We design machine learning models for solving diverse graph/network problems, such as attributed network embedding, knowledge graph alignment, knowledge graph completion, dynamic graph modeling, spatial-temporal network embedding and influential nodes tracking in dynamic networks.
- Rui Cai, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang. Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Multimodal Knowledge Graphs. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Regular paper, acceptance rate: 18.8% 124 out of 660 submissions)
- Xiaoting Lyu, Yufei Han, Wei Wang, Hangwei Qian, Ivor Tsang, Xiangliang Zhang. Cross-Context Backdoor Attacks against Graph Prompt Learning. Accepted by the 30th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024). Barcelona, Spain, Sunday 25 August 2024 – Thursday 29 August 2024.
- Changsheng Ma, Taicheng Guo, Qiang Yang, Xiuying Chen, Xin Gao, Shangsong Liang, Nitesh Chawla, Xiangliang Zhang. A Property-Guided Diffusion Model for Generating Molecular Graphs. IEEE ICASSP 2024.
- Zhenwei Tang, Shichao Pei, Xi Peng, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiangliang Zhang and Robert Hoehndorf. Neural Multi-hop Logical Query Answering with Concept-level Answers. The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).
- Shichao Pei, Ziyi Kou, Qiannan Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Few-shot Low-resource Knowledge Graph Completion with Multi-view Task Representation Generation. Accepted by KDD 2023. Long Beach, CA. Aug 6-13, 2023. (acceptance rate = 313/1416 = 22%)
- Qiang Yang, Changsheng Ma, Qiannan Zhang, Xin Gao, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Counterfactual Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs with Greedy Perturbation. Accepted by KDD 2023. Long Beach, CA. Aug 6-13, 2023. (acceptance rate = 313/1416 = 22%)
- Shichao Pei, Qiannan Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Few-shot Low-resource Knowledge Graph Completion with Reinforced Task Generation. Findings of ACL 2023.
- Zhichun Guo, Kehan Guo, Bozhao Nan, Yijun Tian, Roshni Iyer, Yihong Ma, Olaf Wiest, Xiangliang Zhang, Wei Wang, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh Chawla. Graph-based Molecular Representation Learning. Accepted by The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-23). 19th-25th August 2023. Macao, S.A.R. (Survey)
- Zhenwei Tang, Griffin Floto, Armin Toroghi, Shichao Pei, Xiangliang Zhang and Scott Sanner LogicRec: Recommendation with Users’ Logical Requirements. Accepted by SIGIR 2023 (Short paper, Acceptance rate = 154/613 = 25.12%)
- Yijun Tian, Chuxu Zhang, Zhichun Guo, Xiangliang Zhang, Nitesh Chawla. Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency. Accepted (notable-top-25%) by the 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023). Kigali, Rwanda, May 1-5, 2023.
- Qiannan Zhang, Shichao Pei, Qiang Yang, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh Chawla, Xiangliang Zhang. Cross-domain Few-shot Graph Classification with a Reinforced Task Coordinator. Accepted by the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023). Feb 7-14, 2023 Washington DC. (Acceptance rate = 19.6% (1,721 of 8,777 submissions))
- Qiang Yang, Changsheng Ma, Qiannan Zhang, Xin Gao, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Interpretable Research Interest Shift Detection with Temporal Heterogeneous Graphs. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2023). Singapore February 27 to March 3, 2023.
- Qiannan Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Qiang Yang, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Few-shot Heterogeneous Graph Learning via Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer. Accepted at KDD 2022 Research Track. August 14-18, 2022, in Washington, DC (Acceptance Rate: 254/1695 = 15%)
- Zhenwei Tang, Shichao Pei, Zhao Zhang, Yongchun Zhu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Robert Hoehndorf, Xiangliang Zhang. Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Adversarial Data Augmentation for Knowledge Graph Completion. Accepted by the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022). (acceptance rate =15%, 681 out of 4535 submissions).
- Chuxu Zhang, Kaize Ding, Jundong Li, Xiangliang Zhang, Yanfang Ye, Nitesh Chawla, Huan Liu. Few-Shot Learning on Graphs: A Survey. The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – Survey Track. (IJCAI 2022). Early Access on arXiv
- Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Guoxian Yu and Xiangliang Zhang. Graph Alignment with Noisy Supervision. Accepted by TheWebConf 2022. (Acceptance rate: 323/1822 =17.7%)
- Qiannan Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Qiang Yang, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. HG-Meta: Graph Meta-learning over Heterogeneous Graphs. Accepted by SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2022) acceptance rate: 83/298 = 27.8%).
