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AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

InfiGUI-G1: Advancing GUI Grounding with Adaptive Exploration Policy Optimization

  • Yuhang Liu
  • Zeyu Liu
  • Shuanghe Zhu
  • Pengxiang Li
  • Congkai Xie
  • Jiasheng Wang
  • Xueyu Hu
  • Xiaotian Han

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has propelled the development of autonomous agents that operate on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) using pure visual input. A fundamental challenge is robustly grounding natural language instructions. This requires a precise spatial alignment, which accurately locates the coordinates of each element, and, more critically, a correct semantic alignment, which matches the instructions to the functionally appropriate UI element. Although Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven to be effective at improving spatial alignment for these MLLMs, we find that inefficient exploration bottlenecks semantic alignment, which prevents models from learning difficult semantic associations. To address this exploration problem, we present Adaptive Exploration Policy Optimization (AEPO), a new policy optimization framework. AEPO employs a multi-answer generation strategy to enforce broader exploration, which is then guided by a theoretically grounded Adaptive Exploration Reward (AER) function derived from first principles of efficiency η=U/C. Our AEPO-trained models, InfiGUI-G1-3B and InfiGUI-G1-7B, establish new state-of-the-art results across multiple challenging GUI grounding benchmarks, achieving significant relative improvements of up to 9.0% against the naive RLVR baseline on benchmarks designed to test generalization and semantic understanding.

NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

All You Need is One: Capsule Prompt Tuning with a Single Vector

  • Yiyang Liu
  • James Liang
  • Heng Fan
  • Wenhao Yang
  • Yiming Cui
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Lifu Huangg
  • Dongfang Liu

Prompt-based learning has emerged as a parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) approach to facilitate Large Language Model (LLM) adaptation to downstream tasks by conditioning generation with task-aware guidance. Despite its successes, current prompt-based learning methods heavily rely on laborious grid searching for optimal prompt length and typically require considerable number of prompts, introducing additional computational burden. Worse yet, our pioneer findings indicate that the task-aware prompt design is inherently limited by its absence of instance-aware information, leading to a subtle attention interplay with the input sequence. In contrast, simply incorporating instance-aware information as a part of the guidance can enhance the prompt-tuned model performance without additional fine-tuning. Moreover, we find an interesting phenomenon, namely "attention anchor", that incorporating instance-aware tokens at the earliest position of the sequence can successfully preserve strong attention to critical structural information and exhibit more active attention interaction with all input tokens. In light of our observation, we introduce Capsule Prompt-Tuning (CaPT), an efficient and effective solution that leverages off-the-shelf, informative instance semantics into prompt-based learning. Our approach innovatively integrates both instance-aware and task-aware information in a nearly parameter-free manner (i. e. , one single capsule prompt). Empirical results demonstrate that our method can exhibit superior performance across various language tasks (e. g. , 84. 03\% average accuracy on T5-Large), serving as an "attention anchor, " while enjoying high parameter efficiency (e. g. , 0. 003\% of model parameters on Llama3. 2-1B).

NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Grammars of Formal Uncertainty: When to Trust LLMs in Automated Reasoning Tasks

  • Debargha Ganguly
  • Vikash Singh
  • Sreehari Sankar
  • Biyao Zhang
  • Xuecen Zhang
  • Srinivasan Iyengar
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Amit Sharma

Large language models (LLMs) show remarkable promise for democratizing automated reasoning by generating formal specifications. However, a fundamental tension exists: LLMs are probabilistic, while formal verification demands deterministic guarantees. This paper addresses this epistemological gap by comprehensively investigating failure modes and uncertainty quantification (UQ) in LLM-generated formal artifacts. Our systematic evaluation of five frontier LLMs reveals Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) based autoformalization's domain-specific impact on accuracy (from +34. 8\% on logical tasks to -44. 5\% on factual ones), with known UQ techniques like the entropy of token probabilities failing to identify these errors. We introduce a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) framework to model LLM outputs, yielding a refined uncertainty taxonomy. We find uncertainty signals are task-dependent (e. g. , grammar entropy for logic, AUROC>0. 93). Finally, a lightweight fusion of these signals enables selective verification, drastically reducing errors (14-100\%) with minimal abstention, transforming LLM-driven formalization into a reliable engineering discipline.

NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning

  • Wang Yang
  • Zirui Liu
  • Hongye Jin
  • Qingyu Yin
  • Vipin Chaudhary
  • Xiaotian Han

Recent language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet the influence of long-context capacity on reasoning remains underexplored. In this work, we hypothesize that current limitations in reasoning stem, in part, from insufficient long-context capacity, motivated by empirical observations such as i) higher context window length often leads to stronger reasoning performance, and ii) failed reasoning cases resemble failed long-context cases. To test this hypothesis, we examine whether enhancing a model’s long-context ability before Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) leads to improved reasoning performance. Specifically, we compared models with identical architectures and fine-tuning data but varying levels of long-context capacity. Our results reveal a consistent trend: models with stronger long-context capacity achieve significantly higher accuracy on reasoning benchmarks after SFT. Notably, these gains persist even on tasks with short input lengths, indicating that long-context training offers generalizable benefits for reasoning performance. These findings suggest that long-context modeling is not just essential for processing lengthy inputs, but also serves as a critical foundation for reasoning. We advocate for treating long-context capacity as a first-class objective in the design of future language models.

NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

NeuralPLexer3: Accurate Biomolecular Complex Structure Prediction with Flow Models

  • Jarren Zhuoran Qiao
  • Feizhi Ding
  • Thomas Dresselhaus
  • Mia Rosenfeld
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Owen Howell
  • Aniketh Iyengar
  • Stephen Opalenski

Biomolecular structure determination is essential to a mechanistic understanding of diseases and the development of novel therapeutics. Machine-learning-based structure prediction methods have made significant advancements by computationally predicting protein and bioassembly structures from sequences and molecular topology alone. Despite substantial progress in the field, challenges remain to deliver structure prediction models to real-world drug discovery. Here, we present NeuralPLexer3 -- a physics-inspired flow-based generative model that achieves state-of-the-art prediction accuracy on key biomolecular interaction types and improves training and sampling efficiency compared to its predecessors and alternative methodologies. Examined through existing and new benchmarks, NeuralPLexer3 excels in areas crucial to structure-based drug design, including blind docking, physical validity, and ligand-induced protein conformational changes.

AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Chasing Fairness in Graphs: A GNN Architecture Perspective

  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Chao Fan
  • Zirui Liu
  • Na Zou
  • Ali Mostafavi
  • Xia Hu

There has been significant progress in improving the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) through enhancements in graph data, model architecture design, and training strategies. For fairness in graphs, recent studies achieve fair representations and predictions through either graph data pre-processing (e.g., node feature masking, and topology rewiring) or fair training strategies (e.g., regularization, adversarial debiasing, and fair contrastive learning). How to achieve fairness in graphs from the model architecture perspective is less explored. More importantly, GNNs exhibit worse fairness performance compared to multilayer perception since their model architecture (i.e., neighbor aggregation) amplifies biases. To this end, we aim to achieve fairness via a new GNN architecture. We propose Fair Message Passing (FMP) designed within a unified optimization framework for GNNs. Notably, FMP explicitly renders sensitive attribute usage in forward propagation for node classification task using cross-entropy loss without data pre-processing. In FMP, the aggregation is first adopted to utilize neighbors' information and then the bias mitigation step explicitly pushes demographic group node presentation centers together. In this way, FMP scheme can aggregate useful information from neighbors and mitigate bias to achieve better fairness and prediction tradeoff performance. Experiments on node classification tasks demonstrate that the proposed FMP outperforms several baselines in terms of fairness and accuracy on three real-world datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/zhimengj0326/FMP.

NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

DreamClear: High-Capacity Real-World Image Restoration with Privacy-Safe Dataset Curation

  • Yuang Ai
  • Xiaoqiang Zhou
  • Huaibo Huang
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Zhengyu Chen
  • Quanzeng You
  • Hongxia Yang

Image restoration (IR) in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges due to the lack of high-capacity models and comprehensive datasets. To tackle these issues, we present a dual strategy: GenIR, an innovative data curation pipeline, and DreamClear, a cutting-edge Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based image restoration model. GenIR, our pioneering contribution, is a dual-prompt learning pipeline that overcomes the limitations of existing datasets, which typically comprise only a few thousand images and thus offer limited generalizability for larger models. GenIR streamlines the process into three stages: image-text pair construction, dual-prompt based fine-tuning, and data generation & filtering. This approach circumvents the laborious data crawling process, ensuring copyright compliance and providing a cost-effective, privacy-safe solution for IR dataset construction. The result is a large-scale dataset of one million high-quality images. Our second contribution, DreamClear, is a DiT-based image restoration model. It utilizes the generative priors of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models and the robust perceptual capabilities of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve photorealistic restoration. To boost the model's adaptability to diverse real-world degradations, we introduce the Mixture of Adaptive Modulator (MoAM). It employs token-wise degradation priors to dynamically integrate various restoration experts, thereby expanding the range of degradations the model can address. Our exhaustive experiments confirm DreamClear's superior performance, underlining the efficacy of our dual strategy for real-world image restoration. Code and pre-trained models are available at: https: //github. com/shallowdream204/DreamClear.

ICLR Conference 2024 Conference Paper

FFB: A Fair Fairness Benchmark for In-Processing Group Fairness Methods

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Jianfeng Chi
  • Yu Chen 0022
  • Qifan Wang 0001
  • Han Zhao 0002
  • Na Zou 0001
  • Xia Hu 0001

This paper introduces the Fair Fairness Benchmark (FFB), a benchmarking framework for in-processing group fairness methods. Ensuring fairness in machine learning is important for ethical compliance. However, there exist challenges in comparing and developing fairness methods due to inconsistencies in experimental settings, lack of accessible algorithmic implementations, and limited extensibility of current fairness packages and tools. To address these issues, we introduce an open-source standardized benchmark for evaluating in-processing group fairness methods and provide a comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art methods to ensure different notions of group fairness. This work offers the following key contributions: the provision of flexible, extensible, minimalistic, and research-oriented open-source code; the establishment of unified fairness method benchmarking pipelines; and extensive benchmarking, which yields key insights from 45,079 experiments, 14,428 GPU hours. We believe that our work will significantly facilitate the growth and development of the fairness research community. The benchmark is available at https://github.com/ahxt/fair_fairness_benchmark.

NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Gradient Rewiring for Editable Graph Neural Network Training

  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Zirui Liu
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Qizhang Feng
  • Hongye Jin
  • Qiaoyu Tan
  • Kaixiong Zhou
  • Na Zou

Deep neural networks are ubiquitously adopted in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and graph analytics. However, well-trained neural networks can make prediction errors after deployment as the world changes. \textit{Model editing} involves updating the base model to correct prediction errors with less accessible training data and computational resources. Despite recent advances in model editors in computer vision and natural language processing, editable training in graph neural networks (GNNs) is rarely explored. The challenge with editable GNN training lies in the inherent information aggregation across neighbors, which can lead model editors to affect the predictions of other nodes unintentionally. In this paper, we first observe the gradient of cross-entropy loss for the target node and training nodes with significant inconsistency, which indicates that directly fine-tuning the base model using the loss on the target node deteriorates the performance on training nodes. Motivated by the gradient inconsistency observation, we propose a simple yet effective \underline{G}radient \underline{R}ewiring method for \underline{E}ditable graph neural network training, named \textbf{GRE}. Specifically, we first store the anchor gradient of the loss on training nodes to preserve the locality. Subsequently, we rewire the gradient of the loss on the target node to preserve performance on the training node using anchor gradient. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of GRE on various model architectures and graph datasets in terms of multiple editing situations. The source code is available at \url{https: //github. com/zhimengj0326/Gradient rewiring editing}.

