| 2026 | AAAI | Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models. | Ziwei Liu, Borui Kang, Wei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Yanbing Yang, Wenbin Li, Yifan Zhu, Tao Feng, Jun Luo |
| 2026 | AAAI | CreBench: Human-Aligned Creativity Evaluation from Idea to Process to Product. | Kaiwen Xue, Chenglong Li, Zhonghong Ou, Guoxin Zhang, Kaoyan Lu, Shuai Lyu, Yifan Zhu, Ping Zong, Junpeng Ding, Xinyu Liu, Qunlin Chen, Weiwei Qin, Yiran Shen, Jiayi Cen |
| 2026 | AAAI | More than Irrational: Modeling Belief-Biased Agents. | Yifan Zhu, Sammie Katt, Samuel Kaski |
| 2026 | ACL | Beyond Pedagogical Principles: Multi-Horizon Preference Optimization for Efficient Socratic Tutoring. | Xin Shi, Chao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Xueqiao Zhang, Yawei Luo |
| 2026 | ACL | Bidirectional LMs are Better Knowledge Memorizers? A Benchmark for Real-world Knowledge Injection. | Yuwei Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Shangbin Feng, Yifan Zhu, Letian Peng, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu, Jingbo Shang |
| 2026 | ICDE | FlashEKGR: Fast Embedding-Based Knowledge Graph Reasoning Models Training. | Wentai Zhang, Teng Xu, Weiguang Wang, Junxing Li, Jun Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Haihong E |
| 2026 | LREC | Distributed Partial Information Puzzles: Examining Common Ground Construction under Epistemic Asymmetry. | Yifan Zhu, Mariah Bradford, Kenneth Lai, Timothy Obiso, Videep Venkatesha, James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy |
| 2026 | NSDI | DistVS: Large-scale Vector Search with Compute-Memory Disaggregation. | Peiqi Yin, Xiao Yan, Shiyuan Deng, Hui Li, Yifan Zhu, Xiangyu Zhi, Jingqi Mao, Ran Xu, Wenliang Zhang, James Cheng |
| 2026 | WWW | NeocorRAG: Less Irrelevant Information, More Explicit Evidence, and More Effective Recall via Evidence Chains. | Shiyao Peng, Qianhe Zheng, Zhuodi Hao, Zichen Tang, Rongjin Li, Qing Huang, Jiayu Huang, Jiacheng Liu, Yifan Zhu, Haihong E |
| 2026 | SIGdial | From Propositional to Perceptual Asymmetry: Extending FPO to Asymmetric Partial Information Dialogue. | Yifan Zhu, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky |
| 2025 | AAAI | DivGCL: A Graph Contrastive Learning Model for Diverse Recommendation. | Wenwen Gong, Yangliao Geng, Dan Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Xiaolong Xu, Haolong Xiang, Amin Beheshti, Xuyun Zhang, Lianyong Qi |
| 2025 | AAAI | TSVC: Tripartite Learning with Semantic Variation Consistency for Robust Image-Text Retrieval. | Shuai Lyu, Zijing Tian, Zhonghong Ou, Yifan Zhu, Xiao Zhang, Qiankun Ha, Haoran Luo, Meina Song |
| 2025 | AAAI | LS-TGNN: Long and Short-Term Temporal Graph Neural Network for Session-Based Recommendation. | Zhonghong Ou, Xiao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Shuai Lyu, Jiahao Liu, Tu Ao |
| 2025 | AAAI | Speech Is Not Enough: Interpreting Nonverbal Indicators of Common Knowledge and Engagement. | Derek Palmer, Yifan Zhu, Kenneth Lai, Hannah VanderHoeven, Mariah Bradford, Ibrahim Khebour, Carlos Mabrey, Jack Fitzgerald, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Martha Palmer, James Pustejovsky |
| 2025 | AAAI | PowerMLP: An Efficient Version of KAN. | Ruichen Qiu, Yibo Miao, Shiwen Wang, Yifan Zhu, Lijia Yu, Xiao-Shan Gao |
| 2025 | EMNLP | TCPO: Thought-Centric Preference Optimization for Effective Embodied Decision-making. | Kechen Jiao, Zhirui Fang, Jiahao Liu, Bei Li, Qifan Wang, Xinyu Liu, Junhao Ruan, Zhongjian Qiao, Yifan Zhu, Yaxin Xu, Jingang Wang, Xiu Li |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Complex Numerical Reasoning with Numerical Semantic Pre-training Framework. | Jun Zhang, Haihong E, Tianyi Hu, Yifan Zhu, Meina Song, Haoran Luo |
