Kezhi Kong

I am a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, ADLR team.

I earned my PhD degree from the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, where I was advised by Prof. Tom Goldstein. I obtained my bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Wei Chen. I can be reached by my-last-name@terpmail.umd.edu.

My name in Chinese: 孔柯智

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Research

I do research in Machine Learning. My recent works focus on Large Language Models, Graph Representation Learning, and Trustworthy ML. Below are my selected publications.

PontTuset OpenTab: Advancing Large Language Models as Open-domain Table Reasoners
Kezhi Kong, Jiani Zhang, Zhengyuan Shen, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Chuan Lei, Christos Faloutsos, Huzefa Rangwala, George Karypis.
ICLR, 2024

PontTuset On the Reliability of Watermarks for Large Language Models
John Kirchenbauer*, Jonas Geiping*, Yuxin Wen, Manli Shu, Khalid Saifullah, Kezhi Kong, Kasun Fernando, Aniruddha Saha, Micah Goldblum, Tom Goldstein.
ICLR, 2024

PontTuset GOAT: A Global Transformer on Large-scale Graphs
Kezhi Kong, Jiuhai Chen, John Kirchenbauer, Renkun Ni, C. Bayan Bruss, Tom Goldstein.
ICML, 2023

PontTuset Robust Optimization as Data Augmentation for Large-scale Graphs
Kezhi Kong, Guohao Li, Mucong Ding, Zuxuan Wu, Chen Zhu, Bernard Ghanem, Gavin Taylor, Tom Goldstein.
CVPR, 2022

PontTuset VQ-GNN: A Universal Framework to Scale up Graph Neural Networks using Vector Quantization
Kezhi Kong*, Mucong Ding*, Jingling Li, Chen Zhu, John P Dickerson, Furong Huang, Tom Goldstein.
NeurIPS, 2021

PontTuset A Closer Look at Distribution Shifts and Out-of-Distribution Generalization on Graphs
Mucong Ding*, Kezhi Kong*, Jiuhai Chen*, John Kirchenbauer, Micah Goldblum, David Wipf, Furong Huang, Tom Goldstein.
DistShift Workshop @ NeurIPS (Spotlight), 2021

PontTuset GradInit: Learning to Initialize Neural Networks for Stable and Efficient Training
Chen Zhu, Renkun Ni, Zheng Xu, Kezhi Kong, W Ronny Huang, Tom Goldstein.
NeurIPS, 2021

PontTuset Data Augmentation for Meta-Learning
Renkun Ni, Micah Goldblum, Amr Sharaf, Kezhi Kong, Tom Goldstein.
ICML, 2021

PontTuset SHOT-VAE: Semi-supervised Deep Generative Models With Label-aware ELBO Approximations
Hao-Zhe Feng, Kezhi Kong, Minghao Chen, Tianye Zhang, Minfeng Zhu, Wei Chen.
AAAI, 2021


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