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Yew-Soon Ong

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

58 papers at tracked venues · 39 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

AAAI ×7GECCO ×7NeurIPS ×7ICML ×6ICCV ×4SIGKDD ×4CVPR ×3SIGIR ×3ACM MM ×2ECCV ×2EMNLP ×2IJCAI ×2PPSN ×2WWW ×2AAMAS ×1ECML-PKDD ×1ICDM ×1ICLR ×1RecSys ×1

Frequent coauthors

Junhao Dong
×10
Xinghua Qu
×8
Piotr Koniusz
×8
Zhu Sun
×7
Weiming Liu
×7
Jiao Liu
×5
Yingpeng Du
×5
Tiantian He
×5
Ivor W. Tsang
×5
Shanshan Feng
×4
Jie Zhang
×4
Abhishek Gupta
×4

Papers

  1. Agentic Spatio-Temporal Grounding via Collaborative Reasoning
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Heng Zhao
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Joey Tianyi Zhou
  2. Insights from Multi-tasking the EAX Algorithm for the Travelling Salesperson Problem
    PPSN 2026 ·
    Liam Wigney
    ,
    Aneta Neumann
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Frank Neumann
  3. Landscape-aware Automated Algorithm Design: An Efficient Framework for Real-world Optimization
    GECCO 2026 ·
    Haoran Yin
    ,
    Shuaiqun Pan
    ,
    Zhao Wei
    ,
    Jian Cheng Wong
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Anna Kononova
    ,
    Thomas Bäck
    ,
    Niki van Stein
  4. NeuSpring: Neural Spring Fields for Reconstruction and Simulation of Deformable Objects from Videos
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Qingshan Xu
    ,
    Jiao Liu
    ,
    Shangshu Yu
    ,
    Yuxuan Wang
    ,
    Yuan Zhou
    ,
    Junbao Zhou
    ,
    Jiequan Cui
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Hanwang Zhang
  5. Orthogonal Meta-learning Boosted Bayesian Optimization for Uncertain Multi-Objective Recommendation
    WWW 2026 ·
    Hongxu Wang
    ,
    Yingpeng Du
    ,
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Lu Zhang
    ,
    Tiantian He
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  6. Pushing Rendering Boundaries: Hard Gaussian Splatting
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Qingshan Xu
    ,
    Jiequan Cui
    ,
    Xuanyu Yi
    ,
    Yuxuan Wang
    ,
    Yuan Zhou
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Hanwang Zhang
  7. QD-LLMs: Quality-Diversity Optimization with LLMs for Generative Design Exploration
    GECCO 2026 ·
    Ariq Koh
    ,
    Melvin Wong
    ,
    Jiao Liu
    ,
    Caishun Chen
    ,
    Thiago Rios
    ,
    Stefan Menzel
    , Yew Soon Ong
  8. Scale-Net: A Hierarchical U-Net Framework for Cross-Scale Generalization in Multi-Task Vehicle Routing
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Suyu Liu
    ,
    Zhiguang Cao
    ,
    Nan Yin
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  9. A Mixed-Curvature based Pre-training Paradigm for Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver
    ICML 2025 ·
    Suyu Liu
    ,
    Zhiguang Cao
    ,
    Shanshan Feng
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  10. Active Large Language Model-Based Knowledge Distillation for Session-Based Recommendation
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Yingpeng Du
    ,
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Ziyan Wang
    ,
    Haoyan Chua
    ,
    Jie Zhang
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  11. Augmented Decision Spaces for Stackelberg Security Games: Sparse evolution begets scalability
    GECCO 2025 ·
    Adam Zychowski
    ,
    Abhishek Gupta
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Jacek Mandziuk
  12. CondenseLM: LLMs-driven Text Dataset Condensation via Reward Matching
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Cheng Shen
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Joey Tianyi Zhou
  13. Confound from all Sides, Distill with Resilience: Multi-Objective Adversarial Paths to Zero-Shot Robustness
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Jiao Liu
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  14. Crowd Dynamics Demand Adaptivity: Self-Adaptive Physics-Informed Neural Network for Crowd Simulation
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Ziying Tan
    ,
    Linbo Luo
    ,
    Haiyan Yin
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Wentong Cai
  15. Deterministic-to-Stochastic Diverse Latent Feature Mapping for Human Motion Synthesis
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Hua Yu
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Gui Xu
    ,
    Yaqing Hou
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Qiang Zhang
  16. Diversifying Policy Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity
    ICML 2025 ·
    Zhenglin Wan
    ,
    Xingrui Yu
    ,
    David Mark Bossens
    ,
    Yueming Lyu
    ,
    Qing Guo
    ,
    Flint Xiaofeng Fan
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Ivor W. Tsang
  17. Evolvable Conditional Diffusion
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Zhao Wei
    ,
    Chin Chun Ooi
    ,
    Abhishek Gupta
    ,
    Jian Cheng Wong
    ,
    Pao-Hsiung Chiu
    ,
    Sheares Xue Wen Toh
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  18. Fast Direct: Query-Efficient Online Black-box Guidance for Diffusion-model Target Generation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Kim Yong Tan
