Research · Yifan Feng — Tsinghua University

Honors & Awards

2022 —

2026

2026.06 Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program (BX Program) （BX Program）

2026.01 CSIG Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Program （Nomination）

2025

2025.09 World's Top 2% Scientists

2025.07 Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar

2025.06 Tsinghua University Academic Rising Star （10 recipients university-wide）

2025.06 Beijing Outstanding Graduate

2024

2024.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University （First class）

2024.09 World's Top 2% Scientists

2024.07 ICME 2024 Best Student Paper Award

2024.05 NSFC Young Student Basic Research Program (PhD Candidate), First Cohort

2024.04 Silver Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions （Student first）

2023

2023.12 Person of the Year 2023 (Research Innovation), School of Software, Tsinghua University （Research Innovation）

2023.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University （First class）

2022

2022.12 First-class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University （First class）

Research Grants

2024 —

2027 — 2029 General Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Hypergraph-Driven Cognitive Enhancement of Large Language Models in Low-Resource Scenarios ¥500K PI

2026 — 2027 Postdoctoral Innovation Talent Support Program Hypergraph-Driven Hallucination Suppression for Large Language Models in Under-Determined Environments ¥640K PI

2025 — 2029 Sub-project, National Science and Technology Major Project Decoding Tumor Immunotherapy Resistance Mechanisms and AI-Driven Intervention Strategies ¥1M PI

2024 — 2026 Young Student Basic Research Program (Doctoral Student), NSFC High-Order Correlation Based 3D Protein Structure Modeling and Analysis ¥300K PI

Publications

2018 —

2026

11 papers

IEEE TPAMI

Hypergraph Neural Networks: Theoretical Foundations and Applications Survey IF 22.2

Yue Gao, Yifan Feng*, Xiangmin Han, Juan Wang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying*

arXiv

Hyper-Fold: Exploring the Expressive Limit of Sequence-Geometry Learning for Proteins via Hypergraph Modeling

Yifan Feng, Guanjie Cheng, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Yue Gao

Nature Communications

Hyper-RAG: Combating LLM Hallucinations using Hypergraph-Driven Retrieval-Augmented Generation Nature Portfolio Journal IF 18.9

Yifan Feng#, Hao Hu#, Shihui Ying#, Xingliang Hou, Shiquan Liu, Mingyuan Yang, Junchang Li, Shaoyi Du, Nanning Zheng, Han Hu, Yue Gao

KDD

Hyper-KGGen: A Skill-Driven Knowledge Extractor for High-Quality Knowledge Hypergraph Generation Oral Presentation

Rizhuo Huang#, Yifan Feng#, Rundong Xue, Shihui Ying, Jun-Hai Yong, Chuan Shi, Shaoyi Du, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Hypergraph Foundation Model IF 22.2

Yue Gao, Yifan Feng, Shiquan Liu, Xiangming Han, Shaoyi Du, Zongze Wu, Han Hu

IEEE TPAMI

How Powerful are Hypergraph Neural Networks? IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Rizhuo Huang, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Knowledge-Embedded Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

HGNN Shield: Defending Hypergraph Neural Networks Against High-Order Structure Attack IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

HGNNv2: Stable Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2

Yue Gao, Jielong Yan, Yifan Feng, Xiangmin Han, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Han Hu

IEEE TPAMI

Reinterpreting Hypergraph Kernels: Insights Through Homomorphism Analysis IF 22.2

Yifan Zhang, Shaoyi Du, Yifan Feng, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao

AAAI

Cog-RAG: Cognitive-Inspired Dual-Hypergraph with Theme Alignment Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Hao Hu, Yifan Feng, Ruoxue Li, Rundong Xue, Xingliang Hou, Zhiqiang Tian, Yue Gao, Shaoyi Du

2025

10 papers

IEEE TPAMI

Hyper-YOLO: When Visual Object Detection Meets Hypergraph Computation 500+ Citations IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Jiangang Huang, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Xu Zhuang, Jason Wang, Jun-Hai Yong, Guiguang Ding, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Kernelized Hypergraph Neural Networks IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Yifan Zhang, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Self-Supervised Hypergraph Training Framework via Structure-Aware Learning IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Shiquan Liu, Shihui Ying, Shaoyi Du, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao

ICLR

Beyond Graphs: Can Large Language Models Comprehend Hypergraphs?

