Publications
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Accepted Papers (To Appear)
The "Curse of Knowledge" in LLM Query Simulation: Concept Provenance for Tracing Answer-Side Intrusion
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)
Beyond Static Profiles: Intent-Aware Behavioural Control for LLM-based Recommendation Simulation
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)
Evidence-Aware Prompting for Causal Fact Verification with Large Language Models
The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2026)
Graph Data-Centric Evaluator for Test-Time GNN Performance Estimation
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2026)
DTG-RAG: Dual-Track Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-Shot Recommendation
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2026)
Decouple to Forget: Semantic Mediation for Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026)
Twin Worlds: Equivariance-Based Abstention for Evidence-Grounded Reasoning
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026)
UFO: A Unified Flow-Oriented Framework for Robust Continual Graph Learning
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)
Why Are LLMs Confidently Wrong? Correcting Overconfident Errors via Causal Head Intervention
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)
The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)
Conference
Main-track full papers only.
Ranking criteria
Main-track full papers only.
CCF catalogue (7th edition)
FedCARE: Federated Unlearning with Conflict-Aware Projection and Relearning-Resistant Recovery [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI/ECAI 2026, Bremen, Germany, 15-21 August 2026, pp. 5576–5584, 2026
Causal Abstraction Learning for Multi-Modal Grounded Planning [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2, KDD 2026, Jeju Island, Korea, August 9-13, 2026, pp. 2790–2801, 2026
HiBrain: Hierarchical Prototype Learning on Multimodal Brain Graphs for Stage-Aware Biomarker Discovery [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2, KDD 2026, Jeju Island, Korea, August 9-13, 2026, pp. 11902–11911, 2026
ExODRec: An Explainable Framework for Outlier Detection Model Recommendation [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026, pp. 3705–3709, 2026
Mitigating Bias in Large Language Model Based Question Answering through Causal Front Door Prompting [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026, pp. 2208–2218, 2026
Task-Aware Automated User Profile Generation for Recommendation Simulation Using Large Language Models [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026, pp. 1937–1947, 2026
Dual-Diffusion Service Recommendation with External Knowledge Graphs [DOI] [Paper]
IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2026, Sydney, Australia, July 13-18, 2026, pp. 258–268, 2026
Energy-Efficient Training-Free Zero-Inflation Correction for Rainfall Forecasting with Time-Series Foundation Models [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 8840–8850, 2026
FairGE: Fairness-Aware Graph Encoding in Incomplete Social Networks [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 4541–4552, 2026
FairGU: Fairness-aware Graph Unlearning in Social Networks [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 9442–9451, 2026
Harnessing LLM for Noise-Robust Cognitive Diagnosis in Web-Based Intelligent Education Systems [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 4093–4104, 2026
MCLMR: A Model-Agnostic Causal Learning Framework for Multi-Behavior Recommendation [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 6481–6492, 2026
Spiking Graph Predictive Coding for Reliable OOD Generalization [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 9056–9067, 2026
STELA: Spatiotemporal Forecasting via Graph Learning and Entropy-Guided LLM Adaptation [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 1433–1444, 2026
When to Invoke: Refining LLM Fairness with Toxicity Assessment [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 9275–9285, 2026
When to Trust: A Causality-Aware Calibration Framework for Accurate Knowledge Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026, pp. 3859–3869, 2026
Prototype-Enhanced Multi-View Learning for Thyroid Nodule Ultrasound Classification [DOI] [Paper]
International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2026, Wuzhou, China, June 1-6, 2026, pp. 238–243, 2026
Debiasing Large Language Models via Adaptive Causal Prompting with Sketch-of-Thought [DOI] [Paper]
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026, pp. 4481–4499, 2026
Securing LLM-as-a-Service for Small Businesses: An Industry Case Study of a Distributed Chatbot Deployment Platform [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 2026 Australasian Information Security Conference, AISC 2026, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, February 11-12, 2026, pp. 86–91, 2026
Deep Extreme Transformer: Tackling Zero-Inflated Time Series for Precipitation Prediction [DOI] [Paper]
Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026, Singapore, January 20-27, 2026, pp. 38478–38486, 2026
Hallucinate Less by Thinking More: Aspect-Based Causal Abstention for Large Language Models [DOI] [Paper]
Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026, Singapore, January 20-27, 2026, pp. 32555–32563, 2026
Synthetic Forgetting Without Access: A Few-Shot Zero-Glance Framework for Machine Unlearning [DOI] [Paper]
Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2026, Singapore, January 20-27, 2026, pp. 25545–25553, 2026
XEvalAD: An Explainable Evaluation Framework for Anomaly Detection via Item Response Theory [DOI] [Paper]
Databases Theory and Applications - 36th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Bali, Indonesia, December 4-6, 2025, Proceedings, Vol. 16391, pp. 166–178, 2025
Predicting Graph Structure via Adapted Flux Balance Analysis [DOI] [Paper]
AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 38th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2025, Canberra, ACT, Australia, December 1-5, 2025, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 16370, pp. 351–363, 2025
Revisiting Pre-processing Group Fairness: A Modular Benchmarking Framework [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025, pp. 6498–6502, 2025
