Zhenyu (Fischer) Lei — Publications

2026

NeurIPS 2026 Spatial-temporal

AdaST: Adaptive Coupling for Spatial-Temporal Forecasting

Zhenyu Lei, Chenghao Liu, Yushun Dong, Qi R. Wang, Jundong Li

EMNLP 2026 Memory (oral)

Grounding Memory Summarization in Utility Intent

Zhenyu Lei, Mingjia Shi, Xingbo Fu, Haoyu He, Qi R. Wang, Jundong Li

EMNLP 2026 Distillation

TeacherGRPO: Closing the Capacity Gap in Reasoning Distillation via Teacher Alignment

Zhenyu Lei, Zihan Chen, Yaochen Zhu, Shangbin Feng, Zaiyi Zheng, Ruocheng Guo, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li

ICLR 2026 Reasoning

Reforming the Mechanism: Editing Reasoning Patterns in LLMs with Circuit Reshaping

Zhenyu Lei, Qiong Wu, Jianxiong Dong, Yinhan He, Emily Dodwell, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li

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ISBI 2026 Brain

BrainTAP: Brain Disorder Prediction with Adaptive Distill and Selective Prior Integration

Zhenyu Lei, Aiying Zhang, Song Wang, Han Fan, Jundong Li

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WSDM 2026 Edit (oral)

MolEdit: Knowledge Editing for Multimodal Molecule Language Models

Zhenyu Lei, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li

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Natural Hazards Review 2026 Disaster

Spatiotemporal Modeling of Social Capital and Infrastructure Mobility Resilience during Hurricane Harvey

Rong Ding, Weiyu Li, Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li, Qi R. Wang

SIGKDD Explor. 2026 Survey

A Survey of Scaling in Large Language Model Reasoning

Zihan Chen, Song Wang, Zhen Tan, Xingbo Fu, Zhenyu Lei, Peng Wang, Huan Liu, Cong Shen, Jundong Li

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ICML 2026 Brain

Uncovering Latent Communication Patterns in Brain Networks via Adaptive Flow Routing

Tianhao Huang, Guanghui Min, Zhenyu Lei, Aiying Zhang, Chen Chen

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arXiv 2026 Model collaboration

MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research

Shangbin Feng, Yuyang Bai, Ziyuan Yang, Yike Wang, …, Zhenyu Lei, …

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2025

EMNLP 2025 In-context learning

From Cross-Task Examples to In-Task Prompts: A Graph-Based Pseudo-Labeling Framework for In-context Learning

Zihan Chen, Song Wang, Xingbo Fu, Chengshuai Shi, Zhenyu Lei, Cong Shen, Jundong Li

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EMNLP 2025 Distillation

Learning from Diverse Reasoning Paths with Routing and Collaboration

Zhenyu Lei, Zhen Tan, Song Wang, Yaochen Zhu, Zihan Chen, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li

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NeurIPS 2025 Graph prompting

GraphTOP: Graph Topology-Oriented Prompting for Graph Neural Networks

Xingbo Fu, Zhenyu Lei, Zihan Chen, Binchi Zhang, Chuxu Zhang, Jundong Li

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KDD 2025 Survey

Graph Prompting for Graph Learning Models: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Xingbo Fu, Zehong Wang, Zihan Chen, Jiazheng Li, Yaochen Zhu, Zhenyu Lei, Cong Shen, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang, Jundong Li

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KDD 2025 Benchmark

Fairness-Aware Graph Learning: A Benchmark

Yushun Dong, Song Wang, Zhenyu Lei, Zaiyi Zheng, Jing Ma, Chen Chen, Jundong Li

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KDD 2025 AI for science

Energy-Based Models for Predicting Mutational Effects on Proteins

Patrick Soga, Zhenyu Lei, Yinhan He, Camille L. Bilodeau, Jundong Li

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AAAI 2025 ST (oral)

ST-FiT: Inductive Spatial-Temporal Forecasting with Limited Training Data

Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li, Chen Chen

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AAAI 2025 Brain (oral)

BrainMAP: Learning Multiple Activation Pathways in Brain Networks

Song Wang*, Zhenyu Lei*, Zhen Tan, Jiaqi Ding, Xinyu Zhao, Yushun Dong, Guorong Wu, Tianlong Chen, Chen Chen, Aiying Zhang, Jundong Li

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PAKDD 2025 AI for science

Deep Interactions for Multimodal Molecular Property Prediction

Patrick Soga, Zhenyu Lei, Camille L. Bilodeau, Jundong Li

ACL 2025 Survey

Harnessing Large Language Models for Disaster Management: A Survey

Zhenyu Lei, Yushun Dong, Weiyu Li, Rong Ding, Qi R. Wang, Jundong Li

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arXiv 2025 Brain

Interpretable Neuropsychiatric Diagnosis via Concept-Guided Graph Neural Networks

Song Wang, Zhenyu Lei, Zhen Tan, Jundong Li, Javier Rasero, Aiying Zhang, Chirag Agarwal

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arXiv 2025 Survey

Large Language Models for Data Science: A Survey

Song Wang, Zhen Tan, Zihan Chen, …, Zhenyu Lei, …

2024

KDD 2024 Unlearning

IDEA: A Flexible Framework of Certified Unlearning for Graph Neural Networks

Yushun Dong, Binchi Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Na Zou, Jundong Li

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WWW 2024 Companion Library

PyGDebias: A Python Library for Debiasing in Graph Learning

Yushun Dong, Zhenyu Lei, Zaiyi Zheng, Song Wang, Jing Ma, Alex Jing Huang, Chen Chen, Jundong Li

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WSDM 2024 Distillation

LMBot: Distilling Graph Knowledge into Language Model for Graph-less Deployment in Twitter Bot Detection

Zijian Cai, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Zifeng Zhu, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo

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2023

ACL 2023 Graph + text

BIC: Twitter Bot Detection with Text-Graph Interaction and Semantic Consistency

Zhenyu Lei*, Herun Wan*, Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Jundong Li, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo

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ACL 2023 Long document

KALM: Knowledge-Aware Integration of Local, Document, and Global Contexts for Long Document Understanding

Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Wenqian Zhang, Zhenyu Lei, Yulia Tsvetkov

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arXiv 2023 Bot detection

HOFA: Twitter Bot Detection with Homophily-Oriented Augmentation and Frequency Adaptive Attention

Sen Ye, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zhenyu Lei, Ruijie He, Hongrui Wang, Qinghua Zheng, Minnan Luo

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2022

NeurIPS 2022 D&B Benchmark

TwiBot-22: Towards Graph-Based Twitter Bot Detection

Shangbin Feng, Zhaoxuan Tan, Herun Wan, …, Zhenyu Lei, …, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo

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NAACL 2022 Graph + text

KCD: Knowledge Walks and Textual Cues Enhanced Political Perspective Detection in News Media

Wenqian Zhang, Shangbin Feng, Zilong Chen, Zhenyu Lei, Jundong Li, Minnan Luo

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