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Yankai Chen

University of Illinois Chicago, IL, USA

28 papers at tracked venues · 23 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×6AAAI ×5WWW ×5EMNLP ×3SIGIR ×3CIKM ×2NeurIPS ×2SIGKDD ×2

Frequent coauthors

Philip S. Yu
×11
Irwin King
×8
Henry Peng Zou
×8
Yangning Li
×8
Weizhi Zhang
×7
Wei-Chieh Huang
×5
Chenhao Ma
×5
Yixiang Fang
×5
Xinni Zhang
×4
Yifei Zhang
×4
Yaozu Wu
×4
Dongyuan Li
×4

Papers

  1. ConSurv: Multimodal Continual Learning for Survival Analysis
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Dianzhi Yu
    ,
    Conghao Xiong
    , Yankai Chen,
    Wenqian Cui
    ,
    Xinni Zhang
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Hao Chen
    ,
    Joseph J. Y. Sung
    ,
    Irwin King
  2. Conv-FinRe: A Conversational and Longitudinal Benchmark for Utility-Grounded Financial Recommendation
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Yan Wang
    ,
    Yi Han
    ,
    Lingfei Qian
    ,
    Yueru He
    ,
    Xueqing Peng
    ,
    Dongji Feng
    ,
    Zhuohan Xie
    ,
    Vincent Jim Zhang
    ,
    Yuqing Guo
    ,
    Fengran Mo
    ,
    Jimin Huang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Jian-Yun Nie
  3. DP-DGAD: A Generalist Dynamic Graph Anomaly Detector with Dynamic Prototypes
    WWW 2026 ·
    Jialun Zheng
    ,
    Jie Liu
    ,
    Jiannong Cao
    ,
    Xiao Wang
    ,
    Hanchen Yang
    , Yankai Chen
  4. Deep Research with Open-Domain Evaluation and Multi-Stage Guardrails for Safety
    ACL 2026 ·
    Wei-Chieh Huang
    ,
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Yaozu Wu
    ,
    Dongyuan Li
    , Yankai Chen,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Angelo Zangari
    ,
    Jizhou Guo
    ,
    Chunyu Miao
    ,
    Liancheng Fang
    ,
    Langzhou He
    ,
    Yinghui Li
    ,
    Renhe Jiang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  5. FinAuditing: A Financial Taxonomy-Structured Multi-Document Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs
    SIGIR 2026 ·
    Yan Wang
    ,
    Keyi Wang
    ,
    Shanshan Yang
    ,
    Jaisal Patel
    ,
    Jeff Zhao
    ,
    Fengran Mo
    ,
    Xueqing Peng
    ,
    Lingfei Qian
    , Yankai Chen,
    Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto
    ,
    Jimin Huang
    ,
    Guojun Xiong
    ,
    Xiao-Yang Liu
    ,
    Jian-Yun Nie
  6. GAM: Hierarchical Graph-based Agentic Memory for LLM Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhaofen Wu
    ,
    Hanrong Zhang
    ,
    Fulin Lin
    ,
    Wujiang Xu
    ,
    Xinran Xu
    , Yankai Chen,
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Shaowen Chen
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Xue Liu
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
    ,
    Hongwei Wang
  7. Generative Archetype-Grounded Item Representations for Sequential Recommendation
    WWW 2026 ·
    Yifan Li
    ,
    Jiahong Liu
    ,
    Xinni Zhang
    ,
    Hao Chen
    , Yankai Chen,
    Wenhao Yu
    ,
    Jianting Chen
    ,
    Irwin King
  8. LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey
    ACL 2026 ·
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Wei-Chieh Huang
    ,
    Yaozu Wu
    ,
    Jizhou Guo
    , Yankai Chen,
    Chunyu Miao
    ,
    Hoang H. Nguyen
    ,
    Yue Zhou
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Liancheng Fang
    ,
    Hanrong Zhang
    ,
    Fangxin Wang
    ,
    Pengfei Zhang
    ,
    Langzhou He
    ,
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Dongyuan Li
    ,
    Renhe Jiang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  9. LightReasoner: Can Small Language Models Teach Large Language Models Reasoning?
    ACL 2026 ·
    Jingyuan Wang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Zhonghang Li
    ,
    Chao Huang
  10. Many-Shot Scaling of In-Context Learning with Self-Generated Demonstrations
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhengyao Gu
    ,
    Henry Peng Zou
    , Yankai Chen,
    Aiwei Liu
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  11. S²Drug: Bridging Protein Sequence and 3D Structure in Contrastive Representation Learning for Virtual Screening
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Bowei He
    ,
    Bowen Gao
    , Yankai Chen,
    Yanyan Lan
    ,
    Chen Ma
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
    ,
    Ya-Qin Zhang
    ,
    Wei-Ying Ma
  12. A Survey of RAG-Reasoning Systems in Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Yuyao Yang
    ,
    Wei-Chieh Huang
    ,
    Yaozu Wu
    ,
    Junyu Luo
    ,
    Yuanchen Bei
    ,
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Xiao Luo
    ,
    Yusheng Zhao
    ,
    Chunkit Chan
    , Yankai Chen,
    Zhongfen Deng
