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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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.&#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.&#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.&#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.&#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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. &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.  &#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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..&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39;</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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39;</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. &nbsp; </li>
883<i> 
884`` Rethinking Homogeneity in Interactive Recommendation: Dynamic Fine-Grained Control for Mitigating Filter Bubbles.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
890<i> 
891`` CoTF: Contrastive learning of disentangled temporal-frequency representations for long-term cloud workload forecasting.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
899<i> 
900``  Interactive Graph Convolutional Filtering.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
906<i> 
907`` DEL4CW: Deep Expansion Learning for Cloud Workloads Prediction.&#39;&#39; 
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 . &nbsp; </li>
913<i> 
914`` MPC-FH: Privately Estimating Frequency Histogram for Advertising Measurement.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
920<i> 
921`` Beyond Trade-offs: Leveraging Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of User Preference for Long-term Fairness and Accuracy in Interactive Recommendation.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
927<i> 
928`` Quantifying and mitigating the spiral of silence in recommender systems: A modular probabilistic framework.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
934<i> 
935`` Dual debiasing learning for single-source federated domain generalization under data imbalance.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </li>
942<i> 
943<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3724398">
944`` Cross-Domain Semantic Transfer for Domain Generalization.&#39;&#39; 
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. &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39;  
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 &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </li>
989<i> 
990<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-024-02190-8">
991``Adaptive Moving Average Q-learning.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1011<i> 
1012<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10173606">
1013``Probabilistic Modeling of Assimilate-ContrastEffects in Online Rating Systems.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </li>
1035<i> 
1036<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10403940">
1037``Maximum Entropy Policy for Long-term Fairness in Interactive Recommender Systems.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </li>
1046<i> 
1047<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10444921">
1048``Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Policy Gradient Transfer Across Heterogeneous Problems.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </li>
1057<i> 
1058<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025523015785">
1059``Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Conversational Contextual Bandit.&#39;&#39; 
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 &nbsp; </li>
1068<i> 
1069<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025523014871">
1070``Q-learning with Heterogeneous Update Strategy.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1079<i> 
1080<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10124349">
1081``Analyzing Queueing Problems via Bandits with Linear Reward & Nonlinear Workload Fairness.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1090<i> 
1091<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9610982">
1092``Optimizing Random Walk Based Statistical Estimation over Graphs via Bootstrapping.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1113<i> 
1114<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992011">
1115``Cooperation Preference Aware Shapley Value: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1135<i> 
1136<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9614656">
1137``Generalized Contextual Bandits With Latent Features: Algorithms and Applications.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1153<i> 
1154<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9960811">
1155``Pricing Social Visibility Service in Online Social Networks: Modeling and Algorithms.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </li>
1174<i> 
1175<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166531623000214">
1176``Optimizing Recommendations under Abandonment Risks: Models and Algorithms.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39;
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&nbsp; </li>
1195<i> 
1196<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9400757">
1197``Quantifying Worker Reliability for Crowdsensing Applications: Robust Feedback Rating & Convergence.&#39;&#39;  
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39;
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
1229</a>
1230</i><br> 
1231IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (<strong>TITS</strong>), 23(5): 4460-4473 (2022)
1232<p> </p>
1233
1234<li>Shiyuan Zheng, <strong>Hong Xie*</strong>, and John C.S. Lui&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39;  
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </li>
1319<i> 
1320<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9146594">
1321``Quantifying Deployability & Evolvability of Future Internet Architectures via Economic Models.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </li>
1330<i>
1331<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7987779/">
1332``Mining Deficiencies of Online Reputation Systems: Methodologies, Experiments and Implications.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </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..&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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>.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp;&nbsp; <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>.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&#39;&#39; 
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.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; </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.&#39;&#39;</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.&nbsp; </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.&#39;&#39; </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?&#39;&#39; </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.&#39;&#39;&nbsp; 
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&quot;<em>The Data Science of Internet Economics: Modeling, 
1475Analysis and Inference</em>&quot;, 
1476Ph.D. thesis, 2015</li>
1477</ul>
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