Publications

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^* denotes equal contribution (co-first authors).

Conference Papers

WSDM 2027

Adverse Online Social Interactions: A Multi-Level Evolutionary Analysis of Local Patterns, Diffusion, and Community Disruption

Xueqi Cheng^*, Qinwen Ge^*, Hamid Karimi, Yushun Dong, Tyler Derr

Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2027

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NeurIPS 2026

LatentRouter: Can We Choose the Right Multimodal Large Language Model Before Seeing Its Answer?

Xueqi Cheng, Yushun Dong

The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026

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KDD 2025Oral

BTS: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Tie Strength Prediction

Xueqi Cheng, Catherine Yang, Yuying Zhao, Yu Wang, Hamid Karimi, Tyler Derr

Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2025

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WSDM 2025

Edge Classification on Graphs: New Directions in Topological Imbalance

Xueqi Cheng^*, Yu Wang^*, Yunchao Liu, Yuying Zhao, Charu C. Aggarwal, Tyler Derr

Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2025

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ICLR 2024

A Topological Perspective on Demystifying GNN-Based Link Prediction Performance

Yu Wang, Tong Zhao, Yuying Zhao, Yunchao Liu, Xueqi Cheng, Neil Shah, Tyler Derr

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

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Journal Papers

CSUR 2026

Towards Trustworthy Retrieval Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey

Bo Ni, Zheyuan Liu, Yongjia Lei, Leyao Wang, Yuying Zhao, Xueqi Cheng, Qingkai Zeng, Xin Luna Dong, Yinglong Xia, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Md Mehrab Tanjim, Nesreen Ahmed, Xiaorui Liu, Wenqi Fan, Erik Blasch, Yu Wang, Meng Jiang, Tyler Derr

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 58(15), 2026

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TKDE 2024

A Survey on Privacy in Graph Neural Networks: Attacks, Preservation, and Applications

Yi Zhang, Yuying Zhao, Zhaoqing Li, Xueqi Cheng, Yu Wang, Olivera Kotevska, Philip S. Yu, Tyler Derr

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 36(12), 2024

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TIST 2025

Fairness and Diversity in Recommender Systems: A Survey

Yuying Zhao, Yu Wang, Yunchao Liu, Xueqi Cheng, Charu C. Aggarwal, Tyler Derr

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 16(1), 2025

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