: data attribution -- quantifying how individual tra…

cs.LG2024

: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution

Junwei Deng, Ting-Wei Li, Shiyuan Zhang +7

Data attribution methods aim to quantify the influence of individual training samples on the prediction of artificial intelligence (AI) models. As training data plays an increasing…

cs.LG2024

Most Influential Subset Selection: Challenges, Promises, and Beyond

Yuzheng Hu, Pingbang Hu, Han Zhao +1

How can we attribute the behaviors of machine learning models to their training data? While the classic influence function sheds light on the impact of individual samples, it often…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Adversarial Attacks on Data Attribution

Xinhe Wang, Pingbang Hu, Junwei Deng +1

Data attribution aims to quantify the contribution of individual training data points to the outputs of an AI model, which has been used to measure the value of training data and c…

cs.AI2024

DCA-Bench: A Benchmark for Dataset Curation Agents

Benhao Huang, Yingzhuo Yu, Jin Huang +2

The quality of datasets plays an increasingly crucial role in the research and development of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the proliferation of open dataset platfor…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Ensembles Improve Training Data Attribution

Junwei Deng, Ting-Wei Li, Shichang Zhang +1

Training data attribution (TDA) methods aim to quantify the influence of individual training data points on the model predictions, with broad applications in data-centric AI, such…

cs.LG2024

A Reliable Cryptographic Framework for Empirical Machine Unlearning Evaluation

Yiwen Tu, Pingbang Hu, Jiaqi Ma

Machine unlearning updates machine learning models to remove information from specific training samples, complying with data protection regulations that allow individuals to reques…

cs.LG2023

A Metadata-Driven Approach to Understand Graph Neural Networks

Ting Wei Li, Qiaozhu Mei, Jiaqi Ma

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various applications, but their performance can be sensitive to specific data properties of the graph datasets they…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Can LLMs Effectively Leverage Graph Structural Information through Prompts, and Why?

Jin Huang, Xingjian Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei +1

Large language models (LLMs) are gaining increasing attention for their capability to process graphs with rich text attributes, especially in a zero-shot fashion. Recent studies de…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Accurate, Explainable, and Private Models: Providing Recourse While Minimizing Training Data Leakage

Catherine Huang, Chelse Swoopes, Christina Xiao +2

Machine learning models are increasingly utilized across impactful domains to predict individual outcomes. As such, many models provide algorithmic recourse to individuals who rece…