Published in ICASSP 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2026
Interpretable bias mitigation via concept decomposition in deep neural networks.
Recommended citation: Z. Wang, S. Xu, and X. Cai. "ConceptDebias: Interpretable Bias Mitigation via Concept Decomposition in Deep Neural Networks." ICASSP, 2026.
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04247, 2026
Temporally decoupled backdoor attacks on time series forecasting.
Recommended citation: Z. Liu, X. Liu, S. Xu, Y. Qiao, Y. Zhang, and X. Cai. "Beyond Immediate Activation: Temporally Decoupled Backdoor Attacks on Time Series Forecasting." arXiv:2601.04247, 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04247
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11472, 2025
Weakly-supervised insider threat detection with robust multi-sphere learning.
Recommended citation: Y. Wang, Y. Zhao, X. Jiao, S. Xu, X. Cai, Y. Zhang, and X. Yuan. "RMSL: Weakly-Supervised Insider Threat Detection with Robust Multi-sphere Learning." arXiv:2508.11472, 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11472
Published in International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, 2025
Multimodal POI recommendation via large language model fine-tuning.
Recommended citation: C. Zhang, Y. Zheng, X. Pan, S. Xu, and X. Cai. "LFT4POI: Multimodal POI Recommendation via Large Language Model Fine-Tuning." WISA, pp. 579-590, 2025.
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.11121, 2024
An empirical study and literature analysis of real-world software misconfigurations.
Recommended citation: Y. Liu, Y. Zhou, H. Zhang, Z. Chang, S. Xu, Y. Jia, W. Wang, J. Hu, and Z. Liu. "Rethinking Software Misconfigurations in the Real World: An Empirical Study and Literature Analysis." arXiv:2412.11121, 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11121
Published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024
A geographical correlation enhanced network for point-of-interest recommendation.
Recommended citation: X. Pan, X. Cai, S. Xu, Y. Zhang, P. Nie, and X. Yuan. "GeoCo: Geographical Correlation Enhanced Network for POI Recommendation." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 36(12):8362-8376, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2024.3440365
Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024
This paper is about user behavior anomaly detection at activity level.
Recommended citation: X. Cai, Y. Wang, S. Xu, H. Li, Y. Zhang, Z. Liu, and X. Yuan. "LAN: Learning Adaptive Neighbors for Real-Time Insider Threat Detection." IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19:10157-10172, 2024.
Published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024
This paper is an empirical study about the test coverage criteria for DL systems.
Recommended citation: Z. Wang, S. Xu, L. Fan, X. Cai, L. Li, and Z. Liu. "Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study." ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(7):1-28, 2024.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024
This paper is about vulnerable API detection for third-party libraries.
Recommended citation: F. Zhang, L. Fan, S. Chen, M. Cai, S. Xu, and L. Zhao. "Does the Vulnerability Threaten Our Projects? Automated Vulnerable API Detection for Third-Party Libraries." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 50(11):2906-2920, 2024.
Published in Computer Communications, 2024
Low-cost fuzzing for drone control system configuration errors that threaten flight safety.
Recommended citation: Z. Chang, H. Zhang, Y. Jia, S. Xu, T. Li, and Z. Liu. "Low-Cost Fuzzing Drone Control System for Configuration Errors Threatening Flight Safety in Edge Terminals." Computer Communications, 220:138-148, 2024.
Published in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Security and Privacy, 2023
Fuzzing drone control system configurations using a quality-diversity enhanced genetic algorithm.
Recommended citation: Z. Chang, H. Zhang, Y. Yang, Y. Jia, S. Xu, T. Li, and Z. Liu. "Fuzzing Drone Control System Configurations Based on Quality-Diversity Enhanced Genetic Algorithm." AISec, 2023.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023
Diagnosis of multiple software misconfigurations by identifying correlated configuration parameters.
Recommended citation: Y. Zhou, X. Hu, S. Xu, Y. Jia, Y. Liu, J. Wang, G. Xu, W. Wang, S. Liu, and T. Baker. "Multi-Misconfiguration Diagnosis via Identifying Correlated Configuration Parameters." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(10):4624-4638, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2023.3308755
Published in 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2023
Open source software license summarization with multi-task learning.
Recommended citation: L. Li, S. Xu, Y. Liu, Y. Gao, X. Cai, J. Wu, W. Song, and Z. Liu. "LiSum: Open Source Software License Summarization with Multi-task Learning." ASE, 2023.
Published in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2023
License incompatibility resolution for open source software.
Recommended citation: S. Xu, Y. Gao, L. Fan, L. Li, X. Cai, and Z. Liu. "LiResolver: License Incompatibility Resolution for Open Source Software." ISSTA, 2023.
Published in 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023
Path-sensitive semantic analysis for detecting Android app compatibility issues.
Recommended citation: S. Yang, S. Chen, L. Fan, S. Xu, Z. Hui, and S. Huang. "Compatibility Issue Detection for Android Apps Based on Path-Sensitive Semantic Analysis." ICSE, 2023.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023
Real-time diagnosis of configuration errors in AI server infrastructure software.
Recommended citation: G. Xu, X. Ding, S. Xu, Y. Jia, S. Liu, S. Feng, and X. Zheng. "Real-Time Diagnosis of Configuration Errors for Software of AI Server Infrastructure." IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023.
Published in Heliyon, 2023
Automated extraction of configuration option read sites for IoT cloud infrastructure.
Recommended citation: Y. Liu, W. Wang, Y. Jia, S. Xu, and Z. Liu. "CRSExtractor: Automated Configuration Option Read Sites Extraction towards IoT Cloud Infrastructure." Heliyon, 9(4), 2023.
Published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023
This paper is about license incompatibility detection for open source software.
Recommended citation: S. Xu, Y. Gao, L. Fan, Z. Liu, Y. Liu, and H. Ji. "LiDetector: License Incompatibility Detection for Open Source Software." ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32(1):1-28, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546941
Published in Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023
A metapath-aggregated heterogeneous graph neural network for drug-target interaction prediction.
Recommended citation: M. Li, X. Cai, S. Xu, and H. Ji. "Metapath-Aggregated Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction." Briefings in Bioinformatics, 24(1):bbac578, 2023.
Published in IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2022
Contrastive meta-learning for drug-target binding affinity prediction.
Recommended citation: M. Li, S. Xu, X. Cai, Z. Zhang, and H. Ji. "Contrastive Meta-Learning for Drug-Target Binding Affinity Prediction." BIBM, 2022.
Published in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
Backdoor attacks on continuous prompts.
Recommended citation: X. Cai, H. Xu, S. Xu, and Y. Zhang. "BadPrompt: Backdoor Attacks on Continuous Prompts." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35:37068-37080, 2022. https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/f0722b58f02d7793acf7d328928f933a-Abstract-Conference.html
Published in Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2022
A heterogeneous graph attention network for drug-target interaction prediction.
Recommended citation: M. Li, X. Cai, L. Li, S. Xu, and H. Ji. "Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction." CIKM, 2022.