| 2025 | EMNLP | DecoupledESC: Enhancing Emotional Support Generation via Strategy-Response Decoupled Preference Optimization. | Chao Zhang, Xin Shi, Xueqiao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Video2Roleplay: A Multimodal Dataset and Framework for Video-Guided Role-playing Agents. | Xueqiao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Jingtao Xu, Yifan Zhu, Xin Shi, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo |
| 2025 | EMNLP | MASTER: Multi-Agent Security Through Exploration of Roles and Topological Structures - A Comprehensive Framework. | Yifan Zhu, Chao Zhang, Xin Shi, Xueqiao Zhang, Yi Yang, Yawei Luo |
| 2025 | HCI | Multimodal Situational Awareness: Neuro-Symbolic AI for Real-Time HCI in the Classroom. | Yifan Zhu, Kenneth Lai, Ibrahim Khebour, Marc Verhagen, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky |
| 2025 | ICDE | Efficient $\eta$-Threshold Maintenance in Dynamic Uncertain Graphs. | Yu Chen, Qing Liu, Yifan Zhu, Yunjun Gao |
| 2025 | ICDE | HC-SpMM: Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication for Graphs with Hybrid GPU Cores. | Zhonggen Li, Xiangyu Ke, Yifan Zhu, Yunjun Gao, Yaofeng Tu |
| 2025 | ICDE | scRAG: an Efficient Retrieval Augmented Generation System for scRNA-seq Data Analysis. | Yuren Mao, Yifan Zhu, Qing Liu, Peigen Liu, Haoran Yu, Yunjun Gao |
| 2025 | ICLR | INFER: A Neural-symbolic Model For Extrapolation Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graph. | Ningyuan Li, Haihong E, Tianyu Yao, Tianyi Hu, Yuhan Li, Haoran Luo, Meina Song, Yifan Zhu |
| 2025 | ICLR | Provable Robust Overfitting Mitigation in Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization. | Shuang Liu, Yihan Wang, Yifan Zhu, Yibo Miao, Xiao-Shan Gao |
| 2025 | ICLR | Generalizability of Neural Networks Minimizing Empirical Risk Based on Expressive Power. | Lijia Yu, Yibo Miao, Yifan Zhu, Xiao-Shan Gao, Lijun Zhang |
| 2025 | ICML | KBQA-o1: Agentic Knowledge Base Question Answering with Monte Carlo Tree Search. | Haoran Luo, Haihong E, Yikai Guo, Qika Lin, Xiaobao Wu, Xinyu Mu, Wenhao Liu, Meina Song, Yifan Zhu, Anh Tuan Luu |
| 2025 | ICML | A Stronger Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Fine-Tuning Foundation Models. | Mengyang Sun, Yihao Wang, Tao Feng, Dan Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Jie Tang |
| 2025 | IJCAI | Towards Recognizing Spatial-temporal Collaboration of EEG Phase Brain Networks for Emotion Understanding. | Jiangfeng Sun, Kaiwen Xue, Qika Lin, Yufei Qiao, Yifan Zhu, Zhonghong Ou, Meina Song |
| 2025 | NAACL | TRACE: Real-Time Multimodal Common Ground Tracking in Situated Collaborative Dialogues. | Hannah VanderHoeven, Brady Bhalla, Ibrahim Khebour, Austin C. Youngren, Videep Venkatesha, Mariah Bradford, Jack Fitzgerald, Carlos Mabrey, Jingxuan Tu, Yifan Zhu, Kenneth Lai, Changsoo Jung, James Pustejovsky, Nikhil Krishnaswamy |
| 2025 | WWW | PM-MOE: Mixture of Experts on Private Model Parameters for Personalized Federated Learning. | Yu Feng, Yangli-ao Geng, Yifan Zhu, Zongfu Han, Xie Yu, Kaiwen Xue, Haoran Luo, Mengyang Sun, Guangwei Zhang, Meina Song |
| 2024 | AAAI | Detection and Defense of Unlearnable Examples. | Yifan Zhu, Lijia Yu, Xiao-Shan Gao |
| 2024 | ACL | ChatKBQA: A Generate-then-Retrieve Framework for Knowledge Base Question Answering with Fine-tuned Large Language Models. | Haoran Luo, Haihong E, Zichen Tang, Shiyao Peng, Yikai Guo, Wentai Zhang, Chenghao Ma, Guanting Dong, Meina Song, Wei Lin, Yifan Zhu, Anh Tuan Luu |
| 2024 | CC | Paguroidea: Fused Parser Generator with Transparent Semantic Actions. | Yifan Zhu, Quartic Cat, Boluo Ge, Shaotong Sun |
