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most citedGraph-less Neural Networks: Teaching Old MLPs New Tricks via Distillation

43 citations · 98 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2025

Heuristic Methods are Good Teachers to Distill MLPs for Graph Link Prediction

Zongyue Qin, Shichang Zhang, Mingxuan Ju +3

Link prediction is a crucial graph-learning task with applications including citation prediction and product recommendation. Distilling Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) teachers into M…

cs.CL2025

How Post-Training Reshapes LLMs: A Mechanistic View on Knowledge, Truthfulness, Refusal, and Confidence

Hongzhe Du, Weikai Li, Min Cai +5

Post-training is essential for the success of large language models (LLMs), transforming pre-trained base models into more useful and aligned post-trained models. While plenty of w…

cs.SI2024

Hierarchical Compression of Text-Rich Graphs via Large Language Models

Shichang Zhang, Da Zheng, Jiani Zhang +6

Text-rich graphs, prevalent in data mining contexts like e-commerce and academic graphs, consist of nodes with textual features linked by various relations. Traditional graph machi…

cs.AI2024

Automated Molecular Concept Generation and Labeling with Large Language Models

Zimin Zhang, Qianli Wu, Botao Xia +4

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming scientific research, with explainable AI methods like concept-based models (CMs) showing promise for new discoveries. However, in molec…

cs.CL2024

Parameter-Efficient Tuning Large Language Models for Graph Representation Learning

Qi Zhu, Da Zheng, Xiang Song +4

Text-rich graphs, which exhibit rich textual information on nodes and edges, are prevalent across a wide range of real-world business applications. Large Language Models (LLMs) hav…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024

Predicting and Interpreting Energy Barriers of Metallic Glasses with Graph Neural Networks

Haoyu Li, Shichang Zhang, Longwen Tang +2

Metallic Glasses (MGs) are widely used materials that are stronger than steel while being shapeable as plastic. While understanding the structure-property relationship of MGs remai…

cs.CL2023★ 17 cited

SciBench: Evaluating College-Level Scientific Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models

Xiaoxuan Wang, Ziniu Hu, Pan Lu +7

Most of the existing Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks on scientific problem reasoning focus on problems grounded in high-school subjects and are confined to elementary algebra…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

A Survey on Graph Neural Network Acceleration: Algorithms, Systems, and Customized Hardware

Shichang Zhang, Atefeh Sohrabizadeh, Cheng Wan +7

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging for machine learning research on graph-structured data. GNNs achieve state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, but they face scalability…

cs.LG2022★ 11 cited

GStarX: Explaining Graph Neural Networks with Structure-Aware Cooperative Games

Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Neil Shah +1

Explaining machine learning models is an important and increasingly popular area of research interest. The Shapley value from game theory has been proposed as a prime approach to c…

cs.LG2021★ 43 cited

Graph-less Neural Networks: Teaching Old MLPs New Tricks via Distillation

Shichang Zhang, Yozen Liu, Yizhou Sun +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular for graph machine learning and have shown great results on wide node classification tasks. Yet, they are less popular for practical deploym…

cs.LG2020★ 16 cited

Motif-Driven Contrastive Learning of Graph Representations

Shichang Zhang, Ziniu Hu, Arjun Subramonian +1

Pre-training Graph Neural Networks (GNN) via self-supervised contrastive learning has recently drawn lots of attention. However, most existing works focus on node-level contrastive…