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20 21 22 23 24<style> 25ol.custom-margin { margin-left: 40px; } 26</style> 27 28 29</head> 30 31 32<body> 33 34<ol reversed, class="custom-margin"> 35 36<h2>Selected publications: 37</h2> 38 39<h3> <p class="style6"><strong>Some Working Papers (*corresponding author):</strong></p> 40</h3> 41 42<li> 43Wei Yang, Zihao Liu, Tao Tan, Xiao Hu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Lulu Li*, 44Xin Li, Jianyu Han, Defu Lian, Mao Ye 45</li> 46<i> 47<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18479"> 48AgentCAT: An LLM Agent for Extracting and Analyzing Catalytic Reaction Data from Chemical Engineering Literature. 49</a> 50</i> 51<br> 52Preprint, 53<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 542026. 55<p> </p> 56 57<li> 58Wei Yang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Tao Tan, Xin Li, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen 59</li> 60<i> 61<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01346"> 62Model Specific Task Similarity for Vision Language Model Selection via Layer Conductance. 63</a> 64</i> 65<br> 66Preprint, 67<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 682026. 69<p> </p> 70 71<li> 72<strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Xiao Hu, Tao Tan, Haoran Gu, Xin Li, Jianyu Han, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen 73</li> 74<i> 75<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22532"> 76Demystifying Design Choices of Reinforcement Fine-tuning: A Batched Contextual Bandit Learning Perspective. 77</a> 78</i> 79<br> 80Preprint, 81<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 822026. 83<p> </p> 84 85 86<li> 87Xu Huang, Yuefeng Huang, Weiwen Liu, Xingshan Zeng, Yasheng Wang, Ruiming Tang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Defu Lian 88</li> 89<i> 90<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04072"> 91Advancing and Benchmarking Personalized Tool Invocation for LLMs. 92</a> 93</i> 94<br> 95Preprint, 96<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 972025. 98<p> </p> 99 100 101<!--Conference papers --> 102<!--Conference papers --> 103<h3> <p class="style6"><strong>Conference Papers (*corresponding author):</strong></p> 104</h3> 105 106 107<li> 108Haoran Jin, Xiting Wang*, Shijie Ren, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Defu Lian* 109</li> 110<i> 111C2R: Cross-sample Consistency Regularization Mitigates Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders. 112</i> 113<br> 114Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (<strong> ICML </strong>), 115<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1162026. 117<p> </p> 118 119 120<li> 121Cheng He, Xu Huang, Gangwei Jiang, Zhaoyi Li, Defu Lian*, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Enhong Chen, Xijie Liang, Zhengzengrong, Patrick Lee 122</li> 123<i> 124GTM: A General Time-series Model for Enhanced Representation Learning of Time-Series Data. 125</i> 126<br> 127The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (<strong> ICLR </strong>), 128<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1292026. 130<p> </p> 131 132<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Haoran Gu, Yanying Huang, Tao Tan, Defu Lian</li> 133<i> 134Multiple-play Stochastic Bandits with Prioritized Arm Capacity Sharing. 135</i> 136<br> 137The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>), 138<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1392026. 140<p> </p> 141 142<li>Yun Lu, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Chongjun Xia, Zhenhui Ggong, Mingsheng Shang</li> 143<i> 144Revisiting Fairness-aware Interactive Recommendation: Item Lifecycle as a Control Knob. 145</i> 146<br> 147The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>), 148<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1492026. 150<p> </p> 151 152<li> 153Linxiao Cao, Mianzimei Yang, Zhipeng Zhou, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Defu Lian, Menglin Yang </li> 154<i> 155Towards Calibrated Gradient-based Multi-Task Learning 156</i> 157<br> 158Findings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (<strong> CVPR Findings</strong>), 159<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1602026. 161<p> </p> 162 163<li> 164Hantao Yang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Xutong Liu, Defu Lian </li> 165<i> 166LLM Cache Bandits with Query Heterogeneity for Cost-Efficient Inferenceg 167</i> 168<br> 169The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (<strong> EMNLP 2026</strong>), main conference, 170<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1712026. 172<p> </p> 173 174<li> 175Jinyang He, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yan Wang, Mingsheng Shang </li> 176<i> 177ORSC: Object-aware Reinforcement with Semantic Consistency for Hallucinatoin Matigation in MLLMs. 178</i> 179<br> 180IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (<strong> ICASSP</strong>), 181<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1822026. 183<p> </p> 184 185<li> 186Jinyang He, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Xiaoyu Shi, Yan Wang, Mingsheng Shang </li> 187<i> 188Dynamic Attention-aware Shaping for Out-of-distribution Detection. 189</i> 190<br> 191IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (<strong> ICASSP</strong>), 192<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 1932026. 194<p> </p> 195 196<li> 197Yan Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Mingsheng Shang </li> 198<i> 199Beyond Uniform Invariance: Augmentation-Sensitive Sparse Representation for Robust Visual Reinforcement Learning . 200</i> 201<br> 202IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (<strong> SMC</strong>), 203<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2042026. 205<p> </p> 206 207<li> 208Xiao Hu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Tao Tan, Defu Lian, Jianyu Han 209</li> 210<i> 211<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14599"> 212Rethinking Reinforcement Fine-tuning of LLMs: A Multi-armed Bandit Learning Perspective. 213</a> 214</i> 215<br> 21633rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (<strong> ICONIP</strong>) 217<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2182026. 219<p> </p> 220 221<li>Hongyi Xie, Min Zhou*, Qiao Yu, jialiang Yu, Zhenli sheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Defu Lian</li> 222<i> 223<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3711896.3737243"> 224M2-MFP: A Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Memory Failure Prediction Framework for ReliableCloud Infrastru
