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Franck Dernoncourt

Publications 7

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EDiS: Edge Disjoint Subgraph Sparsification Framework for Graph Neural Networks

Sparse GNN training reduces computation, but deciding which edges to keep can be costly. Reusing one sparse graph is cheap, but locks training to a fixed topology, while varying it across epochs can require repeated sampling or recomputation. We introduce EDiS (Edge-Disjoint Subgraph sparsification framework), which se …

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Personalized Image Generation with Reasoning and Reflection

Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge et al. · 2026

Personalized image generation has remained narrowly focused on conditional synthesis from curated visual exemplars, rather than capturing who a user is. In practice, however, a user's personal context is much richer, comprising reviews, posts, images, captions, and metadata accumulated over time. A truly personalized g …

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Controlled Decoding Attacks on Black-Box LLMs

Jesson Wang, Shawn Li, Wei Yang et al. · 2026

Manipulating next-token probabilities during generation can bypass the safety alignment of large language models. Existing approaches, however, rely on access to model weights or numerical token probabilities and therefore do not apply to interfaces that return only sampled text. Reconstructing probabilities from sampl …

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Joint and Cross-Modal Video-Audio Generation and Editing: A Unified Formulation and Design Taxonomy

Video and audio are perceived together, yet most generative models treat them in isolation. We examine methods that model the two modalities jointly, generate one from the other, or edit them in a coupled manner, organized around a single question: how is the output kept coherent across modalities in time and semantics …

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