Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Yu Li, Zheng Zhang, Xin Liu, Shengtian Yang, Guangfeng Cai, Lei Feng*.
  Choosing Before Acting: Comparative Value Estimation for Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents.
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
  

• Yu Li, Guangfeng Cai, Shengtian Yang, Han Luo, Shuo Han, Xu He, Dong Li, Lei Feng*.
  PhGPO: Pheromone-Guided Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Tool Planning.
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
  

• Jincheng Huang, Jie Xu, Ping Hu, Xiaoshuang Shi, Lei Feng*, Xiaofeng Zhu*.
  Understanding and Mitigating Under-Confidence in GNNs from the Final Layer.
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
  

• Jinhao Li, Sarah Erfani, Lei Feng, Guangrui Li, James Bailey, Feng Liu.
  Permute-then-Adapt: Weak-to-Strong Contrastive Image-Text Adaptation.
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
  (Spotlight)

• Zhiyi Lyu, Yewen Li, Longtao Zheng, Shengtian Yang, Lang Feng, Lei Feng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai, Qingpeng Cai, Bo An.
  AgentBrew: Offline Tool-Use Agent Learning from Raw Real-World Trajectories.
  Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'26), 2026.
  

• Guangfeng Cai, Kaibing Yang, Shuo He, Yu Li, Shengtian Yang, Jiaqi Lv, Lei Feng*.
  Beyond Next-Observation Prediction: Agent-Authored World Modeling for Sequential Decision Making.
  Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'26), 2026.
  

• Yanqiu Xu, Han Luo, Lei Feng*.
  Generation-Gated Cascaded Routing for Large Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'26), 2026.
  (Oral)

• Shengtian Yang, Yewen Li, Peng Jiang, Zhiyi Lyu, Bo An, Peng Jiang, Qingpeng Cai*, Lei Feng*.
  PlatformBid: An Auto-Bidding Benchmark from a Unified Advertising Platform's Perspective.
  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD'26), 2026.
  

• Shengtian Yang, Yu Li, Shuo He, Yewen Li, Qingpeng Cai, Peng Jiang, Lei Feng*.
  Phase-Aware Mixture of Experts for Agentic Reinforcement Learning.
  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'26), 2026.
  

• Xin Cheng, Shuo He, Lang Feng, Haiyang Xu, Ming Yan, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Beyond Trajectory-Level Attribution: Graph-Based Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning.
  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'26), 2026.
  

• Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng, Bo An, Luke Ong.
  When More Experts Hurt: Underfitting in Multi-Expert Learning to Defer.
  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'26), 2026.
  

• Zhifang Zhang, Qiqi Tao, Jiaqi Lv, Na Zhao, Lei Feng*, Joey Tianyi Zhou.
  TokenSwap: Backdoor Attack on the Compositional Understanding of Large Vision-Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'26), 2026.
  

• Shuai Feng, Yuxin Ge, Baoming Zhang, Yuntao Du, Mingcai Chen, Chongjun Wang, Lei Feng*.
  Long-Tailed Out-of-Distribution Detection with Refined Separate Class Learning.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'26-Findings), 2026.
  

• Zhiming Liu, Yujie Wei, Lei Feng, Xiu Su, Xiaobo Xia, Weili Guan, Zeke Xie, Shuo Yang.
  Do All Individual Layers Help? An Empirical Study of Task-Interfering Layers in Vision-Language Model.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'26-Findings), 2026.
  

• Zhifang Zhang, Bojun Yang, Shuo He, Weitong Chen, Wei Emma Zhang, Olaf Maennel, Lei Feng*, Miao Xu*.
  Test-Time Attention Purification for Backdoored Large Vision Language Models.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'26), 2026.
  

• Shuo He, Lang Feng, Qi Wei, Xin Cheng, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Hierarchy-of-Groups Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26), 2026.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Xingrui Yu, Jiyang Zheng, Lei Feng*, Dadong Wang, Ivor Tsang, Tongliang Liu*.
  Mitigating Mismatch within Reference-based Preference Optimization.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26), 2026.
  

• Jincheng Huang, Jie Xu, Xiaoshuang Shi, Ping Hu, Lei Feng*, Xiaofeng Zhu*.
  Revisiting Confidence Calibration for Misclassification Detection in VLMs.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26), 2026.
  

