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Lina Yao

University of New South Wales, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kensington, NSW, Australia

63 papers at tracked venues · 40 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

CIKM ×12SIGIR ×8WWW ×7ICLR ×5CVPR ×4AAAI ×3ACL ×3ACM MM ×3EMNLP ×3IROS ×3NeurIPS ×3ICDM ×2ICML ×2SIGKDD ×2NAACL ×1RecSys ×1WSDM ×1

Frequent coauthors

Tong Yu
×14
Junda Wu
×11
Julian J. McAuley
×11
Chengkai Huang
×11
Quan Z. Sheng
×9
Xiaocong Chen
×7
Siyu Wang
×7
Xiaojun Chang
×6
Yu Xia
×5
Ryan A. Rossi
×5
Hongtao Huang
×5
Wen Hu
×5

Papers

  1. Advantage-Conditioned Flow Policy for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Recommendation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    , Lina Yao
  2. CachePrune: Teaching LLMs What Not to Follow via KV-Cache Editing
    ACL 2026 ·
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Subrata Mitra
    , Lina Yao,
    Julian J. McAuley
  3. DrunkAgent: Stealthy Memory Corruption in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents
    WWW 2026 ·
    Shiyi Yang
    ,
    Zhibo Hu
    ,
    Xinshu Li
    ,
    Chen Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Xiwei Xu
    ,
    Liming Zhu
    , Lina Yao
  4. Dual Conditional Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation
    WSDM 2026 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    ,
    Wen Hu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Lina Yao
  5. Factorized Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Tianqi Gao
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Zihan Wang
    ,
    Cao Liu
    ,
    Ke Zeng
    , Lina Yao
  6. Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching with Domain Alignment for Multi-Domain Sequential Recommendation
    WWW 2026 ·
    Xiaoxin Ye
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Hongtao Huang
    , Lina Yao
  7. LLM-UP: SIGIR 2026 Workshop on LLM-powered User Profiling for Search and Recommendation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Hongzhi Yin
    ,
    Wei Yuan
    ,
    Yi Zhang
    ,
    Joel Mackenzie
    ,
    Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen
    ,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    ,
    Yong Li
    , Lina Yao
  8. MEG-RAG: Quantifying Multi-modal Evidence Grounding for Evidence Selection in RAG
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Xihang Wang
    ,
    Zihan Wang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao
  9. ParaMETA: Towards Learning Disentangled Paralinguistic Speaking Styles Representations from Speech
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Haowei Lou
    ,
    Hye-young Paik
    ,
    Wen Hu
    , Lina Yao
  10. PruneRAG: Confidence-Guided Query Decomposition Trees for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    WWW 2026 ·
    Shuguang Jiao
    ,
    Xinyu Xiao
    ,
    Yunfan Wei
    ,
    Shuhan Qi
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao
  11. Purifying Multimodal Retrieval: Fragment-Level Evidence Selection for RAG
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Xihang Wang
    ,
    Zihan Wang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Cao Liu
    ,
    Ke Zeng
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao
  12. RegionSLM: Region-aware Question Answering on Document Screenshots
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Chao Wang
    ,
    Hehe Fan
    ,
    Huichen Yang
    ,
    Sarvnaz Karimi
    , Lina Yao,
    Yi Yang
  13. SceneAlign: Aligning Multimodal Reasoning to Scene Graphs in Complex Visual Scenes
    ACL 2026 ·
    Chuhan Wang
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Jennifer Yuntong Zhang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    , Lina Yao,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
  14. The 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Recommender Systems
    WWW 2026 ·
    Kaike Zhang
    ,
    Jiakai Tang
    ,
    Du Su
    ,
    Shuchang Liu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Lina Yao,
    Qi Cao
    ,
    Yue Feng
    ,
    Fei Sun
  15. A Tutorial on Agentic LLM for Recommender Systems
    RecSys 2025 ·
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Lina Yao
  16. Achoio: A Skill-Aware Evaluation Management System for Text-To-Speech Research
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Haowei Lou
    ,
    Hye-Young Paik
    ,
    Basem Suleiman
    ,
    Wen Hu
    , Lina Yao
  17. Adapting Text-to-Image Generation with Feature Difference Instruction for Generic Image Restoration
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Chao Wang
    ,
    Hehe Fan
    ,
    Huichen Yang
    ,
    Sarvnaz Karimi
    , Lina Yao,
    Yi Yang
  18. Addressing the Distortion of Community Representations in Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Enbo He
    ,
    Yitong Hao
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    ,
    Guisheng Yin
    , Lina Yao
  19. Beyond Parameters: Locally-Guided Knowledge Distillation for Decentralized Federated Learning
    ICDM 2025 ·
    Behnaz Soltani
    ,
    Yipeng Zhou
    ,
    Saqr Khalil Saeed Thabet
    ,
    Elaf Alhazmi