224cture 225</a> 226</i> 227<br> 228Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>KDD</strong>), 229applied data science track, <strong>Artifact Badge Award</strong>, 230<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2312025. 232<p> </p> 233 234<li>Weidong Wu, Qinlin Zhao, Hao Chen, Lexin Zhou, Defu Lian, <strong>Hong Xie</strong></li> 235<i> 236<a href="https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.270/"> 237Exploring the Choice Behavior of Large Language Models 238</a> 239</i> 240<br> 241The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (<strong>ACL Findings</strong>), 242<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2432025. 244<p> </p> 245 246<li>Mianzimei Yang, Zhipeng Zhou, Jin Zhang, Yuanhao Pu, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Defu Lian</li> 247<i> 248<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746027.3755153"> 249Conflict-Buffering Optimization by Symmetry Teleportation for Deep Long-Tailed Recognition 250</a> 251</i> 252<br> 253ACM Multimedia (<strong>MM</strong>), 254<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2552025. 256<p> </p> 257 258 259<li>Hanyang Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Defu Lian</li> 260<i> 261<a href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=SUqDrU1v24&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Defu%20Lian%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Defu_Lian1)"> 262Multi-play Multi-armed Bandits with Shareable Arm Capacities Revisited: Settling Scarce Capacity 263</a> 264</i> 265<br> 266The 17th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (<strong>ACML</strong>), 267<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2682025. 269<p> </p> 270 271<li>Hantao Yang, Xutong Liu, Zhiyong Wang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Defu Lian, Enhong Chen </li> 272<i> 273<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1609/aaai.v38i18.30045"> 274Federated Contextual Cascading Bandits with Asynchronous Communication and Heterogeneous Users 275</a> 276</i> 277<br> 278Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>), 279<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2802024. 281<p> </p> 282 283<li>Tao Tan, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Defu Lian</li> 284<i> 285<a href="https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2024/547"> 286Adaptive Order Q-learning 287</a> 288</i> 289<br> 290International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>IJCAI</strong>), 291<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 2922024. 293<p> </p> 294 295 296<li>Zhaoyi Li, Gangwei Jiang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Linqi Song, Defu Lian, Ying Wei </li> 297<i> 298<a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.576/"> 299Understanding and Patching Compositional Reasoning in LLMs 300</a> 301</i> 302<br> 303The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (<strong>ACL Findings</strong>), 304<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3052024. 306<p> </p> 307 308<li>Chongjun Xia, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Quanliang Liu and Mingsheng Shang</li> 309<i> 310<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10707441"> 311Investigating User Popularity Preference Differences for Long-term Fairness on Interactive Recommendation: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach 312</a> 313</i> 314<br> 315IEEE 316International Conference on Web Services (<strong>ICWS</strong>), 317<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3182024. 319<p> </p> 320 321 322<li>Liguo Chen, Zhigang Gong, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Mingqiang Zhou</li> 323<i> 324<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-2262-4_16"> 325False Negative Sample Aware Negative Sampling for Recommendation 326</a> 327</i> 328<br> 329Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>PAKDD</strong>), 330<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3312024. 332<p> </p> 333 334<li>Yanying Huang, Haoran Gu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Mingqiang Zhou</li> 335<i> 336<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10651201"> 337A Thompson Sampling Approach to User-Centric Selection Problems 338</a> 339</i> 340<br> 341International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (<strong>IJCNN</strong>), 342<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3432024. 344<p> </p> 345 346<li>Luyue Xu, Liming Wang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Mingqiang Zhou</li> 347<i> 348<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-0128-8_12">
349Contextual Bandit with Herding Effects: Algorithms and Recommendation Applications 350</a> 351</i> 352<br> 35321st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>PRICAI</strong>), 354<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3552024. 356<p> </p> 357 358<li>Yulin Cai, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Xiaoying Zhang, Kewei Chen, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang </li> 359<i> 360<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-96-6966-0_7"> 361Achieving Group Fairness under Erroneous Pseudo-Labels of Sensitive Attributes 362</a> 363</i> 364<br> 36531st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (<strong>ICONIP</strong>), 366<!-- <span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3672024. 368<p> </p> 369 370<li>Xiaoying Zhang, Junpu Chen, Hongning Wang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yang Liu, John C.S. Lui, Hang Li </li> 371<i> 372<a href="https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/e97ac22927560eb2de6b658498cbc575-Abstract-Conference.html"> 373Uncertainty-Aware Instance Reweighting for Off-Policy Learning 374</a> 375</i> 376<br> 377Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (<strong>NeurIPS</strong>), 378<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>, --> 3792023. 380<p> </p> 381 382 383<li>Xiaoyu Shi, Quanliang Liu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 384<i> 385<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10248263"> 386Towards Long-term Fairness in Interactive Recommendation: A Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning Approach 387</a> 388</i> 389<br> 390IEEE International Conference on Web Services (<strong>ICWS</strong>), short paper, 2023. 391<p> </p> 392 393<li>Jinyu Mo, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 394<i> 395<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10191951"> 396CGCCMR: An Enhanced Multi-gate Model for Cross-Market Recommendation 397</a> 398</i> 399<br> 400International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (<strong>IJCNN</strong>), 2023. 401<p> </p> 402 403<li>Jinyu Mo, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>. </li> 404<i> 405<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-33377-4_19"> 406A Multi-player MAB Approach for Distributed Selection Problems 407</a> 408</i> 409<br> 410The 26th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>PAKDD</strong>), 2023. 411<br> 412(AR: 143/822 = 17%) 413<p> </p> 414 415<li>Hanxuan Xu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>. </li> 416<i> 417<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-33377-4_20"> 418A Thompson Sampling Approach to Unifying Causal Inference and Bandit Learning 419</a> 420</i> 421<br> 422The 26th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>PAKDD</strong>), 2023. 423<br> 424(AR: 143/822 = 17%) 425<p> </p> 426 427 428<li>Liming Wang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Ye Li, Jian Tan, John C.S. Lui. </li> 429<i> 430<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583456"> 431Interactive Log Parsing via Light-weight Feedback 432</a> 433</i> 434<br> 435The Web Conference (<strong>WWW</strong>) 436<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span> --> 437, 2023. 