Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic ones to reduce storage and computational costs. Among various approaches, distribution matching (DM)-based methods have attracted attention for their high efficiency. However, they often overlook the evolution of feature representations during training, which limits the expressiveness of synthetic data and weakens downstream performance. To address this issue, we propose Trajectory Guided Dataset Distillation (TGDD), which reformulates distribution matching as a dynamic alignment process along the model’s training trajectory. At each training stage, TGDD captures evolving semantics by aligning the feature distribution between the synthetic and original dataset. Meanwhile, it introduces a distribution constraint regularization to reduce class overlap. This design helps synthetic data preserve both semantic diversity and representativeness, improving performance in downstream tasks. Without additional optimization overhead, TGDD achieves a favorable balance between performance and efficiency. Experiments on ten datasets demonstrate that TGDD achieves state-of-the-art performance, notably a 5.0% accuracy gain on high-resolution benchmarks.
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The rapid advancement of video generation models has made it increasingly challenging to distinguish AI-generated videos from real ones. This issue underscores the urgent need for effective AI-generated video detectors to prevent the dissemination of false information via such videos. However, the development of high-performance AI-generated video detectors is currently impeded by the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets specifically designed for generative video detection. To this end, we introduce GenVidBench, a challenging AI-generated video detection dataset with several key advantages: 1) Large-scale video collection: The dataset contains 6.78 million videos and is currently the largest dataset for AI-generated video detection. 2) Cross-Source and Cross-Generator: The cross-source generation reduces the interference of video content on the detection. The cross-generator ensures diversity in video attributes between the training and test sets, preventing them from being overly similar. 3) State-of-the-Art Video Generators: The dataset includes videos from 11 state-of-the-art AI video generators, ensuring that it covers the latest advancements in the field of video generation. These generators ensure that the datasets are not only large in scale but also diverse, aiding in the development of generalized and effective detection models. Additionally, we present extensive experimental results with advanced video classification models. With GenVidBench, researchers can efficiently develop and evaluate AI-generated video detection models.
Sequential recommendation models analyze user historical behavior sequences to capture temporal dependencies and the dynamic evolution of interests, enabling accurate predictions of future behaviors. However, there are still two critical challenges that remain unsolved: i) Inadequate temporal modeling of user intent, which fails to distinguish between global intent tendency and temporal contextual intent. ii) Noise in sequential interaction data may introduce bias into the model. To address these issues, we propose a Self-Supervised Hypergraph Sequential Recommendation Framework (S2HyRec). This framework features the Global Intent Tendency module for capturing long-term preferences, the Temporal Contextual Intent module for modeling dynamic time-sensitive interests. Additionally, we develop the Sequence Dependency-Aware module that analyzes the chronological flow of interactions to uncover inherent behavioral dynamics, further enriching the comprehensive user intent representation. To mitigate noisy interactions, we employ a Cross-View Self-Supervised Learning module that enhances the model's ability to distinguish genuine preferences from noise. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of S2HyRec over various state-of-the-art recommendation methods, especially achieving average improvements of 15.13% and 14.03% in NDCG@10 and NDCG@20, respectively, across the four datasets.
PathMind: A Retrieve-Prioritize-Reason Framework for Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Large Language Models
PDF ↗Knowledge graph reasoning (KGR) is the task of inferring new knowledge by performing logical deductions on knowledge graphs. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex reasoning tasks. Despite promising success, current LLM-based KGR methods still face two critical limitations. First, existing methods often extract reasoning paths indiscriminately, without assessing their different importance, which may introduce irrelevant noise that misleads LLMs. Second, while some methods leverage LLMs to dynamically explore potential reasoning paths, they require high retrieval demands and frequent LLM calls. To address these limitations, we propose PathMind, a novel framework designed to enhance faithful and interpretable reasoning by selectively guiding LLMs with important reasoning paths. Specifically, PathMind follows a "Retrieve-Prioritize-Reason" paradigm. First, it retrieves a query subgraph from KG through the retrieval module. Next, it introduces a path prioritization mechanism that identifies important reasoning paths using a semantic-aware path priority function, which simultaneously considers the accumulative cost and the estimated future cost for reaching the target. Finally, PathMind generates accurate and logically consistent responses via a dual-phase training strategy, including task-specific instruction tuning and path-wise preference alignment. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that PathMind consistently outperforms competitive baselines, particularly on complex reasoning tasks with fewer input tokens, by identifying essential reasoning paths.