    ,
    Yueming Lyu
    ,
    Ivor W. Tsang
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  19. FedRLHF: A Convergence-Guaranteed Federated Framework for Privacy-Preserving and Personalized RLHF
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Flint Xiaofeng Fan
    ,
    Cheston Tan
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Roger Wattenhofer
    ,
    Wei Tsang Ooi
  20. Fine-Grained Abnormality Prompt Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Jiawen Zhu
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Chunhua Shen
    ,
    Guansong Pang
  21. Grounding Open-Domain Knowledge from LLMs to Real-World Reinforcement Learning Tasks: A Survey
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Haiyan Yin
    ,
    Hangwei Qian
    ,
    Yaxin Shi
    ,
    Ivor W. Tsang
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  22. Hot off the Press: Bayesian Inverse Transfer in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
    GECCO 2025 ·
    Jiao Liu
    ,
    Abhishek Gupta
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  23. Improving Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness in Vision-Language Models by Closed-form Alignment of Adversarial Path Simplices
    ICML 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  24. InstructFlow: Adaptive Symbolic Constraint-Guided Code Generation for Long-Horizon Planning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Haotian Chi
    ,
    Zeyu Feng
    ,
    Yueming Lyu
    ,
    Chengqi Zheng
    ,
    Linbo Luo
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Ivor W. Tsang
    ,
    Hechang Chen
    ,
    Yi Chang
    ,
    Haiyan Yin
  25. Machine Unlearning via Task Simplex Arithmetic
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Piotr Koniusz
  26. Make Me Happier: Evoking Emotions through Image Diffusion Models
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Qing Lin
    ,
    Jingfeng Zhang
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Mengmi Zhang
  27. Model-Agnostic Social Network Refinement with Diffusion Models for Robust Social Recommendation
    WWW 2025 ·
    Youchen Sun
    ,
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Yingpeng Du
    ,
    Jie Zhang
    , Yew Soon Ong
  28. On the Use of Matching Algorithms to Transfer Solutions for the Travelling Salesperson Problem
    GECCO 2025 ·
    Liam Wigney
    ,
    Aneta Neumann
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Frank Neumann
  29. Quality Diversity Genetic Programming for Learning Scheduling Heuristics
    GECCO 2025 ·
    Meng Xu
    ,
    Frank Neumann
    ,
    Aneta Neumann
    , Yew Soon Ong
  30. Robust SuperAlignment: Weak-to-Strong Robustness Generalization for Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Cong Zhang
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    ,
    Zejun Ma
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    , Yew Soon Ong
  31. Robustifying Zero-Shot Vision Language Models by Subspaces Alignment
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Liaoyuan Feng
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  32. Safe Delta: Consistently Preserving Safety when Fine-Tuning LLMs on Diverse Datasets
    ICML 2025 ·
    Ning Lu
    ,
    Shengcai Liu
    ,
    Jiahao Wu
    ,
    Weiyu Chen
    ,
    Zhirui Zhang
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Qi Wang
    ,
    Ke Tang
  33. SiamNAS: Siamese Surrogate Model for Dominance Relation Prediction in Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search
    GECCO 2025 ·
    Yuyang Zhou
    ,
    Ferrante Neri
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Ruibin Bai
  34. Solving Discrete (Semi) Unbalanced Optimal Transport with Equivalent Transformation Mechanism and KKT-Multiplier Regularization
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Xinting Liao
    ,
    Jun Dan
    ,
    Fan Wang
    ,
    Hua Yu
    ,
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Shunjie Dong
    ,
    Lianyong Qi
    , Yew Soon Ong
  35. Stabilizing Modality Gap & Lowering Gradient Norms Improve Zero-Shot Adversarial Robustness of VLMs
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  36. Towards Trustworthy Vital Sign Forecasting: Leveraging Uncertainty for Prediction Intervals
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Li Rong Wang
    ,
    Thomas C. Henderson
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Yih Yng Ng
    ,
    Xiuyi Fan
  37. Voronoi-grid-based Pareto Front Learning and Its Application to Collaborative Federated Learning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Mengmeng Chen
    ,
    Xiaohu Wu
    ,
    Qiqi Liu
    ,
    Tiantian He
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Yaochu Jin
    ,
    Qicheng Lao
    ,
    Han Yu
  38. Adaptive In-Context Learning with Large Language Models for Bundle Generation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Kaidong Feng
    ,
    Jie Yang
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    ,
    Hui Fang
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Wenyuan Liu