438<br> 439(AR: 365/1900 = 19.2%) 440<p> </p> 441 442<li>Zhi Qi, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 443<i> 444<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-30637-2_13 "> 445A Predictive Coding Approach to Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection 446</a> 447</i> 448<br> 449The 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (<strong>DASFAA</strong>), 2023. 450<br> 451(AR: 126/652 = 19.3%) 452<p> </p> 453 454<li>Xutong Liu, Jinhang Zuo, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, C.J. Wong, John C.S. Lui. </li> 455<i> 456<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10228940"> 457Variance-Adaptive Algorithm for Probabilistic Maximum Coverage Bandits with General Feedback. 458</a> 459</i> 460<br> 461IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (<strong>INFOCOM</strong>) 462<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 463, 2023. 464<br> 465(AR: 252/1312 = 19.2%) 466<p> </p> 467 468 469<li>Shiyuan Zheng, Xudong Liu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 470<i> 471<a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icnp/2022/09940336/1Iiuc52dAuk"> 472Reposting Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Online Incentive Protocols. 473</a> 474</i> 475<br> 476The 30th annual edition of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (<strong>ICNP</strong>), 2022. 477<p> </p> 478 479 480<li>Xuchuang Wang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 481<i> 482<a href="https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/wang22af.html"> 483Multiple-Play Stochastic Bandits with Shareable Finite-Capacity Arms. 484</a> 485</i> 486<br> 487The 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (<strong>ICML</strong>) 488<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 489, 2022. 490<p> </p> 491 492<li>Xuchuang Wang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 493<i> 494<a href="https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2022/0491.pdf"> 495Multi-Player Multi-Armed Bandits with Finite Shareable Resources Arms: Learning Algorithms & Applications. 496</a> 497</i> 498<br> 49931st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>IJCAI</strong>) 500<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 501, 2022. 502<p> </p> 503 504<li>Junpu Chen, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>. </li> 505<i> 506<a href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/20572"> 507An Online Learning Approach to Sequential User-centric Selection Problems. 508</a> 509</i> 510<br> 511Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>) 512<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 513, 2022. 514<p> </p> 515 516<li>Qiao Tang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>. </li> 517<i> 518<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9679084/"> 519A Robust Algorithm to Unifying Offline Causal Inference and Online Multi-armed Bandit Learning. 520</a> 521</i> 522<br> 523IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (<strong>ICDM</strong>), 2021. 524<p> </p> 525 526<li>Mingze Zhong, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Qingsheng Zhu. </li> 527<i> 528<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3447548.3467244"> 529Quantifying Assimilate-Contrast Effects in Online Rating Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Application. 530</a> 531</i> 532<br> 533ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<strong>KDD</strong>) 534<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 535, 2021. 536<p> </p> 537 538<li>Qiao Tang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yunni Xia, Jia Lee, Qingsheng Zhu. </li> 539<i> 540<a href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17446"> 541Robust Contextual Bandits via Bootstrapping. 542</a> 543</i> 544<br> 545Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>) 546<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 547, 2021. 548<p> </p> 549 550<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yishi Lin, and John C.S. Lui. </li> 551<i> 552<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442381.3449982"> 553Unifying Offline Causal Inference and Online Bandit Learning for Data Driven Decision. 554</a> 555</i> 556<br> 557The Web Conference (<strong>WWW</strong>) 558<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 559, 2021. 560<p> </p> 561 562<li>Pei Yi, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yongkun Li, and John C.S. Lui. </li> 563<i> 564<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9458774/"> 565A Bootstrapping Approach to Optimize Random Walk Based Statistical Estimation over Graphs. 566</a> 567</i> 568<br> 569IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (<strong>ICDE</strong>) 570<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 571, 2021. 572<p> </p> 573 574<li>Shiyuan Zheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong> and John C.S. Lui. </li> 575<i> 576<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487351.3488347"> 577Pricing Social Visibility Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Algorithms. 578</a> 579</i> 580<br> 581The International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (<strong>ASONAM </strong>), short paper, 2021. 582<p> </p> 583 584<li>Shiyuan Zheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong> and John C.S. Lui. </li> 585<i> 586<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9458943"> 587Social Visibility Optimization in OSNs with Anonymity Guarantees: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications. 588</a> 589</i> 590<br> 591IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (<strong>ICDE</strong>) 592<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 593, short paper, 2021. 594<p> </p> 595 596<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong> and John C.S. Lui. </li> 597<i> 598<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9458660"> 599Heterogeneous Information Assisted Bandit Learning: Theory and Application. 600</a> 601</i> 602<br> 603IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (<strong>ICDE</strong>) 604<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 605, short paper, 2021. 606<p> </p> 607 608 609<li>Tingwei Liu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, and John C.S. Lui. </li> 610<i> 611<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9155466"> 612``Optimizing Mixture Importance Sampling Via Online Learning: Algorithms and Applications. '' 613</a> 614</i> 615<br> 616International Conference on Computer Communication (<strong>INFOCOM</strong>) 617<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 618, 2020. 619<br> 620<span style="color:red"><strong>(Best Paper Candidate)</strong></span> 621<p> </p> 622 623 624<li>Rui Wang, Yongkun Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>
