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cs.CV2025

Parameter Interpolation Adversarial Training for Robust Image Classification

Xin Liu, Yichen Yang, Kun He +1

Though deep neural networks exhibit superior performance on various tasks, they are still plagued by adversarial examples. Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be the most…

cs.CL2025

Learning to Rewrite Prompts for Bootstrapping LLMs on Downstream Tasks

Qinhao Zhou, Xiang Xiang, Kun He +1

In recent years, the growing interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced prompt engineering, transitioning from manual design to model-based optimization. P…

cs.LG2025

DAM-GT: Dual Positional Encoding-Based Attention Masking Graph Transformer for Node Classification

Chenyang Li, Jinsong Chen, John E. Hopcroft +1

Neighborhood-aware tokenized graph Transformers have recently shown great potential for node classification tasks. Despite their effectiveness, our in-depth analysis of neighborhoo…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental Learning through Neural Collapse

Kun He, Zijian Song, Shuoxi Zhang +1

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a critical capability for real-world applications, enabling learning systems to adapt to new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones.…

cs.LG2025

Rethinking Tokenized Graph Transformers for Node Classification

Jinsong Chen, Chenyang Li, GaiChao Li +2

Node tokenized graph Transformers (GTs) have shown promising performance in node classification. The generation of token sequences is the key module in existing tokenized GTs which…

cs.LG2024

Tokenizing 3D Molecule Structure with Quantized Spherical Coordinates

Kaiyuan Gao, Yusong Wang, Haoxiang Guan +5

The application of language models (LMs) to molecular structure generation using line notations such as SMILES and SELFIES has been well-established in the field of cheminformatics…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Leveraging Contrastive Learning for Enhanced Node Representations in Tokenized Graph Transformers

Jinsong Chen, Hanpeng Liu, John E. Hopcroft +1

While tokenized graph Transformers have demonstrated strong performance in node classification tasks, their reliance on a limited subset of nodes with high similarity scores for co…

cs.AI2023

Diversified Node Sampling based Hierarchical Transformer Pooling for Graph Representation Learning

Gaichao Li, Jinsong Chen, John E. Hopcroft +1

Graph pooling methods have been widely used on downsampling graphs, achieving impressive results on multiple graph-level tasks like graph classification and graph generation. An im…

cs.LG2023

SignGT: Signed Attention-based Graph Transformer for Graph Representation Learning

Jinsong Chen, Gaichao Li, John E. Hopcroft +1

The emerging graph Transformers have achieved impressive performance for graph representation learning over graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we regard the self-attention…

cs.CV2023

PIAT: Parameter Interpolation based Adversarial Training for Image Classification

Kun He, Xin Liu, Yichen Yang +4

Adversarial training has been demonstrated to be the most effective approach to defend against adversarial attacks. However, existing adversarial training methods show apparent osc…

cs.CV2022

Class-aware Information for Logit-based Knowledge Distillation

Shuoxi Zhang, Hanpeng Liu, John E. Hopcroft +1

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer knowledge to the student model by utilizing the predictions/features of the teacher model, and feature-based distillation has recently shown…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

On the Complexity of Bayesian Generalization

Yu-Zhe Shi, Manjie Xu, John E. Hopcroft +6

We consider concept generalization at a large scale in the diverse and natural visual spectrum. Established computational modes (i.e., rule-based or similarity-based) are primarily…

cs.CV2022

Local Magnification for Data and Feature Augmentation

Kun He, Chang Liu, Stephen Lin +1

In recent years, many data augmentation techniques have been proposed to increase the diversity of input data and reduce the risk of overfitting on deep neural networks. In this wo…

cs.SI2022

HoSIM: Higher-order Structural Importance based Method for Multiple Local Community Detection

Boyu Li, Meng Wang, John E. Hopcroft +1

Local community detection has attracted much research attention recently, and many methods have been proposed for the single local community detection that finds a community contai…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Why Robust Generalization in Deep Learning is Difficult: Perspective of Expressive Power

Binghui Li, Jikai Jin, Han Zhong +2

It is well-known that modern neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. To mitigate this problem, a series of robust learning algorithms have been proposed. However, a…

cs.SI2021

Uncovering the Local Hidden Community Structure in Social Networks

Meng Wang, Boyu Li, Kun He +1

Hidden community is a useful concept proposed recently for social network analysis. To handle the rapid growth of network scale, in this work, we explore the detection of hidden co…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Stochastic Variance Reduced Ensemble Adversarial Attack for Boosting the Adversarial Transferability

Yifeng Xiong, Jiadong Lin, Min Zhang +2

The black-box adversarial attack has attracted impressive attention for its practical use in the field of deep learning security. Meanwhile, it is very challenging as there is no a…

cs.SI2021

Structure Amplification on Multi-layer Stochastic Block Models

Xiaodong Xin, Kun He, Jialu Bao +2

Much of the complexity of social, biological, and engineered systems arises from a network of complex interactions connecting many basic components. Network analysis tools have bee…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

Integrating Large Circular Kernels into CNNs through Neural Architecture Search

Kun He, Chao Li, Yixiao Yang +2

The square kernel is a standard unit for contemporary CNNs, as it fits well on the tensor computation for convolution operation. However, the retinal ganglion cells in the biologic…

cs.SI2020

Hidden Community Detection on Two-layer Stochastic Models: a Theoretical Perspective

Jialu Bao, Kun He, Xiaodong Xin +2

Hidden community is a new graph-theoretical concept recently proposed [4], in which the authors also propose a meta-approach called HICODE (Hidden Community Detection) for detectin…

cs.CV2019★ 7 cited

Single Image Reflection Removal through Cascaded Refinement

Chao Li, Yixiao Yang, Kun He +2

We address the problem of removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass surface, which is an ill-posed, challenging but practically important proble…

q-bio.MN2019

Hierarchical hidden community detection for protein complex prediction

Chao Li, Kun He, Guangshuai Liu +1

Motivation: Discovering functional modules in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks by optimization methods remains a longstanding challenge in biology. Traditional algorithms…

cs.CV2019★ 53 cited

Robust Local Features for Improving the Generalization of Adversarial Training

Chuanbiao Song, Kun He, Jiadong Lin +2

Adversarial training has been demonstrated as one of the most effective methods for training robust models to defend against adversarial examples. However, adversarially trained mo…

cs.LG2019★ 230 cited

Nesterov Accelerated Gradient and Scale Invariance for Adversarial Attacks

Jiadong Lin, Chuanbiao Song, Kun He +2

Deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples crafted by applying human-imperceptible perturbations on benign inputs. However, under the black-box setting, most exist…