Temporal-Aware User Behaviour Simulation with Large Language Models for Recommender Systems [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025, pp. 5335–5339, 2025
Unbiased Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks in Large Language Models via Conditional Front-Door Adjustment [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025, pp. 4315–4325, 2025
FairDRL-ST: Disentangled Representation Learning for Fair Spatio-Temporal Mobility Prediction [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL 2025, The Graduate Hotel Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA, November 3-6, 2025, pp. 103–106, 2025
Cultural Bias Matters: A Cross-Cultural Benchmark Dataset and Sentiment-Enriched Model for Understanding Multimodal Metaphors [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria, July 27 - August 1, 2025, pp. 26301–26317, 2025
PUB: An LLM-Enhanced Personality-Driven User Behaviour Simulator for Recommender System Evaluation [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2025, Padua, Italy, July 13-18, 2025, pp. 2690–2694, 2025
Telling Peer Direct Effects from Indirect Effects in Observational Network Data [Paper]
Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 13-19, 2025, Vol. 267, 2025
Fairness Evaluation with Item Response Theory [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025- 2 May 2025, pp. 2276–2288, 2025
Off-policy Evaluation for Multiple Actions in the Presence of Unobserved Confounders [DOI] [Paper]
Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025- 2 May 2025, pp. 413–424, 2025
Towards Better Evaluation of Recommendation Algorithms with Bi-directional Item Response Theory [DOI] [Paper]
Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025, WWW 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 28 April 2025 - 2 May 2025, pp. 1455–1459, 2025
TSI: A Multi-view Representation Learning Approach for Time Series Forecasting [DOI] [Paper]
AI 2024: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 37th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2024, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25-29, 2024, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 15442, pp. 291–302, 2024
Causal Inference with Conditional Front-Door Adjustment and Identifiable Variational Autoencoder [Paper]
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024, Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024, 2024
Conditional Instrumental Variable Regression with Representation Learning for Causal Inference [Paper]
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024, Vienna, Austria, May 7-11, 2024, 2024
Instrumental Variable Estimation for Causal Inference in Longitudinal Data with Time-Dependent Latent Confounders [DOI] [Paper]
Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2024, Thirty-Sixth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2024, Fourteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2024, February 20-27, 2024, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 11480–11488, 2024
Disentangled Latent Representation Learning for Tackling the Confounding M-Bias Problem in Causal Inference [DOI] [Paper]
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2023, Shanghai, China, December 1-4, 2023, pp. 51–60, 2023
A Data-Driven Approach to Finding K for K Nearest Neighbor Matching in Average Causal Effect Estimation [DOI] [Paper]
Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2023 - 24th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 25-27, 2023, Proceedings, Vol. 14306, pp. 723–732, 2023
Learning Conditional Instrumental Variable Representation for Causal Effect Estimation [DOI] [Paper]
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Research Track - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2023, Turin, Italy, September 18-22, 2023, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 14169, pp. 525–540, 2023
Disentangled Representation with Causal Constraints for Counterfactual Fairness [DOI] [Paper]
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 27th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2023, Osaka, Japan, May 25-28, 2023, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 13935, pp. 471–482, 2023
Causal Inference with Conditional Instruments Using Deep Generative Models [DOI] [Paper]
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, Thirty-Fifth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2023, Thirteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2023, Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp. 7122–7130, 2023
Disentangled Representation for Causal Mediation Analysis [DOI] [Paper]
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023, Thirty-Fifth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI 2023, Thirteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EAAI 2023, Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023, pp. 10666–10674, 2023
Assessing Classifier Fairness with Collider Bias [DOI] [Paper]
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 26th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2022, Chengdu, China, May 16-19, 2022, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 13281, pp. 262–276, 2022
Journal
Causal Prompting for Implicit Sentiment Analysis With Large Language Models [DOI] [Paper]
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 4131–4143, 2026
Fairness in Augmented Graph Learning: A Survey [DOI] [Paper]
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 6586–6603, 2026
Linking model intervention to causal interpretation in model explanation [DOI] [Paper]
Pattern Recognit., Vol. 173, pp. 112814, 2026
An Item Response Theory-based R module for Algorithm Portfolio Analysis [DOI] [Paper]
SoftwareX, Vol. 31, pp. 102239, 2025
Data-driven learning optimal K values for K-nearest neighbour matching in causal inference [DOI] [Paper]
Data Min. Knowl. Discov., Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 35, 2025
Deconfounding representation learning for mitigating latent confounding effects in recommendation [DOI] [Paper]
Knowl. Inf. Syst., Vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 5999–6020, 2025
Disentangled Representation Learning for Causal Inference With Instruments [DOI] [Paper]
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst., Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 14078–14091, 2025
Foundation Models for Anomaly Detection: Vision and Challenges [DOI] [Paper]
AI Mag., Vol. 46, No. 4, 2025