Publications

(* Corresponding author; † Equal contribution)

• 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 2024.
  

• 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 2024.
  (Acceptance Rate: 5.01%, Spotlight)

• 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 2024.
  (Acceptance Rate: 1.16%, Oral)

• 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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), accepted, 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.
  

• 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), accepted, 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.
  

• 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), accepted, 2022.
  

• 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), DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2022.3168696.
  

• 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%)