@article{AUCPro,author={Bao, Shilong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},title={AUCPro: AUC-Oriented Provable Robustness Learning},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2025},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Bao Shilong},}
@inproceedings{sun2025edge,title={EDGE: Unknown-aware Multi-label Learning by Energy Distribution Gap Expansion},author={Sun, Yuchen and Xu, Qianqian and Wang, Zitai and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Junwei},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},year={2025},first_author={Sun Yuchen}}
@inproceedings{lu2025bidirectional,title={Bidirectional Logits Tree: Pursuing Granularity Reconcilement in Fine-Grained Classification},author={Lu, Zhiguang and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},year={2025},first_author={Lu Zhiguang}}
@inproceedings{lyu2025ssesam,title={SSE-SAM: Balancing Head and Tail Classes Gradually through Stage-Wise SAM},author={Lyu, Xingyu and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Lyu, Shaojie and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},year={2025},first_author={Lyu Xingyu}}
@article{bao2024improved,title={Improved Diversity-Promoting Collaborative Metric Learning for Recommendation},author={Bao, Shilong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2024},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Bao Shilong},}
@article{wen2024algorithm,title={Algorithm-Dependent Generalization of AUPRC Optimization: Theory and Algorithm},author={Wen, Peisong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2024},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Wen Peisong},}
@article{cao2024mitigating,title={Mitigating Confounding Bias in Practical Recommender Systems with Partially Inaccessible Exposure Status},author={Cao, Tianwei and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2024},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Cao Tianwei},}
@article{wang2024improved,title={Top-K Pairwise Ranking: Bridging the Gap Among Ranking-Based Measures for Multi-Label Classification},author={Wang, Zitai and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Wen, Peisong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={International Journal of Computer Vision},year={2024},first_author={Wang Zitai},}
@inproceedings{yang2024harnessing,title={Harnessing Hierarchical Label Distribution Variations in Test Agnostic Long-tail Recognition},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Wang, Zitai and Li, Sicong and Han, Boyu and Bao, Shilong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},year={2024},organization={PMLR},first_author={Yang Zhiyong},}
@inproceedings{li2024size,title={Size-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object Detection},author={Li, Feiran and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and Yang, Zhiyong and Cong, Runmin and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},year={2024},organization={PMLR},awards={Spotlight},rate={3.5%},first_author={Li Feiran},project={https://ferry-li.github.io/SI_SOD/},}
@inproceedings{hua2024reconboost,title={ReconBoost: Boosting Can Achieve Modality Reconcilement},author={Hua, Cong and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},year={2024},organization={PMLR},first_author={Hua Cong},}
@article{han2024aucseg,title={AUCSeg: AUC-oriented Pixel-level Long-tail Semantic Segmentation},author={Han, Boyu and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Bao, Shilong and Wen, Peisong and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2024},first_author={Han Boyu}}
title = {Suppress Content Shift: Better Diffusion Features via Off-the-Shelf Generation Techniques},author = {Meng, Benyuan and Xu, Qianqian and Wang, Zitai and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year = {2024},first_author = {Meng Benyuan}}
@article{yang2023auc-oriented,title={AUC-Oriented Domain Adaptation: From Theory to Algorithm},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and Wen, Peisong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2023},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong},}
@article{yang2023revisiting,title={Revisiting AUC-oriented Adversarial Training with Loss-Agnostic Perturbations},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Hou, Wenzheng and Bao, Shilong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2023},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong},}
@article{jiang2023pu,title={Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Label Distribution Alignment},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Xu, Qianqian and Zhao, Yunrui and Yang, Zhiyong and Wen, Peisong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2023},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan},}
@inproceedings{gao2023feature,title={Feature Directions Matter: Long-Tailed Learning via Rotated Balanced Representation},author={Gao, Peifeng and Xu, Qianqian and Wen, Peisong and Yang, Zhiyong and Shao, Huiyang and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},year={2023},organization={PMLR},first_author={Gao Peifeng}}
@article{wang2023unified,title={A Unified Generalization Analysis of Re-Weighting and Logit-Adjustment for Imbalanced Learning},author={Wang, Zitai and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2023},first_author={Wang Zitai},awards={Spotlight},rate={3.1%},}
@article{shao2023weighted,title={Weighted ROC Curve in Cost Space: Extending AUC to Cost-Sensitive Learning},author={Shao, Huiyang and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Wen, Peisong and Gao, Peifeng and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2023},first_author={Shao Huiyang}}
@article{dai2023drauc,title={DRAUC: An Instance-wise Distributionally Robust AUC Optimization Framework},author={Dai, Siran and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2023},first_author={Dai Siran}}