• Ruijiang Dong, Zesheng Ye, Feng Liu, Jianzhong Qi, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama.
  CARPRT: Class-Aware Zero-Shot Prompt Reweighting for Vision-Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26), 2026.
  

• Wentao Ye, Jiaqi Hu, Haobo Wang, Xinpeng Ti, Zhiqing Xiao, Hao Chen, Liyao Li, Lei Feng, Sai Wu, Junbo Zhao.
  An Invariant Latent Space Perspective on Language Model Inversion.
  Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'26), 2026.
  

• Zhifang Zhang, Jiahan Zhang, Shengjie Zhou, Qi Wei, Shuo He, Feng Liu, Lei Feng*.
  Improving Generalizability and Undetectability for Targeted Adversarial Attacks on Multimodal Pre-trained Models.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Muyang Li, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama, Tongliang Liu.
  Early Stopping Without Validation Data in Weakly Supervised Learning.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Runqi Lin, Felix Azian, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama, Tongliang Liu*.
  Instance-dependent Early Stopping for Adaptive Data Pruning.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2026.
  

• Ruibo Fan, Kai Feng, Tiankai Zhang*, Heng Wu*, Lei Feng*, Xiangzhou Yuan*.
  Renewable Energy-Driven Green Electricity Supplement for Empowering Blue Economy.
  Sustainable Materials (SusMat), 2026.
  

• Zhifang Zhang, Shuo He*, Haobo Wang, Bingquan Shen, Lei Feng*.
  Defending Multimodal Backdoored Models by Repulsive Visual Prompt Tuning.
  Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'25), 2025.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Tongliang Liu*.
  Enhancing Sample Selection Against Label Noise by Cutting Mislabeled Easy Examples.
  Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'25), 2025.
  

• Yuzhou Cao, Han Bao, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Establishing Linear Surrogate Regret Bounds for Convex Smooth Losses via Convolutional Fenchel–Young Losses.
  Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'25), 2025.
  (Spotlight, Acceptance Rate: 3.19%)

• Xinpeng Ti, Wentao Ye, Zhifang Zhang, Junbo Zhao, Chang Yao, Lei Feng*, Haobo Wang*.
  Towards Reverse Engineering of Language Models: A Survey.
  Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'25-Findings), 2025.
  

• Penghui Yang, Chen-Chen Zong, Sheng-Jun Huang, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Dual-Head Knowledge Distillation: Enhancing Logits Utilization with an Auxiliary Head.
  Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD'25), 2025.
  

• Shuo He, Zhifang Zhang, Feng Liu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  A Closer Look at Backdoor Attacks on CLIP.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Yuwei Niu, Shuo He, Qi Wei, Zongyu Wu, Feng Liu, Lei Feng*.
  Test-Time Multimodal Backdoor Detection by Contrastive Prompting.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Xin Cheng, Jiabo Ye, Haiyang Xu, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Feng Liu, Fei Huang, Lei Feng*.
  Exploiting Presentative Feature Distributions for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Zongqian Wu, Baoduo Xu, Ruochen Cui, Mengmeng Zhan, Xiaofeng Zhu*, Lei Feng*.
  Rethinking Chain-of-Thought from the Perspective of Self-Training.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Qi Wei, Shuo He, Enneng Yang, Tingcong Liu, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Representation Surgery in Model Merging with Probabilistic Modeling.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng, Jianzhong Qi, Feng Liu.
  Understanding Model Reprogramming for CLIP via Decoupling Visual Prompts.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Jincheng Huang, Yujie Mo, Xiaoshuang Shi, Lei Feng, Xiaofeng Zhu.
  Enhancing the Influence of Labels on Unlabeled Nodes in Graph Convolutional Networks.
  Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'25), 2025.
  

• Rui Wang, Mingxuan Xia, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng, Junbo Zhao, Gang Chen, Chang Yao.
  Towards Robust Incremental Learning under Ambiguous Supervision.
  Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25), 2025.

• Ao Ke, Wenlong Chen, Chuanwen Feng, Yukun Cao, Xike Xie, Kevin Zhou, Lei Feng.
  Prototype-based Optimal Transport for Out-of-Distribution Detection.
  Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'25), 2025.

• Shengjie Zhou, Xin Cheng, Haiyang Xu, Ming Yan, Tao Xiang, Feng Liu, Lei Feng*.
  Endowing Visual Reprogramming with Adversarial Robustness.
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25), 2025.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Runqi Lin, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Tongliang Liu*.
  Instance-dependent Early Stopping.
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25), 2025.
  

• Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng, Jianzhong Qi, Feng Liu.
  Attribute-based Visual Reprogramming for Vision-Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'25), 2025.
  

• Yuyan Zhou, Ye Li, Lei Feng, Sheng-Jun Huang.
  Improving Generalization of Deep Neural Networks by Optimum Shifting.
  Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25), 2025.
  

• Qi Wei, Shuo He, Jiahan Zhang, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Influence-Based Fair Selection for Sample-Discriminative Backdoor Attack.
  Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'25), 2025.
  

• Tianjing Wang, Chao Ren, Zhao Yang Dong, Lei Feng.
  Weakly Supervised Battery SOH Estimation with Imprecise Intervals.
  IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (TEC), vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 1841-1855, 2025.
  

• Zheng Lian, Mingyu Xu, Lan Chen, Licai Sun, Bin Liu, Lei Feng, Jianhua Tao.
  IRNet: Iterative Refinement Network for Noisy Partial Label Learning.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), accepted, 2025.
  

• HuaJun Xi, Jianguo Huang, Kangdao Liu, Lei Feng, Hongxin Wei.
  Does Confidence Calibration Improve Conformal Prediction?
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.

• Jinhao Li, Sarah Monazam Erfani, Lei Feng, James Bailey, Feng Liu.
  Exploring Weak-to-Strong Generalization for CLIP-based Classification.
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.

• Haoliang Sun, Qi Wei, Lei Feng, Yupeng Hu, Fan Liu, Hehe Fan, Yilong Yin.
  Variational Rectification Inference for Learning with Noisy Labels.
  International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), vol. 133, pp. 652–671, 2025.
  

• Beibei Li, Yiyuan Zheng, Beihong Jin, Tao Xiang, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng*.
  AsyCo: An Asymmetric Dual-task Co-training Model for Partial-label Learning.
  Science China Information Sciences (SCIS), vol. 68, no. 152101, 2025.
  

• Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng, Jianzhong Qi, Feng Liu.
  Bayesian-Guided Label Mapping for Visual Reprogramming.
  Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'24), 2024.
  (Oral, Acceptance Rate: 0.41%)

• Chuqiao Zong, Chaojie Wang, Molei Qin, Lei Feng, Xinrun Wang, Bo An.
  MacroHFT: Memory Augmented Context-aware Reinforcement Learning On High Frequency Trading.
  Proceedings of the 30th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'24), pp. 4712-4721, 2024.
  

• Kai Tang, Junbo Zhao, Xiao Ding, Runze Wu, Lei Feng, Gang Chen, Haobo Wang.
  Learning Geometry-Aware Representations for New Intent Discovery.
  Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'24), pp. 5641–5654, 2024.
  

• Zixi Wei, Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng*.
  Exploiting Human-AI Dependence for Learning to Defer.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 52484-52499, 2024.
  

• Zhenlong Liu, Lei Feng, Huiping Zhuang, Xiaofeng Cao, Hongxin Wei.
  Mitigating Privacy Risk in Membership Inference by Convex-Concave Loss.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 30998-31014, 2024.
  

• Jiahan Zhang, Qi Wei, Feng Liu, Lei Feng*.
  Candidate Pseudolabel Learning: Enhancing Vision-Language Models by Prompt Tuning with Unlabeled Data.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 60004-60020, 2024.
  (Oral, Acceptance Rate: 1.52%)

• Hao Chen, Jindong Wang, Lei Feng, Xiang Li, Yidong Wang, Xing Xie, Masashi Sugiyama, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj.
  A General Framework for Learning from Weak Supervision.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 7462-7485, 2024.
  

• Jinhao Li, Haopeng Li, Sarah Monazam Erfani, Lei Feng, James Bailey, Feng Liu.
  Visual-Text Cross Alignment: Refining the Similarity Score in Vision-Language Models.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 28018-28039, 2024.
  

• Changchun Li, Yuanchao Dai, Lei Feng, Ximing Li, Bing Wang, Jihong Ouyang.
  Positive and Unlabeled Learning with Controlled Probability Boundary Fence.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 27641-27652, 2024.
  