Debate over Mixed-knowledge: A Robust Multi-Agent Reasoning Framework for Incomplete Knowledge Graph Question Answering
PDF ↗Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to improve factual accuracy by leveraging structured knowledge. However, real-world Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are often incomplete, leading to the problem of Incomplete KGQA (IKGQA). A common solution is to incorporate external data to fill knowledge gaps, but existing methods lack the capacity to adaptively and contextually fuse multiple sources, failing to fully exploit their complementary strengths. To this end, we propose Debate over Mixed-knowledge (DoM), a novel framework that enables dynamic integration of structured and unstructured knowledge for IKGQA. Built upon the Multi-Agent Debate paradigm, DoM assigns specialized agents to perform inference over knowledge graphs and external texts separately, and coordinates their outputs through iterative interaction. It decomposes the input question into sub-questions, retrieves evidence via dual agents (KG and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG), and employs a judge agent to evaluate and aggregate intermediate answers. This collaboration exploits knowledge complementarity and enhances robustness to KG incompleteness. In addition, existing IKGQA datasets simulate incompleteness by randomly removing triples, failing to capture the irregular and unpredictable nature of real-world knowledge incompleteness. To address this, we introduce a new dataset, Incomplete Knowledge Graph WebQuestions, constructed by leveraging real-world knowledge updates. These updates reflect knowledge beyond the static scope of KGs, yielding a more realistic and challenging benchmark. Through extensive experiments, we show that DoM consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
Dynamic graphs are common in real‑world systems such as social media, recommender systems, and traffic networks. Existing dynamic graph models for link prediction often fall short in capturing the full complexity of temporal evolution. They tend to overlook fine‑grained variations in interaction order, struggle with dependencies that span long time horizons, and provide limited modeling of pair‑specific relational dynamics. To address those challenges, we propose Graph2Video, a video‑inspired framework that views the temporal neighborhood of a target link as a sequence of “graph frames”. By stacking temporally ordered subgraph frames into a “graph video”, Graph2Video leverages the inductive biases of video foundation models to capture both fine-grained local variations and long-range temporal dynamics. It generates a link-level embedding that serves as a lightweight, plug-and-play, link-centric memory unit. This embedding integrates seamlessly into existing dynamic graph encoders, effectively addressing the limitations of prior approaches. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets show that Graph2Video outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines in the link prediction task on most cases. The results highlight that borrowing spatio‑temporal modeling techniques from computer vision provides a principled and effective avenue for advancing dynamic graph learning.
Time series forecasting under distribution shift remains challenging, as existing deep learning models often rely on local statistical normalization (e.g., mean and variance) that fails to capture global distribution shift. Methods like RevIN and its variants attempt to decouple distribution and pattern but still struggle with missing values, noisy observations, and invalid channel-wise affine transformation. To address these limitations, we propose Affine Prototype-Timestamp(APT), a lightweight and flexible plug-in module that injects global distribution features into the normalization–forecasting pipeline. By leveraging timestamp-conditioned prototype learning, APT dynamically generates affine parameters that modulate both input and output series, enabling the backbone to learn from self-supervised, distribution-aware clustered instances. APT is compatible with arbitrary forecasting backbones and normalization strategies while introducing minimal computational overhead. Extensive experiments across six benchmark datasets and multiple backbone-normalization combinations demonstrate that APT significantly improves forecasting performance under distribution shift.
