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most citedMeta-Causal Feature Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

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21 papers

cs.LG2026

From Selection to Scheduling: Federated Geometry-Aware Correction Makes Exemplar Replay Work Better under Continual Dynamic Heterogeneity

Zhuang Qi, Ying-Peng Tang, Lei Meng +4

Exemplar replay has become an effective strategy for mitigating catastrophic forgetting in federated continual learning (FCL) by retaining representative samples from past tasks. E…

cs.CV2025

Global Prompt Refinement with Non-Interfering Attention Masking for One-Shot Federated Learning

Zhuang Qi, Pan Yu, Lei Meng +4

Federated Prompt Learning (FPL) enables communication-efficient adaptation by tuning lightweight prompts on top of frozen pre-trained models. Existing FPL methods typically rely on…

cs.AI2025

Large model retrieval enhancement framework for construction site risk identification

Jiawei Li, Chengye Yang, Yaochen Zhang +3

This study addresses construction site hazard identification by proposing a retrieval-augmented framework that enhances large language models (LLMs) without requiring fine-tuning.…

cs.CV2025

ProtoConNet: Prototypical Augmentation and Alignment for Open-Set Few-Shot Image Classification

Kexuan Shi, Zhuang Qi, Jingjing Zhu +4

Open-set few-shot image classification aims to train models using a small amount of labeled data, enabling them to achieve good generalization when confronted with unknown environm…

cs.LG2025

Class-wise Balancing Data Replay for Federated Class-Incremental Learning

Zhuang Qi, Ying-Peng Tang, Lei Meng +3

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) aims to collaboratively process continuously increasing incoming tasks across multiple clients. Among various approaches, data replay ha…

cs.CV2025

Semantic-Space-Intervened Diffusive Alignment for Visual Classification

Zixuan Li, Lei Meng, Guoqing Chao +5

Cross-modal alignment is an effective approach to improving visual classification. Existing studies typically enforce a one-step mapping that uses deep neural networks to project t…

cs.CV2025

Empowering Vision Transformers with Multi-Scale Causal Intervention for Long-Tailed Image Classification

Xiaoshuo Yan, Zhaochuan Li, Lei Meng +4

Causal inference has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate long-tail classification by handling the biases introduced by class imbalance. However, along with the change of ad…

cs.CV2025

Federated Deconfounding and Debiasing Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Zhuang Qi, Sijin Zhou, Lei Meng +3

Attribute bias in federated learning (FL) typically leads local models to optimize inconsistently due to the learning of non-causal associations, resulting degraded performance. Ex…

cs.LG2025

Towards Initialization-Agnostic Clustering with Iterative Adaptive Resonance Theory

Xiaozheng Qu, Zhaochuan Li, Zhuang Qi +4

The clustering performance of Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory (Fuzzy ART) is highly dependent on the preset vigilance parameter, where deviations in its value can lead to significa…

cs.CV2025

LLM-Enabled Style and Content Regularization for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

Anran Yu, Wei Feng, Yaochen Zhang +4

The personalized text-to-image generation has rapidly advanced with the emergence of Stable Diffusion. Existing methods, which typically fine-tune models using embedded identifiers…

cs.CV2025

Global Intervention and Distillation for Federated Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Zhuang Qi, Runhui Zhang, Lei Meng +3

Attribute skew in federated learning leads local models to focus on learning non-causal associations, guiding them towards inconsistent optimization directions, which inevitably re…

cs.CV2025

Hierarchically-Structured Open-Vocabulary Indoor Scene Synthesis with Pre-trained Large Language Model

Weilin Sun, Xinran Li, Manyi Li +3

Indoor scene synthesis aims to automatically produce plausible, realistic and diverse 3D indoor scenes, especially given arbitrary user requirements. Recently, the promising genera…

cs.IR2024

Headache to Overstock? Promoting Long-tail Items through Debiased Product Bundling

Shuo Xu, Haokai Ma, Yunshan Ma +4

Product bundling aims to organize a set of thematically related items into a combined bundle for shipment facilitation and item promotion. To increase the exposure of fresh or over…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Negative Sampling in Recommendation: A Survey and Future Directions

Haokai Ma, Ruobing Xie, Lei Meng +5

Recommender system (RS) aims to capture personalized preferences from massive user behaviors, making them pivotal in the era of information explosion. However, the presence of ``in…

cs.CV2024

Unifying Visual and Semantic Feature Spaces with Diffusion Models for Enhanced Cross-Modal Alignment

Yuze Zheng, Zixuan Li, Xiangxian Li +4

Image classification models often demonstrate unstable performance in real-world applications due to variations in image information, driven by differing visual perspectives of sub…

cs.AI2024

Federated Cross-Training Learners for Robust Generalization under Data Heterogeneity

Zhuang Qi, Lei Meng, Ruohan Zhang +5

Federated learning benefits from cross-training strategies, which enables models to train on data from distinct sources to improve generalization capability. However, due to inhere…

cs.CV2023

Class-level Structural Relation Modelling and Smoothing for Visual Representation Learning

Zitan Chen, Zhuang Qi, Xiao Cao +3

Representation learning for images has been advanced by recent progress in more complex neural models such as the Vision Transformers and new learning theories such as the structur…

cs.LG2023

Cross-Silo Prototypical Calibration for Federated Learning with Non-IID Data

Zhuang Qi, Lei Meng, Zitan Chen +3

Federated Learning aims to learn a global model on the server side that generalizes to all clients in a privacy-preserving manner, by leveraging the local models from different cli…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Cross-Modal Content Inference and Feature Enrichment for Cold-Start Recommendation

Haokai Ma, Zhuang Qi, Xinxin Dong +3

Multimedia recommendation aims to fuse the multi-modal information of items for feature enrichment to improve the recommendation performance. However, existing methods typically in…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Mlinear: Rethink the Linear Model for Time-series Forecasting

Wei Li, Xiangxu Meng, Chuhao Chen +1

Recently, significant advancements have been made in time-series forecasting research, with an increasing focus on analyzing the nature of time-series data, e.g, channel-independen…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Meta-Causal Feature Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Yuqing Wang, Xiangxian Li, Zhuang Qi +4

Causal inference has become a powerful tool to handle the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization problem, which aims to extract the invariant features. However, conventional meth…