  39. Adversarially Robust Distillation by Reducing the Student-Teacher Variance Gap
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Junxi Chen
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  40. Adversarially Robust Few-shot Learning via Parameter Co-distillation of Similarity and Class Concept Learners
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Junxi Chen
    ,
    Xiaohua Xie
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  41. Bayesian Forward-Inverse Transfer for Multiobjective Optimization
    PPSN 2024 ·
    Tingyang Wei
    ,
    Jiao Liu
    ,
    Abhishek Gupta
    ,
    Puay Siew Tan
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  42. Diffusion Model in Normal Gathering Latent Space for Time Series Anomaly Detection
    ECML-PKDD 2024 ·
    Jiashu Han
    ,
    Shanshan Feng
    ,
    Min Zhou
    ,
    Xinyu Zhang
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Xutao Li
  43. FRNet: Frequency-based Rotation Network for Long-term Time Series Forecasting
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Xinyu Zhang
    ,
    Shanshan Feng
    ,
    Jianghong Ma
    ,
    Huiwei Lin
    ,
    Xutao Li
    ,
    Yunming Ye
    ,
    Fan Li
    , Yew Soon Ong
  44. FedCompetitors: Harmonious Collaboration in Federated Learning with Competing Participants
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Shanli Tan
    ,
    Hao Cheng
    ,
    Xiaohu Wu
    ,
    Han Yu
    ,
    Tiantian He
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Chongjun Wang
    ,
    Xiaofeng Tao
  45. Few-Shot NeRF by Adaptive Rendering Loss Regularization
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Qingshan Xu
    ,
    Xuanyu Yi
    ,
    Jianyao Xu
    ,
    Wenbing Tao
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Hanwang Zhang
  46. Free-Rider and Conflict Aware Collaboration Formation for Cross-Silo Federated Learning
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Mengmeng Chen
    ,
    Xiaohu Wu
    ,
    Xiaoli Tang
    ,
    Tiantian He
    , Yew Soon Ong,
    Qiqi Liu
    ,
    Qicheng Lao
    ,
    Han Yu
  47. Large Language Models for Intent-Driven Session Recommendations
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Hongyang Liu
    ,
    Xinghua Qu
    ,
    Kaidong Feng
    ,
    Yan Wang
    , Yew Soon Ong
  48. Learning Accurate and Bidirectional Transformation via Dynamic Embedding Transportation for Cross-Domain Recommendation
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Chaochao Chen
    ,
    Xinting Liao
    ,
    Mengling Hu
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Fan Wang
    ,
    Xiaolin Zheng
    , Yew Soon Ong
  49. PrefAce: Face-Centric Pretraining with Self-Structure Aware Distillation
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Siyuan Hu
    ,
    Zheng Wang
    ,
    Peng Hu
    ,
    Xi Peng
    ,
    Jie Wu
    ,
    Hongyuan Zhu
    , Yew Soon Ong
  50. ROTAN: A Rotation-based Temporal Attention Network for Time-Specific Next POI Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Shanshan Feng
    ,
    Feiyu Meng
    ,
    Lisi Chen
    ,
    Shuo Shang
    , Yew Soon Ong
  51. Reducing Item Discrepancy via Differentially Private Robust Embedding Alignment for Privacy-Preserving Cross Domain Recommendation
    ICML 2024 ·
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Xiaolin Zheng
    ,
    Chaochao Chen
    ,
    Jiahe Xu
    ,
    Xinting Liao
    ,
    Fan Wang
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  52. Road Network Representation Learning with the Third Law of Geography
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Haicang Zhou
    ,
    Weiming Huang
    ,
    Yile Chen
    ,
    Tiantian He
    ,
    Gao Cong
    , Yew Soon Ong
  53. Robust Distillation via Untargeted and Targeted Intermediate Adversarial Samples
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Junhao Dong
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Junxi Chen
    ,
    Z. Jane Wang
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  54. Self-Supervised Denoising through Independent Cascade Graph Augmentation for Robust Social Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Youchen Sun
    ,
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Yingpeng Du
    ,
    Jie Zhang
    , Yew Soon Ong
  55. Towards Efficient and Diverse Generative Model for Unconditional Human Motion Synthesis
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Hua Yu
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Jiapeng Bai
    ,
    Xu Gui
    ,
    Yaqing Hou
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Qiang Zhang
  56. Towards Harmless Rawlsian Fairness Regardless of Demographic Prior
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Xuanqian Wang
    ,
    Jing Li
    ,
    Ivor W. Tsang
    , Yew Soon Ong
  57. Unified Denoising Training for Recommendation
    RecSys 2024 ·
    Haoyan Chua
    ,
    Yingpeng Du
    ,
    Zhu Sun
    ,
    Ziyan Wang
    ,
    Jie Zhang
    , Yew-Soon Ong
  58. Video-Text Prompting for Weakly Supervised Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Heng Zhao
    ,
    Yinjie Zhao
    ,
    Bihan Wen
    , Yew-Soon Ong,
    Joey Zhou