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Carl Yang

Emory University, Department of Computer Science, Atlanta, GA, USA

65 papers at tracked venues · 47 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

SIGKDD ×15WWW ×11ACL ×5EMNLP ×5NeurIPS ×5CIKM ×4ICML ×3SDM ×3AAAI ×2ACM MM ×1CVPR ×1EACL ×1ICDE ×1ICLR ×1IJCAI ×1ISWC ×1MICCAI ×1NAACL ×1SIGIR ×1SIGMOD ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Ran Xu
×14
Joyce C. Ho
×10
Yanchao Tan
×8
Wenqi Shi
×8
Yuchen Zhuang
×7
Yue Yu
×7
Hang Lv
×6
Wei Jin
×5
Huaming Du
×5
Gang Kou
×5
Guofang Ma
×5
May Dongmei Wang
×5

Papers

  1. A Unified Framework for Rule Learning: Integrating Commonsense Knowledge from LLMs with Structured Knowledge from Knowledge Graphs
    WWW 2026 ·
    Qirui Hao
    ,
    Kewei Cheng
    ,
    Tongze Zhang
    ,
    Hongyuan Liu
    ,
    Junming Shao
    , Carl Yang
  2. Awaken the Giant: Activating LLMs via Deep Model Guidance for Boundary-aware Medication Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Zixuan Guo
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Wanzi Shao
    ,
    Hengyu Zhang
    , Carl Yang
  3. Beyond Chunks and Graphs: Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Triplet-Driven Thinking
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shengbo Gong
    ,
    Xianfeng Tang
    ,
    Qi He
    , Carl Yang,
    Wei Jin
  4. Beyond Memorization: A Rigorous Evaluation Framework for Medical Knowledge Editing
    EACL 2026 ·
    Shigeng Chen
    ,
    Linhao Luo
    ,
    Zhangchi Qiu
    ,
    Yanan Cao
    , Carl Yang,
    Shirui Pan
  5. EviCare: Enhancing Diagnosis Prediction with Deep Model-Guided Evidence for In-Context Reasoning
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Hengyu Zhang
    ,
    Xuyun Zhang
    ,
    Pengxiang Zhan
    ,
    Linhao Luo
    ,
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Shirui Pan
    , Carl Yang
  6. MixRAG : Mixture-of-Experts Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering
    WWW 2026 ·
    Lihui Liu
    ,
    Jiayuan Ding
    ,
    Subhabrata Mukherjee
    , Carl Yang
  7. OpenRubrics: Towards Scalable Synthetic Rubric Generation for Reward Modeling and LLM Alignment
    ACL 2026 ·
    Tianci Liu
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Tony Yu
    ,
    Ilgee Hong
    , Carl Yang,
    Tuo Zhao
    ,
    Haoyu Wang
  8. RAG in the Wild: On the (In)effectiveness of LLMs with Mixture-of-Knowledge Retrieval Augmentation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Haoyu Wang
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    , Carl Yang
  9. Scalable Graph Condensation with Evolving Capabilities
    SIGKDD 2026 ·
    Shengbo Gong
    ,
    Mohammad Hashemi
    ,
    Juntong Ni
    , Carl Yang,
    Wei Jin
  10. Traceable Latent Variable Discovery Based on Multi-Agent Collaboration
    WWW 2026 ·
    Huaming Du
    ,
    Tao Hu
    ,
    Yijie Huang
    ,
    Yu Zhao
    ,
    Guisong Liu
    ,
    Tao Gu
    ,
    Gang Kou
    , Carl Yang
  11. Transferable Graph Condensation from the Causal Perspective
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Huaming Du
    ,
    Yijie Huang
    ,
    Su Yao
    ,
    Yiying Wang
    ,
    Yueyang Zhou
    ,
    Jingwen Yang
    ,
    Jinshi Zhang
    ,
    Han Ji
    ,
    Yu Zhao
    ,
    Guisong Liu
    ,
    Hegui Zhang
    , Carl Yang,
    Gang Kou
  12. A Survey on Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Biomedicine and Healthcare
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Patrick Jiang
    ,
    Linhao Luo
    ,