| 2024 | COLING | Common Ground Tracking in Multimodal Dialogue. | Ibrahim Khalil Khebour, Kenneth Lai, Mariah Bradford, Yifan Zhu, Richard Brutti, Christopher Tam, Jingxuan Tu, Benjamin Ibarra, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky |
| 2024 | CoRL | Structured Bayesian Meta-Learning for Data-Efficient Visual-Tactile Model Estimation. | Shaoxiong Yao, Yifan Zhu, Kris Hauser |
| 2024 | DAC | EnTurbo: Accelerate Confidential Serverless Computing via Parallelizing Enclave Startup Procedure. | Yifan Zhu, Peinan Li, Yunkai Bai, Yubiao Huang, Shiwen Wang, Xingbin Wang, Dan Meng, Rui Hou |
| 2024 | HCI | A Human-Centered Algorithmic Management Framework: A Literature Review. | Yunshan Jiang, Shixin Fan, Yifan Zhu, Long Wang, Kunhui Ye, Jia Zhou, Liangqing Zhang, Zhixiu Wang, Liu Wu, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau |
| 2024 | HCI | Lexical Event Models for Multimodal Dialogues. | James Pustejovsky, Yifan Zhu |
| 2024 | HCI | Modeling Theory of Mind in Multimodal HCI. | Yifan Zhu, Hannah VanderHoeven, Kenneth Lai, Mariah Bradford, Christopher Tam, Ibrahim Khebour, Richard Brutti, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky |
| 2024 | ICDE | VisionEmbedder: Bit-Level-Compact Key-Value Storage with Constant Lookup, Rapid Updates, and Rare Failure. | Yuhan Wu, Feiyu Wang, Yifan Zhu, Zhuochen Fan, Zhiting Xiong, Tong Yang, Bin Cui |
| 2024 | ICDE | HJG: An Effective Hierarchical Joint Graph for ANNS in Multi-Metric Spaces. | Yifan Zhu, Lu Chen, Yunjun Gao, Ruiyao Ma, Baihua Zheng, Jingwen Zhao |
| 2024 | ICDE | Recommending Learning Objects through Attentive Heterogeneous Graph Convolution and Operation- Aware Neural Network (Extended Abstract). | Yifan Zhu, Qika Lin, Hao Lu, Kaize Shi, Donglei Liu, James Chambua, Shanshan Wan, Zhendong Niu |
| 2024 | ICML | Toward Availability Attacks in 3D Point Clouds. | Yifan Zhu, Yibo Miao, Yinpeng Dong, Xiao-Shan Gao |
| 2024 | IGARSS | High-Resolution Soil Moisture and Freeze-Thaw Retrievals Using CYGNSS Reconstruction Observations on the Qianghai-Tibet Plateau. | Wentao Yang, Fei Guo, Xiaohong Zhang, Zhiyu Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Zheng Li |
| 2024 | IGARSS | Toward the Generation of 9 km Quasi-Global Microwave Land Surface Emissivity Map Using SMAP Radiometer and CYGNSS Reflectometer. | Yifan Zhu, Fei Guo, Xiaohong Zhang, Wentao Yang, Zhiyu Zhang, Zheng Li |
| 2024 | KDD | OAG-Bench: A Human-Curated Benchmark for Academic Graph Mining. | Fanjin Zhang, Shijie Shi, Yifan Zhu, Bo Chen, Yukuo Cen, Jifan Yu, Yelin Chen, Lulu Wang, Qingfei Zhao, Yuqing Cheng, Tianyi Han, Yuwei An, Dan Zhang, Weng Lam Tam, Kun Cao, Yunhe Pang, Xinyu Guan, Huihui Yuan, Jian Song, Xiaoyan Li, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang |
| 2024 | MOBICOM | Venus: Enhancing QoE of Crowdsourced Live Video Streaming by Exploiting Multiflow Viewer Assistance. | Huanhuan Zhang, Congkai An, Anfu Zhou, Yifan Zhu, Weilin Sun, Yixuan Lu, Jiahao Chen, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma, Aiguo Fei |
| 2023 | CVPR | Looking Through the Glass: Neural Surface Reconstruction Against High Specular Reflections. | Jiaxiong Qiu, Peng-Tao Jiang, Yifan Zhu, Ze-Xin Yin, Ming-Ming Cheng, Bo Ren |
| 2023 | DAC | ChaosINTC: A Secure Interrupt Management Mechanism against Interrupt-based Attacks on TEE. | Yifan Zhu, Peinan Li, Lutan Zhao, Dan Meng, Rui Hou |
| 2023 | HCI | The Association Between Academic Clickbait and Impact: From the Perspective of Online Media News. | Yifan Zhu, Xin Li, Jia Zhou, Yunshan Jiang |
| 2023 | ICCV | Consistent Depth Prediction for Transparent Object Reconstruction from RGB-D Camera. | Yuxiang Cai, Yifan Zhu, Haiwei Zhang, Bo Ren |
