1 code implementation • 27 May 2025 • Wei Pang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Xiangru Jian, Xi He, Philip Torr
To address this challenge, we introduce the first benchmark and metric suite for poster generation, which pairs recent conference papers with author-designed posters and evaluates outputs on (i)Visual Quality-semantic alignment with human posters, (ii)Textual Coherence-language fluency, (iii)Holistic Assessment-six fine-grained aesthetic and informational criteria scored by a VLM-as-judge, and notably (iv)PaperQuiz-the poster's ability to convey core paper content as measured by VLMs answering generated quizzes.
no code implementations • 27 May 2025 • Xiangru Jian, Wei Pang, Zhengyuan Dong, Chao Zhang, M. Tamer Özsu
In this paper, we introduce LazyVLM, a neuro-symbolic video analytics system that provides a user-friendly query interface similar to VLMs, while addressing their scalability limitation.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2025 • Yimu Wang, Xuye Liu, Wei Pang, Li Ma, Shuai Yuan, Paul Debevec, Ning Yu
Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, offering superior temporal consistency and visual quality compared to traditional generative adversarial networks-based approaches.
2 code implementations • 17 Apr 2025 • Hao Xu, Xiangru Jian, Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Chao Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Qixin Zhang, Zhengyuan Dong, Joao Monteiro, Bang Liu, Qiuzhuang Sun, Tianshu Yu
This flexible and extendable benchmark not only deepens our understanding of LLM performance on structured tasks but also provides a robust foundation for advancing research in LLM-based graph reasoning.
no code implementations • 31 Jan 2025 • Qin Jiang, Chengjia Wang, Michael Lones, Wei Pang
While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success, their design largely relies on empirical intuition rather than theoretical understanding.
1 code implementation • 23 Jan 2025 • Mingzhao Wang, You Zhou, Zhiguang Cao, Yubin Xiao, Xuan Wu, Wei Pang, Yuan Jiang, Hui Yang, Peng Zhao, Yuanshu Li
To enhance the solution quality while maintaining fast inference, we propose DEITSP, a diffusion model with efficient iterations tailored for TSP that operates in a NAR manner.
1 code implementation • 16 Jan 2025 • Yonghao Liu, Mengyu Li, Wei Pang, Fausto Giunchiglia, Lan Huang, Xiaoyue Feng, Renchu Guan
We propose a novel model named MI-DELIGHT for short text classification in this work.
1 code implementation • 28 Nov 2024 • Qin Jiang, Chengjia Wang, Michael Lones, Wei Pang
We address two fundamental challenges in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs): (1) the lack of theoretical support for invariance learning, a critical property in image processing, and (2) the absence of a unified model capable of excelling on both homophilic and heterophilic graph datasets.
Graph Learning
Node Classification on Non-Homophilic (Heterophilic) Graphs
1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2024 • Qin Jiang, Chengjia Wang, Michael Lones, Yingfang Yuan, Wei Pang
This research extends the scale invariance concept to node classification by drawing an analogy to image processing: just as scale invariance being used in image classification to capture multi-scale features, we propose the concept of ``scaled ego-graphs''.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2024 • Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Xiangru Jian, Yaoyao Xu, Chaolong Ying, Tianshu Yu
Graph self-supervised learning (GSSL) has emerged as a compelling framework for extracting informative representations from graph-structured data without extensive reliance on labeled inputs.
1 code implementation • 15 Aug 2024 • Wei Pang, Ruixue Duan, Jinfu Yang, Ning li
GuessWhich is an engaging visual dialogue game that involves interaction between a Questioner Bot (QBot) and an Answer Bot (ABot) in the context of image-guessing.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2024 • Yuchen Mao, Hongwei Li, Wei Pang, Giorgos Papanastasiou, Guang Yang, Chengjia Wang
The persistent challenge of medical image synthesis posed by the scarcity of annotated data and the need to synthesize `missing modalities' for multi-modal analysis, underscored the imperative development of effective synthesis methods.
no code implementations • 13 Aug 2024 • Wei Pang, Ruixue Duan, Jinfu Yang, Ning li
MDST captures each round of dialog history, constructing internal dialogue state representations defined as 2-tuples of vision-language representations.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2024 • Wei Pang, Chuan Zhou, Xiao-Hua Zhou, Xiaojie Wang
Instruction Fine-Tuning enhances pre-trained language models from basic next-word prediction to complex instruction-following.
no code implementations • 30 May 2024 • Xiangru Jian, Xinjian Zhao, Wei Pang, Chaolong Ying, Yimu Wang, Yaoyao Xu, Tianshu Yu
The recent surge in contrast-based graph self-supervised learning has prominently featured an intensified exploration of spectral cues.
1 code implementation • 29 May 2024 • Ge Zhang, Scott Qu, Jiaheng Liu, Chenchen Zhang, Chenghua Lin, Chou Leuang Yu, Danny Pan, Esther Cheng, Jie Liu, Qunshu Lin, Raven Yuan, Tuney Zheng, Wei Pang, Xinrun Du, Yiming Liang, Yinghao Ma, Yizhi Li, Ziyang Ma, Bill Lin, Emmanouil Benetos, Huan Yang, Junting Zhou, Kaijing Ma, Minghao Liu, Morry Niu, Noah Wang, Quehry Que, Ruibo Liu, Sine Liu, Shawn Guo, Soren Gao, Wangchunshu Zhou, Xinyue Zhang, Yizhi Zhou, YuBo Wang, Yuelin Bai, Yuhan Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang, Zenith Wang, Zhenzhu Yang, Zijian Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Wenhao Huang, Wenhu Chen
To improve the transparency of LLMs, the research community has formed to open-source truly open LLMs (e. g., Pythia, Amber, OLMo), where more details (e. g., pre-training corpus and training code) are being provided.