Yifan Feng, Chengwu Yang, Xingliang Hou, Shaoyi Du, Shihui Ying, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Cross-Modal 3D Shape Retrieval via Heterogeneous Dynamic Graph Representation IF 22.2

Yue Dai, Yifan Feng, Nan Ma, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao

IEEE TNNLS

Mode Hypergraph Neural Network

Shuyi Ji, Yifan Feng, Donglin Di, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao

IEEE TMM

Hypergraph-Based Remaining Prototype Alignment for Open-Set Cross-Domain Image Retrieval

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Xiaopin Zhong, Yue Gao, Zongze Wu

IEEE TMM

Residual Fuzzy Alignment on Hypergraph for Open-Set 3D Cross-Modal Retrieval

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Xu Zhuang, Jason Wang, Zongze Wu, Yue Gao

ICCV

Hyper-Depth: Hypergraph-based Multi-Scale Representation Fusion for Monocular Depth Estimation

Lin Bie, Siqi Li, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao

IEEE TNNLS

Hypergraph Foundation Model for Brain Disease Diagnosis

Xiangmin Han, Rundong Xue, Jingxi Feng, Yifan Feng, Shaoyi Du, Jun Shi, Yue Gao

2024

11 papers

IEEE TPAMI

Hypergraph Isomorphism Computation IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Jiashu Han, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao

IEEE TPAMI

Hypergraph-Based Multi-Modal Representation for Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval IF 22.2

Yifan Feng, Shuyi Ji, Yu-Shen Liu, Shaoyi Du, Qionghai Dai, Yue Gao

ICLR

LightHGNN: Distilling Hypergraph Neural Networks into MLPs for 100x Faster Inference

Yifan Feng, Yihe Luo, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao

ICME

Structure-aware Residual-Center Representation for Self-Supervised Open-set 3D Cross-Modal Retrieval Oral · Best Student Paper Award

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Yu Jiang

ICLR

Hypergraph Dynamic System

Jielong Yan, Yifan Feng, Shihui Ying, Yue Gao

ICMR

Triadic Elastic Structure Representation for Open-Set Incremental 3D Object Retrieval

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Lin Bie

NeurIPS

Multi-scale Consistency for Robust 3D Registration via Hierarchical Sinkhorn Tree

Chengwei Ren, Yifan Feng, Weixiang Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Yue Gao

NeurIPS

Semi-Open 3D Object Retrieval via Hierarchical Equilibrium on Hypergraph

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Jun Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao

NeurIPS

Assembly Fuzzy Representation on Hypergraph for Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Jun Zhang, Jun-Hai Yong, Yue Gao

IJCAI

Negative Prompt Driven Complementary Parallel Representation for Open-World 3D Object Retrieval Oral

Yang Xu, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao

IEEE TIP

Multi-View Time-Series Hypergraph Neural Network for Action Recognition

Nan Ma, Zhixuan Wu, Yifan Feng, Cheng Wang, Yue Gao

2023

1 papers

IEEE TNNLS

Hierarchical Set-to-set Representation for 3D Cross-modal Retrieval

Yu Jiang, Cong Hua, Yifan Feng, Yue Gao

2022

3 papers

IEEE TPAMI

HGNN+: Towards General Hypergraph Neural Networks 800+ Citations IF 22.2

Yue Gao, Yifan Feng, Shuyi Ji, Rongrong Ji

Computers & Graphics

SHREC'22 Track: Open-Set 3D Object Retrieval

Yifan Feng, Yue Gao, Xibin Zhao, et al.

IEEE TPAMI

Generating Hypergraph-Based High-Order Representations of Whole-Slide Histopathological Images for Survival Prediction IF 22.2

Donglin Di, Changqing Zou, Yifan Feng, Hanyan Zhou, Rongrong Ji, Qionghai Dai, Yue Gao

2020

1 papers

KDD

Dual Channel Hypergraph Collaborative Filtering 200+ Citations

Shuyi Ji, Yifan Feng, Rongrong Ji, Xibin Zhao, Wanwan Tang, Yue Gao

2019

6 papers

AAAI

Hypergraph Neural Networks Oral · 3000+ Citations

Yifan Feng, Haoxuan You, Zizhao Zhang, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao

AAAI

MeshNet: Mesh Neural Network for 3D Shape Representation Oral · 300+ Citations

Yutong Feng, Yifan Feng, Haoxuan You, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao

AAAI

PVRNet: Point-View Relation Neural Network for 3D Shape Recognition Oral

Haoxuan You, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao, Changqing Zou, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao

IJCAI

Dynamic Hypergraph Neural Networks 300+ Citations

Jianwen Jiang, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Jingxuan Cao, Yue Gao

ACM TOMM

Physiological Signals-based Emotion Recognition via High-order Correlation Learning

Junjie Zhu, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao, Yue Gao

ICIP

Emotion Recognition by Edge-Weighted Hypergraph Neural Network

Jingzhi Shao, Junjie Zhu, Yuxuan Wei, Yifan Feng, Xibin Zhao

2018

2 papers

CVPR

GVCNN: Group-view Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition 800+ Citations

Yifan Feng, Zizhao Zhang, Xibin Zhao, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao

ACM MM

PVNet: A Joint Convolutional Network of Point Cloud and Multi-View for 3D Shape Recognition Oral · 200+ Citations

Haoxuan You, Yifan Feng, Rongrong Ji, Yue Gao