    , Lina Yao,
    Quan Z. Sheng
  20. Causality-aligned Prompt Learning via Diffusion-based Counterfactual Generation
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Xinshu Li
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Erdun Gao
    ,
    Mingming Gong
    , Lina Yao
  21. CoMMIT: Coordinated Multimodal Instruction Tuning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    , Lina Yao,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
  22. CollageNoter: Real-Time and Adaptive Collage Layout Design for Screenshot-Based E-Note-Taking
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Qiuyun Zhang
    ,
    Bin Guo
    , Lina Yao,
    Xiaotian Qiao
    ,
    Ying Zhang
    ,
    Zhiwen Yu
  23. Compositional Zero-Shot Learning with Contextualized Cues and Adaptive Contrastive Training
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Yun Li
    , Lina Yao,
    Zhe Liu
  24. Counterfactual Implicit Feedback Modeling
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Chuan Zhou
    , Lina Yao,
    Haoxuan Li
    ,
    Mingming Gong
  25. Diffusion Policies for Risk-Averse Behavior Modeling in Offline Reinforcement Learning
    IROS 2025 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    , Lina Yao
  26. Eliminating Sentiment Bias in Recommender Systems by Counterfactual Inference
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Le Pan
    ,
    Yuanjiang Cao
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Wenjie Zhang
    , Lina Yao
  27. Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Long-Term User Behavior Prediction in Reinforcement Learning-based Recommendation
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    , Lina Yao
  28. Federated In-Context Learning: Iterative Refinement for Improved Answer Quality
    ICML 2025 ·
    Ruhan Wang
    ,
    Zhiyong Wang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    , Lina Yao,
    John C. S. Lui
    ,
    Dongruo Zhou
  29. Flexiffusion: Training-Free Segment-Wise Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Diffusion Models
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    , Lina Yao
  30. GUI Agents: A Survey
    ACL 2025 ·
    Dang Nguyen
    ,
    Jian Chen
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Gang Wu
    ,
    Namyong Park
    ,
    Zhengmian Hu
    ,
    Hanjia Lyu
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Ryan Aponte
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Jing Shi
    ,
    Hongjie Chen
    ,
    Viet Dac Lai
    ,
    Zhouhang Xie
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Md. Mehrab Tanjim
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Puneet Mathur
    ,
    Seunghyun Yoon
    , Lina Yao,
    Branislav Kveton
    ,
    Jihyung Kil
    ,
    Thien Huu Nguyen
    ,
    Trung Bui
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
  31. Jailbreaking the Non-Transferable Barrier via Test-Time Data Disguising
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Yongli Xiang
    ,
    Ziming Hong
    , Lina Yao,
    Dadong Wang
    ,
    Tongliang Liu
  32. Listwise Preference Diffusion Optimization for User Behavior Trajectories Prediction
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Lina Yao
  33. MMiC: Mitigating Modality Incompleteness in Clustered Federated Learning
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Lishan Yang
    ,
    Wei Emma Zhang
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao,
    Weitong Chen
    ,
    Ali Shakeri
  34. Maximum In-Support Return Modeling for Dynamic Recommendation with Language Model Prior
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    , Lina Yao
  35. Mining your own secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores for Continual Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Saurav Jha
    ,
    Shiqi Yang
    ,
    Masato Ishii
    ,
    Mengjie Zhao
    ,
    Christian Simon
    ,
    Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza
    ,
    Dong Gong
    , Lina Yao,
    Shusuke Takahashi
    ,
    Yuki Mitsufuji
  36. Mitigating Visual Knowledge Forgetting in MLLM Instruction-tuning via Modality-decoupled Gradient Descent
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yuxin Xiong
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    , Lina Yao,
    Jingbo Shang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  37. OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Yuxin Xiong
    ,
    Jianing Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    , Lina Yao,
    Jingbo Shang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  38. PKGRec: Personal Knowledge Graph Construction and Mining for Federated Recommendation Enhancement
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Haochen Yuan
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao,
    Yipeng Zhou
    ,
    Xiang He
    ,
    Zhongjie Wang
  39. ParaStyleTTS: Toward Efficient and Robust Paralinguistic Style Control for Expressive Text-to-Speech Generation
    CIKM 2025 ·
    Haowei Lou
    ,
    Hye-young Paik
    ,
    Wen Hu
    , Lina Yao
  40. Policy-Guided Causal State Representation for Offline Reinforcement Learning Recommendation
    WWW 2025 ·
    Siyu Wang
    ,