624, John C.S. Lui and Yinlong Xu. </li> 625<i> 626<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20/presentation/wang-rui"> 627``GraphWalker: An I/O-Efficient and Resource-Friendly Graph Analytic System for Fast and Scalable Random Walks. '' 628</a> 629</i> 630<br> 631USENIX Annual Technical Conference (<strong>ATC</strong>) 632<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 633, 2020. 634<p> </p> 635 636<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Hang Li and John C.S. Lui. </li> 637<i> 638<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3366423.3380148"> 639``Conversational Contextual Bandits: Algorithm and Application.'' 640</a> 641</i> 642<br> 643The Web Conference (<strong>WWW</strong>) 644<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 645, 2020. 646<p> </p> 647 648<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, and Mingze Zhong </li> 649<i> 650<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9338288"> 651``Robust Product Rating Rules Against Herding Effects: Theory and Applications.'' 652</a> 653</i> 654<br> 655IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (<strong>ICDM</strong>), short paper, 2020. 656<p> </p> 657 658<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yishi Lin, John C.S. Lui. </li> 659<i> 660<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8970963"> 661``To Be or Not To Be: Analyzing & Modeling Social Recommendation in Online Social Networks.'' 662</a> 663</i> 664<br> 665IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (<strong>ICDM</strong>), pp. 1180-1185, short paper, 2019. 666<br> 667<p> </p> 668 669<li>Yongkun Li, Zhiyong Wu, Shuai Lin, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Min Lv, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui. </li> 670<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8731555"> 671``Walking with Perception: Efficient Random Walk Sampling via Common Neighbor Awareness.'' 672</a> 673</i> 674<br> 675IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (<strong>ICDE</strong>) 676<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 677, pp. 962-973, 2019. 678<p> </p> 679 680<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui </li> 681<i><a href="https://wvvw.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4490"> 682``Understanding Persuasion Cascades in Online Product Rating Systems. '' 683</a> 684</i> 685<br> 686Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>) 687<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 688, pp. 5490-5497, 2019. 689<p> </p> 690 691<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yongkun Li, John C.S. Lui </li> 692<i><a href="https://wvvw.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4800"> 693``Optimizing Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems: 694Characterization and Online Learning. '' 695</a> 696</i> 697<br> 698Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AAAI</strong>) 699<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 700, pp. 7992-7999, 2019. 701<p> </p> 702 703<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui. </li> 704<i><a href="https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2018/763"> 705``Modeling the AssimilationContrast 706Effects in Online Product Rating Systems: Debiasing and Recommendations. '' 707</a> 708</i><br> 709International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (<strong>IJCAI</strong>), 710sister-conference best-paper track, 2018.<br> 711<p> </p> 712 713<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui<br> 714<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8526803"> 715``Sybil Detection in Social-Activity Networks: 716Modeling, Algorithms and Evaluations. '' 717</a> 718</i> 719<br> 720IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (<strong>ICNP</strong>), 2018. 721<br> 722<p> </p> 723 724<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 725<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8526836"> 726``Quantifying Deployability & Evolvability of Future Internet Architectures via Economic Models. '' 727</a> 728</i> 729<br> 730IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (<strong>ICNP</strong>), 2018. 731<br> 732<p> </p> 733 734<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 735<i> 736<a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/mama/2018/abstracts/Xie.pdf"> 737``A Markov Decision Process Approach to Analyze Discount 738& Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems. '' 739</a> 740</i><br> 741The 20nd Workshop on MAthematical 742performance Modeling and Analysis (<strong>MAMA</strong>), 743in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2018.<br> 744<p> </p> 745 746<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Weijie Wu, John C.S. Lui. </li> 747<i><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8215528/"> 748Mining Customer Valuations to Optimize Bundling Strategy. 749</a></i> 750<br> 751Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (<strong>ICDM</strong>), 752pp. 555-564, 2017. 753<p> </p> 754 755<li>Pengpeng Zhao, Yongkun Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Zhiyong Wu, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui. </li> 756<i><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55699-4_20"> 757``Measuring and Maximizing Influence via Random Walk in Social Activity Networks.'' 758</a></i> 759<br> 760Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (<strong>DASFAA</strong>), 761pp. 323-338, 2017. 762<br> 763<p> </p> 764 765<li>Kechao Cai, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 766<i><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3003977.3003982"> 767``Generalization of Information Spreading Forensics via Sequential Dependent Snapshots.'' 768</a></i> 769<br> 770The 18th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (<strong>MAMA</strong>), 771in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2016. 772<br> 773<p> </p> 774 775<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Richard T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui. </li> 776<i><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2896377.2901500"> 777``Trading Discount for Reputation? On the Design and Analysis 778of E-Commerce Discount Mechanisms..'' 779</a></i> 780<br> 781Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 782(<strong>SIGMETRICS</strong>), pp. 417--418, <em>poster</em>, 2016. 783<br> 784<p> </p> 785 786<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 787<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7373433"> 788``A Data Driven Approach to Uncover Deficiencies in Online Reputation Systems.'' 789</a></i> 790<br> 791Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (<strong>ICDM</strong>), 792pp. 1045-1050, short paper, 2015. 793<br> 794<p> </p> 795 796<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 797<i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166531615000577"> 798``Modeling eBay-Like Reputation Systems: Analysis, Characterization 799and Insurance Mechanism Design.'' 800</a></i> 801<br> 802Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Computer Performance, 803Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (<strong>IFIP Performance</strong>), 2015. 804<br> 805<p> </p> 806 807<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley. </li> 808<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7404735"> 809``Incentive and Reputation Mechanisms for Online Crowdsourcing Systems.'' 810</a></i> 811<br> 812Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on 813Quality and Service (<strong>IWQoS</strong>), pp. 207-212, short paper, 2015. 814<br> 815<p> </p> 816 817<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 818<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7164979"> 819``A Mechanism Approach to Reduce the Ramp Up Time in eBay like 820Reputation Mechanisms.'' 821</a></i> 822<br> 823Proceedings of the IEEE 35th International Conference on 824Distributed Computing Systems (<strong>ICDCS</strong>), 825pp. 770-771, <em>poster</em>, 2015. 826<br> 827<p> </p> 828 829<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Wenjie Jiang. </li> 830<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7033653"> 831``Mathematical Modeling of Crowdsourcing Systems: 832Incentive Mechanism and Rating System Design.''</a> </i> 833<br> 834Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Modelling, 835Analysis and Simulation of Computer and 836Telecommunication Systems (<strong>MASCOTS</strong>
