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20192026
most citedContrastive Learning for Representation Degeneration Problem in Sequential Recommendation

463 citations · 1.1k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2026

Tracing the Evidence: Faithful Token Attribution Through Vision-Language Reasoning

Bowen Yuan, Danny Wang, Ruihong Qiu +2

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet the visual and textual evidence supporting the generated responses remains difficult to identify. Fa…

cs.LG2026

Break the Block: Dynamic-size Reasoning Blocks for Diffusion Large Language Models via Monotonic Entropy Descent with Reinforcement Learning

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Recent diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have demonstrated both effectiveness and efficiency in reasoning via a block-based semi-autoregressive generation paradigm. Despite t…

cs.LG2026

GFMate: Empowering Graph Foundation Models with Test-time Prompt Tuning

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Graph prompt tuning has shown great potential in graph learning by introducing trainable prompts to enhance the model performance in conventional single-domain scenarios. Recent re…

cs.LG2026

What Information Matters? Graph Out-of-Distribution Detection via Tri-Component Information Decomposition

Danny Wang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Graph neural networks are widely used for node classification, but they remain vulnerable to out-of-distribution (OOD) shifts in node features and graph structure. Prior work estab…

cs.LG2026

Block-R1: Rethinking the Role of Block Size in Multi-domain Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Large Language Models

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely applied during post-training for diffusion large language models (dLLMs) to enhance reasoning with block-wise semi-autoregress…

cs.LG2026

When to Commit? Towards Variable-Size Self-Contained Blocks for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Danny Wang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Discrete diffusion language models (dLLMs) enable parallel token updates with bidirectional attention, yet practical generation typically adopts blockwise semi-autoregressive decod…

cs.CL2026

TRN-R1-Zero: Text-rich Network Reasoning via LLMs with Reinforcement Learning Only

Yilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Zero-shot reasoning on text-rich networks (TRNs) remains a challenging frontier, as models must integrate textual semantics with relational structure without task-specific supervis…

cs.LG2025

Does Homophily Help in Robust Test-time Node Classification?

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Homophily, the tendency of nodes from the same class to connect, is a fundamental property of real-world graphs, underpinning structural and semantic patterns in domains such as ci…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

CaT: Balanced Continual Graph Learning with Graph Condensation

Yilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang

Continual graph learning (CGL) is purposed to continuously update a graph model with graph data being fed in a streaming manner. Since the model easily forgets previously learned k…

cs.CL2023

Balanced and Explainable Social Media Analysis for Public Health with Large Language Models

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Yi Zhang +1

As social media becomes increasingly popular, more and more public health activities emerge, which is worth noting for pandemic monitoring and government decision-making. Current t…

cs.CL2023

UQ at #SMM4H 2023: ALEX for Public Health Analysis with Social Media

Yan Jiang, Ruihong Qiu, Yi Zhang +1

As social media becomes increasingly popular, more and more activities related to public health emerge. Current techniques for public health analysis involve popular models such as…

cs.IR2022

Beyond Double Ascent via Recurrent Neural Tangent Kernel in Sequential Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Hongzhi Yin

Overfitting has long been considered a common issue to large neural network models in sequential recommendation. In our study, an interesting phenomenon is observed that overfittin…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

GSMFlow: Generation Shifts Mitigating Flow for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning

Zhi Chen, Yadan Luo, Sen Wang +2

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) aims to recognize images from both the seen and unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen to unseen classes. It is a promisi…

cs.IR2021★ 463 cited

Contrastive Learning for Representation Degeneration Problem in Sequential Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Hongzhi Yin +1

Recent advancements of sequential deep learning models such as Transformer and BERT have significantly facilitated the sequential recommendation. However, according to our study, t…

cs.IR2021★ 2 cited

Memory Augmented Multi-Instance Contrastive Predictive Coding for Sequential Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Hongzhi Yin

The sequential recommendation aims to recommend items, such as products, songs and places, to users based on the sequential patterns of their historical records. Most existing sequ…

cs.CV2021★ 4 cited

Learning to Diversify for Single Domain Generalization

Zijian Wang, Yadan Luo, Ruihong Qiu +2

Domain generalization (DG) aims to generalize a model trained on multiple source (i.e., training) domains to a distributionally different target (i.e., test) domain. In contrast to…

cs.IR2021★ 35 cited

CausalRec: Causal Inference for Visual Debiasing in Visually-Aware Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Sen Wang, Zhi Chen +2

Visually-aware recommendation on E-commerce platforms aims to leverage visual information of items to predict a user's preference. It is commonly observed that user's attention to…

cs.IR2021★ 147 cited

Exploiting Cross-Session Information for Session-based Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Jingjing Li +1

Different from the traditional recommender system, the session-based recommender system introduces the concept of the session, i.e., a sequence of interactions between a user and m…

cs.IR2021★ 37 cited

Exploiting Positional Information for Session-based Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Tong Chen +1

For present e-commerce platforms, session-based recommender systems are developed to predict users' preference for next-item recommendation. Although a session can usually reflect…

cs.CV2021

Mitigating Generation Shifts for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning

Zhi Chen, Yadan Luo, Sen Wang +3

Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) is the task of leveraging semantic information (e.g., attributes) to recognize the seen and unseen samples, where unseen classes are not obser…

cs.CV2021★ 10 cited

Semantics Disentangling for Generalized Zero-Shot Learning

Zhi Chen, Yadan Luo, Ruihong Qiu +4

Generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) aims to classify samples under the assumption that some classes are not observable during training. To bridge the gap between the seen and uns…

cs.IR2020★ 105 cited

GAG: Global Attributed Graph Neural Network for Streaming Session-based Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Hongzhi Yin, Zi Huang +1

Streaming session-based recommendation (SSR) is a challenging task that requires the recommender system to do the session-based recommendation (SR) in the streaming scenario. In th…

cs.IR2019★ 339 cited

Rethinking the Item Order in Session-based Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks

Ruihong Qiu, Jingjing Li, Zi Huang +1

Predicting a user's preference in a short anonymous interaction session instead of long-term history is a challenging problem in the real-life session-based recommendation, e.g., e…