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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Composable Crystals: Controllable Materials Discovery via Concept Learning

Nian Liu, Yuwei Zeng, Ryoji Kubo +7

De novo crystal generation, a central task in materials discovery, aims to generate crystals that are simultaneously valid, stable, unique, and novel. Existing methods mainly rely…

cs.LG2026

Crys-JEPA: Accelerating Crystal Discovery via Embedding Screening and Generative Refinement

Nian Liu, Nikita Kazeev, Stephen Gregory Dale +8

De novo crystal generation seeks to discover materials that are not merely realistic, but also stable and novel. However, most existing generative models are trained to maximize th…

stat.ML2026

Permutation-preserving Functions and Neural Vecchia Covariance Kernels

Jian Cao, Nian Liu, Ying Lin

We introduce a novel framework for constructing scalable and flexible covariance kernels for Gaussian processes (GPs) by directly learning the covariance structure under a regressi…

math.NA2026

SVD-Preconditioned Gradient Descent Method for Solving Nonlinear Least Squares Problems

Zhipeng Chang, Wenrui Hao, Nian Liu

This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm designed for nonlinear least-squares problems. The method is derived by preconditioning the gradient descent direction using th…

cs.AI2025

FiDeLiS: Faithful Reasoning in Large Language Model for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Yuan Sui, Yufei He, Nian Liu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are often challenged by generating erroneous or hallucinated responses, especially in complex reasoning tasks. Leveraging Knowledge Graphs (KGs) as ext…

cs.LG2025

A General Graph Spectral Wavelet Convolution via Chebyshev Order Decomposition

Nian Liu, Xiaoxin He, Thomas Laurent +3

Spectral graph convolution, an important tool of data filtering on graphs, relies on two essential decisions: selecting spectral bases for signal transformation and parameterizing…