An Zhang

According to our database, An Zhang authored at least 85 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

SaFeR-Steer: Evolving Multi-Turn MLLMs via Synthetic Bootstrapping and Feedback Dynamics.

Haolong Hu, Hanyu Li, Tiancheng He, Huahui Yi, An Zhang, Qiankun Li, Kun Wang, Yang Liu, Zhigang Zeng

CoRR, April, 2026

Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender.

Zhengyi Yang, Jiancan Wu, Yanchen Luo, Jizhi Zhang, Yancheng Yuan, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., March, 2026

Reasoning over Semantic IDs Enhances Generative Recommendation.

Yingzhi He, Yan Sun, Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, Xiaoyu Kong, Chunxu Shen, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, March, 2026

Do LLMs and VLMs Share Neurons for Inference? Evidence and Mechanisms of Cross-Modal Transfer.

Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Gelei Deng, Jingnan Zheng, Zhenkai Liang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, February, 2026

When to Memorize and When to Stop: Gated Recurrent Memory for Long-Context Reasoning.

Leheng Sheng, Yongtao Zhang, Wenchang Ma, Yaorui Shi, Ting Huang, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Ke Shen, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, February, 2026

Transport and Merge: Cross-Architecture Merging for Large Language Models.

Chenhang Cui, Binyun Yang, Fei Shen, Yuxin Chen, Jingnan Zheng, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, February, 2026

Risky-Bench: Probing Agentic Safety Risks under Real-World Deployment.

Jingnan Zheng, Yanzhen Luo, Jingjun Xu, Bingnan Liu, Yuxin Chen, Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, Chaochao Lu, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, February, 2026

Self-Guard: Defending Large Reasoning Models via enhanced self-reflection.

Jingnan Zheng, Jingjun Xu, Yanzhen Luo, Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, Zhenkai Liang, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, February, 2026

Understanding Multilingualism in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs: Routing Mechanism, Expert Specialization, and Layerwise Steering.

Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai, Xiangtian Ji, Weixiang Zhao, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, January, 2026

SafeSieve: From Heuristics to Experience in Progressive Pruning for LLM-based Multi-Agent Communication.

Ruijia Zhang, Xinyan Zhao, Ruixiang Wang, Sigen Chen, Guibin Zhang, An Zhang, Kun Wang, Qingsong Wen

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

Towards Goal-oriented Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Online Education.

Yang Deng, Zifeng Ren, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., November, 2025

MiniOneRec: An Open-Source Framework for Scaling Generative Recommendation.

Xiaoyu Kong, Leheng Sheng, Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

CoRR, October, 2025

Reinforced Preference Optimization for Recommendation.

Junfei Tan, Yuxin Chen, An Zhang, Junguang Jiang, Bin Liu, Ziru Xu, Zhu Han, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiang Wang

CoRR, October, 2025

Quantile Advantage Estimation for Entropy-Safe Reasoning.

Junkang Wu, Kexin Huang, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

CoRR, September, 2025

bi-GRPO: Bidirectional Optimization for Jailbreak Backdoor Injection on LLMs.

Wence Ji, Jiancan Wu, Aiying Li, Shuyi Zhang, Junkang Wu, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

CoRR, September, 2025

Denoising Neural Reranker for Recommender Systems.

Wenyu Mao, Shuchang Liu, Hailan Yang, Xiaobei Wang, Xiaoyu Yang, Xu Gao, Xiang Li, Lantao Hu, Han Li, Kun Gai, An Zhang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, September, 2025

AlphaAlign: Incentivizing Safety Alignment with Extremely Simplified Reinforcement Learning.

Yi Zhang, An Zhang, XiuYu Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Yuxin Chen, Zhenkai Liang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, July, 2025

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language.

Yuxin Chen, Yiran Zhao, Yang Zhang, An Zhang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Shafiq Joty, Junnan Li, Tat-Seng Chua, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Wenxuan Zhang

CoRR, June, 2025

On Reasoning Strength Planning in Large Reasoning Models.

Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Zijian Wu, Weixiang Zhao, Changshuo Shen, Yi Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, June, 2025

RSafe: Incentivizing proactive reasoning to build robust and adaptive LLM safeguards.

Jingnan Zheng, Xiangtian Ji, Yijun Lu, Chenhang Cui, Weixiang Zhao, Gelei Deng, Zhenkai Liang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, June, 2025

AlphaSteer: Learning Refusal Steering with Principled Null-Space Constraint.

Leheng Sheng, Changshuo Shen, Weixiang Zhao, Junfeng Fang, Xiaohao Liu, Zhenkai Liang, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, June, 2025

Search and Refine During Think: Autonomous Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning of LLMs.

Yaorui Shi, Sihang Li, Chang Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Junfeng Fang, Hengxing Cai, An Zhang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, May, 2025

SafeMLRM: Demystifying Safety in Multi-modal Large Reasoning Models.

Junfeng Fang, Yukai Wang, Ruipeng Wang, Zijun Yao, Kun Wang, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, April, 2025

Self-attentive Rationalization for Interpretable Graph Contrastive Learning.