    Cao Xiao
    ,
    Adam Cross
    ,
    Shirui Pan
    ,
    Jimeng Sun
    , Carl Yang
  13. AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Zihan Dong
    ,
    Ruiyu Wang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    ,
    Linjun Zhang
    ,
    Haoyu Wang
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    , Carl Yang
  14. Are Your LLM-based Text-to-SQL Models Secure? Exploring SQL Injection via Backdoor Attacks
    SIGMOD 2025 ·
    Meiyu Lin
    ,
    Haichuan Zhang
    ,
    Jiale Lao
    ,
    Renyuan Li
    ,
    Yuanchun Zhou
    , Carl Yang,
    Yang Cao
    ,
    Mingjie Tang
  15. Boosting E-commerce Content Diversity: A Graph-based RAG Approach with User Reviews
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Jiaxi Yang
    ,
    Yiling Jia
    , Carl Yang,
    Yi Liang
    ,
    Lu Lin
  16. BoxLM: Unifying Structures and Semantics of Medical Concepts for Diagnosis Prediction in Healthcare
    ICML 2025 ·
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Yunfei Zhan
    ,
    Guofang Ma
    ,
    Bo Xiong
    , Carl Yang
  17. Causal Discovery through Synergizing Large Language Model and Data-Driven Reasoning
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Huaming Du
    ,
    Yujia Zheng
    ,
    Baoyu Jing
    ,
    Yu Zhao
    ,
    Gang Kou
    ,
    Guisong Liu
    ,
    Tao Gu
    ,
    Weimin Li
    , Carl Yang
  18. Contrastive Unlearning: A Contrastive Approach to Machine Unlearning
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Hong-Kyu Lee
    ,
    Qiuchen Zhang
    , Carl Yang,
    Jian Lou
    ,
    Li Xiong
  19. Correlation-Aware Graph Convolutional Networks for Multi-Label Node Classification
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Yuanchen Bei
    ,
    Weizhi Chen
    ,
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Sheng Zhou
    , Carl Ji Yang,
    Jiapei Fan
    ,
    Longtao Huang
    ,
    Jiajun Bu
  20. Don't Forget the Enjoin: FocalLoRA for Instruction Hierarchical Alignment in Large Language Models
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Zitong Shi
    ,
    Frank Wan
    ,
    Haixin Wang
    ,
    Ruoyan Li
    ,
    Zijie Huang
    ,
    Wanjia Zhao
    ,
    Yijia Xiao
    ,
    Xiao Luo
    , Carl Yang,
    Yizhou Sun
    ,
    Wei Wang
  21. EAGLES: Towards Effective, Efficient, and Economical Federated Graph Learning via Unified Sparsification
    ICML 2025 ·
    Zitong Shi
    ,
    Guancheng Wan
    ,
    Wenke Huang
    ,
    Guibin Zhang
    ,
    He Li
    , Carl Yang,
    Mang Ye
  22. Explainable Text Classification with LLMs: Enhancing Performance through Dialectical Prompting and Explanation-Guided Training
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Huaming Du
    ,
    Lei Yuan
    ,
    Cancan Feng
    ,
    Guisong Liu
    ,
    Gang Kou
    , Carl Yang
  23. FedGrAINS: Personalized SubGraph Federated Learning with AdaptIve Neighbor Sampling
    SDM 2025 ·
    Emir Ceyani
    ,
    Han Xie
    ,
    Baturalp Buyukates
    , Carl Yang,
    Salman Avestimehr
  24. FedKDD 2025: The 2025 International Joint Workshop on Federated Learning for Data Mining and Graph Analytics
    SIGKDD 2025 · Carl Yang,
    Guancheng Wan
    ,
    Zhuangdi Zhu
    ,
    Zheng Xu
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Nathalie Baracaldo
    ,
    Neil Shah
    ,
    Salman Avestimehr
    ,
    Jiayu Zhou
  25. FedSPA: Generalizable Federated Graph Learning under Homophily Heterogeneity
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Zihan Tan
    ,
    Guancheng Wan