836), pp. 181-186, short paper, 2014. 837<br> 838<p> </p> 839 840<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Wenjie Jiang, Wei Chen. </li> 841<i><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7028448"> 842``Incentive Mechanism and Protocol Design for Crowdsourcing Systems.'' 843</a></i> 844<br> 845Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 846(<strong>Allerton</strong>), pp.140-147, 2014. 847<br> 848<p> </p> 849 850<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 851<i><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2667522.2667539"> 852``Modeling crowdsourcing systems: design and analysis of incentive 853mechanism and rating system.'' 854</a></i> 855<br> 856The 16th Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis 857(<strong>MAMA</strong>), 2014, in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2014. 858<br> 859<p> </p> 860 861<li>Silei Xu, Yishi Lin, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 862<i><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2618243.2618250"> 863``A Provable Algorithmic Approach to Product Selection 864Problems for Market Entry and Sustainability.''</a> </i> 865<br> 866Proceedings of the 26th Int. Conference on Scientific 867and Statistical Database Management (<strong>SSDBM</strong>), 868pp. 19:1--19:12, 2014. 869<br> 870 871 872 873<!--Journal papers --> 874<!--Journal papers --> 875<!--Journal papers --> 876<!--Journal papers --> 877 878<h3> 879<p class="style6"> <strong>Journal papers:</strong></p> 880</h3> 881 882<li>Pu Li, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Chongjun Xia, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 883<i> 884`` Rethinking Homogeneity in Interactive Recommendation: Dynamic Fine-Grained Control for Mitigating Filter Bubbles.'' 885</i><br> 886accepted to ACM Transactions on the Web (<strong>TWEB</strong>), 2026. 887<p> </p> 888 889<li>Qiuyue Lv, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 890<i> 891`` CoTF: Contrastive learning of disentangled temporal-frequency representations for long-term cloud workload forecasting.'' 892</i><br> 893accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (<strong>TCC</strong>), 2026. 894<p> </p> 895 896 897 898<li>Jin Zhang, Defu Lian, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yawen Li, Enhong Chen. </li> 899<i> 900`` Interactive Graph Convolutional Filtering.'' 901</i><br> 902Artificial Intelligence (<strong>AIJ</strong>), 355: 104524, 2026. 903<p> </p> 904 905<li>Xiaoyu Shi, Qiuyue Lv, Bingchao Wang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 906<i> 907`` DEL4CW: Deep Expansion Learning for Cloud Workloads Prediction.'' 908</i><br> 909ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), 20(4): 51:1-51:33, 2026. 910<p> </p> 911 912<li>Pinghui Wang, Haoxin Yang, Dongxu Zeng, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Junzhou Zhao, Xiaohong Guan . </li> 913<i> 914`` MPC-FH: Privately Estimating Frequency Histogram for Advertising Measurement.'' 915</i><br> 916IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (<strong>TDSC</strong>), 23(2): 2501-2518, 2026. 917<p> </p> 918 919<li>Congjun Xia, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yun Lu, Pu Li, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 920<i> 921`` Beyond Trade-offs: Leveraging Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of User Preference for Long-term Fairness and Accuracy in Interactive Recommendation.'' 922</i><br> 923ACM Transactions on the Web (<strong>TWEB</strong>), 20(1): 3:1-3:26, 2026. 924<p> </p> 925 926<li>Mingze Zhong, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Meng Fang, Zijing Shi, Ling Chen. </li> 927<i> 928`` Quantifying and mitigating the spiral of silence in recommender systems: A modular probabilistic framework.'' 929</i><br> 930Knowled Based Systems (<strong>KBS</strong>) 336: 115283, 2026. 931<p> </p> 932 933<li>Yan Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Jinyang He, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 934<i> 935`` Dual debiasing learning for single-source federated domain generalization under data imbalance.'' 936</i><br> 937Neurocomputing 697: 134251, 2026. 938<p> </p> 939 940 941<li>Yan Wang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Jinyang He, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang. </li> 942<i> 943<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724398"> 944`` Cross-Domain Semantic Transfer for Domain Generalization.'' 945</a> 946</i><br> 947ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (<strong>TOMM</strong>), 21(5): 149:1-149:24 (2025). 948<p> </p> 949 950 951<li>X.X. Dai, X.T. Liu, J.H. Zuo, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, C. Joe-Wong, John C.S. Lui. </li> 952<i> 953<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10821481"> 954`` Variance-Aware Bandit Framework for Dynamic Probabilistic Maximum Coverage Problem with Triggered or Self-Reliant Arms.'' 955</a> 956</i><br> 957IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (<strong>ToN</strong>), 33(3): 982-993 (2025). 958<p> </p> 959 960 961<li>Ruimeng Li, Yuanhao Pu, Zhaoyi Li, Chenwang Wu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Defu Lian </li> 962<i> 963<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10994-024-06730-9"> 964`` Invariant Representation Learning via Decoupling Style and Spurious Features.'' 965</a> 966</i><br>
