Publications

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Preprints

Uncertainty Quantification on Graph Learning: A Survey

Chao Chen, Chenghua Guo, Rui Xu, Xiangwen Liao, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong, Philip Yu

[paper]

Out-of-distribution Detection in Medical Image Analysis: A survey

Zesheng Hong, Yubiao Yue, Yubin Chen, Huanjie Lin, Yuanmei Luo, Mini Han Wang, Weidong Wang, Jialong Xu, Xiaoqi Yang, Zhenzhang Li, Sihong Xie

[paper]


Conferences
ICML 2026
ICML 2026 (Spotlight 2.2%)

Towards the Explainability of Temporal Graph Networks via Memory Backtracking and Topological Attribution

Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie*, Hui Xiong

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICML 2026 (Oral 0.7%)

Information Flow Reveals When to Trust Language Models

Rui Xu, Yi Chen, Jiujiu Chen, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICML 2026 (Poster)

Noise-Robust Cross-Lingual Code Retrieval via Code Cloze Style Augmentation

Rufeng Chen, Yue Chang, Xiaqiang Tang, Hechang Chen, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICML 2026

Efficient Multitask Learning with Expert Routing

Chenghua Guo, Sihong Xie, Xi Zhang, Hui Xiong

[bib] [paper] [codes]

IJCAI 2026
IJCAI 2026

Perturbation-Resilient Autonomous Navigation via Reinforcement Learning

Zhaofan Zhang, Minghao Yang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong

[bib] [paper] [codes]

AAAI 2026
AAAI 2026

REFO: Reinforced Evolutionary Faithfulness Optimization for LLMs

Yi Wang, Xiaqiang Tang, Keyu Hu, Haojie Lu, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ECCV 2026
ECCV 2026

RAG-3DSG: Enhancing 3D Scene Graphs with Re-Shot Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Yue Chang, Rufeng Chen, Zhaofan Zhang, Y. Chen, Yifan Tian, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

IROS 2026
IROS 2026

Adaptive-Critical: Identifying Critical States for Risk-Sensitive Navigation via Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Zhaofan Zhang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong

[bib] [paper]

NeurIPS 2025
NeurIPS 2025

Robust Explanations for Graph Neural Networks via Graph Curvatures

Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie*, Hui Xiong

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ACL 2025
ACL 2025

CogniBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Cognitive Abilities

Xiaqiang Tang, Jian Li*, Keyu Hu, Nan Du, Xiaolong Li, Xi Zhang, Weigao Sun, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICLR 2025
ICLR 2025

Conformal Prediction for Graph Neural Networks

Rui Xu, Chao Chen, Yue Sun, Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICLR 2025

Explainable GNNs via Multi-level Attribution

Yazheng Liu, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

AAAI 2025
AAAI 2025

Bandit-enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Knowledge Graphs

Xiaqiang Tang, Jian Li*, Nan Du, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

COLING 2025
COLING 2025

MBA-RAG: A Multi-Branch Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework

Xiaqiang Tang, Qiang Gao, Jian Li, Nan Du, Qi Li, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

NeurIPS 2024
NeurIPS 2024

Stable Explanation for Graph Neural Networks

Chao Chen, Chenghua Guo, Rufeng Chen, Guixiang Ma, Ming Zeng, Xiangwen Liao, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

NeurIPS 2024

Uncertainty Quantification for Graph Learning

Chenghua Guo, Han Yu, Jiaxin Liu, Chao Chen, Qi Li, Sihong Xie*, Xi Zhang*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

NeurIPS 2024

Robustness Analysis of Graph Neural Networks

Yuefei Lyu, Sihong Xie, Chaozhuo Li, Xi Zhang*

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICDM 2024
ICDM 2024

Periodic Prompt on Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph

Ru-Bin Li, Man-Sheng Chen, Xin-Yu Ding, Chang-Dong Wang, Sihong Xie, Shuangyin Liu, Min Chen, Mohsen Guizani

[bib] [paper] [codes]

AAAI 2024
AAAI 2024

Domain Differential Equations into GCN

Yue Sun, Chao Chen, Yuesheng Xu, Sihong Xie, Rick S. Blum, Parv Venkitasubramaniam

[bib] [paper] [codes]

KDD 2023 Workshops
KDD 2023

Reaction-Diffusion Graph Ordinary Differential Equation Networks: Traffic-Law-Informed Speed Prediction under Mismatched Data

Yue Sun, Chao Chen, Yuesheng Xu, Sihong Xie, Rick S. Blum, Parv Venkitasubramaniam

[bib] [paper]

The 12th International Workshop on Urban Computing

KDD 2023

Are Your Reviewers Being Treated Equally? Discovering Subgroup Structures to Improve Fairness in Spam Detection

Sihong Xie, Jiaxin Liu, Yuefei Lyu, Xi Zhang

[bib] [paper]