    ,
    Wenke Huang
    ,
    He Li
    ,
    Guibin Zhang
    , Carl Yang,
    Mang Ye
  26. Future Matters for Present: Towards Effective Physical Simulation over Meshes
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Xiao Luo
    ,
    Junyu Luo
    ,
    Huiyu Jiang
    ,
    Hang Zhou
    ,
    Zhiping Xiao
    ,
    Wei Ju
    , Carl Ji Yang,
    Ming Zhang
    ,
    Yizhou Sun
  27. GC4NC: A Benchmark Framework for Graph Condensation on Node Classification with New Insights
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Shengbo Gong
    ,
    Juntong Ni
    ,
    Noveen Sachdeva
    , Carl Yang,
    Wei Jin
  28. Graph ODEs and Beyond: A Comprehensive Survey on Integrating Differential Equations with Graph Neural Networks
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Zewen Liu
    ,
    Xiaoda Wang
    ,
    Bohan Wang
    ,
    Zijie Huang
    , Carl Yang,
    Wei Jin
  29. GuardAgent: Safeguard LLM Agents via Knowledge-Enabled Reasoning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Zhen Xiang
    ,
    Linzhi Zheng
    ,
    Yanjie Li
    ,
    Junyuan Hong
    ,
    Qinbin Li
    ,
    Han Xie
    ,
    Jiawei Zhang
    ,
    Zidi Xiong
    ,
    Chulin Xie
    , Carl Yang,
    Dawn Song
    ,
    Bo Li
  30. How to use Graph Data in the Wild to Help Graph Anomaly Detection?
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Yuxuan Cao
    ,
    Jiarong Xu
    ,
    Chen Zhao
    ,
    Jiaan Wang
    , Carl Ji Yang,
    Chunping Wang
    ,
    Yang Yang
  31. HypKG: Hypergraph-Based Knowledge Graph Contextualization for Precision Healthcare
    ISWC 2025 ·
    Yuzhang Xie
    ,
    Xu Han
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Xiao Hu
    ,
    Jiaying Lu
    , Carl Yang
  32. Integrating Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Next-level AGI
    WWW 2025 ·
    Linhao Luo
    , Carl Yang,
    Evgeny Kharlamov
    ,
    Shirui Pan
  33. KDD Health Day 2025: Harnessing AI Opportunities in Biomedicine and Healthcare
    SIGKDD 2025 ·
    Peipei Ping
    ,
    Wei Ding
    , Carl Yang
  34. Large Language Model Empowered Logical Relations Mining for Personalized Recommendation
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Wanzi Shao
    ,
    Guofang Ma
    , Carl Yang
  35. MaSH: Maximal Separating Poincaré Hyperplanes for Hierarchical Imbalanced Learning
    WWW 2025 ·
    Bo Xiong
    ,
    Jiaying Lu
    ,
    Yuqicheng Zhu
    , Carl Yang
  36. MedAlign: Enhancing Combinatorial Medication Recommendation with Multi-modality Alignment
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Zixuan Guo
    ,
    Zijie Wu
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Guofang Ma
    ,
    Zhigang Lin
    ,
    Xiping Chen
    ,
    Hong Cheng
    , Carl Yang
  37. MedAssist: LLM-Empowered Medical Assistant for Assisting the Scrutinization and Comprehension of Electronic Health Records
    WWW 2025 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Jonathan Wang
    ,
    Jasmine Zhou
    , Carl Yang
  38. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Meeyoung Cha
    ,
    Chanyoung Park
    ,
    Noseong Park
    , Carl Yang,
    Senjuti Basu Roy
    ,
    Jessie Li
    ,
    Jaap Kamps
    ,
    Kijung Shin
    ,
    Bryan Hooi
    ,
    Lifang He
  39. Retrieval-augmented GUI Agents with Generative Guidelines
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Kaixin Ma
    ,
    Wenhao Yu
    ,
    Hongming Zhang
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang,
    Dong Yu
