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20202026
most citedLearning Causally Invariant Representations for Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs

49 citations · 116 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.AI2026

APeB: Benchmarking Personalization Ability of Large Language Model Agents

Garry Yang, Zizhe Chen, Xinru Chen +9

LLM-powered agents struggle with personalization when users issue raw, underspecified queries. In this setting, agents must infer latent intent, extract preferences from noisy inte…

cs.AI2026

On Information Self-Locking in Reinforcement Learning for Active Reasoning of LLM agents

Deyu Zou, Yongqiang Chen, Fan Feng +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a de facto paradigm for building LLM-based agents that act, interact, and reason over extended task horizons. However, in active reasoning wh…

cs.LG2025

When and Why Does Multi-Agent Debate Fail and Does It Really Underperform?

Yongqiang Chen, Gang Niu, James Cheng +2

Multi-agent debate (MAD) was proposed as a promising approach for ensembling the wisdom of multiple large language models (LLMs) to improve reasoning and provide effective supervis…

cs.AI2025

Reducing Belief Deviation in Reinforcement Learning for Active Reasoning

Deyu Zou, Yongqiang Chen, Jianxiang Wang +5

Active reasoning requires large language model (LLM) agents to interact with external sources and strategically gather information to solve problems in multiple turns. Central to t…

cs.CL2025

Weak-to-Strong GraphRAG: Aligning Weak Retrievers with Large Language Models for Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation

Deyu Zou, Yongqiang Chen, Mufei Li +5

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to ground responses with structured external knowledge from up-to-date knowledge graphs (KGs)…

cs.CL2025

On the Thinking-Language Modeling Gap in Large Language Models

Chenxi Liu, Yongqiang Chen, Tongliang Liu +3

System 2 reasoning is one of the defining characteristics of intelligence, which requires slow and logical thinking. Human conducts System 2 reasoning via the language of thoughts…

cs.CL2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Knowledge

Haoyu Huang, Yongfeng Huang, Junjie Yang +5

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods have significantly enhanced the performance of large language models (LLMs) in domain-specific tasks. However, existing RAG…

cs.LG2025

BrainOOD: Out-of-distribution Generalizable Brain Network Analysis

Jiaxing Xu, Yongqiang Chen, Xia Dong +5

In neuroscience, identifying distinct patterns linked to neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Autism, is critical for early diagnosis and effective intervention. Graph N…

cs.LG2025

DivIL: Unveiling and Addressing Over-Invariance for Out-of- Distribution Generalization

Jiaqi Wang, Yuhang Zhou, Zhixiong Zhang +3

Out-of-distribution generalization is a common problem that expects the model to perform well in the different distributions even far from the train data. A popular approach to add…

cs.CL2024

Eliciting Causal Abilities in Large Language Models for Reasoning Tasks

Yajing Wang, Zongwei Luo, Jingzhe Wang +3

Prompt optimization automatically refines prompting expressions, unlocking the full potential of LLMs in downstream tasks. However, current prompt optimization methods are costly t…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

UniMoT: Unified Molecule-Text Language Model with Discrete Token Representation

Shuhan Guo, Yatao Bian, Ruibing Wang +3

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse tasks has driven the research community to extend their capabilities to molecular applications. However, most…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

How Interpretable Are Interpretable Graph Neural Networks?

Yongqiang Chen, Yatao Bian, Bo Han +1

Interpretable graph neural networks (XGNNs ) are widely adopted in various scientific applications involving graph-structured data. Existing XGNNs predominantly adopt the attention…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

HIGHT: Hierarchical Graph Tokenization for Molecule-Language Alignment

Yongqiang Chen, Quanming Yao, Juzheng Zhang +2

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in extending the success of large language models (LLMs) from texts to molecules. Most existing approaches adopt a graph neural network…

cs.CV2024

A Sober Look at the Robustness of CLIPs to Spurious Features

Qizhou Wang, Yong Lin, Yongqiang Chen +3

Large vision language models, such as CLIP, demonstrate impressive robustness to spurious features than single-modal models trained on ImageNet. However, existing test datasets are…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Discovering and Reasoning of Causality in the Hidden World with Large Language Models

Chenxi Liu, Yongqiang Chen, Tongliang Liu +4

Revealing hidden causal variables alongside the underlying causal mechanisms is essential to the development of science. Despite the progress in the past decades, existing practice…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Neural Subset Selection: Integrating Background Information into Set Representations

Binghui Xie, Yatao Bian, Kaiwen zhou +5

Learning neural subset selection tasks, such as compound selection in AI-aided drug discovery, have become increasingly pivotal across diverse applications. The existing methodolog…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Evolving Domain Generalization through Dynamic Latent Representations

Binghui Xie, Yongqiang Chen, Jiaqi Wang +4

Domain generalization is a critical challenge for machine learning systems. Prior domain generalization methods focus on extracting domain-invariant features across several station…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Positional Information Matters for Invariant In-Context Learning: A Case Study of Simple Function Classes

Yongqiang Chen, Binghui Xie, Kaiwen Zhou +3

In-context learning (ICL) refers to the ability of a model to condition on a few in-context demonstrations (input-output examples of the underlying task) to generate the answer for…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Does Invariant Graph Learning via Environment Augmentation Learn Invariance?

Yongqiang Chen, Yatao Bian, Kaiwen Zhou +3

Invariant graph representation learning aims to learn the invariance among data from different environments for out-of-distribution generalization on graphs. As the graph environme…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Towards out-of-distribution generalizable predictions of chemical kinetics properties

Zihao Wang, Yongqiang Chen, Yang Duan +4

Machine Learning (ML) techniques have found applications in estimating chemical kinetic properties. With the accumulated drug molecules identified through "AI4drug discovery", the…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Understanding and Improving Feature Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Yongqiang Chen, Wei Huang, Kaiwen Zhou +3

A common explanation for the failure of out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is that the model trained with empirical risk minimization (ERM) learns spurious features instead o…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Pareto Invariant Risk Minimization: Towards Mitigating the Optimization Dilemma in Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Yongqiang Chen, Kaiwen Zhou, Yatao Bian +8

Recently, there has been a growing surge of interest in enabling machine learning systems to generalize well to Out-of-Distribution (OOD) data. Most efforts are devoted to advancin…

cs.LG2022★ 26 cited

Understanding and Improving Graph Injection Attack by Promoting Unnoticeability

Yongqiang Chen, Han Yang, Yonggang Zhang +4

Recently Graph Injection Attack (GIA) emerges as a practical attack scenario on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where the adversary can merely inject few malicious nodes instead of m…

cs.LG2022★ 49 cited

Learning Causally Invariant Representations for Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs

Yongqiang Chen, Yonggang Zhang, Yatao Bian +6

Despite recent success in using the invariance principle for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization on Euclidean data (e.g., images), studies on graph data are still limited. Dif…