    Xiaocong Chen
    , Lina Yao
  41. ProtChatGPT: Towards Understanding Proteins with Hybrid Representation and Large Language Models
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Chao Wang
    ,
    Hehe Fan
    ,
    Ruijie Quan
    , Lina Yao,
    Yi Yang
  42. SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Yiran Shen
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    , Lina Yao,
    Julian J. McAuley
  43. Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual Learning
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Huiyi Wang
    ,
    Haodong Lu
    , Lina Yao,
    Dong Gong
  44. Shot2Story: A New Benchmark for Comprehensive Understanding of Multi-shot Videos
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Mingfei Han
    ,
    Linjie Yang
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    , Lina Yao,
    Heng Wang
  45. The 3rd Workshop on Personal Intelligence with Generative AI
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Wenjie Wang
    ,
    Xinyu Lin
    ,
    Fuli Feng
    ,
    Hongzhi Yin
    ,
    Wayne Xin Zhao
    , Lina Yao,
    Yang Song
    ,
    Xiangnan He
  46. Weakly-supervised VLM-guided Partial Contrastive Learning for Visual Language Navigation
    IROS 2025 ·
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yao Liu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    , Lina Yao
  47. Attacking Visually-aware Recommender Systems with Transferable and Imperceptible Adversarial Styles
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Shiyi Yang
    ,
    Chen Wang
    ,
    Xiwei Xu
    ,
    Liming Zhu
    , Lina Yao
  48. CLAP4CLIP: Continual Learning with Probabilistic Finetuning for Vision-Language Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Saurav Jha
    ,
    Dong Gong
    , Lina Yao
  49. Context-Based and Diversity-Driven Specificity in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Yun Li
    ,
    Zhe Liu
    ,
    Hang Chen
    , Lina Yao
  50. DFLStar: A Decentralized Federated Learning Framework with Self-Knowledge Distillation and Participant Selection
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Behnaz Soltani
    ,
    Venus Haghighi
    ,
    Yipeng Zhou
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao
  51. Distribution-Conditioned Adversarial Variational Autoencoder for Valid Instrumental Variable Generation
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Xinshu Li
    , Lina Yao
  52. Identifiability of Cross-Domain Recommendation via Causal Subspace Disentanglement
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Jing Du
    ,
    Zesheng Ye
    ,
    Bin Guo
    ,
    Zhiwen Yu
    , Lina Yao
  53. In-Context Learning for Zero-shot Medical Report Generation
    ACM MM 2024 ·
    Rui Liu
    ,
    Mingjie Li
    ,
    Shen Zhao
    ,
    Ling Chen
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    , Lina Yao
  54. Learning with Mixture of Prototypes for Out-of-Distribution Detection
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Haodong Lu
    ,
    Dong Gong
    ,
    Shuo Wang
    ,
    Jason Xue
    , Lina Yao,
    Kristen Moore
  55. Masked Distillation Advances Self-Supervised Transformer Architecture Search
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Caixia Yan
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    ,
    Zhihui Li
    , Lina Yao,
    Minnan Luo
    ,
    Qinghua Zheng
  56. MatchNAS: Optimizing Edge AI in Sparse-Label Data Contexts via Automating Deep Neural Network Porting for Mobile Deployment
    WWW 2024 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Xiaojun Chang
    ,
    Wen Hu
    , Lina Yao
  57. Maximum-Entropy Regularized Decision Transformer with Reward Relabelling for Dynamic Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    , Lina Yao
  58. Multi-agent Traffic Prediction via Denoised Endpoint Distribution
    IROS 2024 ·
    Yao Liu
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Yuanjiang Cao
    ,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    , Lina Yao
  59. On Causally Disentangled State Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning based Recommender Systems
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Siyu Wang
    ,
    Xiaocong Chen
    , Lina Yao
  60. Personalized Federated Learning for Text Classification with Gradient-Free Prompt Tuning
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Tong Yu
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Subrata Mitra
    , Lina Yao,
    Ricardo Henao
  61. Self-Distilled Disentangled Learning for Counterfactual Prediction
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Xinshu Li
    ,
    Mingming Gong
    , Lina Yao
  62. TROPICAL: Transformer-Based Hypergraph Learning for Camouflaged Fraudster Detection
    ICDM 2024 ·
    Venus Haghighi
    ,
    Behnaz Soltani
    ,
    Nasrin Shabani
    ,
    Jia Wu
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    , Lina Yao,
    Quan Z. Sheng
    ,
    Jian Yang
  63. Unraveling the Impact of Heterophilic Structures on Graph Positive-Unlabeled Learning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Yuhao Wu
    ,
    Jiangchao Yao
    ,
    Bo Han
    , Lina Yao,
    Tongliang Liu