• Chengyi Cai, Zesheng Ye, Lei Feng, Jianzhong Qi, Feng Liu.
  Sample-Specific Masks for Visual Reprogramming-based Prompting.
  Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'24), pp. 5383-5408, 2024.
  (Spotlight, Acceptance Rate: 3.54%)

• Lin Long, Haobo Wang, Zhijie Jiang, Lei Feng, Chang Yao, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao.
  Positive-Unlabeled Learning by Latent Group-Aware Meta Disambiguation.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24), pp. 23138-23147, 2024.
  

• Ruixuan Xiao, Lei Feng, Kai Tang, Junbo Zhao, Yixuan Li, Gang Chen, Haobo Wang.
  Targeted Representation Alignment for Open-World Semi-Supervised Learning.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24), pp. 23072-23082, 2024.
  

• Shiyu Tian, Hongxin Wei, Yiqun Wang, Lei Feng*.
  CroSel: Cross Selection of Confident Pseudo Labels for Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24), pp. 19479-19488, 2024.
  (Oral, Acceptance Rate: 0.78%)

• Jie Xu, Yazhou Ren, Xiaolong Wang, Lei Feng, Zheng Zhang, Gang Niu, Xiaofeng Zhu.
  Investigating and Mitigating the Side Effects of Noisy Views for Self-Supervised Clustering Algorithms
  in Practical Multi-View Scenarios.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'24), pp. 22957-22966, 2024.
  

• Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng*, Bo An.
  Consistent Hierarchical Classification with A Generalized Metric.
  Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS'24), pp. 4825-4833, 2024.
  

• Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Qiaozhen Zhang, Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Mitigating Underfitting in Learning to Defer with Consistent Losses.
  Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS'24), pp. 4816-4824, 2024.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Lei Feng*, Tongliang Liu*.
  Early Stopping Against Label Noise Without Validation Data.
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24), 2024.
  

• Zixi Wei, Senlin Shu, Yuzhou Cao, Hongxin Wei, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  Consistent Multi-Class Classification from Multiple Unlabeled Datasets.
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24), 2024.
  (Spotlight, Acceptance Rate: 5.01%)

• Shengjie Zhou, Lue Tao, Yuzhou Cao, Tao Xiang, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  On the Vulnerability of Adversarially Trained Models Against Two-faced Attacks.
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24), 2024.
  

• Shuo He, Chaojie Wang, Guowu Yang*, Lei Feng*.
  Candidate Label Set Pruning: A Data-centric Perspective for Deep Partial-label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24), 2024.
  (Oral, Acceptance Rate: 1.16%)

• Yonghua Zhu, Lei Feng, Zhenyun Deng, Yang Chen, Robert Amor, Michael Witbrock.
  Robust Node Classification on Graph Data with Graph and Label Noise.
  Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'24), pp. 17220-17227, 2024.
  

• Senlin Shu, Haobo Wang, Zhuowei Wang, Bo Han, Tao Xiang, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  Online Binary Classification from Similar and Dissimilar Data.
  Machine Learning (MLJ), vol. 113, pp. 3463–3484, 2024.
  

• Qi Wei, Lei Feng, Haoliang Sun, Ren Wang, Rundong He, Yilong Yin.
  Learning Sample-Aware Confidence Threshold for Semi-Supervised Learning.
  Machine Learning (MLJ), vol. 113, pp. 5423–5445, 2024.
  

• Fei Zhang, Junjie Ye, Lei Feng, Zhongwen Rao, Jieming Zhu, Marcus Kalander, Chen Gong, Jianye Hao, Bo Han.
  Exploiting Counter-Examples for Active Learning with Partial-labels.
  Machine Learning (MLJ), vol. 113, pp. 3849–3868, 2024.
  

• Senlin Shu, Deng-Bao Wang, Suqin Yuan, Hongxin Wei, Jiuchuan Jiang, Lei Feng*, Min-Ling Zhang.
  Multiple-Instance Learning from Triplet Comparison Bags.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1-18, 2024.
  

• Haobo Wang, Cheng Peng, Hede Dong, Lei Feng, Weiwei Liu, Tianlei Hu, Ke Chen, Gang Chen.
  On the Value of Head Labels in Multi-Label Text Classification.
  ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1-21, 2024.
  

• Xin Cheng, Yuzhou Cao, Haobo Wang, Hongxin Wei, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  Regression with Cost-based Rejection.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 45172-45196, 2023.
  