2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications

ICLR 2023
ICLR 2023

Differential Geometric View of Graph Neural Networks

Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper] [codes]

UAI 2023
UAI 2023

Budget Allocation for Crowdsourcing

Adithya Kulkarni, Mohna Chakraborty, Sihong Xie, Qi Li

[bib] [paper] [codes]

TKDE 2023
TKDE 2023

Multi-modal Rumor Detection

Mengzhu Sun, Xi Zhang, Jianqiang Ma, Sihong Xie, Yazheng Liu, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper] [codes]

IJCNN 2023
IJCNN 2023

Interpretable RL for Attacking Rumor Detection

Yuefei Lv, Xiaoyu Yang, Jiaxin Liu, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu, Xi Zhang

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2022
BigData 2022

Constrained Multi-objective Optimization

Eric Enouen, Katja Mathesius, Sean Wang, Arielle Carr, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2022

Fairness in Graph Mining

Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

ICDM 2021
ICDM 2021 (Regular paper, 10%)

Multi-objective Explanations of GNN Predictions

Yifei Liu, Chao Chen, Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICDM 2021 (Short paper)

Self-learn to Explain Siamese Networks Robustly

Chao Chen, Yifan Shen, Guixiang Ma, Xiangnan Kong, Srinivas Rangarajan, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

ICDM 2021 (Regular paper, 10%)

Truth Discovery in Sequence Labels from Crowds

Nasim Sabetpour, Adithya Kulkarni, Sihong Xie, Qi Li

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2021
CIKM 2021 (Full paper, 21.7%)

Certification and Trade-off of Multiple Fairness Criteria in Graph-based Spam Detection

Kai Burkholder, Kenny Kwock, Sheldon Xu, Jiaxin Liu, Chao Chen, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

KDD 2021
KDD 2021 (Full paper, 15.5%)

Energy-Efficient Models for High-Dimensional Spike Train Classification using Sparse Spiking Neural Networks

Hang Yin, John Lee, Xiangnan Kong, Thomas Hartvigsen, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2020
CIKM 2020 (Full research paper, 20%)

Shapley Values and Meta-Explanations for Probabilistic Graphical Model Inference

Yifei Liu, Chao Chen, Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2020 (Poster, 37%)

Active Search using Meta-Bandits

Shengli Zhu, Jakob Coles, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

KDD 2020
KDD 2020 (16.9%)

Robust Spammer Detection by Nash Reinforcement Learning

Yingtong Dou, Guixiang Ma, Philip S. Yu, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper] [codes]

ICDM 2019
ICDM 2019 (18.5%)

Scalable Explanation of Inferences on Large Graphs

Chao Chen, Yifei Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie

[bib] [paper]

BMVC 2019
BMVC 2019

Transductive Learning via Improved Geodesic Sampling

Youshan Zhang, Sihong Xie, Brian D. Davison

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2018
BigData 2018

Securing Behavior-based Opinion Spam Detection

Shuaijun Ge, Guixiang Ma, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2018

PER: A Probabilistic Attentional Model for Personalized Text Recommendations

Lei Zheng, Yixue Wang, Lifang He, Sihong Xie, Fengjiao Wang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2018

Semi-supervised Deep Representation Learning for Multi-View Problems

Vahid Noroozi, Sara Bahaadini, Lei Zheng, Sihong Xie, Weixiang Shao, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

CIC 2018
CIC 2018

Next Generation Trustworthy Fraud Detection

Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

AAAI 2018
AAAI 2018

Dual Attention Network for Product Compatibility Analysis

Hu Xu, Lei Shu, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2017
BigData 2017

Product Function Need Recognition via Semi-supervised Attention Network

Hu Xu, Lei Shu, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

ECML 2017
ECML 2017

Rethinking Unsupervised Feature Selection: From Pseudo Labels to Pseudo Must-links

Xiaokai Wei, Sihong Xie, Bokai Cao, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

IJCAI 2017
IJCAI 2017

SEVEN: Deep Semi-supervised Verification Networks

Vahid Noroozi, Lei Zheng, Sara Bahaadini, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2016
BigData 2016

Interpretable and Effective Opinion Spam Detection via Temporal Patterns Mining across Websites

Yuan Yuan, Sihong Xie, Chun-Ta Lu, Philip S. Yu, Jie Tang

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2016

HEER: Heterogeneous Graph Embedding for Emerging Relation Detection from News

Jingyuan Zhang, Chun-Ta Lu, Mianwei Zhou, Sihong Xie, Yi Chang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2016

CER: Complementary Entity Recognition via Knowledge Expansion on Large Unlabeled Product Reviews

Hu Xu, Sihong Xie, Lei Shu, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2016
CIKM 2016

Multi-source Hierarchical Prediction Consolidation

Chenwei Zhang, Sihong Xie, Yaliang Li, Jing Gao, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2016

