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most citedGraph Rationalization with Environment-based Augmentations

83 citations · 203 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.chem-ph2026

ADEPT-PolyGraphMT: Automated Molecular Simulation and Multi-Task Multi-Fidelity Machine Learning for Polymer Property Generation and Prediction

Sobin Alosious, Yuhan Liu, Jiaxin Xu +4

The discovery of polymers with targeted properties is challenged by the vast chemical design space and the limited availability of consistent, high-quality data across multiple pro…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Open Polymer Challenge: Post-Competition Report

Gang Liu, Sobin Alosious, Subhamoy Mahajan +9

Machine learning (ML) offers a powerful path toward discovering sustainable polymer materials, but progress has been limited by the lack of large, high-quality, and openly accessib…

cs.AI2025

Scientific Algorithm Discovery by Augmenting AlphaEvolve with Deep Research

Gang Liu, Yihan Zhu, Jie Chen +1

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face crit…

q-bio.BM2025★ 1 cited

MolTextNet: A Two-Million Molecule-Text Dataset for Multimodal Molecular Learning

Yihan Zhu, Gang Liu, Eric Inae +1

Small molecules are essential to drug discovery, and graph-language models hold promise for learning molecular properties and functions from text. However, existing molecule-text d…

cs.LG2025

Learning Repetition-Invariant Representations for Polymer Informatics

Yihan Zhu, Gang Liu, Eric Inae +2

Polymers are large macromolecules composed of repeating structural units known as monomers and are widely applied in fields such as energy storage, construction, medicine, and aero…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

POINT: A Polymer Informatics Training and Testing Database

Jiaxin Xu, Gang Liu, Ruilan Guo +2

The advancement of polymer informatics has been significantly propelled by the integration of machine learning (ML) techniques, enabling the rapid prediction of polymer properties…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Multimodal Large Language Models for Inverse Molecular Design with Retrosynthetic Planning

Gang Liu, Michael Sun, Wojciech Matusik +2

While large language models (LLMs) have integrated images, adapting them to graphs remains challenging, limiting their applications in materials and drug design. This difficulty st…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Learning Molecular Representation in a Cell

Gang Liu, Srijit Seal, John Arevalo +4

Predicting drug efficacy and safety in vivo requires information on biological responses (e.g., cell morphology and gene expression) to small molecule perturbations. However, curre…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 18 cited

Superior Polymeric Gas Separation Membrane Designed by Explainable Graph Machine Learning

Jiaxin Xu, Agboola Suleiman, Gang Liu +5

Gas separation using polymer membranes promises to dramatically drive down the energy, carbon, and water intensity of traditional thermally driven separation, but developing the me…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Graph Diffusion Transformers for Multi-Conditional Molecular Generation

Gang Liu, Jiaxin Xu, Tengfei Luo +1

Inverse molecular design with diffusion models holds great potential for advancements in material and drug discovery. Despite success in unconditional molecular generation, integra…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

Large Language Models on Graphs: A Comprehensive Survey

Bowen Jin, Gang Liu, Chi Han +3

Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT4 and LLaMA, are creating significant advancements in natural language processing, due to their strong text encoding/decoding ability and n…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Explaining Tree Model Decisions in Natural Language for Network Intrusion Detection

Noah Ziems, Gang Liu, John Flanagan +1

Network intrusion detection (NID) systems which leverage machine learning have been shown to have strong performance in practice when used to detect malicious network traffic. Deci…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Motif-aware Attribute Masking for Molecular Graph Pre-training

Eric Inae, Gang Liu, Meng Jiang

Attribute reconstruction is used to predict node or edge features in the pre-training of graph neural networks. Given a large number of molecules, they learn to capture structural…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Semi-Supervised Graph Imbalanced Regression

Gang Liu, Tong Zhao, Eric Inae +2

Data imbalance is easily found in annotated data when the observations of certain continuous label values are difficult to collect for regression tasks. When they come to molecule…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Data-Centric Learning from Unlabeled Graphs with Diffusion Model

Gang Liu, Eric Inae, Tong Zhao +3

Graph property prediction tasks are important and numerous. While each task offers a small size of labeled examples, unlabeled graphs have been collected from various sources and a…

cs.IR2022

On the Relationship Between Counterfactual Explainer and Recommender

Gang Liu, Zhihan Zhang, Zheng Ning +1

Recommender systems employ machine learning models to learn from historical data to predict the preferences of users. Deep neural network (DNN) models such as neural collaborative…

cs.LG2022★ 83 cited

Graph Rationalization with Environment-based Augmentations

Gang Liu, Tong Zhao, Jiaxin Xu +2

Rationale is defined as a subset of input features that best explains or supports the prediction by machine learning models. Rationale identification has improved the generalizabil…

cs.LG2022★ 42 cited

Graph Data Augmentation for Graph Machine Learning: A Survey

Tong Zhao, Wei Jin, Yozen Liu +5

Data augmentation has recently seen increased interest in graph machine learning given its demonstrated ability to improve model performance and generalization by added training da…

cs.LG2021★ 14 cited

Learning from Counterfactual Links for Link Prediction

Tong Zhao, Gang Liu, Daheng Wang +2

Learning to predict missing links is important for many graph-based applications. Existing methods were designed to learn the association between observed graph structure and exist…