• Zhiqing Xiao, Haobo Wang, Ying Jin, Lei Feng, Gang Chen, Fei Huang, Junbo Zhao.
  SPA: A Graph Spectral Alignment Perspective for Domain Adaptation.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 37252-37272, 2023.
  

• Yuzhou Cao, Hussein Mozannar, Lei Feng*, Hongxin Wei, Bo An.
  In Defense of Softmax Parametrization for Calibrated and Consistent Learning to Defer.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 38485-38503, 2023.
  

• Renchunzi Xie, Hongxin Wei, Lei Feng, Yuzhou Cao, Bo An.
  On the Importance of Feature Separability in Predicting Out-Of-Distribution Error.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 27783-27800, 2023.
  

• Mingyu Xu, Zheng Lian, Lei Feng, Bin Liu, Jianhua Tao.
  ALIM: Adjusting Label Importance Mechanism for Noisy Partial Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 38668-38684, 2023.
  

• Wei Wang, Lei Feng, Yuchen Jiang, Gang Niu, Min-Ling Zhang, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Binary Classification with Confidence Difference.
  Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'23), pp. 5936-5960, 2023.
  

• Shuo He, Guowu Yang, Lei Feng.
  Candidate-aware Selective Disambiguation Based On Normalized Entropy for Instance-dependent Partial-label Learning.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'23), pp. 1792-1801, 2023.
  

• Suqin Yuan, Lei Feng*, Tongliang Liu*.
  Late Stopping: Avoiding Confidently Learning from Mislabeled Examples.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'23), pp. 16079-16088, 2023.
  

• Penghui Yang, Ming-Kun Xie, Chen-Chen Zong, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama, Sheng-Jun Huang.
  Multi-Label Knowledge Distillation.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'23), pp. 17271-17280, 2023.
  

• Shuo He, Lei Feng, Guowu Yang.
  Partial-label Learning with Mixed Closed-set and Open-set Out-of-candidate Examples.
  Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'23), pp. 722-731, 2023.
  

• Hongxin Wei, Huiping Zhuang, Renchunzi Xie, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Bo An, Yixuan Li.
  Mitigating Memorization of Noisy Labels by Clipping the Model Prediction.
  Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'23), pp. 36868-36886, 2023.
  

• Zixi Wei, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Tongliang Liu, Gang Niu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Heng Tao Shen.
  A Universal Unbiased Method for Classification from Aggregate Observations.
  Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'23), pp. 36804-36820, 2023.
  

• Xin Cheng, Yuzhou Cao, Ximing Li, Bo An, Lei Feng*.
  Weakly Supervised Regression with Interval Targets.
  Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'23), pp. 5428-5448, 2023.
  

• Ruixuan Xiao, Yiwen Dong, Haobo Wang, Lei Feng, Runze Wu, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao.
  ProMix: Combating Label Noise via Maximizing Clean Sample Utility.
  Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'23), pp. 4442-4450, 2023.
  

• Qi Wei, Lei Feng, Haoliang Sun, Ren Wang, Chenhui Guo, Yilong Yin.
  Fine-Grained Classification with Noisy Labels.
  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'23), pp. 11651-11660, 2023.
  

• Shuqi Liu, Yuzhou Cao, Qiaozhen Zhang, Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Consistent Complementary-Label Learning via Order-Preserving Losses.
  Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS'23), pp. 8734-8748, 2023.
  

• Xin Cheng, Dengbao Wang, Lei Feng*, Minling Zhang, Bo An.
  Partial-Label Regression.
  Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'23), pp. 7140-7147, 2023.
  (Acceptance Rate: 19.6%)

• Senlin Shu, Shuo He, Haobo Wang, Hongxin Wei, Tao Xiang, Lei Feng*.
  A Generalized Unbiased Risk Estimator for Learning with Augmented Classes.
  Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'23), pp. 9829-9836, 2023.
  (Acceptance Rate: 19.6%)

• Haobo Wang, Ruixuan Xiao, Yixuan Li, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao.
  PiCO+: Contrastive Label Disambiguation for Robust Partial Label Learning.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), accepted, 2023.
  

• Jiaqi Lv, Biao Liu, Lei Feng, Ning Xu, Miao Xu, Bo An, Gang Niu, Xin Geng, Masashi Sugiyama.
  On the Robustness of Average Losses for Partial-Label Learning.
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), accepted, 2023.
  