Active Zero-shot Learning

Sihong Xie, Shaoxiong Wang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

IJCAI 2016
IJCAI 2016

Item Recommendation for Emerging Online Businesses

Chun-Ta Lu, Sihong Xie, Weixiang Shao, Lifang He, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2016
SDM 2016

Effective Crowd Expertise Modeling via Cross Domain Sparsity and Uncertainty Reduction

Sihong Xie, Qingbo Hu, Weixiang Shao, Jingyuan Zhang, Jing Gao, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2016

Identifying Connectivity Patterns for Brain Diseases via Multi-side-view Guided Deep Architectures

Jingyuan Zhang, Bokai Cao, Sihong Xie, Chun-Ta Lu, Philip S. Yu, Ann B. Ragin

[bib] [paper]

WWW 2016
WWW 2016

HeteroSales: Utilizing Heterogeneous Social Networks to Identify the Next Enterprise Customer

Qingbo Hu, Sihong Xie, Jiawei Zhang, Qiang Zhu, Songtao Guo, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

BigData 2015
BigData 2015

Robust Crowd Bias Correction via Dual Knowledge Transfer from Multiple Overlapping Sources

Sihong Xie, Qingbo Hu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jing Gao, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

DSAA 2015
DSAA 2015

A Context-Aware Approach to Detection of Short Irrelevant Texts

Sihong Xie, Jing Wang, Mohammad S. Amin, Baoshi Yan, Anmol Bhasin, Clement Yu, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

DSAA 2015

An Effective and Economic Bi-level Approach to Ranking and Rating Spam Detection

Sihong Xie, Qingbo Hu, Jingyuan Zhang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

CIKM 2015
CIKM 2015

Learning Entity Types from Query Logs via Graph-Based Modeling

Jingyuan Zhang, Luo Jie, Altaf Rahman, Sihong Xie, Yi Chang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2015
SDM 2015

Efficient Partial Order Preserving Unsupervised Feature Selection on Networks

Xiaokai Wei, Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2015

OnlineCM: Real-time Consensus Classification with Missing Values

Bowen Dong, Sihong Xie, Jing Gao, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2015

Frameworks to Encode User Preferences for Inferring Topic-sensitive Information Networks

Qingbo Hu, Sihong Xie, Shuyang Lin, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

KDD 2014
KDD 2014

Class-Distribution Regularized Consensus Maximization for Alleviating Overfitting in Model Combination

Sihong Xie, Jing Gao, Deepak Turaga, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

WSDM 2014
WSDM 2014

Inferring the Impacts of Social Media on Crowdfunding

Chun-Ta Lu, Sihong Xie, Xiangnan Kong, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2013
SDM 2013

Future Influence Ranking of Scientific Literature

Senzhang Wang, Sihong Xie, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhoujun Li, Philip S. Yu, Xinyu Shu

[bib] [paper]

ICDM 2013
ICDM 2013

Multilabel Consensus Classification

Sihong Xie, Xiangnan Kong, Jing Gao, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

KDD 2012
KDD 2012

Review Spam Detection via Temporal Pattern Discovery

Sihong Xie, Guan Wang, Shuyang Lin, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

SDM 2012
SDM 2012

An Iterative and Re-weighting Framework for Rejection and Uncertainty Resolution in Crowdsourcing

Sihong Xie, Wei Fan, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

ICDM 2011
ICDM 2011

Review Graph Based Online Store Review Spammer Detection

Guan Wang, Sihong Xie, Bing Liu, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

ECML/PKDD 2010
ECML/PKDD 2010

Efficient and Numerically Stable Sparse Learning

Sihong Xie, Wei Fan, Olivier Verscheure, Jiangtao Ren

[bib] [paper]

WWW 2009
WWW 2009

Latent Space Domain Transfer between High Dimensional Overlapping Distributions

Sihong Xie, Wei Fan, Jing Peng, Olivier Verscheure, Jiangtao Ren

[bib] [paper]

ICDM 2008
ICDM 2008

Graph-based Iterative Hybrid Feature Selection

Erheng Zhong, Sihong Xie, Wei Fan, Jiangtao Ren, Jing Peng, Kun Zhang

[bib] [paper]


Journals
TKDE 2018

IAD: Interaction-Aware Diffusion Framework in Social Networks

Xi Zhang, Yuan Su, Siyu Qu, Sihong Xie, Binxing Fang, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

JDSA 2016

Active Zero-Shot Learning: A novel approach to extreme multi-labeled classification

Sihong Xie, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]

TIST 2016

Coranking the Future Influence of Multiobjects in Bibliographic Network Through Mutual Reinforcement

Senzhang Wang, Sihong Xie, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhoujun Li, Philip S. Yu, Yueying He

[bib] [paper]

TIST 2012

Identify Online Store Review Spammers via Social Review Graph

Guan Wang, Sihong Xie, Bing Liu, Philip S. Yu

[bib] [paper]