- Wei Wang, Xiangyu Wei, Xiaoyang Suo, Bin Wang, Hao Wang, Hong-Ning Dai, Xiangliang Zhang. “HGATE: Heterogeneous Graph Attention Auto-Encoders”. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
- Lu Yu, Shichao Pei, Lizhong Ding, Jun Zhou, Longfei Li, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. SAIL: Self-Augmented Graph Contrastive Learning. Accepted by the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) (acceptance rate = 1349/9020 = 15%)
- Peng Han, Peilin Zhao, Chan Lu, Junzhou Huang, Jiaxiang Wu, Shuo Shang, Bin Yao, Xiangliang Zhang. GNN-Retro: Retrosynthetic planning with Graph Neural Networks. Accepted by the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) (acceptance rate = 1349/9020 = 15%)
- Qiang Yang, Qiannan Zhang, Chuxu Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Interpretable Relation Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs. Accepted by The Fifteenth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022). (acceptance rate = 159/786 = 20.23%)
- Tong Chen; Hongzhi Yin; Jie Ren; Zi Huang; Xiangliang Zhang; Hao Wang. Uniting Heterogeneity, Inductiveness, and Efficiency for Graph Representation Learning. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021.
- Peng Han, Jin Wang, Di Yao, Shuo Shang, and Xiangliang Zhang. A Graph-based Approach for Trajectory Similarity Computation in Spatial Networks. ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021). Virtual Conference. Aug 14-18, 2021. (Acceptance Rate = 238/1541 = 15.4%)
- Muhammad Imran, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Zi Huang, Xiangliang Zhang, Kai Zheng. DDHH: A Decentralized Deep Learning Framework for Large-scale Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021), Greece, April, 2021. (6-Page Short Paper)
- Xin Xia, Hongzhi Yin, Junliang Yu, Qinyong Wang, Lizhen Cui, and Xiangliang Zhang. Self-Supervised Hypergraph Convolutional Networks for Session-based Recommendation. The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021) (acceptance rate of 21%, 1692/7911).
- Shupeng Gui, Xiangliang Zhang, Pan Zhong, Shuang Qiu, Mingrui Wu, Jieping Ye, Zhengdao Wang, Ji Liu, Pine: Universal deep embedding for graph nodes via partial permutation invariant set functions. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2021.
- Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang. Set-aware Entity Synonym Discovery with Flexible Receptive Fields. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). 2021. Early Access. 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3087532
- Peng Han, Shuo Shang, Aixin Sun, Peilin Zhao, Kai Zheng, Xiangliang Zhang, “Point-of-Interest Recommendation with Global and Local Context”. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021. Early Access: 10.1109/TKDE.2021.3059744
- Uchenna Akujuobi, Jun Chen, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Michael Spranger, and Xiangliang Zhang. Temporal Positive-unlabeled Learning for Biomedical Hypothesis Generation via Risk Estimation. Accepted by Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020). Virtual-only Conference. (Acceptance rate = 1900 /9454 = 20%).
- Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Guoxian Yu and Xiangliang Zhang. REA: Robust Cross-lingual Entity Alignment Between Knowledge Graphs. The 26th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020), August 22 – 27, 2020, San Diego, CA, USA. (Acceptance rate 216/1279=16.9%).
- Chuxu Zhang, Meng Jiang, Xiangliang Zhang, Yanfang Ye, Nitesh V. Chawla: Multi-modal Network Representation Learning. KDD 2020: 3557-3558. 26th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020), pp. 3557-3558, August 22 – 27, 2020, San Diego, CA, USA. [Lecture-Style Tutorials]
- Zaiqiao Meng, Shangsong Liang, Xiangliang Zhang, Richard Mccreadie, Idah Ounis. Jointly Learning Representations of Nodes and Attributes for Attributed Networks. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 38(2), 1–32. 2020.
- Peng Jia, Pinghui Wang, Yuchao Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang, Jing Tao, Jianwei Ding, Xiaohong Guan, Don Towsley. Accurately Estimating User Cardinalities and Detecting Super Spreaders over Time. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020.
- Mubashir Imran, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen, Yingxia Shao, Xiangliang Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou: Decentralized Embedding Framework for Large-Scale Networks. 25th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2020), pp. 425-441, Sep. 24-27, 2020, Jeju, South Korea (Best Student Paper Award).
- Uchenna Akujuobi, Qiannan Zhang, Han Yufei, Xiangliang Zhang. Recurrent Attention Walk for Semi-supervised Classification. In the proceedings of The 13th ACM International WSDM Conference. Feb 3-7, 2020, Houston, Texas. (Acceptance rate =91/615 = 15%) (paper at arXiv)
- Yujun Chen, Ke Sun, Juhua Pu, Zhang Xiong, Xiangliang Zhang. GraPASA: Parametric Graph Embedding via Siamese Architecture. Information Sciences 512: 1442-1457 (2020).