• Lei Feng, Senlin Shu, Yuzhou Cao, Lue Tao, Hongxin Wei, Tao Xiang, Bo An, Gang Niu.
  Multiple-Instance Learning from Unlabeled Bags with Pairwise Similarity.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 11599-11609, 2023.
  

• Zhuoyi Lin, Lei Feng*, Xingzhi Guo, Yu Zhang, Rui Yin, Chee Keong Kwoh, Chi Xu.
  COMET: Convolutional Dimension Interaction for Collaborative Filtering.
  ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), vol. 14, no. 59, pp. 1-18, 2023.
  

• Fengmo Lv, Jianyang Zhang, Guowu Yang, Lei Feng, Yufeng Yu, Lixin Duan.
  Learning Cross-Domain Semantic-Visual Relationships for Transductive Zero-Shot Learning.
  Pattern Recognition (PR), vol. 141, pp. 109591, 2023.
  

• Hongxin Wei, Renchunzi Xie, Lei Feng*, Bo Han, Bo An.
  Deep Learning from Multiple Noisy Annotators as A Union.
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 10552-10562, 2023.
  

• Yuzhou Cao, Tianchi Cai, Lei Feng*, Lihong Gu, Jinjie Gu, Bo An, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Generalizing Consistent Multi-Class Classification with Rejection to be Compatible with Arbitrary Losses.
  Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'22), pp. 521-534, 2022.
  

• Haobo Wang, Mingxuan Xia, Yixuan Li, Yuren Mao, Lei Feng, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao.
  SoLar: Sinkhorn Label Refinery for Imbalanced Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'22), pp. 8104-8117, 2022.
  

• Lue Tao, Lei Feng, Hongxin Wei, Jinfeng Yi, Shengjun Huang, Songcan Chen.
  Can Adversarial Training Be Manipulated By Non-Robust Features?
  Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'22), pp. 26504-26518, 2022.
  

• Shuo He, Lei Feng, Fengmao Lv, Wen Li, Guowu Yang.
  Partial-Label Learning with Semantic Label Representations.
  Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'22), pp. 545–553, 2022.
  (Acceptance Rate: 15.0%)

• Hongxin Wei, Lue Tao, Renchunzi Xie, Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Open-Sampling: Exploring Out-of-Distribution data for Re-balancing Long-tailed datasets.
  Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'22), pp. 23615-23630, 2022.
  

• Hongxin Wei, Renchunzi Xie, Hao Cheng, Lei Feng, Bo An, Yixuan Li.
  Mitigating Neural Network Overconfidence with Logit Normalization.
  Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'22), pp. 23631-23644, 2022.
  

• Haobo Wang, Ruixuan Xiao, Yixuan Li, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao.
  PiCO: Contrastive Label Disambiguation for Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'22), 2022.
  (Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention, Acceptance Rate: <3‰ (10/3391))

• Changchun Li, Ximing Li, Lei Feng, Jihong Ouyang.
  Who Is Your Right Mixup Partner in Positive and Unlabeled Learning?
  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'22), 2022.
  

• Fei Zhang, Lei Feng*, Bo Han*, Tongliang Liu, Gang Niu, Tao Qin, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Exploiting Class Activation Value for Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'22), 2022.
  

• Lue Tao, Lei Feng, Jinfeng Yi, Songcan Chen.
  With False Friends Like These, Who Can Notice Mistakes?
  Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'22), pp. 8458-8466, 2022.
  (Acceptance Rate: ~15%)

• Renchunzi Xie, Hongxin Wei, Lei Feng, Bo An.
  GearNet: Stepwise Dual Learning for Weakly Supervised Domain Adaptation.
  Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'22), pp. 8717-8725, 2022.
  (Acceptance Rate: ~15%)

• Zhuowei Wang, Jing Jiang, Bo Han, Lei Feng*, Bo An, Gang Niu, Guodong Long.
  SemiNLL: A Framework of Noisy-Label Learning by Semi-Supervised Learning.
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2022.
  

• Lei Feng, Jun Huang, Senlin Shu, Bo An.
  Regularized Matrix Factorization for Multi-Label Learning with Missing Labels.
  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 3710-3721, 2022.
  

• Lue Tao, Lei Feng, Jinfeng Yi, Shengjun Huang, Songcan Chen.
  Better Safe Than Sorry: Preventing Delusive Adversaries with Adversarial Training.
  Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'21), pp. 16209-16225, 2021.
  