@inproceedings{shao2023building,title={Building Bridge Across the Time: Disruption and Restoration of Murals In the Wild},author={Shao, Huiyang and Xu, Qianqian and Wen, Peisong and Gao, Peifeng and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision},year={2023},first_author={Shao Huiyang}}
@article{yang2022optimizing,title={Optimizing Two-way Partial AUC with an End-to-end Framework},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2022},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@article{xu2022rethink,title={Rethinking Label Flipping Attack: From Sample Masking to Sample Thresholding},author={Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Zhao, Yunrui and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2022},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@article{bao2022rethinking,title={Rethinking Collaborative Metric Learning: Toward an Efficient Alternative without Negative Sampling},author={Bao, Shilong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2022},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Bao Shilong}}
@article{wang2022optimizing,title={Optimizing Partial Area Under the Top-k Curve: Theory and Practice},author={Wang, Zitai and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2022},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Wang Zitai},}
@article{jiang2022max,title={MaxMatch: Semi-Supervised Learning with Worst-Case Consistency},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2022},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan}}
@inproceedings{hou2022adauc,title={AdAUC: End-to-end Adversarial AUC Optimization Against Long-tail Problems},author={Hou, Wenzheng and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Bao, Shilong and He, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},pages={8903--8925},year={2022},organization={PMLR},first_author={Hou Wenzheng}}
@article{bao2022minority,title={The Minority Matters: A Diversity-Promoting Collaborative Metric Learning Algorithm},author={Bao, Shilong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2022},first_author={Bao Shilong},awards={Oral},rate={1.7%},}
@article{wang2022openauc,title={OpenAUC: Towards AUC-Oriented Open-Set Recognition},author={Wang, Zitai and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2022},first_author={Wang Zitai},awards={Spotlight},rate={5%},}
@article{wen2022exploring,title={Exploring the Algorithm-Dependent Generalization of AUPRC Optimization with List Stability},author={Wen, Peisong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2022},first_author={Wen Peisong}}
@article{shao2022asymptotically,title={Asymptotically Unbiased Instance-wise Regularized Partial AUC Optimization: Theory and Algorithm},author={Shao, Huiyang and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Bao, Shilong and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2022},first_author={Shao Huiyang},}
@article{cao2022otkge,title={OTKGE: Multi-modal Knowledge Graph Embeddings via Optimal Transport},author={Cao, Zongsheng and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},year={2022},first_author={Cao Zongsheng},}
@inproceedings{cao2022geometry,title={Geometry Interaction Knowledge Graph Embeddings},author={Cao, Zongsheng and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},year={2022},first_author={Cao Zongsheng}}
@inproceedings{cao2022er,title={ER: Equivariance Regularizer for Knowledge Graph Completion},author={Cao, Zongsheng and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},year={2022},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},first_author={Cao Zongsheng}}
@inproceedings{ijcai2022-291,title={A Sparse-Motif Ensemble Graph Convolutional Network against Over-smoothing},author={Jiang, Xuan and Yang, Zhiyong and Wen, Peisong and Su, Li and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence},publisher={International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},pages={2094--2100},year={2022},note={Main Track},first_author={Jiang Xuan},}
@article{yang2021learning,title={Learning with Multiclass AUC: Theory and Algorithms},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2021},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@article{cao2021meta,title={Meta-Wrapper: Differentiable Wrapping Operator for User Interest Selection in CTR Prediction},author={Cao, Tianwei and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2021},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Cao Tianwei}}
@inproceedings{yang2021all,title={When All We Need is a Piece of the Pie: A Generic Framework for Optimizing Two-way Partial AUC},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Bao, Shilong and He, Yuan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},pages={11820--11829},year={2021},organization={PMLR},first_author={Yang Zhiyong},awards={Long Talk},rate={3%}}
@article{wen2021false,title={When False Positive is Intolerant: End-to-End Optimization with Low FPR for Multipartite Ranking},author={Wen, Peisong and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},volume={34},pages={5025--5037},year={2021},first_author={Wen Peisong}}
@inproceedings{wen2021seeking,title={Seeking the Shape of Sound: An Adaptive Framework for Learning Voice-Face Association},author={Wen, Peisong and Xu, Qianqian and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Yang, Zhiyong and He, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},pages={16347--16356},year={2021},first_author={Wen Peisong}}
@inproceedings{xu2021deep,title={Deep Partial Rank Aggregation for Personalized Attributes},author={Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Chen, Zuyao and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Cao, Xiaochun and Yao, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={35},number={1},pages={678--688},year={2021},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@inproceedings{jiang2021select,title={What to Select: Pursuing Consistent Motion Segmentation from Multiple Geometric Models},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Xu, Qianqian and Ma, Ke and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={35},number={2},pages={1708--1716},year={2021},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan}}