Exploring Domain Generalization and Subpopulation Shift for Generalizable Graph-Level Anomaly Detection
PDF ↗Graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD), which identifies rare or atypical graphs within a graph set, is crucial for applications such as image analysis, industrial defect inspection and fraud detection. However, existing GLAD approaches typically rely on the in-distribution hypothesis while lacking generalization capability for out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios (e.g., different graph sizes), which largely limits the application in the real world. For the first time, we formulate the OOD generalization problem for GLAD, where testing graph data exhibit significant distributional shifts from training data. To tackle two common types of distributional shifts, domain generalization and subpopulation shift, we propose the Fine-Grained Subpopulation Graph-Level Anomaly Detection (FGS-GLAD). First, we propose a Graph Information Bottleneck-based Anomaly Detection Module (GIB4AD) that implements graph reverse distillation and graph information bottleneck on the graph to enhance task-relevant feature extraction for domain generalization. Second, We propose a Fine-Grained Subpoulation Inference Module (FGSI) to predict fine-grained subpopulations and focus on critical inter-subpopulation features through a supervised contrastive mechanism. Experiments on seven benchmark datasets and ten baselines demonstrate our model's superiority in handling domain generalization and subpopulation shift.
PEOCH: Online Cross-Modal Hashing with Semi-Supervised Streaming Data Driving Prototype Evolution
PDF ↗The exponential growth of streaming multi-modal data presents critical challenges for cross-modal retrieval: distribution shifts, modality gap, and scarce labels. Semi-supervised online cross-modal hashing has gained increasing interest due to its ability to encode complex streaming data and update hash functions simultaneously. Nevertheless, existing methods can hardly generate high-quality unsupervised hash codes, which fundamentally limits diversity and flexibility during the retrieval process. To this end, we propose a novel method named Prototype Evolution Online Cross-modal Hashing (PEOCH). By driving prototype evolution with semi-supervised streaming data, precise and stable hash codes are generated for both labeled and unlabeled data. Specifically, two prototype updates with stability guarantee are conducted: labeled samples push semantic knowledge into the supervised prototypes, while unlabeled samples perform clustering to generate unsupervised prototypes. Simultaneously, a co-optimization mechanism is designed to ensure the prototypes continuously evolve and preserve the consistency of the entire streaming data. Besides, an elasticity regularizer integrates discriminability and smoothness constraints, improving the reliability of prototypes. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate that PEOCH outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving an average improvement of 6.7% in mAP@all across various retrieval tasks.
Outlier detection (OD) aims to identify abnormal instances, known as outliers or anomalies, by learning typical patterns of normal data, or inliers. Performing OD under an unsupervised regime--without any information about anomalous instances in the training data--is challenging. A recently observed phenomenon, known as the inlier-memorization (IM) effect, where deep generative models (DGMs) tend to memorize inlier patterns during early training, provides a promising signal for distinguishing outliers. However, existing unsupervised approaches that rely solely on the IM effect still struggle when inliers and outliers are not well-separated or when outliers form dense clusters. To address these limitations, we incorporate active learning to selectively acquire informative labels, and propose IMBoost, a novel framework that explicitly reinforces the IM effect to improve outlier detection. Our method consists of two stages: 1) a warm-up phase that induces and promotes the IM effect, and 2) a polarization phase in which actively queried samples are used to maximize the discrepancy between inlier and outlier scores. In particular, we propose a novel query strategy and tailored loss function in the polarization phase to effectively identify informative samples and fully leverage the limited labeling budget. We provide a theoretical analysis showing that the IMBoost consistently decreases inlier risk while increasing outlier risk throughout training, thereby amplifying their separation. Extensive experiments on diverse benchmark datasets demonstrate that IMBoost not only significantly outperforms state-of-the-art active OD methods but also requires substantially less computational cost.
