publications

2026

1. TKDE

   LSPC-LA: Local Structure Preserving Clustering with Learnable Anchors

   Haonan Xin, Haoming Chen, Zhezheng Hao, Danyang Wu, Rong Wang, and Feiping Nie

   IEEE TKDE, 2026

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   We propose LSPC-LA, an anchor-based clustering framework that jointly learns adaptive anchors and preserves the local manifold structure of the data, achieving scalable and accurate clustering on large-scale datasets.

2. TIP

   SimMTC: Simple Multi-view Tensor Clustering

   Haonan Xin, Zhezheng Hao, Zhe Cao, Zihua Zhao, Rong Wang, and Feiping Nie

   IEEE TIP, 2026

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   We propose SimMTC, a simple yet effective multi-view tensor clustering method that captures higher-order cross-view correlations through a unified tensor representation, delivering strong performance with a clean and efficient formulation.

3. ACL

   Rethinking Entropy Interventions in RLVR: An Entropy Change Perspective

   Zhezheng Hao^*, Hong Wang^*, Haoyang Liu, Jian Luo, Jiarui Yu, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, and Jiawei Chen

   In ACL main (Oral, Top 5% of the Accepted), 2026

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   We rethink entropy interventions in reinforcement learning from verbal reasoning, proposing an entropy change perspective for better training stability.

4. ACL

   ReCreate: Reasoning and Creating Domain Agents Driven by Experience

   Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Jian Luo, Jianqing Zhang, Yuyan Zhou, Qiang Lin, Can Wang, Hande Dong, and Jiawei Chen

   In ACL main & ICLR Lifelong Agent Workshop, 2026

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   We propose ReCreate, a framework for reasoning and creating domain agents driven by experience, enabling autonomous agent construction for complex real-world tasks.

5. ACL

   LEPO: Latent Reasoning Policy Optimization for Large Language Models

   Yuyan Zhou, Jiarui Yu, Hande Dong, Zhezheng Hao, Hong Wang, Jianqing Zhang, and Qiang Lin

   In ACL Findings, 2026

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   We propose LEPO, a latent reasoning policy optimization method for large language models.

6. ACL

   GAPO: Robust Advantage Estimation for Real-World Code LLMs

   Jianqing Zhang, Zhezheng Hao, Wei Xia, Hande Dong, Hong Wang, Chenxing Wei, Yuyan Zhou, Yubin Qi, Qiang Lin, and Jian Cao

   In ACL Findings, 2026

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   We propose GAPO, a robust advantage estimation method for real-world code LLMs.

7. ACL

   Plug-and-Play Data Module for Code RL: Adaptive Ambiguity Replay

   Jianqing Zhang, Zhezheng Hao, Wei Xia, Hong Wang, Hande Dong, Qiang Lin, Yang Liu, Jian Cao, and Qiang Yang

   In ACL Findings, 2026

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   We propose a plug-and-play data module for code reinforcement learning with adaptive ambiguity replay.

8. ICLR

   Scheduling Your LLM Reinforcement Learning with Reasoning Trees

   Hong Wang^*, Zhezheng Hao^*, Jian Luo, Chenxing Wei, Yao Shu, Lei Liu, Qiang Lin, Hande Dong, and Jiawei Chen

   In ICLR, 2026

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   We propose a reasoning tree-based scheduling method for LLM reinforcement learning.

2025

1. WWW

   Uncertainty-aware Graph Structure Learning

   Shen Han, Zhiyao Zhou, Jiawei Chen, Zhezheng Hao, Sheng Zhou, Gang Wang, Yan Feng, Chun Chen, and Can Wang

   In WWW, 2025

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   We propose an uncertainty-aware approach to graph structure learning that improves robustness and generalization in graph neural networks.

2. AAAI

   Language Pre-training Guided Masking Representation Learning for Time Series Classification

   Liaoyuan Tang, Zheng Wang, Jie Wang, Guanxiong He, Zhezheng Hao, Rong Wang, and Feiping Nie

   In AAAI, 2025

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   We propose a language pre-training guided masking approach for time series classification.

3. TKDE

   Acceleration Algorithms in GNNs: A Survey

   Lu Ma, Zeang Sheng, Xunkai Li, Xinyi Gao, Zhezheng Hao, Ling Yang, Wentao Zhang, and Bin Cui

   IEEE TKDE, 2025

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   A comprehensive survey on acceleration algorithms for graph neural networks.

2024

1. AAAI

   Multi-class Support Vector Machine with Maximizing Minimum Margin

   Zhezheng Hao^*, Feiping Nie^*, and Rong Wang

   In AAAI (Oral, Top 10% of the Accepted), 2024

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   We propose a novel multi-class SVM formulation that maximizes the minimum margin across all classes, achieving better generalization performance.

2. WWW

   Towards Expansive and Adaptive Hard Negative Mining: Graph Contrastive Learning via Subspace Preserving

   Zhezheng Hao, Haonan Xin, Long Wei, Liaoyuan Tang, Rong Wang, and Feiping Nie

   In WWW (Oral, Top 40% of the Accepted), 2024

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   We propose a novel graph contrastive learning method via subspace preserving for expansive and adaptive hard negative mining.

3. Inf. Fusion

   Multi-view and Multi-order Graph Clustering via Constrained l1,2-norm

   Haonan Xin, Zhezheng Hao, Zhiwen Sun, Rong Wang, Zhengyu Miao, and Feiping Nie

   Information Fusion, 2024

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   We propose a multi-view and multi-order graph clustering method via constrained L1,2-norm optimization.

2023

1. TKDE

   Ensemble Clustering with Attentional Representation

   Zhezheng Hao, Zhoumin Lu, Guoxu Li, Feiping Nie, Rong Wang, and Xuelong Li

   IEEE TKDE, 2023

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   We propose an ensemble clustering method with attentional representation learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.

2. ICASSP

   Multi-view K-means with Laplacian Embedding

   Zhezheng Hao, Zhoumin Lu, Feiping Nie, Rong Wang, and Xuelong Li

   In ICASSP, 2023

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   We propose a multi-view K-means algorithm incorporating Laplacian embedding for improved clustering.