Shuo Feng
Author directory2026
GIFT: Goal-Injected Fine-Tuning for Efficient Manipulation Policy Adaptation
Xiaoyuan Fang | Shuo Feng | Yuxuan Wang | Enhua Cheng | Peng Zhou | Piji Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiaoyuan Fang | Shuo Feng | Yuxuan Wang | Enhua Cheng | Peng Zhou | Piji Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Compared with relying solely on initial observations and language instructions, predicting goal images with generative models as high-level visual guidance can significantly enhance the robustness of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, most existing foundation models have not systematically incorporated goal image conditioning due to the high computational training cost. To this end, we propose Goal-Injected Fine-Tuning (GIFT), a lightweight and efficient fine-tuning framework that seamlessly integrates generated goal images into multiple representative pretrained VLA models. Our approach introduces goal image features into observations via a zero-initialized convolution which progressively grows parameters from zero and prevents harmful noise from disrupting the pretrained policy during fine-tuning. As training proceeds, goal information is gradually incorporated, enabling efficient goal understanding without disrupting model stability. We further introduce a refined image editing method to generate semantically and visually consistent goal images from initial observations and task instructions. Experiments show that goal-aware VLA models achieve substantial performance gains across tasks: with only a single epoch of fine-tuning, GIFT outperforms the base model by 6.0% and 13.4% on two SIMPLER settings, and by 4.7% on LIBERO, demonstrating both efficiency and effectiveness.
2024
CACL: Community-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Social Media Bot Detection
Sirry Chen | Shuo Feng | Liang Songsong | Chen-Chen Zong | Jing Li | Piji Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Sirry Chen | Shuo Feng | Liang Songsong | Chen-Chen Zong | Jing Li | Piji Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Social media bot detection is increasingly crucial with the rise of social media platforms. Existing methods predominantly construct social networks as graph and utilize graph neural networks (GNNs) for bot detection. However, most of these methods focus on how to improve the performance of GNNs while neglecting the community structure within social networks. Moreover, GNNs based methods still face problems such as poor model generalization due to the relatively small scale of the dataset and over-smoothness caused by information propagation mechanism. To address these problems, we propose the Community-Aware Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning framework (i.e., CACL), which constructs social network as heterogeneous graph with multiple node types and edge types, and then utilizes community-aware module to mine both hard positive samples and hard negative samples for supervised graph contrastive learning with adaptive graph enhancement algorithms. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework addresses the previously mentioned challenges and outperforms competitive baselines on three social media bot benchmarks.