@inproceedings{cao2021dual,title={Dual Quaternion Knowledge Graph Embeddings},author={Cao, Zongsheng and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={35},number={8},pages={6894--6902},year={2021},first_author={Cao Zongsheng}}
@inproceedings{wang2021implicit,title={Implicit Feedbacks are Not Always Favorable: Iterative Relabeled One-Class Collaborative Filtering against Noisy Interactions},author={Wang, Zitai and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={3070--3078},year={2021},first_author={Wang Zitai}}
@inproceedings{hao2021pareto,title={Pareto Optimality for Fairness-constrained Collaborative Filtering},author={Hao, Qianxiu and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={5619--5627},year={2021},first_author={Hao Qianxiu}}
@inproceedings{hao2021learning,title={Learning Meta-path-aware Embeddings for Recommender Systems},author={Hao, Qianxiu and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={3909--3917},year={2021},first_author={Hao Qianxiu},awards={Oral}}
@article{yang2020task,title={Task-Feature Collaborative Learning with Application to Personalized Attribute Prediction},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},volume={43},number={11},pages={4094--4110},year={2020},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@article{xu2020not,title={Not All Samples are Trustworthy: Towards Deep Robust SVP Prediction},author={Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Cao, Xiaochun and Yao, Yuan and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},year={2020},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@inproceedings{xu2020likes,title={Who Likes What?—SplitLBI in Exploring Preferential Diversity of Ratings},author={Xu, Qianqian and Xiong, Jiechao and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming and Yao, Yuan},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={34},number={01},pages={262--269},year={2020},first_author={Xu Qianqian},awards={Oral}}
@inproceedings{cao2020task,title={Task-distribution-aware Meta-learning for Cold-start CTR Prediction},author={Cao, Tianwei and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={3514--3522},year={2020},first_author={Cao Tianwei}}
@article{yang2019generalized,title={Generalized Block-Diagonal Structure Pursuit: Learning Soft Latent Task Assignment against Negative Transfer},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},volume={32},year={2019},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@article{xu2019isplit,title={iSplit LBI: Individualized Partial Ranking with Ties via Split LBI},author={Xu, Qianqian and Sun, Xinwei and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming and Yao, Yuan},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},volume={32},year={2019},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@article{jiang2019dm2c,title={DM2C: Deep Mixed-Modal Clustering},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},volume={32},year={2019},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan},awards={Spotlight},rate={2.4%},}
@inproceedings{xu2019deep,title={Deep Robust Subjective Visual Property Prediction in Crowdsourcing},author={Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Jiang, Yangbangyan and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming and Yao, Yuan},booktitle={IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},pages={8993--9001},year={2019},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@article{yang2019split,title={Split Multiplicative Multi-view Subspace Clustering},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Zhang, Weigang and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},journal={IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},volume={28},number={10},pages={5147--5160},year={2019},publisher={IEEE},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@inproceedings{yang2019learning,title={Learning Personalized Attribute Preference via Multi-task AUC Optimization},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={33},number={01},pages={5660--5667},year={2019},first_author={Yang Zhiyong},awards={Oral},rate={6%}}
@inproceedings{ma2019less,title={Less but Better: Generalization Enhancement of Ordinal Embedding via Distributional Margin},author={Ma, Ke and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={33},number={01},pages={2978--2985},year={2019},first_author={Ma Ke}}
@inproceedings{bao2019collaborative,title={Collaborative Preference Embedding against Sparse Labels},author={Bao, Shilong and Xu, Qianqian and Ma, Ke and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={2079--2087},year={2019},first_author={Bao Shilong},awards={Oral}}
@inproceedings{jiang2019duet,title={Duet Robust Deep Subspace Clustering},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Xu, Qianqian and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={1596--1604},year={2019},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan},awards={Spotlight},rate={2.4%}}
@inproceedings{yang2018common,title={From Common to Special: When Multi-Attribute Learning Meets Personalized Opinions},author={Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},volume={32},number={1},year={2018},first_author={Yang Zhiyong}}
@inproceedings{xu2018margin,title={A Margin-based MLE for Crowdsourced Partial Ranking},author={Xu, Qianqian and Xiong, Jiechao and Sun, Xinwei and Yang, Zhiyong and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming and Yao, Yuan},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={591--599},year={2018},first_author={Xu Qianqian}}
@inproceedings{jiang2018learn,title={When to Learn What: Deep Cognitive Subspace Clustering},author={Jiang, Yangbangyan and Yang, Zhiyong and Xu, Qianqian and Cao, Xiaochun and Huang, Qingming},booktitle={ACM International Conference on Multimedia},pages={718--726},year={2018},first_author={Jiang Yangbangyan}}