Sihang Li, Yanchen Luo, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Longfei Li, Jun Zhou, Tat-Seng Chua

ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data, February, 2025

Personalized Recommendation Agents with Self-Consistency.

Zijing Wu, Leheng Sheng, Yuanlin Xia, Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen, An Zhang

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2025

Generative Recommendation Models: Progress and Directions.

Yupeng Hou, An Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Zhengyi Yang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Julian J. McAuley

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, 2025

AlphaFuse: Learn ID Embeddings for Sequential Recommendation in Null Space of Language Embeddings.

Guoqing Hu, An Zhang, Shuo Liu, Zhibo Cai, Xun Yang, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025

Hello Again! LLM-powered Personalized Agent for Long-term Dialogue.

Hao Li, Chenghao Yang, An Zhang, Yang Deng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

LLM2Rec: Large Language Models Are Powerful Embedding Models for Sequential Recommendation.

Yingzhi He, Xiaohao Liu, An Zhang, Yunshan Ma, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, V.2, 2025

Language Representations Can be What Recommenders Need: Findings and Potentials.

Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Preference Diffusion for Recommendation.

Shuo Liu, An Zhang, Guoqing Hu, Hong Qian, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment.

Chenhang Cui, An Zhang, Yiyang Zhou, Zhaorun Chen, Gelei Deng, Huaxiu Yao, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender.

Weixiang Zhao, Jiahe Guo, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, An Zhang, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

LaMP-Val: Large Language Models Empower Personalized Valuation in Auction.

Jie Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Houcheng Jiang, Kexin Huang, Xiang Shu, Zhibo Zhu, Lintao Ma, Xingyu Lu, Jun Zhou, Junkang Wu, Chi Luo, An Zhang, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

The 1st Workshop on LLM Agents for Social Simulation.

Yige Yuan, Junkai Zhou, Bingbing Xu, Liang Pang, Du Su, An Zhang, Teng Xiao, Fengli Xu, Zhaochun Ren, Xu Chen

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025

Towards Large Generative Recommendation: A Tokenization Perspective.

Yupeng Hou, An Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua, Julian J. McAuley

Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2025

MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization.

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Tongtong Wu, Wenxuan Zhang, Jiahe Guo, An Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs.

Weixiang Zhao, Yulin Hu, Yang Deng, Jiahe Guo, Xingyu Sui, Xinyang Han, An Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Tat-Seng Chua, Ting Liu

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Neuron-Level Sequential Editing for Large Language Models.

Houcheng Jiang, Junfeng Fang, Tianyu Zhang, Baolong Bi, An Zhang, Ruipeng Wang, Tao Liang, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Robust Collaborative Filtering to Popularity Distribution Shift.

An Zhang, Wenchang Ma, Jingnan Zheng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., May, 2024

Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models.

Chenhang Cui, Gelei Deng, An Zhang, Jingnan Zheng, Yicong Li, Lianli Gao, Tianwei Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2024

Large Language Models Empower Personalized Valuation in Auction.

Jie Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Houcheng Jiang, Kexin Huang, Chi Luo, Junkang Wu, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, 2024

Generate and Instantiate What You Prefer: Text-Guided Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation.

Guoqing Hu, Zhengyi Yang, Zhibo Cai, An Zhang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, 2024

Neuron-Level Sequential Editing for Large Language Models.

Houcheng Jiang, Junfeng Fang, Tianyu Zhang, An Zhang, Ruipeng Wang, Tao Liang, Xiang Wang

CoRR, 2024

Text-guided Diffusion Model for 3D Molecule Generation.

Yanchen Luo, Junfeng Fang, Sihang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Wenjie Du, Xiang Wang

CoRR, 2024

One-step Noisy Label Mitigation.

Hao Li, Jiayang Gu, Jingkuan Song, An Zhang, Lianli Gao

CoRR, 2024

MASKDROID: Robust Android Malware Detection with Masked Graph Representations.

Jingnan Zheng, Jiaohao Liu, An Zhang, Jun Zeng, Ziqi Yang, Zhenkai Liang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2024

Language Models Encode Collaborative Signals in Recommendation.

Leheng Sheng, An Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2024

TrustLOG: The Second Workshop on Trustworthy Learning on Graphs.

Jingrui He, Jian Kang, Fatemeh Nargesian, Haohui Wang, An Zhang, Dawei Zhou

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

Large Language Model Powered Agents in the Web.

Yang Deng, An Zhang, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

General Debiasing for Graph-based Collaborative Filtering via Adversarial Graph Dropout.

An Zhang, Wenchang Ma, Pengbo Wei, Leheng Sheng, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, 2024

On Generative Agents in Recommendation.

An Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Leheng Sheng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

Large Language Model Powered Agents for Information Retrieval.

An Zhang, Yang Deng, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Ji-Rong Wen, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024

ALI-Agent: Assessing LLMs' Alignment with Human Values via Agent-based Evaluation.

