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20242026
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6 papers

cs.LG2026

Neural Exploitation and Exploration of Contextual Bandits

Yikun Ban, Yuchen Yan, Arindam Banerjee +1

In this paper, we study utilizing neural networks for the exploitation and exploration of contextual multi-armed bandits. Contextual multi-armed bandits have been studied for decad…

cs.LG2026

GCL-OT: Graph Contrastive Learning with Optimal Transport for Heterophilic Text-Attributed Graphs

Yating Ren, Yikun Ban, Huobin Tan

Recently, structure-text contrastive learning has shown promising performance on text-attributed graphs by leveraging the complementary strengths of graph neural networks and langu…

cs.CL2025

Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning

Jiaru Zou, Yikun Ban, Zihao Li +4

Large language models are typically adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning on domain-specific data. While standard fine-tuning focuses on minimizing generation…

cs.LG2025

LLM-Forest: Ensemble Learning of LLMs with Graph-Augmented Prompts for Data Imputation

Xinrui He, Yikun Ban, Jiaru Zou +3

Missing data imputation is a critical challenge in various domains, such as healthcare and finance, where data completeness is vital for accurate analysis. Large language models (L…

cs.LG2025

Can Graph Neural Networks Learn Language with Extremely Weak Text Supervision?

Zihao Li, Lecheng Zheng, Bowen Jin +5

While great success has been achieved in building vision models with Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) over internet-scale image-text pairs, building transferable Grap…

cs.IR2024

Logic Query of Thoughts: Guiding Large Language Models to Answer Complex Logic Queries with Knowledge Graphs

Lihui Liu, Zihao Wang, Ruizhong Qiu +5

Despite the superb performance in many tasks, large language models (LLMs) bear the risk of generating hallucination or even wrong answers when confronted with tasks that demand th…