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most citedNonlocal Attention Operator: Materializing Hidden Knowledge Towards Interpretable Physics Discovery

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cs.IR2026

FD-RAG: Federated Dual-System Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Tianhao Gao, Kai Yang, Yiyang Li

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a paradigm for grounding large language models in external knowledge, yet most existing RAG systems assume centralized knowledge…

cs.LG2025

Resting Neurons, Active Insights: Robustifying Activation Sparsity in LLMs via Spontaneity

Haotian Xu, Jiannan Yang, Tian Gao +2

Activation sparsity offers a compelling route to accelerate large language model (LLM) inference by selectively suppressing hidden activations, yet existing approaches exhibit seve…

cs.LG2025

FANoise: Singular Value-Adaptive Noise Modulation for Robust Multimodal Representation Learning

Jiaoyang Li, Jun Fang, Tianhao Gao +5

Representation learning is fundamental to modern machine learning, powering applications such as text retrieval and multimodal understanding. However, learning robust and generaliz…

cs.AI2025

Stable Preference Optimization: A Bilevel Approach to Catastrophic Preference Shift

Chengtao Jian, Kai Yang, Tianhao Gao +5

Direct Preference Learning has emerged as a dominant offline paradigm for preference optimization. Most of these methods are based on the Bradley-Terry (BT) model for pairwise pref…

cs.LG2025

Learning Causal Graphs at Scale: A Foundation Model Approach

Naiyu Yin, Tian Gao, Yue Yu

Due to its human-interpretability and invariance properties, Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) has been a foundational tool across various areas of AI research, leading to significant a…

cs.LG2024

Identifying Sub-networks in Neural Networks via Functionally Similar Representations

Tian Gao, Amit Dhurandhar, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy +1

Providing human-understandable insights into the inner workings of neural networks is an important step toward achieving more explainable and trustworthy AI. Existing approaches to…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Disentangled Representation Learning for Parametric Partial Differential Equations

Ning Liu, Lu Zhang, Tian Gao +1

Neural operators (NOs) excel at learning mappings between function spaces, serving as efficient forward solution approximators for PDE-governed systems. However, as black-box solve…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Nonlocal Attention Operator: Materializing Hidden Knowledge Towards Interpretable Physics Discovery

Yue Yu, Ning Liu, Fei Lu +3

Despite the recent popularity of attention-based neural architectures in core AI fields like natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), their potential in modeling…