• Dengbao Wang, Lei Feng, Minling Zhang.
  Rethinking Calibration of Deep Neural Networks: Do Not Be Afraid of Overconfidence.
  Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'21), pp. 11809-11820, 2021.
  

• Tao Liang, Guosheng Lin, Lei Feng, Yan Zhang, Fengmao Lv.
  Attention is not Enough: Mitigating the Distribution Discrepancy in Asynchronous Multimodal Sequence Fusion.
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'21), pp. 8148-8156, 2021.
  

• Lei Feng, Senlin Shu, Yuzhou Cao, Lue Tao, Hongxin Wei, Tao Xiang, Bo An, Gang Niu.
  Multiple-Instance Learning from Similar and Dissimilar Bags.
  Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'21), pp. 374-382, 2021.
  (Acceptance Rate: 15.4%)

• Lei Feng, Senlin Shu, Nan Lu, Bo Han, Miao Xu, Gang Niu, Bo An, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Pointwise Binary Classification with Pairwise Confidence Comparisons.
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'21), pp. 3252-3262, 2021.
  

• Yuzhou Cao, Lei Feng, Yitian Xu, Bo An, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Learning from Similarity-Confidence Data.
  Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'21), pp. 1272-1282, 2021.
  

• Dengbao Wang, Lei Feng, Minling Zhang.
  Learning from Complementary Labels via Partial-Output Consistency Regularization.
  Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'21), pp. 3075-3081, 2021.
  (Acceptance Rate: 13.9%)

• Lei Feng, Hongxin Wei, Qingyu Guo, Zhuoyi Lin, Bo An.
  Embedding-augmented generalized matrix factorization for recommendation with implicit feedback.
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 32-41, 2021.

• Zhuoyi Lin, Lei Feng*, Rui Yin, Chi Xu, Chee-Keong Kwoh.
  GLIMG: Global and Local Item Graphs for Recommender Systems.
  Information Sciences, Vol. 580, pp. 1-14, 2021.

• Yan Yan, Shining Li, Lei Feng*.
  Partial Multi-Label Learning with Mutual Teaching.
  Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 212, pp. 106624, 2021.

• Lei Feng, Jiaqi Lv, Bo Han, Miao Xu, Gang Niu, Xin Geng, Bo An, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Provably Consistent Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'20), pp. 10948-10960, 2020.
  

• Lei Feng*†, Takuo Kaneko†, Bo Han, Gang Niu, Bo An, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Learning with Multiple Complementary Labels.
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'20), pp. 3072-3081, 2020.
  

• Jiaqi Lv, Miao Xu, Lei Feng, Gang Niu, Xin Geng, Masashi Sugiyama.
  Progressive Identification of True Labels for Partial-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'20), pp. 6500-6510, 2020.
  

• Lei Feng, Senlin Shu, Zhuoyi Lin, Fengmao Lv, Li Li, Bo An.
  Can Cross Entropy Loss Be Robust to Label Noise?
  Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'20), pp. 2206-2212, 2020.
  (Acceptance Rate: 12.6%)

• Jun Huang*, Linchuan Xu, Jing Wang, Lei Feng*, Kenji Yamanishi.
  Discovering Latent Class Labels for Multi-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'20), pp. 3058-3064, 2020.
  (Acceptance Rate: 12.6%)

• Hongxin Wei, Lei Feng*, Xiangyu Chen, Bo An.
  Combating Noisy Labels by Agreement: A Joint Training Method with Co-Regularization.
  Proceedings of the 38th IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'20), pp. 13726-13735, 2020.
  

• Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Partial Label Learning by Semantic Difference Maximization.
  Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), pp. 2294-2300, 2019.
  (Acceptance Rate: 17.9%)

• Lei Feng, Bo An, Shuo He.
  Collaboration based Multi-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19), pp. 3550-3557, 2019.
  (Acceptance Rate: 16.2%)

• Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Partial Label Learning with Self-Guided Retraining.
  Proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'19), pp. 3542-3549, 2019.
  (Acceptance Rate: 16.2%)

• Shuo He, Lei Feng, Li Li.
  Estimating Latent Relative Labeling Importances for Multi-Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'18), pp. 1013-1018, 2018.
  (Acceptance Rate: 19.9%)

• Lei Feng, Bo An.
  Leveraging Latent Label Distributions for Partial Label Learning.
  Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), pp. 2107-2113, 2018.
  (Acceptance Rate: 20.5%)