  40. SimRAG: Self-Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Adapting Large Language Models to Specialized Domains
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Hui Liu
    ,
    Sreyashi Nag
    ,
    Zhenwei Dai
    ,
    Yaochen Xie
    ,
    Xianfeng Tang
    ,
    Chen Luo
    ,
    Yang Li
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang,
    Qi He
  41. Subgraph Federated Learning for Local Generalization
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Sungwon Kim
    ,
    Yoonho Lee
    ,
    Yunhak Oh
    ,
    Namkyeong Lee
    ,
    Sukwon Yun
    ,
    Junseok Lee
    ,
    Sein Kim
    , Carl Yang,
    Chanyoung Park
  42. BMRetriever: Tuning Large Language Models as Better Biomedical Text Retrievers
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yanqiao Zhu
    ,
    May Dongmei Wang
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    , Carl Yang
  43. Biomedical Visual Instruction Tuning with Clinician Preference Alignment
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Hejie Cui
    ,
    Lingjun Mao
    ,
    Xin Liang
    ,
    Jieyu Zhang
    ,
    Hui Ren
    ,
    Quanzheng Li
    ,
    Xiang Li
    , Carl Yang
  44. BoxCare: A Box Embedding Model for Disease Representation and Diagnosis Prediction in Healthcare Data
    WWW 2024 ·
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Zehai Chen
    ,
    Yacong Yang
    ,
    Guofang Ma
    ,
    Yanchao Tan
    , Carl Yang
  45. Causality-Aware Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks for Spatiotemporal Time Series Imputation
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Baoyu Jing
    ,
    Dawei Zhou
    ,
    Kan Ren
    , Carl Yang
  46. DPAR: Decoupled Graph Neural Networks with Node-Level Differential Privacy
    WWW 2024 ·
    Qiuchen Zhang
    ,
    Hong-Kyu Lee
    ,
    Jing Ma
    ,
    Jian Lou
    , Carl Yang,
    Li Xiong
  47. Deep Efficient Private Neighbor Generation for Subgraph Federated Learning
    SDM 2024 ·
    Ke Zhang
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Bolin Ding
    ,
    Siu Ming Yiu
    , Carl Yang
  48. Deep Graph Neural Networks via Posteriori-Sampling-based Node-Adaptative Residual Module
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Jingbo Zhou
    ,
    Yixuan Du
    ,
    Ruqiong Zhang
    ,
    Jun Xia
    ,
    Zhizhi Yu
    ,
    Zelin Zang
    ,
    Di Jin
    , Carl Yang,
    Rui Zhang
    ,
    Stan Z. Li
  49. EHRAgent: Code Empowers Large Language Models for Few-shot Complex Tabular Reasoning on Electronic Health Records
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Jieyu Zhang
    ,
    Hang Wu
    ,
    Yuanda Zhu
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang,
    May Dongmei Wang
  50. Enhancing Progressive Diagnosis Prediction in Healthcare with Continuous Normalizing Flows
    WWW 2024 ·
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Hengyu Zhang
    ,
    Zihao Zhou
    ,
    Guofang Ma
    ,
    Fan Wang
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Xinting Liao
    ,
    Vicki Stover Hertzberg
    , Carl Yang
  51. FedKDD: International Joint Workshop on Federated Learning for Data Mining and Graph Analytics
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Junyuan Hong
    , Carl Yang,
    Zhuangdi Zhu
    ,
    Zheng Xu
    ,
    Nathalie Baracaldo
    ,
    Neil Shah
    ,
    Salman Avestimehr
    ,
    Jiayu Zhou
  52. Federated Node Classification over Distributed Ego-Networks with Secure Contrastive Embedding Sharing
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Han Xie
    ,
    Li Xiong