967Machine Learning Journal (<strong>MLJ</strong>), 114(2): 37 (2025). 968<p> </p> 969 970<li>Haoran Gu, Shiyuan Zheng, Xudong Liu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 971<i> 972<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3696473"> 973`` Online Incentive Protocol Design for Reposting Service in Online Social Networks.'' 974</a> 975</i><br> 976ACM Transactions on the Web (<strong>TWEB</strong>), 19(2): 20:1-20:30 (2025). 977<p> </p> 978 979<li>Tao Tan, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang </li> 980<i> 981<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3688849"> 982``A Meta-learning Approach to Mitigating the Estimation Bias of Q-learning.'' 983</a> 984</i><br> 985ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), 18(9): 226:1-226:23 (2024). 986<p> </p> 987 988<li>Tao Tan, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yunni Xia, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang </li> 989<i> 990<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-024-02190-8"> 991``Adaptive Moving Average Q-learning.'' 992</a> 993</i><br> 994Knowledge and Information Systems (<strong>KAIS</strong>), 66(12): 7389-7417 (2024). 995<p> </p> 996 997 998<li>Xiaoyu Shi, Quanliang Liu, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Di Wu, Bo Peng, Mingsheng Shang, Defu Lian </li> 999<i> 1000<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3618107"> 1001``Relieving Popularity Bias in Interactive Recommendation: A Diversity-Novelty-Aware Reinforcement Learning Approach.'' 1002</a> 1003</i><br> 1004ACM Transactions on Information Systems (<strong>TOIS</strong>), 100552:1-52:30, 2024 1006<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1007. 1008<p> </p> 1009 1010<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Mingze Zhong, Xiaoyu Shi, Xiaoying Zhang, Jiang Zhong, Mingsheng Shang </li> 1011<i> 1012<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10173606"> 1013``Probabilistic Modeling of Assimilate-ContrastEffects in Online Rating Systems.'' 1014</a> 1015</i><br> 1016IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (<strong>TKDE</strong>), 101736(2): 795-808, 2024 1018<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1019. 1020<p> </p> 1021 1022 1023<li>Tao Tan, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yunni Xia, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang </li> 1024<i> 1025<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025524011344"> 1026``Asynchronous SGD with Stale Gradient Dynamic Adjustment for Deep Learning Training.'' 1027</a> 1028</i><br> 1029accepted to Information Sciences (<strong>INS</strong>), 1030 681: 121220, 2024 1031. 1032<p> </p> 1033 1034<li>Xiaoyu Shi, Quanliang Liu, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yanan Bai, Mingsheng Shang </li> 1035<i> 1036<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10403940"> 1037``Maximum Entropy Policy for Long-term Fairness in Interactive Recommender Systems.'' 1038</a> 1039</i><br> 1040IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (<strong>TSC</strong>), 104117(3): 1029-1043, 2024 1042. 1043<p> </p> 1044 1045<li>Gengzhi Zhang, Liang Feng, Yu Wang, Min Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Kay Chen Tan </li> 1046<i> 1047<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10444921"> 1048``Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Policy Gradient Transfer Across Heterogeneous Problems.'' 1049</a> 1050</i><br> 1051accepted to IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (<strong>TETCI</strong>), 10528(3): 2213-2227, 2024 1053. 1054<p> </p> 1055 1056<li>Haoran Gu, Yunni Xia, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Xiaoyu Shi, Mingsheng Shang </li> 1057<i> 1058<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025523015785"> 1059``Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Conversational Contextual Bandit.'' 1060</a> 1061</i><br> 1062Information Sciences (<strong>INS</strong>), 1063657: 119993, 2024 1064. 1065<p> </p> 1066 1067<li>Tao Tan, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Liang Feng </li> 1068<i> 1069<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025523014871"> 1070``Q-learning with Heterogeneous Update Strategy.'' 1071</a> 1072</i><br> 1073Information Sciences (<strong>INS</strong>), 656: 119902, 2024 1074. 1075<p> </p> 1076 1077 1078<li>Xuchuang Wang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1079<i> 1080<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10124349"> 1081``Analyzing Queueing Problems via Bandits with Linear Reward & Nonlinear Workload Fairness.'' 1082</a> 1083</i><br> 1084IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (<strong>TMC</strong>), 23(4): 3410-3423, 2024 1085<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1086. 1087<p> </p> 1088 1089<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Pei Yi, Yongkun Li and John C.S. Lui </li> 1090<i> 1091<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9610982"> 1092``Optimizing Random Walk Based Statistical Estimation over Graphs via Bootstrapping.'' 1093</a> 1094</i><br> 1095IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (<strong>TKDE</strong>) 1096<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1097, 35(3), 2916-2929, 2023. 1098<p> </p> 1099 1100<li>Yongkun Li, Rui Wang, Shuai Lin, Weijie Wu,, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui </li> 1101<i> 1102<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9712235"> 1103``Common Neighbors Matter: Fast Random Walk Sampling with Common Neighbor Awareness.'' 1104</a> 1105</i><br> 1106IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (<strong>TKDE</strong>) 1107<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1108, Vol. 35(5): 4570-4584, 2023 1109. 1110<p> </p> 1111 1112<li><strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1113<i> 1114<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992011"> 1115``Cooperation Preference Aware Shapley Value: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications.'' 1116</a> 1117</i><br> 1118IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (<strong>ToN</strong>), 31(6): 2439-2453, 2023 1119<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1120. 1121<p> </p> 1122 1123 1124<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Qiao Tang and Qingsheng Zhu </li> 1125<i> 1126<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9750401"> 1127``A Multiplier Bootstrap Approach to Designing Robust Algorithms for Contextual Bandits.'' 1128</a> 1129</i><br> 1130IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (<strong>TNNLS</strong>), 113134(12): 9887-9899, 2023. 1132<p> </p> 1133 1134<li>Xiongxiao Xu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1135<i> 1136<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9614656"> 1137``Generalized Contextual Bandits With Latent Features: Algorithms and Applications.'' 1138</a> 1139</i><br> 1140IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (<strong>TNNLS</strong>), 34(8): 4763-4775, 2023. 1141<p> </p> 1142 1143<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Haoran Gu, Zhi Qi </li> 1144<i> 1145<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025523003560"> 1146``Efficient Algorithms for Multi-armed Bandits with Additional Feedbacks: Modeling and Algorithms.'' 1147</a> 1148</i><br> 1149Information Sciences (<strong>INS</strong>), 633: 453-468, 2023. 1150<p> </p> 1151 1152<li>Shiyuan Zheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1153<i> 1154<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9960811"> 1155``Pricing Social Visibility Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Algorithms.'' 1156</a> 1157</i><br> 1158IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (<strong>TNSE</strong>), 10(2): 859-870, 2023. 1159<p> </p> 1160 1161<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Pei Yi and John C.S. Lui </li> 1162<i> 1163<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9714881"> 1164``Enhancing Sybil Detection via Social-Activity Networks: A Random Walk Approach.'' 1165</a> 1166</i><br> 1167IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (<strong>TDSC</strong>) 1168<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1169, Vol. 20(2): 1213-1227, 2023 1170.
