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Journal Articles


GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Published in arXiv, 2026

A technical report for GLM-5, focused on agentic engineering, long-horizon reasoning, and coding.

Recommended citation: GLM-5 Team, Zeng, A., Lv, X., Hou, Z., Du, Z., Zheng, Q., Chen, B., Yin, D., Ge, C., et al. (2026). "GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering." arXiv:2602.15763.
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Automated Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning

Published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021

AutoProNE automatically searches for optimal graph filters to enhance any graph representations.

Recommended citation: Hou, Z., Cen, Y., Dong, Y., Zhang, J., and Tang, J. (2021). "Automated Unsupervised Graph Representation Learning." IEEE TKDE.
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Self-Supervised Attributed Graph Learning: A Comprehensive Review

Published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021

A review of self-supervised learning methods on attributed graphs.

Recommended citation: Xie, Y., Xu, Z., Ji, J., Wang, Z., Wang, S., Liu, J., Ding, T., Hou, Z., and Tang, J. (2021). "Self-Supervised Attributed Graph Learning: A Comprehensive Review." IEEE TKDE.
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Conference Papers


Does RLHF Scale? Exploring the Impacts From Data, Model, and Method

Published in International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

A systematic study of RLHF scaling properties across data, model size, and inference budget.

Recommended citation: Hou, Z., Du, P., Niu, Y., Du, Z., Zeng, A., Liu, X., Huang, M., Wang, H., Tang, J., and Dong, Y. (2025). "Does RLHF Scale? Exploring the Impacts From Data, Model, and Method." ICLR.
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Harnessing Large Language Models for Hyperedge Prediction

Published in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024

Using LLMs and hypergraph learning for hyperedge prediction tasks.

Recommended citation: Hou, Z., Fang, Y., Liu, Z., Cen, Y., Zheng, V., and Tang, J. (2024). "Harnessing Large Language Models for Hyperedge Prediction." AAAI.
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MTDiag: An Effective Multi-Task Framework for Automatic Diagnosis

Published in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

A multi-task framework reformulating symptom checking as multi-label classification for automatic diagnosis.

Recommended citation: Hou, Z., Cen, Y., Liu, Z., Wu, D., Wang, B., Li, X., Hong, L., and Tang, J. (2023). "MTDiag: An Effective Multi-Task Framework for Automatic Diagnosis." AAAI.
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GraphMAE: Self-Supervised Masked Graph Autoencoders

Published in ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2022

KDD 2022 paper proposing masked autoencoding for self-supervised graph representation learning.

Recommended citation: Hou, Z., Liu, X., Cen, Y., Dong, Y., Yang, H., Wang, C., and Tang, J. (2022). "GraphMAE: Self-Supervised Masked Graph Autoencoders." KDD.
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