DuoKD: Dual Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Robust Graph Neural Networks
PDF ↗Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a dominant modeling paradigm for graph-structured data, and the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has spurred growing interest in integrating external semantic knowledge into GNNs. Current LLM-based GNNs are devoted to extracting semantically similar information from LLMs to enhance representation learning. However, they generally overlook key signals that are semantically dissimilar but exhibit stronger inter-class discriminative ability. Especially when the original graph data contains noise or semantic ambiguity, a single similarity-based semantic augmentation strategy not only fails to provide effective enhancement, but may also amplify misleading signals generated by the LLM in response to low-quality inputs or its own hallucinations, further degrading the discriminative power and robustness of GNNs. To this end, we propose a dual positive-negative knowledge extraction strategy based on LLMs, and integrate it with a knowledge distillation mechanism to dynamically transfer multi-dimensional enhanced signals to GNNs, thereby achieving fine-grained and robust graph representation learning. Specifically, we design personalized prompts to guide LLMs in generating semantically similar positive signals and semantically dissimilar negative signals, which help the model capture intra-class consistency and inter-class distinction. Then, we further generate structural and semantic reasoning as supplementary knowledge to support the rationality and guidance of supervision signals. To identify high-confidence transferred knowledge, we introduce a language-based evaluation mechanism to filter low-confidence or hallucinated outputs. Finally, under a unified distillation framework, our method uses both positive and negative knowledge to guide GNN training, achieving adaptive and robust representation learning. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets verify the superior performance of our approach across various tasks.
Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is a critical area of research that focuses on identifying abnormal components within evolving graph structures that deviate significantly from typical patterns. Despite advancements in traditional temporal pattern mining and deep learning techniques, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for Dynamic Graph Anomaly Detection (DyGAD) has been lacking. To address this gap, we introduce BAG, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for anomaly detection on dynamic graphs. BAG enables extensive evaluation of 25 leading DyGAD models, covering both classical approaches and advanced Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs), across 10 diverse real-world datasets that include both synthetic and naturally occurring anomalies. The framework supports evaluations at both the edge and node levels, offering a robust tool to advance DyGAD research. Our main finding is that Continuous-time Dynamic Graph (CTDG) models demonstrate superior performance and potential in detecting anomalies in dynamic graph edges, compared to Discrete-time Dynamic Graph (DTDG) models. Furthermore, the results reveal that existing methods are less effective at detecting organic anomalies, primarily due to the presence of temporal anomalies and highly imbalanced samples. The proposed BAG benchmark significantly enhances the evaluation of DyGAD methods by improving dataset selection, metric application, and model training. Moreover, BAG supports reproducibility and further exploration in this field by integrating all models, datasets, and evaluation protocols into an open-source repository.
Tokenize Once, Recommend Anywhere: Unified Item Tokenization for Multi-domain LLM-based Recommendation
PDF ↗Large language model (LLM)-based recommender systems have achieved high-quality performance by bridging the discrepancy between the item space and the language space through item tokenization. However, existing item tokenization methods typically require training separate models for each item domain, limiting generalization. Moreover, the diverse distributions and semantics across item domains make it difficult to construct a unified tokenization that preserves domain-specific information. To address these challenges, we propose UniTok, a Unified item Tokenization framework that integrates our own mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with a series of codebooks to convert items into discrete tokens, enabling scalable tokenization while preserving semantic information across multiple item domains. Specifically, items from different domains are first projected into a unified latent space through a shared encoder. They are then routed to domain-specific experts to capture the unique semantics, while a shared expert, which is always active, encodes common knowledge transferable across domains. Additionally, to mitigate semantic imbalance across domains, we present a mutual information calibration mechanism, which guides the model towards retaining similar levels of semantic information for each domain. Comprehensive experiments on wide-ranging real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed UniTok framework is (a) highly effective: achieving up to 51.89% improvements over strong benchmarks, (b) theoretically sound: showing the analytical validity of our architectural design and optimization; and (c) highly generalizable: demonstrating robust performance across diverse domains without requiring per-domain retraining, a capability not supported by existing baselines.
