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Dongmian Zou

Assistant Professor of Data Science at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Preprints


StageGuard: Physiologically Constrained Sleep Staging

Preprint · July 25, 2026 Automated sleep staging is increasingly used in large-scale studies to derive sleep-architecture endpoints: total sleep time, REM latency, sleep efficiency, and bout-duration statistics. Deep learning models achieve epoch-level accuracy approaching inter-r ... Link to item Cite

COPF: An Online Framework for Deployment-Stable Counterfactual Fairness in Evolving Graphs

Preprint · May 30, 2026 Online link recommendation on evolving graphs is performative: by choosing which candidate links to show users, the system changes which links form and what feedback it later observes. Consequently, fairness estimates from logged outcomes can be misleading ... Link to item Cite

Understanding Latent Diffusability via Fisher Geometry

Preprint · April 3, 2026 Diffusion models often degrade in latent spaces, yet the formal causes remain poorly understood. We quantify latent-space diffusability via the rate of change of the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) along the diffusion trajectory. Our framework decomposes ... Link to item Cite

Enhancing Node-Level Graph Domain Adaptation by Alleviating Local Dependency

Preprint · December 15, 2025 Recent years have witnessed significant advancements in machine learning methods on graphs. However, transferring knowledge effectively from one graph to another remains a critical challenge. This highlights the need for algorithms capable of applying info ... Link to item Cite

Brain-Inspired Perspective on Configurations: Unsupervised Similarity and Early Cognition

Preprint · October 22, 2025 Infants discover categories, detect novelty, and adapt to new contexts without supervision-a challenge for current machine learning. We present a brain-inspired perspective on configurations, a finite-resolution clustering framework that uses a single reso ... Link to item Cite

Mixing Configurations for Downstream Prediction

Preprint · October 22, 2025 Clustering-based features are widely used in machine learning, but most methods must choose a resolution -- a choice that is global, fixed, and ad hoc. Recent work shows that varying the resolution parameter produces only a finite set of structurally stabl ... Link to item Cite

Enhancing Fairness in Autoencoders for Node-Level Graph Anomaly Detection

Preprint · August 14, 2025 Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness considerations in ... Link to item Cite

Stein Discrepancy for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Preprint · February 5, 2025 Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to improve model performance on an unlabeled target domain using a related, labeled source domain. A common approach aligns source and target feature distributions by minimizing a distance between them, often using ... Link to item Cite

Geometry-Preserving Encoder/Decoder in Latent Generative Models

Preprint · January 16, 2025 Generative modeling aims to generate new data samples that resemble a given dataset. When using diffusion models for this task, one of the main challenges is solving the problem in the input space, which tends to be very high-dimensional. To address this, ... Link to item Cite

Klein Model for Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Preprint · October 22, 2024 Hyperbolic neural networks (HNNs) have been proved effective in modeling complex data structures. However, previous works mainly focused on the PoincarĂ© ball model and the hyperboloid model as coordinate representations of the hyperbolic space, often negle ... Link to item Cite

Improving Hyperbolic Representations via Gromov-Wasserstein Regularization

Preprint · July 15, 2024 Hyperbolic representations have shown remarkable efficacy in modeling inherent hierarchies and complexities within data structures. Hyperbolic neural networks have been commonly applied for learning such representations from data, but they often fall short ... Link to item Cite

Three Revisits to Node-Level Graph Anomaly Detection: Outliers, Message Passing and Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Preprint · March 6, 2024 Graph anomaly detection plays a vital role for identifying abnormal instances in complex networks. Despite advancements of methodology based on deep learning in recent years, existing benchmarking approaches exhibit limitations that hinder a comprehensive ... Link to item Cite

Monotone Generative Modeling via a Gromov-Monge Embedding

Preprint · November 2, 2023 Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are popular for generative tasks; however, they often require careful architecture selection, extensive empirical tuning, and are prone to mode collapse. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel model that ide ... Link to item Cite

Hyperbolic Convolution via Kernel Point Aggregation

Preprint · June 15, 2023 Learning representations according to the underlying geometry is of vital importance for non-Euclidean data. Studies have revealed that the hyperbolic space can effectively embed hierarchical or tree-like data. In particular, the few past years have witnes ... Link to item Cite

Graph Neural Network Based Node Deployment for Throughput Enhancement

Preprint · August 19, 2022 The recent rapid growth in mobile data traffic entails a pressing demand for improving the throughput of the underlying wireless communication networks. Network node deployment has been considered as an effective approach for throughput enhancement which, ... Link to item Cite

Robust Vector Quantized-Variational Autoencoder

Preprint · February 4, 2022 Image generative models can learn the distributions of the training data and consequently generate examples by sampling from these distributions. However, when the training dataset is corrupted with outliers, generative models will likely produce examples ... Link to item Cite

Autoencoding Hyperbolic Representation for Adversarial Generation

Preprint · January 30, 2022 With the recent advance of geometric deep learning, neural networks have been extensively used for data in non-Euclidean domains. In particular, hyperbolic neural networks have proved successful in processing hierarchical information of data. However, many ... Link to item Cite

Novelty Detection via Robust Variational Autoencoding

Preprint · June 9, 2020 We propose a new method for novelty detection that can tolerate high corruption of the training points, whereas previous works assumed either no or very low corruption. Our method trains a robust variational autoencoder (VAE), which aims to generate a mode ... Link to item Cite