ICML Conference 2024 Conference Paper

LLM Maybe LongLM: SelfExtend LLM Context Window Without Tuning

  • Hongye Jin
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Jingfeng Yang 0001
  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Zirui Liu 0001
  • Chia-Yuan Chang 0002
  • Huiyuan Chen
  • Xia Hu 0001

It is well known that LLMs cannot generalize well to long contexts whose lengths are larger than the training sequence length. This poses challenges when employing LLMs for processing long input sequences during inference. In this work, we argue that LLMs themselves have inherent capabilities to handles s long contexts without fine-tuning. To achieve this goal, we propose SelfExtend to extend the context window of LLMs by constructing bi-level attention information: the grouped attention and the neighbor attention. The grouped attention captures the dependencies among tokens that are far apart, while neighbor attention captures dependencies among adjacent tokens within a specified range. The two-level attentions are computed based on the original model’s self-attention mechanism during inference. With minor code modification, our SelfExtend can effortlessly extend existing LLMs’ context window without any fine-tuning. We conduct comprehensive experiments on multiple benchmarks and the results show that our SelfExtend can effectively extend existing LLMs’ context window length.

TMLR Journal 2024 Journal Article

On the Equivalence of Graph Convolution and Mixup

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Hanqing Zeng
  • Yu Chen
  • Shaoliang Nie
  • Jingzhou Liu
  • Kanika Narang
  • Zahra Shakeri
  • Karthik Abinav Sankararaman

This paper investigates the relationship between graph convolution and Mixup techniques. Graph convolution in a graph neural network involves aggregating features from neighboring samples to learn representative features for a specific node or sample. On the other hand, Mixup is a data augmentation technique that generates new examples by averaging features and one-hot labels from multiple samples. One commonality between these techniques is their utilization of information from multiple samples to derive feature representation. This study aims to explore whether a connection exists between the two. Our investigation reveals that, under two mild modifications, graph convolution can be viewed as a specialized form of Mixup that is applied during both the training and testing phases. The two modifications are 1) \textit{Homophily Relabel} - assigning the target node's label to all its neighbors, and 2) \textit{Test-Time Mixup} - Mixup the feature during the test time. We establish this equivalence mathematically by demonstrating that graph convolution networks and simplified graph convolution can be expressed as a form of Mixup. We also empirically verify the equivalence by training an MLP using the two modifications to achieve comparable performance.

NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Visual Anchors Are Strong Information Aggregators For Multimodal Large Language Model

  • Haogeng Liu
  • Quanzeng You
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Yongfei Liu
  • Huaibo Huang
  • Ran He
  • Hongxia Yang

In the realm of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), vision-language connector plays a crucial role to link the pre-trained vision encoders with Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its importance, the vision-language connector has been relatively less explored. In this study, we aim to propose a strong vision-language connector that enables MLLM to simultaneously achieve high accuracy and low computation cost. We first reveal the existence of the visual anchors in Vision Transformer and propose a cost-effective search algorithm to progressively extract them. Building on these findings, we introduce the Anchor Former (AcFormer), a novel vision-language connector designed to leverage the rich prior knowledge obtained from these visual anchors during pretraining, guiding the aggregation of information. Through extensive experimentation, we demonstrate that the proposed method significantly reduces computational costs by nearly two-thirds, while simultaneously outperforming baseline methods. This highlights the effectiveness and efficiency of AcFormer.

NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Chasing Fairness Under Distribution Shift: A Model Weight Perturbation Approach

  • Zhimeng (Stephen) Jiang
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Hongye Jin
  • Guanchu Wang
  • Rui Chen
  • Na Zou
  • Xia Hu

Fairness in machine learning has attracted increasing attention in recent years. The fairness methods improving algorithmic fairness for in-distribution data may not perform well under distribution shifts. In this paper, we first theoretically demonstrate the inherent connection between distribution shift, data perturbation, and model weight perturbation. Subsequently, we analyze the sufficient conditions to guarantee fairness (i. e. , low demographic parity) for the target dataset, including fairness for the source dataset, and low prediction difference between the source and target datasets for each sensitive attribute group. Motivated by these sufficient conditions, we propose robust fairness regularization (RFR) by considering the worst case within the model weight perturbation ball for each sensitive attribute group. We evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed RFR algorithm on synthetic and real distribution shifts across various datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that RFR achieves better fairness-accuracy trade-off performance compared with several baselines. The source code is available at \url{https: //github. com/zhimengj0326/RFR_NeurIPS23}.