User purchase decisions are driven by complex, multi-faceted intentions that evolve across different temporal horizons (e.g., immediate needs, transitional interests, and long-term preferences). However, existing sequential methods often treat user sequences as unified blocks, overlooking the dynamic evolution of user intents at different granularities, while also lacking robustness against prevalent noise in real-world interaction data. This paper proposes Multi-granularity Intent Modeling with Adversarial Robustness for Sequential Recommendation (MIMAR-SRec), a framework that models latent user intentions at multiple granularities. Specifically, MIMAR-SRec integrates multi-granularity intent representation across different contextual windows to capture evolving user interests, dual-perspective contrastive learning that aligns user representations with both intent prototypes and cross-user sequences, and intent-similarity adversarial robustness that systematically enhances model stability against interaction, temporal, and preference noise through controlled perturbations. By integrating multi-granularity intent modeling with adversarial training, MIMAR-SRec enables simultaneous fine-grained underlying intent modeling and noise-resistant recommendations. Extensive experiments on four widely used benchmark datasets demonstrate that MIMAR-SRec outperforms baselines, particularly in long-tail item recommendation and noisy interaction scenarios.
In online advertising under the cost-per-conversion (CPA) model, accurate conversion rate (CVR) prediction is crucial. A major challenge is delayed feedback, where conversions may occur long after user interactions, leading to incomplete recent data and biased model training. Existing solutions partially mitigate this issue but often rely on auxiliary models, making them computationally inefficient and less adaptive to user interest shifts. We propose IF-DFM, an Influence Function-empowered for Delayed Feedback Modeling which estimates the impact of newly arrived and delayed conversions on model parameters, enabling efficient updates without full retraining. By reformulating the inverse Hessian-vector-product as an optimization problem, IF-DFM achieves a favorable trade-off between scalability and effectiveness. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that IF-DFM outperforms prior methods in both accuracy and adaptability.
GraphRAG-Induced Dual Knowledge Structure Graphs for Personalized Learning Path Recommendation
PDF ↗Learning path recommendation seeks to provide students with a structured sequence of learning items (e.g., knowledge concepts or exercises) to optimize their learning efficiency. Despite significant efforts in this area, most existing methods primarily rely on prerequisite relations, which present two major limitations: (1) Prerequisite relations between knowledge concepts are difficult to obtain due to the cost of expert annotation, hindering the application of current learning path recommendation methods. (2) Relying on a single sequentially dependent knowledge structure based on prerequisite relations implies that a confusing knowledge concept can disrupt subsequent learning processes, which is referred to as blocked learning. To address these two challenges, we propose a novel approach, GraphRAG-Induced Dual Knowledge Structure Graphs for Personalized Learning Path Recommendation (KnowLP), which enhances learning path recommendations by incorporating both prerequisite and similarity relations between knowledge concepts. Specifically, we introduce a knowledge structure graph generation module EDU-GraphRAG that constructs knowledge structure graphs for different educational datasets, significantly improving the applicability of learning path recommendation methods. We then propose a Discrimination Learning-driven Reinforcement Learning (DLRL) module that utilizes similarity relations as fallback relations when prerequisite relations become ineffective, thereby alleviating the blocked learning. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets, demonstrating that our method not only achieves state-of-the-art performance but also generates more effective and longer learning paths.