| 2023 | ICCV | Human-Inspired Facial Sketch Synthesis with Dynamic Adaptation. | Fei Gao, Yifan Zhu, Chang Jiang, Nannan Wang |
| 2023 | ICDM | FM-IGNN: Interaction Graph Neural Network with Fine-grained Matching for Session-based Recommendation. | Zongzhi Han, Zhonghong Ou, Yifan Zhu, Xiaodong Li, Meina Song |
| 2023 | KDD | WinGNN: Dynamic Graph Neural Networks with Random Gradient Aggregation Window. | Yifan Zhu, Fangpeng Cong, Dan Zhang, Wenwen Gong, Qika Lin, Wenzheng Feng, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang |
| 2023 | WWW | ApeGNN: Node-Wise Adaptive Aggregation in GNNs for Recommendation. | Dan Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Yuxiao Dong, Yuandong Wang, Wenzheng Feng, Evgeny Kharlamov, Jie Tang |
| 2022 | CIKM | AMinerGNN: Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Paper Click-through Rate Prediction with Fusion Query. | Zepeng Huai, Zhe Wang, Yifan Zhu, Peng Zhang |
| 2022 | DAC | Conditional address propagation: an efficient defense mechanism against transient execution attacks. | Peinan Li, Rui Hou, Lutan Zhao, Yifan Zhu, Dan Meng |
| 2022 | ICPADS | CACam: Consecutive Angular Measurements with Camera on Smartphone for Distance Estimation. | Yifan Zhu, Xiaojun Zhu |
| 2022 | IROS | Excavation of Fragmented Rocks with Multi-modal Model-based Reinforcement Learning. | Yifan Zhu, Liyang Wang, Liangjun Zhang |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Incorporating Context Graph with Logical Reasoning for Inductive Relation Prediction. | Qika Lin, Jun Liu, Fangzhi Xu, Yudai Pan, Yifan Zhu, Lingling Zhang, Tianzhe Zhao |
| 2021 | ICCV | Transfusion: A Novel SLAM Method Focused on Transparent Objects. | Yifan Zhu, Jiaxiong Qiu, Bo Ren |
| 2021 | ICRA | A Novel Robotic System for Ultrasound-guided Peripheral Vascular Localization. | Guangshen Ma, Siobhan Rigby Oca, Yifan Zhu, Patrick J. Codd, Daniel M. Buckland |
| 2021 | ICRA | Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization With Learned Deformable Contacts Using Bilevel Optimization. | Yifan Zhu, Zherong Pan, Kris Hauser |
| 2021 | KDD | Cluster-Reduce: Compressing Sketches for Distributed Data Streams. | Yikai Zhao, Zheng Zhong, Yuanpeng Li, Yi Zhou, Yifan Zhu, Li Chen, Yi Wang, Tong Yang |
| 2020 | ICDE | VAC: Vertex-Centric Attributed Community Search. | Qing Liu, Yifan Zhu, Minjun Zhao, Xin Huang, Jianliang Xu, Yunjun Gao |
| 2020 | ICRA | Semi-Empirical Simulation of Learned Force Response Models for Heterogeneous Elastic Objects. | Yifan Zhu, Kai Lu, Kris Hauser |
| 2020 | VTC | Multithread Optimal Offloading Strategy Based on Cloud and Edge Collaboration. | Yifan Zhu, Zhaoyang Wang, Zhuo Han, Nana Li, Shouyi Yang |
| 2019 | ICRA | A Data-driven Approach for Fast Simulation of Robot Locomotion on Granular Media. | Yifan Zhu, Laith Abdulmajeid, Kris Hauser |
| 2019 | ISPA | Chinese Lexical Based Sentiment Analysis Framework in Meteorology. | Yinan Li, Fuquan Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Sifan Zhang, Yu Mao, Zhendong Niu |
| 2019 | ISPA | Detecting Interest-Factor Influenced Abnormal Evaluation of Teaching via Multimodal Embedding and Priori Knowledge Based Neural Network. | Yu Mao, Yifan Zhu, Sifan Zhang, Dexiu Zhang, Fuquan Zhang, Xiaozhong Fan |
| 2018 | ADMA | DSDCS: Detection of Safe Driving via Crowd Sensing. | Yun Du, Xin Guo, Chenyang Shi, Yifan Zhu, Bohan Li |
| 2013 | WSC | A DSM-based multi-paradigm simulation modeling approach for complex systems. | Xiaobo Li, Yonglin Lei, Weiping Wang, Wenguang Wang, Yifan Zhu |
| 2005 | WSC | Extend SRML schema based on DEVS: an executable DEVS language. | Chen Liu, Qun Li, Weiping Wang, Yifan Zhu |
| 2004 | RTAS | Feedback EDF Scheduling Exploiting Dynamic Voltage Scaling. | Yifan Zhu, Frank Mueller |