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2026

The Geometric Mechanics of Contrastive Representation Learning: Alignment Potentials, Entropic Dispersion, and Cross-Modal Divergence
ICML 2026
The Geometric Mechanics of Contrastive Representation Learning: Alignment Potentials, Entropic Dispersion, and Cross-Modal Divergence

Yichao Cai; Zhen Zhang; Yuhang Liu; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICML 2026 · [Paper] [Project] [Code]

ICML 2026
Boundary Embedding Shaping with Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Graph Structural Disentanglement
ICML 2026
Boundary Embedding Shaping with Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Graph Structural Disentanglement

Jiaqing Chen; Zidu Yin; Yichao Cai; Yuhang Liu; Zhen Zhang; Dong Gong; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICML 2026 ·

Boundary Embedding Shaping with Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Graph Structural Disentanglement

Jiaqing Chen; Zidu Yin; Yichao Cai; Yuhang Liu; Zhen Zhang; Dong Gong; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICML 2026 ·

ICML 2026
What Makes a Good Representation for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction?
ICML 2026
What Makes a Good Representation for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction?

Wenkang Jiang; Yuhang Liu; Yichao Cai; Erdun Gao; Jiayi Dong; Ehsan Abbasnejad; Lina Yao; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICML 2026 ·

What Makes a Good Representation for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction?

Wenkang Jiang; Yuhang Liu; Yichao Cai; Erdun Gao; Jiayi Dong; Ehsan Abbasnejad; Lina Yao; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICML 2026 ·

ICML 2026

2025

I Predict Therefore I Am: Is Next Token Prediction Enough to Learn Human-Interpretable Concepts from Data?
ICLR 2026
I Predict Therefore I Am: Is Next Token Prediction Enough to Learn Human-Interpretable Concepts from Data?

Yuhang Liu; Dong Gong; Yichao Cai; Erdun Gao; Zhen Zhang; Biwei Huang; Mingming Gong; Anton van den Hengel; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ICLR 2026 · [Paper] [Project] [Code]

ICLR 2026
On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning
NeurIPS 2025
On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning

Yichao Cai*; Yuhang Liu*; Erdun Gao; Tianjiao Jiang; Zhen Zhang; Anton van den Hengel; Javen Qinfeng Shi. (* equal contribution)

NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight · [Paper] [Project] [Code]

NeurIPS 2025

2024

CLAP: Isolating Content from Style through Contrastive Learning with Augmented Prompts
ECCV 2024
CLAP: Isolating Content from Style through Contrastive Learning with Augmented Prompts

Yichao Cai; Yuhang Liu; Zhen Zhang; Javen Qinfeng Shi.

ECCV 2024 · [Paper] [Project] [Code]

ECCV 2024