1171<p> </p> 1172 1173<li>Xuchuang Wang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Pinghui Wang, John C.S. Lui </li> 1174<i> 1175<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166531623000214"> 1176``Optimizing Recommendations under Abandonment Risks: Models and Algorithms.'' 1177</a> 1178</i><br> 1179Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal (<strong>Performance Evaluation</strong>), 1180161: 102351, 2023. 1181<p> </p> 1182 1183<li>Tingwei Liu, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1184<i> 1185<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9411741"> 1186``Online Zero-Cost Learning: Optimizing Large Scale Network Rare Threats Simulation.'' 1187</a> 1188</i><br> 1189IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (<strong>TMC</strong>) 1190<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1191, 22(1): 356-373, 2023. 1192<p> </p> 1193 1194<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1195<i> 1196<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9400757"> 1197``Quantifying Worker Reliability for Crowdsensing Applications: Robust Feedback Rating & Convergence.'' 1198</a> 1199</i><br> 1200IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (<strong>TMC</strong>) 1201<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1202, 22(1): 459-471, 2023. 1203<p> </p> 1204 1205<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui </li> 1206<i> 1207<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9451547"> 1208``A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Price Cloud Resources with Provable Convergence Guarantees.'' 1209</a> 1210</i><br> 1211IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (<strong>TNNLS</strong>), vol. 33(12), pp. 7448-7460, 2022. 1212<p> </p> 1213 1214<li>Rui Wang, Yongkun Li, Yinlong Xu, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Shuibing He </li> 1215<i> 1216<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3533579"> 1217``Towards Fast and Scalable Random Walks over Disk-Resident Graphs via Efficient I/O Management.'' 1218</a> 1219</i><br> 1220ACM Transactions on Storage (<strong>TOS</strong>) 1221<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1222, vol 18 (4), 1-33, 2022. 1223<p> </p> 1224 1225<li>Chengwu Liao, Chao Chen, Chaocan Xiang, Hongyu Huang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Songtao Guo </li> 1226<i> 1227<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3533579"> 1228``Taxi-Passenger's Destination Prediction via GPS Embedding and Attention-Based BiLSTM Model.'' 1229</a> 1230</i><br> 1231IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<strong>TITS</strong>)ï¼ 23(5): 4460-4473 (2022) 1232<p> </p> 1233 1234<li>Shiyuan Zheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, and John C.S. Lui </li> 1235<i> 1236<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9736639"> 1237``Optimizing Social Visibility in OSNs with Anonymity Guarantees: Efficient Algorithms and Applications.'' 1238</a> 1239</i><br> 1240IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (<strong>TNSE</strong>), vol 9(4), pp. 2237-2251, 2022. 1241<p> </p> 1242 1243<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, and John C.S. Lui </li> 1244<i> 1245<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3522590"> 1246``Improving Bandit Learning via Heterogeneous Information Networks: Algorithms and Applications.'' 1247</a> 1248</i><br> 1249ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), vol 16(6), pp. 1-25, 2022. 1250<p> </p> 1251 1252<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Yishi Lin and John C.S. Lui </li> 1253<i>
1254<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9263376"> 1255``Rewarding Social Recommendation in OSNs: Empirical Evidences, Modeling and Optimizations.'' 1256</a> 1257</i><br> 1258IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (<strong>TKDE</strong>) 1259<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1260, vol 34(9), 4410-4424, 2022. 1261<p> </p> 1262 1263<li>Chengwu Liao, Chao Chen, Zhiqing Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie</strong> </li> 1264<i> 1265<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-019-01346-6"> 1266``Understanding and visualizing passengers' travel behaviours: a device-free sensing way leveraging taxi trajectory data.'' 1267</a> 1268</i><br> 1269Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(3): 491-503, 2022. 1270<p> </p> 1271 1272<li>Mingqiang Zhou, Haijiang Jin, Quanwang Wu, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Qizhi Han. </li> 1273<i> 1274<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10489-021-02633-7"> 1275``Betweenness centrality-based community adaptive network representation for link prediction.'' 1276</a> 1277</i><br> 1278Applied Intelligence, 52(4), 3545-3558, 2022. 1279<p> </p> 1280 1281<li>Xifeng Xu, Yunni Xia, Feng Zeng, Fan Li, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Xiaodong Fu, Mengdi Wang. </li> 1282<i> 1283<a href="https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13677-022-00357-8"> 1284``A novel vehicular task deployment method in hybrid MEC.'' 1285</a> 1286</i><br> 1287Journal of Cloud Computing, 11: 88, 2022. 1288<p> </p> 1289 1290<li>Rui Wang, Yongkun Li, Shuai Lin, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yinlong Xu, John C.S. Lui </li> 1291<i> 1292<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3451218"> 1293``On Modeling Influence Maximization in Social Activity Networks under General Settings.'' 1294</a> 1295</i><br> 1296ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), vol 15(6), pp. 108:1-108:28,2021. 1297<p> </p> 1298 1299<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Mingze Zhong, Yongkun Li and John C.S. Lui </li> 1300<i> 1301<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3440887"> 1302``Understanding Persuasion Cascades in Online Product Rating Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Inference.'' 1303</a> 1304</i><br> 1305ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), vol. 15(3), pp. 36:1-36:29, 2021. 1306<p> </p> 1307 1308<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Yongkun Li and John C.S. Lui </li> 1309<i> 1310<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3400024"> 1311``A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimize Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems.'' 1312</a> 1313</i><br> 1314ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (<strong>TOIT</strong>), Vol. 20 (4), 2020. 1315<p> </p> 1316 1317 1318<li>Ye Li, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Ken Calvert. </li> 1319<i> 1320<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9146594"> 1321``Quantifying Deployability & Evolvability of Future Internet Architectures via Economic Models.'' 