- Yujun Chen, Juhua Pu, Xingwu Liu, Xiangliang Zhang. Gaussian Mixture Embedding of Multiple Node Roles in Networks. World Wide Web 23(2): 927-950 (2020) [PDF]
- Uchenna Akujuobi, Han Yufei, Qiannan Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang. Collaborative Graph Walk for Semi-supervised Multi-Label Node Classification. In the proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019), November 8-11, 2019, Beijing, China (Regular paper, Acceptance rate= 95/1046 = 9.08%). (paper at arXiv)
- Basmah Altaf, Uchenna Akujuobi, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang, Dataset Recommendation via Variational Graph Autoencoder. In the proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019), November 8-11, 2019, Beijing, China (Regular paper, Acceptance rate= 95/1046 = 9.08%).
- Yujun Chen, Yuanhong Wang, Yutao Zhang, Juhua Pu, Xiangliang Zhang. AMENDER: an Attentive and Aggregate Multi-layered Network for Dataset Recommendation. In the proceedings of 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019), November 8-11, 2019, Beijing, China (Short paper, Acceptance rate= 18.5%).
- Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Xiangliang Zhang. Improving Cross-lingual Entity Alignment via Optimal Transport. In the proceedings of 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China (Acceptance rate=850/4752=17.9%) [PDF][Bib][Slides].
- Xia Chen, Guoxian Yu, Jun Wang, Carlotta Domeniconi, Zhao Li, Xiangliang Zhang. ActiveHNE: Active Heterogeneous Network Embedding. In the proceedings of 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China. (Acceptance rate=850/4752=17.9%).
- Shichao Pei, Lu Yu, Robert Hoehndorf, Xiangliang Zhang. Semi-Supervised Entity Alignment via Knowledge Graph Embedding with Awareness of Degree Difference. In the proceedings of by TheWebConf 2019 (previously known as WWW conference), May 13-17, San Francisco, CA, USA (short paper, acceptance rate ~ 20%) [PDF][Bib][Slides][Code].
- Guolei Sun, Xiangliang Zhang. A Novel Framework for Node/Edge Attributed Graph Embedding. In the proceedings of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), 14-17 April 2019, Macau SAR, China (regular paper, acceptance rate = 140/567 =24.7%).
- Junzhou Zhao, Shuo Shang, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui, and Xiangliang Zhang. Submodular Optimization Over Streams with Inhomogeneous Decays. In the proceedings of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), January 27 – February 1, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. (Acceptance rate = 1150/7095 = 16.2%) [PDF][Bib][Slides].
- Zaiqiao Meng, Shangsong Liang, Hongyan Bao, and Xiangliang Zhang. Co-Embedding Attributed Networks. In the proceedings of The Twelfth International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), February 11-15, 2019, Melbourne, Australia (Acceptance rate = 84/511 = 16%) [PDF][Bib][Slides][Code].
- Junzhou Zhao, Shuo Shang, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui, and Xiangliang Zhang: Tracking Influential Nodes in Time-Decaying Dynamic Interaction Networks. In the proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019), 8-12 April 2019, Macau SAR, China [PDF][Bib][Slides].
- Pinghui Wang, Peng Jia, Xiangliang Zhang, Jing Tao, Xiaohong Guan, and Don Towsley: Utilizing Dynamic Properties of Sharing Bits and Registers to Estimate User Cardinalities over Time. In the proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019), 8-12 April 2019, Macau SAR, China.
- Uchenna Akujuobi, Ke Sun, and Xiangliang Zhang: Mining top-k Popular Datasets via a Deep Generative Model. In the proceedings of by IEEE Big Data 2018, Seattle, WA, USA, December 10-13, 2018 (regular paper, acceptance rate = 98/518 =18.9%)[PDF][Bib][Slides].
- Shangsong Liang, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhaochun Ren and Evangelos Kanoulas: Dynamic Embeddings for User Profiling in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 24th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), pp. 1764-1773, London, UK, August 19 – 23, 2018 (long presentation, acceptance rate= 107/ 983 =10.9%)(overall acceptance rate=181/983=18.4%)[PDF][Bib][Slides].
- Pinghui Wang, Yiyan Qi, Yu Sun, Xiangliang Zhang, Jing Tao, Xiaohong Guan. Approximately Counting Triangles in Large Graph Streams Including Edge Duplicates with a Fixed Memory Usage. In Proceedings of Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017), 11(2): 162-175, 2017 [PDF][Bib].
- Pinghui Wang, Junzhou Zhao, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhenguo Li, Jiefeng Cheng, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley, Jing Tao, Xiaohong Guan. MOSS-5: A Fast Method of Approximating Counts of 5-Node Graphlets in Large Graphs. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 30(1): 73-86, 2017.