1 code implementation • 28 May 2024 • Wei Pang, Masoumeh Shafieinejad, Lucy Liu, Stephanie Hazlewood, Xi He
Recent research in tabular data synthesis has focused on single tables, whereas real-world applications often involve complex data with tens or hundreds of interconnected tables.
no code implementations • 24 May 2024 • Yingfang Yuan, Kefan Chen, Mehdi Rizvi, Lynne Baillie, Wei Pang
These discrepancies can be used to approximate inequality and provide valuable insights to fairness issues.
1 code implementation • 16 May 2024 • Junhao Song, Yingfang Yuan, Kaiwen Chang, Bing Xu, Jin Xuan, Wei Pang
To advance the circular economy (CE), it is crucial to gain insights into the evolution of public attention, cognitive pathways of the masses concerning circular products, and to identify primary concerns.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2024 • Yimu Wang, Shuai Yuan, Xiangru Jian, Wei Pang, Mushi Wang, Ning Yu
While recent progress in video-text retrieval has been driven by the exploration of powerful model architectures and training strategies, the representation learning ability of video-text retrieval models is still limited due to low-quality and scarce training data annotations.
1 code implementation • 11 Feb 2024 • Junhao Song, Yingfang Yuan, Wei Pang
We propose a novel type of Artificial Immune System (AIS): Symbiotic Artificial Immune Systems (SAIS), drawing inspiration from symbiotic relationships in biology.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2023 • Yubin Xiao, Di Wang, Boyang Li, Huanhuan Chen, Wei Pang, Xuan Wu, Hao Li, Dong Xu, Yanchun Liang, You Zhou
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem with broad real-world applications.
no code implementations • 18 May 2023 • Xinyu Zhao, Sa Huang, Wei Pang, You Zhou
In this paper, we propose a novel registration model called Cascade-Dilation Inter-Layer Differential Network (CDIDN), which exhibits both high deformation impedance capability (DIC) and accuracy.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2023 • Zuhao Yang, Huajun Bai, Zhang Luo, Yang Xu, Wei Pang, Yue Wang, Yisheng Yuan, Yingfang Yuan
Using one-shot learning to increase the creativity of pre-trained models and diversify the content of the fused images.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2021 • Yingfang Yuan, Wenjun Wang, Wei Pang
In this research, we focus on the impact of selecting two types of GNN hyperparameters, those belonging to graph-related layers and those of task-specific layers, on the performance of GNN for molecular property prediction.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2021 • Abubakr Awad, Wei Pang, David Lusseau, George M. Coghill
In recent years, research on Physarum polycephalum has become more popular after Nakagaki et al. (2000) performed their famous experiment showing that Physarum was able to find the shortest route through a maze.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2021 • Yingfang Yuan, Wenjun Wang, Wei Pang
In particular, the genetic algorithm (GA) for HPO has been explored, which treats GNNs as a black-box model, of which only the outputs can be observed given a set of hyperparameters.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2021 • Yingfang Yuan, Wenjun Wang, Wei Pang
In this paper, we conducted a theoretical analysis of common and specific features for two state-of-the-art and popular algorithms for HPO: TPE and CMA-ES, and we compared them with random search (RS), which is used as a baseline.
Hyperparameter Optimization
Molecular Property Prediction
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no code implementations • 22 Jan 2021 • Yingfang Yuan, Wenjun Wang, George M. Coghill, Wei Pang
While in the proposed fast evaluation process, the training will be interrupted at an early stage, the difference of RMSE values between the starting and interrupted epochs will be used as a fast score, which implies the potential of the GNN being considered.
1 code implementation • 28 Feb 2020 • Kefan Chen, Wei Pang
In addition, in order to facilitate the mutation operation, we propose a novel two-component based neural structure coding strategy.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Wei Pang, Xiaojie Wang
This paper proposes a guessing state for the Guesser, and regards guess as a process with change of guessing state through a dialogue.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2020 • Wei Pang
Short text classi cation is a method for classifying short sentence with prede ned labels.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2019 • Luc Frachon, Wei Pang, George M. Coghill
Instead of searching for the 1-best architecture for a given task, we focus on building a population of neural networks that are then ensembled into a neural network committee, an approach we dub 'Neural Committee Search'.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2019 • Wei Pang, Xiaojie Wang
A visual dialogue state is defined as the distribution on objects in the image as well as representations of objects.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2019 • Edvinas Byla, Wei Pang
In this paper we propose DeepSwarm, a novel neural architecture search (NAS) method based on Swarm Intelligence principles.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • James Forrest, Somayajulu Sripada, Wei Pang, George Coghill
This paper presents a study to understand the issues related to using NLG to humanise explanations from a popular interpretable machine learning framework called LIME.
BIG-bench Machine Learning
Interpretable Machine Learning
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no code implementations • 21 Jul 2016 • Yan Wang, Ge Ou, Wei Pang, Lan Huang, George Macleod Coghill
We propose a novel support vector regression approach called e-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression (e-DWSVR). e-DWSVR specifically addresses two challenging issues in support vector regression: first, the process of noisy data; second, how to deal with the situation when the distribution of boundary data is different from that of the overall data.