Jingnan Zheng, Han Wang, An Zhang, Tai D. Nguyen, Jun Sun, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation.

Xiaoyu Kong, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Hui Lin, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Towards Neuron Attributions in Multi-Modal Large Language Models.

Junfeng Fang, Zac Bi, Ruipeng Wang, Houcheng Jiang, Yuan Gao, Kun Wang, An Zhang, Jie Shi, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

On Softmax Direct Preference Optimization for Recommendation.

Yuxin Chen, Junfei Tan, An Zhang, Zhengyi Yang, Leheng Sheng, Enzhi Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

MaskDroid: Robust Android Malware Detection with Masked Graph Representations.

Jingnan Zheng, Jiahao Liu, An Zhang, Jun Zeng, Ziqi Yang, Zhenkai Liang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024

Disentangling Masked Autoencoders for Unsupervised Domain Generalization.

An Zhang, Han Wang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

ProtT3: Protein-to-Text Generation for Text-based Protein Understanding.

Zhiyuan Liu, An Zhang, Hao Fei, Enzhi Zhang, Xiang Wang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

ReactXT: Understanding Molecular "Reaction-ship" via Reaction-Contextualized Molecule-Text Pretraining.

Zhiyuan Liu, Yaorui Shi, An Zhang, Sihang Li, Enzhi Zhang, Xiang Wang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Reinforced Causal Explainer for Graph Neural Networks.

Xiang Wang, Yingxin Wu, An Zhang, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2023

Towards Goal-oriented Intelligent Tutoring Systems in Online Education.

Yang Deng, Zifeng Ren, An Zhang, Wenqiang Lei, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2023

On Generative Agents in Recommendation.

An Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Yuxin Chen, Hao Li, Yang Deng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2023

Boosting Differentiable Causal Discovery via Adaptive Sample Reweighting.

An Zhang, Fangfu Liu, Wenchang Ma, Zhibo Cai, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2023

Invariant Collaborative Filtering to Popularity Distribution Shift.

An Zhang, Jingnan Zheng, Xiang Wang, Yancheng Yuan, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 2023

Cooperative Explanations of Graph Neural Networks.

Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Zemin Liu, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2023

Empowering Collaborative Filtering with Principled Adversarial Contrastive Loss.

An Zhang, Leheng Sheng, Zhibo Cai, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Rethinking Tokenizer and Decoder in Masked Graph Modeling for Molecules.

Zhiyuan Liu, Yaorui Shi, An Zhang, Enzhi Zhang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Evaluating Post-hoc Explanations for Graph Neural Networks via Robustness Analysis.

Junfeng Fang, Wei Liu, Yuan Gao, Zemin Liu, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Online Distillation-enhanced Multi-modal Transformer for Sequential Recommendation.

Wei Ji, Xiangyan Liu, An Zhang, Yinwei Wei, Yongxin Ni, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023

Redundancy-aware Transformer for Video Question Answering.

Yicong Li, Xun Yang, An Zhang, Chun Feng, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023

Discovering Dynamic Causal Space for DAG Structure Learning.

Fangfu Liu, Wenchang Ma, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Yueqi Duan, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023

Boosting Causal Discovery via Adaptive Sample Reweighting.

An Zhang, Fangfu Liu, Wenchang Ma, Zhibo Cai, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

ReLM: Leveraging Language Models for Enhanced Chemical Reaction Prediction.

Yaorui Shi, An Zhang, Enzhi Zhang, Zhiyuan Liu, Xiang Wang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

2022

Adversarial Causal Augmentation for Graph Covariate Shift.

Yongduo Sui, Xiang Wang, Jiancan Wu, An Zhang, Xiangnan He

CoRR, 2022

Differentiable Invariant Causal Discovery.

Yu Wang, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2022

Deconfounding to Explanation Evaluation in Graph Neural Networks.

Ying-Xin Wu, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Xia Hu, Fuli Feng, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

CoRR, 2022

Incorporating Bias-aware Margins into Contrastive Loss for Collaborative Filtering.

An Zhang, Wenchang Ma, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

CrossCBR: Cross-view Contrastive Learning for Bundle Recommendation.

Yunshan Ma, Yingzhi He, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the KDD '22: The 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, USA, August 14, 2022

Let Invariant Rationale Discovery Inspire Graph Contrastive Learning.

Sihang Li, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Yingxin Wu, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022

Discovering Invariant Rationales for Graph Neural Networks.

Yingxin Wu, Xiang Wang, An Zhang, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

2021

A-FMI: Learning Attributions from Deep Networks via Feature Map Importance.

An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Chengfang Fang, Jie Shi, Tat-Seng Chua, Zehua Chen

CoRR, 2021

Towards Multi-Grained Explainability for Graph Neural Networks.

Xiang Wang, Ying-Xin Wu, An Zhang, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

2020

Disentangled Graph Collaborative Filtering.

Xiang Wang, Hongye Jin, An Zhang, Xiangnan He, Tong Xu, Tat-Seng Chua

Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval, 2020