Search Results for author: Wei Pang

Found 37 papers, 18 papers with code

Paper2Poster: Towards Multimodal Poster Automation from Scientific Papers

1 code implementation27 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.

LazyVLM: Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Video Analytics

no code implementations27 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.

Survey of Video Diffusion Models: Foundations, Implementations, and Applications

1 code implementation22 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.

Computational Efficiency Denoising +4

GraphOmni: A Comprehensive and Extendable Benchmark Framework for Large Language Models on Graph-theoretic Tasks

2 code implementations17 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.

Demystifying MPNNs: Message Passing as Merely Efficient Matrix Multiplication

no code implementations31 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.

An Efficient Diffusion-based Non-Autoregressive Solver for Traveling Salesman Problem

1 code implementation23 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.

Denoising Scheduling +1

Scale Invariance of Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation28 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

ScaleNet: Scale Invariance Learning in Directed Graphs

1 code implementation13 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''.

Classification Graph Learning +3

Enhancing Graph Self-Supervised Learning with Graph Interplay

no code implementations5 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.

Graph Learning Self-Supervised Learning

Multi-Modal Dialogue State Tracking for Playing GuessWhich Game

1 code implementation15 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.

Dialogue State Tracking Visual Reasoning

SeLoRA: Self-Expanding Low-Rank Adaptation of Latent Diffusion Model for Medical Image Synthesis

no code implementations13 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.

Image Generation

Enhancing Visual Dialog State Tracking through Iterative Object-Entity Alignment in Multi-Round Conversations

no code implementations13 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.

dialog state tracking Dialogue State Tracking +2

Phased Instruction Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

1 code implementation1 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.

Instruction Following

Rethinking Spectral Augmentation for Contrast-based Graph Self-Supervised Learning

no code implementations30 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.

Self-Supervised Learning

ClavaDDPM: Multi-relational Data Synthesis with Cluster-guided Diffusion Models

1 code implementation28 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.

Exploring Public Attention in the Circular Economy through Topic Modelling with Twin Hyperparameter Optimisation

1 code implementation16 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.

Dynamic Topic Modeling Hyperparameter Optimization +1

HaVTR: Improving Video-Text Retrieval Through Augmentation Using Large Foundation Models

no code implementations7 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.

Hallucination Representation Learning +2

SAIS: A Novel Bio-Inspired Artificial Immune System Based on Symbiotic Paradigm

1 code implementation11 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.

Diversity Evolutionary Algorithms

CDIDN: A Registration Model with High Deformation Impedance Capability for Long-Term Tracking of Pulmonary Lesion Dynamics

no code implementations18 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.

Which Hyperparameters to Optimise? An Investigation of Evolutionary Hyperparameter Optimisation in Graph Neural Network For Molecular Property Prediction

no code implementations13 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.

Graph Neural Network Hyperparameter Optimization +3

A Survey on Physarum Polycephalum Intelligent Foraging Behaviour and Bio-Inspired Applications

no code implementations27 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.

A Genetic Algorithm with Tree-structured Mutation for Hyperparameter Optimisation of Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations24 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.

A Systematic Comparison Study on Hyperparameter Optimisation of Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction

no code implementations8 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 +1

A Novel Genetic Algorithm with Hierarchical Evaluation Strategy for Hyperparameter Optimisation of Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations22 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.

Hyperparameter Optimization

ImmuNetNAS: An Immune-network approach for searching Convolutional Neural Network Architectures

1 code implementation28 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.

Neural Architecture Search

Guessing State Tracking for Visual Dialogue

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.

Visual Grounding

Short Text Classification via Term Graph

no code implementations20 Jan 2020 Wei Pang

Short text classi cation is a method for classifying short sentence with prede ned labels.

General Classification Sentence +2

ImmuNeCS: Neural Committee Search by an Artificial Immune System

no code implementations18 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'.

Neural Architecture Search

Visual Dialogue State Tracking for Question Generation

1 code implementation12 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.

Dialogue State Tracking Question Generation +2

DeepSwarm: Optimising Convolutional Neural Networks using Swarm Intelligence

1 code implementation17 May 2019 Edvinas Byla, Wei Pang

In this paper we propose DeepSwarm, a novel neural architecture search (NAS) method based on Swarm Intelligence principles.

Neural Architecture Search

Towards making NLG a voice for interpretable Machine Learning

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 +1

e-Distance Weighted Support Vector Regression

no code implementations21 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.

regression

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