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most citedExploring the Potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Learning on Graphs

20 citations · 57 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.AI2026

MemTrace: Probing What Final Accuracy Misses in Long-Term Memory

Xianxuan Long, Zhikai Chen, Shenglai Zeng +3

LLM agents increasingly maintain long-term memory of user facts across sessions. Yet such memory is usually evaluated by aggregating accuracy over question rows or episodes. Becaus…

cs.LG2026

OpenRFM: Dissecting Relational In-Context Learning

Zhikai Chen, Junyu Yin, Jialiang Gu +5

Relational Foundation Models (RFMs) promise a single pre-trained predictor that, given any relational database, returns predictions in one forward pass via relational in-context le…

cs.AI2026

Exploring Cross-Scenario Generality of Agentic Memory Systems: Diagnostics and a Strong Baseline

Zhikai Chen, Jialiang Gu, Junyu Yin +6

LLM agents accumulate histories that outgrow their context windows, motivating a growing literature on memory systems. Yet most existing designs are tuned to a single scenario (mul…

cs.CL2026

Do Proactive Agents Need an LLM to Decide When to Act?

Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Amir H. Abdi +5

Proactive assistants continuously decide when to intervene and what context should support the intervention. Large language model (LLM) pipelines repeatedly interpret activity hist…

cs.LG2026

Relatron: Automating Relational Machine Learning over Relational Databases

Zhikai Chen, Han Xie, Jian Zhang +3

Predictive modeling over relational databases (RDBs) powers applications, yet remains challenging due to capturing both cross-table dependencies and complex feature interactions. R…

cs.AI2026

AgentDoG: A Diagnostic Guardrail Framework for AI Agent Safety and Security

Dongrui Liu, Qihan Ren, Chen Qian +40

The rise of AI agents introduces complex safety and security challenges arising from autonomous tool use and environmental interactions. Current guardrail models lack agentic risk…

cs.CL2026

YuFeng-XGuard: A Reasoning-Centric, Interpretable, and Flexible Guardrail Model for Large Language Models

Junyu Lin, Meizhen Liu, Xiufeng Huang +12

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, safety guardrails are required to go beyond coarse-grained filtering and support fine-grained,…

cs.AI2025

Are Your Agents Upward Deceivers?

Dadi Guo, Qingyu Liu, Dongrui Liu +13

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used as autonomous subordinates that carry out tasks for users. This raises the question of whether they may also engage in…

cs.LG2025

A Pre-training Framework for Relational Data with Information-theoretic Principles

Quang Truong, Zhikai Chen, Mingxuan Ju +3

Relational databases underpin critical infrastructure across a wide range of domains, yet the design of generalizable pre-training strategies for learning from relational databases…

cs.LG2025

Unveiling Mode Connectivity in Graph Neural Networks

Bingheng Li, Zhikai Chen, Haoyu Han +3

A fundamental challenge in understanding graph neural networks (GNNs) lies in characterizing their optimization dynamics and loss landscape geometry, critical for improving interpr…

cs.LG2025

AutoG: Towards automatic graph construction from tabular data

Zhikai Chen, Han Xie, Jian Zhang +4

Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in graph machine learning (GML), with its applications spanning numerous domains. However, the focus of GML has predominantly b…

cs.LG2024

One Model for One Graph: A New Perspective for Pretraining with Cross-domain Graphs

Jingzhe Liu, Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen +6

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to capture intricate network patterns, achieving success across different domains. However, existing GNNs require caref…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

CausalEval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models

Longxuan Yu, Delin Chen, Siheng Xiong +6

Causal reasoning (CR) is a crucial aspect of intelligence, essential for problem-solving, decision-making, and understanding the world. While language models (LMs) can generate rat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Learning on Graphs with Large Language Models(LLMs): A Deep Dive into Model Robustness

Kai Guo, Zewen Liu, Zhikai Chen +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks. Recently, several LLMs-based pipelines have been developed t…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

A Pure Transformer Pretraining Framework on Text-attributed Graphs

Yu Song, Haitao Mao, Jiachen Xiao +6

Pretraining plays a pivotal role in acquiring generalized knowledge from large-scale data, achieving remarkable successes as evidenced by large models in CV and NLP. However, progr…

cs.LG2024

Text-space Graph Foundation Models: Comprehensive Benchmarks and New Insights

Zhikai Chen, Haitao Mao, Jingzhe Liu +8

Given the ubiquity of graph data and its applications in diverse domains, building a Graph Foundation Model (GFM) that can work well across different graphs and tasks with a unifie…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Graph Machine Learning in the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs)

Shijie Wang, Jiani Huang, Zhikai Chen +8

Graphs play an important role in representing complex relationships in various domains like social networks, knowledge graphs, and molecular discovery. With the advent of deep lear…

cs.IR2024

Enhancing ID and Text Fusion via Alternative Training in Session-based Recommendation

Juanhui Li, Haoyu Han, Zhikai Chen +4

Session-based recommendation has gained increasing attention in recent years, with its aim to offer tailored suggestions based on users' historical behaviors within sessions. To ad…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Position: Graph Foundation Models are Already Here

Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen, Wenzhuo Tang +6

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) are emerging as a significant research topic in the graph domain, aiming to develop graph models trained on extensive and diverse data to enhance the…

cs.LG2024

Towards Neural Scaling Laws on Graphs

Jingzhe Liu, Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen +3

Deep graph models (e.g., graph neural networks and graph transformers) have become important techniques for leveraging knowledge across various types of graphs. Yet, the neural sca…

cs.LG2023★ 10 cited

Label-free Node Classification on Graphs with Large Language Models (LLMS)

Zhikai Chen, Haitao Mao, Hongzhi Wen +5

In recent years, there have been remarkable advancements in node classification achieved by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, they necessitate abundant high-quality labels to…

cs.LG2023★ 20 cited

Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Learning on Graphs

Zhikai Chen, Haitao Mao, Hang Li +8

Learning on Graphs has attracted immense attention due to its wide real-world applications. The most popular pipeline for learning on graphs with textual node attributes primarily…

cs.LG2023★ 13 cited

Demystifying Structural Disparity in Graph Neural Networks: Can One Size Fit All?

Haitao Mao, Zhikai Chen, Wei Jin +5

Recent studies on Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) provide both empirical and theoretical evidence supporting their effectiveness in capturing structural patterns on both homophilic and…