ICLR Conference 2023 Conference Paper

MLPInit: Embarrassingly Simple GNN Training Acceleration with MLP Initialization

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Tong Zhao 0003
  • Yozen Liu
  • Xia Hu 0001
  • Neil Shah

Training graph neural networks (GNNs) on large graphs is complex and extremely time consuming. This is attributed to overheads caused by sparse matrix multiplication, which are sidestepped when training multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) with only node features. MLPs, by ignoring graph context, are simple and faster for graph data, however they usually sacrifice prediction accuracy, limiting their applications for graph data. We observe that for most message passing-based GNNs, we can trivially derive an analog MLP (we call this a PeerMLP) with an equivalent weight space, by setting the trainable parameters with the same shapes, making us curious about how do GNNs using weights from a fully trained PeerMLP perform? Surprisingly, we find that GNNs initialized with such weights significantly outperform their PeerMLPs, motivating us to use PeerMLP training as a precursor, initialization step to GNN training. To this end, we propose an embarrassingly simple, yet hugely effective initialization method for GNN training acceleration, called \mlpinit. Our extensive experiments on multiple large-scale graph datasets with diverse GNN architectures validate that MLPInit can accelerate the training of GNNs (up to 33× speedup on OGB-Products) and often improve prediction performance (e.g., up to $7.97\%$ improvement for GraphSAGE across $7$ datasets for node classification, and up to $17.81\%$ improvement across $4$ datasets for link prediction on metric Hits@10). The code is available at https://github.com/snap-research/MLPInit-for-GNNs.

TMLR Journal 2023 Journal Article

Retiring $\Delta \text{DP}$: New Distribution-Level Metrics for Demographic Parity

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Hongye Jin
  • Zirui Liu
  • Na Zou
  • Qifan Wang
  • Xia Hu

Demographic parity is the most widely recognized measure of group fairness in machine learning, which ensures equal treatment of different demographic groups. Numerous works aim to achieve demographic parity by pursuing the commonly used metric $\Delta DP$. Unfortunately, in this paper, we reveal that the fairness metric $\Delta DP$ can not precisely measure the violation of demographic parity, because it inherently has the following drawbacks: i) zero-value $\Delta DP$ does not guarantee zero violation of demographic parity, ii) $\Delta DP$ values can vary with different classification thresholds. To this end, we propose two new fairness metrics, Area Between Probability density function Curves (ABPC) and Area Between Cumulative density function Curves (ABCC), to precisely measure the violation of demographic parity at the distribution level. The new fairness metrics directly measure the difference between the distributions of the prediction probability for different demographic groups. Thus our proposed new metrics enjoy: i) zero-value ABCC/ABPC guarantees zero violation of demographic parity; ii) ABCC/ABPC guarantees demographic parity while the classification thresholds are adjusted. We further re-evaluate the existing fair models with our proposed fairness metrics and observe different fairness behaviors of those models under the new metrics.

ICML Conference 2022 Conference Paper

G-Mixup: Graph Data Augmentation for Graph Classification

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Ninghao Liu 0001
  • Xia Hu 0001

This work develops mixup for graph data. Mixup has shown superiority in improving the generalization and robustness of neural networks by interpolating features and labels between two random samples. Traditionally, Mixup can work on regular, grid-like, and Euclidean data such as image or tabular data. However, it is challenging to directly adopt Mixup to augment graph data because different graphs typically: 1) have different numbers of nodes; 2) are not readily aligned; and 3) have unique typologies in non-Euclidean space. To this end, we propose G-Mixup to augment graphs for graph classification by interpolating the generator (i. e. , graphon) of different classes of graphs. Specifically, we first use graphs within the same class to estimate a graphon. Then, instead of directly manipulating graphs, we interpolate graphons of different classes in the Euclidean space to get mixed graphons, where the synthetic graphs are generated through sampling based on the mixed graphons. Extensive experiments show that G-Mixup substantially improves the generalization and robustness of GNNs.