Learning representations on graphs is foundational for many downstream tasks, and its synergy with diffusion models has emerged as a promising direction. However, diffusion-based methods for heterogeneous graphs remain underexplored, confronting two principal challenges: (1) The presence of noise and structural heterogeneity in graphs makes it challenging to accurately capture semantic transitions among diverse relation types. (2) The isotropic Gaussian noise used in forward diffusion fails to reflect graphs' inherent semantics and structural anisotropy. To address these, we propose ARDiff, a novel framework that integrates residual diffusion with anisotropic noise for heterogeneous graph learning. Specifically, we propose a semantic residual diffusion mechanism that progressively refines node embeddings by orchestrating transitions from low-semantic (high-noise) to high-semantic (low-noise) relational contexts, thus enabling step-wise distillation of task-relevant information. In addition, to address the limitations of conventional diffusion, we introduce an anisotropic diffusion strategy: in the forward process, noise injection is oriented by structural and semantic priors; in the denoising step, a conditional diffusion mechanism is guided by a random walk encoding, enhancing both topological consistency and semantic alignment. Extensive evaluation on heterogeneous graph datasets demonstrates that ARDiff significantly surpasses current leading methods in link prediction and node classification, setting a new paradigm and benchmark in heterogeneous graph representation learning.
Explanation fidelity, which measures how accurately an explanation reflects a model’s true reasoning, remains critically underexplored in recommender systems. We introduce SPINRec (Stochastic Path Integration for Neural Recommender Explanations), a model-agnostic approach that adapts path-integration techniques to the sparse and implicit nature of recommendation data. To overcome the limitations of prior methods, SPINRec employs stochastic baseline sampling: instead of integrating from a fixed or unrealistic baseline, it samples multiple plausible user profiles from the empirical data distribution and selects the most faithful attribution path. This design captures the influence of both observed and unobserved interactions, yielding more stable and personalized explanations. We conduct the most comprehensive fidelity evaluation to date across three models (MF, VAE, NCF), three datasets (ML1M, Yahoo! Music, Pinterest), and a suite of counterfactual metrics, including AUC-based perturbation curves and fixed-length diagnostics. SPINRec consistently outperforms all baselines, establishing a new benchmark for faithful explainability in recommendation.
The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is a well-established combinatorial optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. Its NP-hard nature makes it increasingly difficult to obtain exact solutions as the graph size grows. This paper introduces ParDS, an exact algorithm developed to address the MDS problem within the branch-and-bound framework. ParDS features two key innovations: an advanced linear programming technique that yields tighter lower bounds and a set of novel reduction rules that dynamically simplify instances throughout the solving process. Compared to the leading exact algorithms presented at IJCAI 2023 and 2024, ParDS demonstrates theoretically superior lower-bound quality. Experimental results on standard benchmark datasets highlight several significant advantages of ParDS: it achieves fastest solving times in 70% of graph categories, especially on large, sparse graphs, delivers a speed-up of up to 3,411 times on the fastest individual instance, and successfully solves 16 out of 43 instances that other algorithms were unable to resolve within the 5-hour time limit. These findings establish ParDS as a state-of-the-art solution for exactly solving the MDS problem
Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has been widely recognized as a powerful self-supervised paradigm for learning general-purpose visual representations. However, standard MIM based on random masking tends to underperform in domain-specific tasks like Scene Text Recognition (STR), due to challenges such as information sparsity and appearance discrepancies caused by partial occlusion or distortion. To address this issue, we propose a novel pre-training framework called Appearance Discrepancy-guided Sequence Hybrid Masking (DSHM), specifically designed to learn robust representations for STR. To this end, we introduce an Appearance Discrepancy Metric that quantifies the discrepancy level of each image patch by measuring its deviation from anisotropic local discrepancy and intra-instance global style discrepancy. The resulting discrepancy scores are utilized in two key components: (1) A Sequence Hybrid Masking strategy, which prioritizes masking high-discrepancy patches in coherent block forms, thereby elevating the pretext task from simple pixel-level completion to more complex structural reasoning; (2) Discrepancy-Conditioned Tokens (DC-Tokens), which encode prior knowledge about patch difficulty into the decoder, enabling an adaptive reconstruction process and improving the model robustness under scenarios with partial occlusion or text distortion. We achieve competitive performance on multiple benchmark datasets, including common benchmarks, Union14M benchmarks, and Chinese benchmarks.