1322</a> 1323</i><br> 1324IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (<strong>ToN</strong>) 1325<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1326, vol. 28(5), pp. 1995 - 2008, 2020. 1327<p> </p> 1328 1329<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1330<i> 1331<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7987779/"> 1332``Mining Deficiencies of Online Reputation Systems: Methodologies, Experiments and Implications.'' 1333</a> 1334</i><br> 1335IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (<strong>TSC</strong>), 1336<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1337vol. 13(5), pp. 887-900, 2020. 1338<p> </p> 1339 1340<li>Xiaoying Zhang, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, Junzhou Zhao, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1341<i> 1342<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3362651"> 1343``Understanding Assimilation-Contrast Effects in Online Rat. Sys.: Modeling, Debiasing and Applications..'' 1344</a> 1345</i><br> 1346ACM Transactions on Information Systems (<strong>TOIS</strong>) 1347<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1348, vol. 38(1), 2:1-2:25, 2020. 1349<p> </p> 1350 1351<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Weijie Wu, Richard T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1352<i> 1353<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3361148"> 1354``Pay as Your Service Needs: An Application-Driven Pricing Approach for the Internet Economics.'' 1355</a> 1356</i><br> 1357ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (<strong>TOIT</strong>), vol. 19(4), 2019. 1358<p> </p> 1359 1360<li>Yuandou Wang, Hang Liu, Wanbo Zheng, Yunni Xia, Yawen Li, Peng Chen, Kunyin Guo, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>. </li> 1361<i> 1362<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8676306"> 1363``Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling With Deep-Q-Network-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.'' 1364</a> 1365</i><br> 1366IEEE Access, 7: 39974-39982, 2019. 1367<p> </p> 1368 1369<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1370<i> 1371<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3305218.3305221 "> 1372A Markov Decision Process Approach to Analyze Discount & Reputation Trade-offs in E-commerce Systems. 1373</a> 1374</i><br> 1375SIGMETRICS <strong>Performance Evaluation Review</strong>, 1376vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 3-5, 2018. <br> 1377<p> </p> 1378 1379 1380<li>Kechao Cai, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1381<i> 1382``<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8264787"> 1383Information Source Detection on Networks via Sequential Depedent Snapshots</a>.'' 1384</i><br> 1385IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (<strong>ToN</strong>) 1386<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1387, 138826(1), 478-491, 2018. 1389<p> </p> 1390 1391<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1392<i> 1393<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7429762/"> 1394``Incentive Mechanism and Rating System Design for Crowdsourcing Systems: 1395Analysis, Tradeoffs and Inference.'' 1396</a> 1397</i><br> 1398IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 1399(<strong>TSC</strong>), 1400<!--<span style="color:red"><strong>[CCF-A]</strong></span>--> 1401vol. 11, pp. 90-102, 2018.<br> 1402<p> </p> 1403 1404<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, Richard T.B. Ma, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1405<i> 1406<a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3154417"> 1407``Enhancing Reputation via Price Discount in E-Commerce Systems: 1408A Data Driven Approach.'' 1409</a> 1410</i><br> 1411ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), 1412vol. 12(3), 2018.<br> 1413<p> </p> 1414 1415<li>Kechao Cai, <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1416<i><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3003977.3003982"> 1417``Generalization of Information Spreading Forensics via Sequential Dependent Snapshots.'' 1418</a> 1419</i><br> 1420SIGMETRICS <strong>Performance Evaluation Review</strong>, 1421vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 12-14, 2016. <br> 1422<p> </p> 1423 1424<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley. </li> 1425<i> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2897510"> 1426``Design and Analysis of Incentive and Reputation Mechanisms 1427for Online Crowdsourcing Systems.'' </a> 1428</i><br> 1429ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems 1430(<strong>TOMPECS</strong>), 1(3), 2016.<br> 1431<p> </p> 1432 1433<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1434<i> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2667522.2667539"> 1435 ``Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Product Rating with Partial Information.''</a> 1436</i><br> 1437ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (<strong>TKDD</strong>), 1438vol. 9 (4), pp. 26:1-26:33, 2015.<br> 1439<p> </p> 1440 1441<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1442<i> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166531615000577"> 1443 ``Modeling eBay-Like Reputation Systems: Analysis, Characterization 1444 and Insurance Mechanism Design.'' </a> 1445 </i><br> 1446Elsevier <strong>Performance Evaluation</strong> Journal, 1447vol. 91, pp. 132-149, 2015.<br> 1448<p> </p> 1449 1450<li> <strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1451<i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166531614000443"> 1452``Mathematical modeling of group product recommendation 1453with partial information: How many ratings do we need?'' </a> 1454</i><br> 1455Elsevier <strong>Performance Evaluation</strong> Journal, 1456vol. 77, pp. 72-95, 2014. <br> 1457<p> </p> 1458 1459<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, John C.S. Lui. </li> 1460<i> 1461<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2667522.2667539"> 1462``Modeling crowdsourcing systems: design and analysis 1463of incentive mechanism and rating system.'' 1464</a> 1465</i><br> 1466SIGMETRICS <strong>Performance Evaluation Review</strong>, 1467vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 52-54, 2014. <br> 1468 1469 </ol> 1470 1471<p class="style6"><strong> Thesis:</strong></p> 1472<ul> 1473<li><strong>Hong Xie</strong>, 1474"<em>The Data Science of Internet Economics: Modeling, 1475Analysis and Inference</em>", 1476Ph.D. thesis, 2015</li> 1477</ul> 1478 1479</body> 1480 1481 1482 1483</html>
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