    , Carl Yang
  53. GAD-NR: Graph Anomaly Detection via Neighborhood Reconstruction
    WSDM 2024 ·
    Amit Roy
    ,
    Juan Shu
    ,
    Jia Li
    , Carl Yang,
    Olivier Elshocht
    ,
    Jeroen Smeets
    ,
    Pan Li
  54. Helper Recommendation with seniority control in Online Health Community
    SDM 2024 ·
    Junruo Gao
    ,
    Chen Ling
    , Carl Yang,
    Liang Zhao
  55. HypMix: Hyperbolic Representation Learning for Graphs with Mixed Hierarchical and Non-hierarchical Structures
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Eric Wonhee Lee
    ,
    Bo Xiong
    , Carl Yang,
    Joyce C. Ho
  56. Interpretable Spatio-Temporal Embedding for Brain Structural-Effective Network with Ordinary Differential Equation
    MICCAI 2024 ·
    Haoteng Tang
    ,
    Guodong Liu
    ,
    Siyuan Dai
    ,
    Kai Ye
    ,
    Kun Zhao
    ,
    Wenlu Wang
    , Carl Yang,
    Lifang He
    ,
    Alex D. Leow
    ,
    Paul M. Thompson
    ,
    Heng Huang
    ,
    Liang Zhan
  57. Knowledge-Infused Prompting: Assessing and Advancing Clinical Text Data Generation with Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Hejie Cui
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Xuan Kan
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    May Dongmei Wang
    ,
    Wei Jin
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang
  58. Logical Relation Modeling and Mining in Hyperbolic Space for Recommendation
    ICDE 2024 ·
    Yanchao Tan
    ,
    Hang Lv
    ,
    Zihao Zhou
    ,
    Wenzhong Guo
    ,
    Bo Xiong
    ,
    Weiming Liu
    ,
    Chaochao Chen
    ,
    Shiping Wang
    , Carl Yang
  59. MedAdapter: Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Large Language Models Towards Medical Reasoning
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Haotian Sun
    ,
    Hang Wu
    , Carl Yang,
    May Dongmei Wang
  60. PromptLink: Leveraging Large Language Models for Cross-Source Biomedical Concept Linking
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Yuzhang Xie
    ,
    Jiaying Lu
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    ,
    Fadi B. Nahab
    ,
    Xiao Hu
    , Carl Yang
  61. RAM-EHR: Retrieval Augmentation Meets Clinical Predictions on Electronic Health Records
    ACL 2024 ·
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Wenqi Shi
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Bowen Jin
    ,
    May Dongmei Wang
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang
  62. Representation Learning of Temporal Graphs with Structural Roles
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Huaming Du
    ,
    Long Shi
    ,
    Xingyan Chen
    ,
    Yu Zhao
    ,
    Hegui Zhang
    , Carl Yang,
    Fuzhen Zhuang
    ,
    Gang Kou
  63. TACCO: Task-guided Co-clustering of Clinical Concepts and Patient Visits for Disease Subtyping based on EHR Data
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Ziyang Zhang
    ,
    Hejie Cui
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Yuzhang Xie
    ,
    Joyce C. Ho
    , Carl Yang
  64. Uncertainty-Aware Pre-Trained Foundation Models for Patient Risk Prediction via Gaussian Process
    WWW 2024 ·
    Jiaying Lu
    ,
    Shifan Zhao
    ,
    Wenjing Ma
    ,
    Hui Shao
    ,
    Xiao Hu
    ,
    Yuanzhe Xi
    , Carl Yang
  65. Unveiling Implicit Deceptive Patterns in Multi-Modal Fake News via Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Yiqi Dong
    ,
    Dongxiao He
    ,
    Xiaobao Wang
    ,
    Youzhu Jin
    ,
    Meng Ge
    , Carl Yang,
    Di Jin