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most citedImproved Regularization and Robustness for Fine-tuning in Neural Networks

11 citations · 40 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

MoPLEx: Estimating Plackett-Luce Mixture Models for Multi-Objective Alignment

Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang +1

We study learning a mixture of Plackett-Luce models from multi-way ranking responses from annotators that may represent heterogeneous underlying preferences. This problem has m…

cs.LG2026

WinQ: Accelerating Quantization-Aware Training of Language Models Around Saddle Points

Dongyue Li, Zechun Liu, Kai Yi +6

Quantization-aware training (QAT) is widely adopted to quantize language models by training full-precision weights using gradients from the quantized model. The main bottleneck is…

cs.LG2025

Efficiently Learning Branching Networks for Multitask Algorithmic Reasoning

Dongyue Li, Zhenshuo Zhang, Minxuan Duan +2

Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating multi-step reasoning abilities, designed for graph neural…

cs.LG2025

Linear-Time Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning via Gradient Estimation

Ziniu Zhang, Zhenshuo Zhang, Dongyue Li +3

This paper introduces an algorithm to select demonstration examples for in-context learning of a query set. Given a set of examples, how can we quickly select out of to…

cs.LG2025

Efficient Ensemble for Fine-tuning Language Models on Multiple Datasets

Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang +1

This paper develops an ensemble method for fine-tuning a language model to multiple datasets. Existing methods, such as quantized LoRA (QLoRA), are efficient when adapting to a sin…

cs.CV2025

Split Matching for Inductive Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation

Jialei Chen, Xu Zheng, Dongyue Li +6

Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation (ZSS) aims to segment categories that are not annotated during training. While fine-tuning vision-language models has achieved promising results, th…

cs.CV2025

Not All Pixels Are Equal: Confidence-Guided Attention for Feature Matching

Dongyue Li

Semi-dense feature matching methods have been significantly advanced by leveraging attention mechanisms to extract discriminative descriptors. However, most existing approaches tre…

cs.CV2025

CQVPR: Landmark-aware Contextual Queries for Visual Place Recognition

Dongyue Li, Daisuke Deguchi, Hiroshi Murase

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to estimate the location of the given query image within a database of geo-tagged images. To identify the exact location in an image, detecting…

cs.CL2024

Scalable Fine-tuning from Multiple Data Sources: A First-Order Approximation Approach

Dongyue Li, Ziniu Zhang, Lu Wang +1

We study the problem of fine-tuning a language model (LM) for a target task by optimally using the information from auxiliary tasks. This problem has broad applications in NLP,…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Scalable Multitask Learning Using Gradient-based Estimation of Task Affinity

Dongyue Li, Aneesh Sharma, Hongyang R. Zhang

Multitask learning is a widely used paradigm for training models on diverse tasks, with applications ranging from graph neural networks to language model fine-tuning. Since tasks m…

cs.LG2024

Learning Tree-Structured Composition of Data Augmentation

Dongyue Li, Kailai Chen, Predrag Radivojac +1

Data augmentation is widely used for training a neural network given little labeled data. A common practice of augmentation training is applying a composition of multiple transform…

cs.SI2023★ 5 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Road Safety Modeling: Datasets and Evaluations for Accident Analysis

Abhinav Nippani, Dongyue Li, Haotian Ju +2

We consider the problem of traffic accident analysis on a road network based on road network connections and traffic volume. Previous works have designed various deep-learning meth…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Boosting Multitask Learning on Graphs through Higher-Order Task Affinities

Dongyue Li, Haotian Ju, Aneesh Sharma +1

Predicting node labels on a given graph is a widely studied problem with many applications, including community detection and molecular graph prediction. This paper considers predi…

cs.LG2023

Noise Stability Optimization for Finding Flat Minima: A Hessian-based Regularization Approach

Hongyang R. Zhang, Dongyue Li, Haotian Ju

The training of over-parameterized neural networks has received much study in recent literature. An important consideration is the regularization of over-parameterized networks due…

cs.SI2023

Optimal Intervention on Weighted Networks via Edge Centrality

Dongyue Li, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Hongyang R. Zhang

Suppose there is a spreading process such as an infectious disease propagating on a graph. How would we reduce the number of affected nodes in the spreading process? This question…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Identification of Negative Transfers in Multitask Learning Using Surrogate Models

Dongyue Li, Huy L. Nguyen, Hongyang R. Zhang

Multitask learning is widely used in practice to train a low-resource target task by augmenting it with multiple related source tasks. Yet, naively combining all the source tasks w…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Generalization in Graph Neural Networks: Improved PAC-Bayesian Bounds on Graph Diffusion

Haotian Ju, Dongyue Li, Aneesh Sharma +1

Graph neural networks are widely used tools for graph prediction tasks. Motivated by their empirical performance, prior works have developed generalization bounds for graph neural…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Robust Fine-Tuning of Deep Neural Networks with Hessian-based Generalization Guarantees

Haotian Ju, Dongyue Li, Hongyang R. Zhang

We consider fine-tuning a pretrained deep neural network on a target task. We study the generalization properties of fine-tuning to understand the problem of overfitting, which has…

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

Improved Regularization and Robustness for Fine-tuning in Neural Networks

Dongyue Li, Hongyang R. Zhang

A widely used algorithm for transfer learning is fine-tuning, where a pre-trained model is fine-tuned on a target task with a small amount of labeled data. When the capacity of the…