ICLR Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Generalized Demographic Parity for Group Fairness

  • Zhimeng Jiang
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Chao Fan
  • Fan Yang 0023
  • Ali Mostafavi
  • Xia Hu 0001

This work aims to generalize demographic parity to continuous sensitive attributes while preserving tractable computation. Current fairness metrics for continuous sensitive attributes largely rely on intractable statistical independence between variables, such as Hirschfeld-Gebelein-Renyi (HGR) and mutual information. Statistical fairness metrics estimation relying on either tractable bounds or neural network approximation, however, are not sufficiently trustful to rank algorithms prediction bias due to lack of estimation accuracy guarantee. To make fairness metrics trustable, we propose \textit{\underline{G}eneralized \underline{D}emographic \underline{P}arity} (GDP), a group fairness metric for continuous and discrete attributes. We show the understanding of GDP from the probability perspective and theoretically reveal the connection between GDP regularizer and adversarial debiasing. To estimate GDP, we adopt hard and soft group strategies via the one-hot or the soft group indicator, representing the membership of each sample in different groups of the sensitive attribute. We provably and numerically show that the soft group strategy achieves a faster estimation error convergence rate. Experiments show the better bias mitigation performance of GDP regularizer, compared with adversarial debiasing, for regression and classification tasks in tabular and graph benchmarks.

AAAI Conference 2020 Conference Paper

FlowScope: Spotting Money Laundering Based on Graphs

  • Xiangfeng Li
  • Shenghua Liu
  • Zifeng Li
  • Xiaotian Han
  • Chuan Shi
  • Bryan Hooi
  • He Huang
  • Xueqi Cheng

Given a graph of the money transfers between accounts of a bank, how can we detect money laundering? Money laundering refers to criminals using the bank’s services to move massive amounts of illegal money to untraceable destination accounts, in order to inject their illegal money into the legitimate financial system. Existing graph fraud detection approaches focus on dense subgraph detection, without considering the fact that money laundering involves high-volume flows of funds through chains of bank accounts, thereby decreasing their detection accuracy. Instead, we propose to model the transactions using a multipartite graph, and detect the complete flow of money from source to destination using a scalable algorithm, FlowScope. Theoretical analysis shows that FlowScope provides guarantees in terms of the amount of money that fraudsters can transfer without being detected. FlowScope outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in accurately detecting the accounts involved in money laundering, in both injected and real-world data settings.

IJCAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Aspect-Level Deep Collaborative Filtering via Heterogeneous Information Networks

  • Xiaotian Han
  • Chuan Shi
  • Senzhang Wang
  • Philip S. Yu
  • Li Song

Latent factor models have been widely used for recommendation. Most existing latent factor models mainly utilize the rating information between users and items, although some recently extended models add some auxiliary information to learn a unified latent factor between users and items. The unified latent factor only represents the latent features of users and items from the aspect of purchase history. However, the latent features of users and items may stem from different aspects, e. g. , the brand-aspect and category-aspect of items. In this paper, we propose a Neural network based Aspect-level Collaborative Filtering model (NeuACF) to exploit different aspect latent factors. Through modelling rich objects and relations in recommender system as a heterogeneous information network, NeuACF first extracts different aspect-level similarity matrices of users and items through different meta-paths and then feeds an elaborately designed deep neural network with these matrices to learn aspect-level latent factors. Finally, the aspect-level latent factors are effectively fused with an attention mechanism for the top-N recommendation. Extensive experiments on three real datasets show that NeuACF significantly outperforms both existing latent factor models and recent neural network models.

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