    ,
    Yinghui Li
    ,
    Hai-Tao Zheng
    ,
    Dongyuan Li
    ,
    Renhe Jiang
    ,
    Ming Zhang
    ,
    Yangqiu Song
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  13. AdmTree: Compressing Lengthy Context with Adaptive Semantic Trees
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Shaoshen Chen
    ,
    Yinghui Li
    , Yankai Chen,
    Hai-Tao Zheng
    ,
    Hui Wang
    ,
    Wenhao Jiang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  14. CSPO: Cross-Market Synergistic Stock Price Movement Forecasting with Pseudo-volatility Optimization
    WWW 2025 ·
    Sida Lin
    , Yankai Chen,
    Yiyan Qi
    ,
    Chenhao Ma
    ,
    Bokai Cao
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Xue Liu
    ,
    Jian Guo
  15. Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies
    NeurIPS 2025 · Yankai Chen,
    Xinni Zhang
    ,
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Chunyu Miao
    ,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Steve (Xue) Liu
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  16. Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving Systems with Large Language Models: A Survey of Recent Advances, Resources, and Future Directions
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yaozu Wu
    ,
    Dongyuan Li
    , Yankai Chen,
    Renhe Jiang
    ,
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Wei-Chieh Huang
    ,
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Liancheng Fang
    ,
    Zhen Wang
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  17. Semi-supervised Node Importance Estimation with Informative Distribution Modeling for Uncertainty Regularization
    WWW 2025 · Yankai Chen,
    Taotao Wang
    ,
    Yixiang Fang
    ,
    Yunyu Xiao
  18. TRACE: Intra-visit Clinical Event Nowcasting via Effective Patient Trajectory Encoding
    WWW 2025 ·
    Yuyang Liang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Yixiang Fang
    ,
    Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
    ,
    Chenhao Ma
  19. Teaching According to Talents! Instruction Tuning LLMs with Competence-Aware Curriculum Learning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Tingwei Lu
    ,
    Yinghui Li
    , Yankai Chen,
    Wei-Chieh Huang
    ,
    Wenhao Jiang
    ,
    Hui Wang
    ,
    Hai-Tao Zheng
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  20. TestNUC: Enhancing Test-Time Computing Approaches and Scaling through Neighboring Unlabeled Data Consistency
    ACL 2025 ·
    Henry Peng Zou
    ,
    Zhengyao Gu
    ,
    Yue Zhou
    , Yankai Chen,
    Weizhi Zhang
    ,
    Liancheng Fang
    ,
    Yibo Wang
    ,
    Yangning Li
    ,
    Kay Liu
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
  21. UTCS: Effective Unsupervised Temporal Community Search with Pre-training of Temporal Dynamics and Subgraph Knowledge
    SIGIR 2025 ·
    Yue Zhang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Yingli Zhou
    ,
    Yucan Guo
    ,
    Xiaolin Han
    ,
    Chenhao Ma
  22. Deep Structural Knowledge Exploitation and Synergy for Estimating Node Importance Value on Heterogeneous Information Networks
    AAAI 2024 · Yankai Chen,
    Yixiang Fang
    ,
    Qiongyan Wang
    ,
    Xin Cao
    ,
    Irwin King
  23. EASE: Learning Lightweight Semantic Feature Adapters from Large Language Models for CTR Prediction
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Zexuan Qiu
    ,
    Jieming Zhu
    , Yankai Chen,
    Guohao Cai
    ,
    Weiwen Liu
    ,
    Zhenhua Dong
    ,
    Irwin King
  24. Effective Job-market Mobility Prediction with Attentive Heterogeneous Knowledge Learning and Synergy
    CIKM 2024 ·
    Sida Lin
    ,
    Zhouyi Zhang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Chenhao Ma
    ,
    Yixiang Fang
    ,
    Shan Dai
    ,
    Guangli Lu
  25. Geometric View of Soft Decorrelation in Self-Supervised Learning
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Yifei Zhang
    ,
    Hao Zhu
    ,
    Zixing Song
    , Yankai Chen,
    Xinyu Fu
    ,
    Ziqiao Meng
    ,
    Piotr Koniusz
    ,
    Irwin King
  26. HiHPQ: Hierarchical Hyperbolic Product Quantization for Unsupervised Image Retrieval
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Zexuan Qiu
    ,
    Jiahong Liu
    , Yankai Chen,
    Irwin King
  27. Influential Exemplar Replay for Incremental Learning in Recommender Systems
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Xinni Zhang
    , Yankai Chen,
    Chenhao Ma
    ,
    Yixiang Fang
    ,
    Irwin King
  28. Shopping Trajectory Representation Learning with Pre-training for E-commerce Customer Understanding and Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 · Yankai Chen,
    Quoc-Tuan Truong
    ,
    Xin Shen
    ,
    Jin Li
    ,
    Irwin King