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Hongting Zhou
dblp:253/0325
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8ranked-venue papers
1as first author
7since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-3379-659XORCID · corroborated
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 4 · 1 first-author · 4 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 3 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Comprehensive investigation of lubrication for sustainable grinding by principal component analysis (PCA) and an improved unsupervised algorithmabstractIn the background of Industry 4.0, sustainable advanced manufacturing has become a pivotal challenge, necessitating the development of technologies that minimize resource consumption and environmental impact while maintaining high-quality production. Grinding technology plays a crucial role in this domain, providing solutions for processing hard and brittle materials with microscale accuracy, particularly when the grinding process is classified as precision machining. This study addresses the gaps in sustainable grinding by presenting a comprehensive review of lubrication strategies using an improved latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model integrated with Principal component analysis (PCA). The proposed model systematically identifies keyword distributions and topic clusters related to lubricant selection, providing insights into the evolving trends and practices in sustainable grinding. The findings enhance understanding of the main themes and future perspectives of sustainable grinding, bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical implementation in sustainable manufacturing. Hengzhou Edward Yan, Hongting Zhou, Wai Sze Yip, Suet To |
Adv. Eng. Informatics | 3 |
| 2025 | NeurIPT: Foundation Model for Neural InterfacesabstractElectroencephalography (EEG) has wide-ranging applications, from clinical diagnosis to brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). With the increasing volume and variety of EEG data, there has been growing interest in establishing foundation models (FMs) to scale up and generalize neural decoding. Despite showing early potential, applying FMs to EEG remains challenging due to substantial inter-subject, inter-task, and inter-condition variability, as well as diverse electrode configurations across recording setups. To tackle these open challenges, we propose **NeurIPT**, a foundation model tailored for diverse EEG-based **Neur**al **I**nterfaces with a **P**re-trained **T**ransformer by capturing both homogeneous and heterogeneous spatio-temporal characteristics inherent in EEG signals. Temporally, we introduce Amplitude-Aware Masked Pretraining (AAMP), masking based on signal amplitude rather than random intervals, to learn robust representations across varying signal intensities beyond local interpolation. Moreover, this temporal representation is enhanced by a progressive Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, where specialized expert subnetworks are progressively introduced at deeper layers, adapting effectively to the diverse temporal characteristics of EEG signals. Spatially, NeurIPT leverages the 3D physical coordinates of electrodes, enabling effective transfer across varying EEG settings, and develops Intra-Inter Lobe Pooling (IILP) during fine-tuning to efficiently exploit regional brain features. Empirical evaluations across nine downstream BCI datasets, via fine-tuning and training from scratch, demonstrated NeurIPT consistently achieved state-of-the-art performance, highlighting its broad applicability and robust generalization. Our work pushes forward the state of FMs in EEG and offers insights into scalable and generalizable neural information processing systems. Zitao Fang, Hongting Zhou, Shuyang Yu, Guodong Du 0002, Ashwaq Qasem, Jing Li 0034, Junsong Zhang, Sim Kuan Goh |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2024 | MDGNN: Multi-Relational Dynamic Graph Neural Network for Comprehensive and Dynamic Stock Investment PredictionabstractThe stock market is a crucial component of the financial system, but predicting the movement of stock prices is challenging due to the dynamic and intricate relations arising from various aspects such as economic indicators, financial reports, global news, and investor sentiment. Traditional sequential methods and graph-based models have been applied in stock movement prediction, but they have limitations in capturing the multifaceted and temporal influences in stock price movements. To address these challenges, the Multi-relational Dynamic Graph Neural Network (MDGNN) framework is proposed, which utilizes a discrete dynamic graph to comprehensively capture multifaceted relations among stocks and their evolution over time. The representation generated from the graph offers a complete perspective on the interrelationships among stocks and associated entities. Additionally, the power of the Transformer structure is leveraged to encode the temporal evolution of multiplex relations, providing a dynamic and effective approach to predicting stock investment. Further, our proposed MDGNN framework achieves the best performance in public datasets compared with the state-of-the-art stock investment methods. Hao Qian 0003, Hongting Zhou, Qian Zhao 0021, Hao Chen 0102, Hongxiang Yao, Zhiqiang Zhang 0012, Jun Zhou 0011 |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2024 | LogicMP: A Neuro-symbolic Approach for Encoding First-order Logic ConstraintsabstractIntegrating first-order logic constraints (FOLCs) with neural networks is a crucial but challenging problem since it involves modeling intricate correlations to satisfy the constraints. This paper proposes a novel neural layer, LogicMP, which performs mean-field variational inference over a Markov Logic Network (MLN). It can be plugged into any off-the-shelf neural network to encode FOLCs while retaining modularity and efficiency. By exploiting the structure and symmetries in MLNs, we theoretically demonstrate that our well-designed, efficient mean-field iterations greatly mitigate the difficulty of MLN inference, reducing the inference from sequential calculation to a series of parallel tensor operations. Empirical results in three kinds of tasks over images, graphs, and text show that LogicMP outperforms advanced competitors in both performance and efficiency. Weidi Xu, Lele Xie, Jianshan He, Hongting Zhou, Taifeng Wang, Xiaopei Wan, Jingdong Chen, Chao Qu |
ICLR | 5 |
| 2024 | Technological life-cycle analysis of ultra-precision machining technology: Forecasting perspective directions and tracking the critical transitions with evolution
Hengzhou Edward Yan, Hongting Zhou, Suet To, Wai Sze Yip |
Adv. Eng. Informatics | 3 |
| 2022 | Meta-Knowledge Transfer for Inductive Knowledge Graph EmbeddingabstractKnowledge graphs (KGs) consisting of a large number of triples have become widespread recently, and many knowledge graph embedding (KGE) methods are proposed to embed entities and relations of a KG into continuous vector spaces. Such embedding methods simplify the operations of conducting various in-KG tasks (e.g., link prediction) and out-of-KG tasks (e.g., question answering). They can be viewed as general solutions for representing KGs. However, existing KGE methods are not applicable to inductive settings, where a model trained on source KGs will be tested on target KGs with entities unseen during model training. Existing works focusing on KGs in inductive settings can only solve the inductive relation prediction task. They can not handle other out-of-KG tasks as general as KGE methods since they don't produce embeddings for entities. In this paper, to achieve inductive knowledge graph embedding, we propose a model MorsE, which does not learn embeddings for entities but learns transferable meta-knowledge that can be used to produce entity embeddings. Such meta-knowledge is modeled by entity-independent modules and learned by meta-learning. Experimental results show that our model significantly outperforms corresponding baselines for in-KG and out-of-KG tasks in inductive settings. Mingyang Chen 0002, Wen Zhang 0015, Yushan Zhu, Hongting Zhou, Zonggang Yuan, Changliang Xu, Huajun Chen |
SIGIR | 4 |
| 2022 | Topic discovery innovations for sustainable ultra-precision machining by social network analysis and machine learning approach
Hongting Zhou, Wai Sze Yip, Jingzheng Ren, Suet To |
Adv. Eng. Informatics | 1 |
| 2019 | Perception-guided multi-channel visual feature fusion for image retargeting
Hongting Zhou |
Signal Process. Image Commun. | 3 |