Selected Journal Papers

  1. Bao, E., Zhu, Y., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Ooi, B. -C., Tan, B., Aung, K. Skellam Mixture Mechanism: a Novel Approach to Federated Learning with Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 15(11): 2348-2360, 2022.
  2. Yusuf, M. Yang, Y. et al. A lightweight Neural Network with Multiscale Feature Enhancement for Liver CT Segmentation. Nature Scientific Reports, 12, Article number: 14153, 2022.
  3. Li, C., Jiang, W., Yang, Y., Pan, S., Guo, L., Huang, G. Predicting Best-Selling New Products in a Major Promotion Campaign through Graph Convolutional Networks. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
  4. Li, W., Wen, S., Shi, K., Yang, Y., Huang, T. Neural Architecture Search with a Lightweight Transformer for Text-to-Image Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 9(3): 1567-1576, 2022.
  5. Lyu, B., Yang, Y., Wen, S., Huang, T., Li, K. Neural Architecture Search for Portrait Parsing. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
  6. Takiddin, A., Schneider, J., Yang, Y., Abd-Alrazaq, A., Househ, M. Artificial Intelligence for Skin Cancer Detection: A Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 23(11):e22934, 2021.
  7. Ganesh, P., Chen, Y., Lou, X., Khan, M., Yang, Y., Chen, D., Winslett, M., Sajjad, H., Nakov P. Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT. Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2021(9): 1061-1080, 2021. (arXiv version)
  8. Li, S., Li, W., Wen, S., Shi, K., Yang, Y., Zhou, P., Huang, T. Auto-FERNet: A Facial Expression Recognition Network With Architecture Search. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 8(3): 2213-2222, 2021.
  9. Al-Thelaya, K., Agus, M., Gilal, N., Yang, Y., Pintore, G., Gobbetti, E., Cali, C., Magistretti, Mifsuf, W., Schneider, J. InShaDe: Invariant Shape Descriptors for Visual 2D and 3D Cellular and Nuclear Shape Analysis and Classification. Elsevier Computers & Graphics (CAG), 98: 105-125, 2021.
  10. Bao, E., Yang, Y., Xiao, X., Ding, B. CGM: An Enhanced Mechanism for Streaming Data Collection with Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 14(11): 2258-2270, 2021.
  11. Singh, A. V., Chandrasekar, V., Janapareddy, P., Mathews, D. E., Laux, P., Luch, A., Yang, Y., Garcia-Canibano, B., Balakrishnan, S., Abinahed, J., Al-Ansari, A., Dakua, S. P. Emerging Application of Nanorobotics and Artificial Intelligence To Cross the BBB: Advances in Design, Controlled Maneuvering, and Targeting of the Barriers. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 12(11): 1835-1853. Selected as the supplementary cover article of the issue.
  12. Wen, S., Chen, J., Wu, Y., Yan, Z., Cao, Y., Yang, Y., Huang, T. CKFO: Convolution Kernel First Operated Algorithm With Applications in Memristor-Based Convolutional Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 40(8): 1640-1647, 2021.
  13. Yang, R., Shi, J., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Liu, J., Bhowmick, S. Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 14(1): 37-49, 2020. Best paper award, VLDB Conference, 2021. Slides. 
  14. Zhong, M., Wen, J., Liu, L., Li, C., Ma, J., Zhang, G., Yang, Y. HIGnet: Hierarchical and Interactive Gate Networks for Item Recommendation. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 35(5): 1541-1672, 2020.
  15. Shi, J., Jin, T., Yang, R., Xiao, X., Yang, Y. Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 13(7): 966-978, 2020.
  16. Luo, B., Yang, Y., Liu, D. Policy Iteration Q-Learning for Data-Based Two-Player Zero-Sum Game of Linear Discrete-Time Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(7): 3630-3640, 2020.
  17. Yang, R., Shi, J. Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Bhowmick, S. Homogeneous Network Embedding for Massive Graphs via Personalized PageRank. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 13(5): 670-683, 2020.
  18. Luo, B., Yang, Y., Liu, D., Wu, H. Event-Triggered Optimal Control with Performance Guarantees Using Adaptive Dynamic Programming. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 31(1): 76-88, 2020.
  19. Wang, S., Yang, R., Wang, R., Xiao, X., Wei, Z., Lin, W., Yang, Y., Tang, N. Efficient Algorithms for Approximate Single-Source Personalized PageRank Queries. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 44(4), Article 18, 2019.
  20. Yan, Z., Liu, W., Wen, S., Yang, Y. Multi-Label Image Classification by Feature Attention Network. IEEE Access, 7(1): 98005-98013, 2019.
  21. ​Shi, J., Yang, R., Jin, T., Xiao, X., Yang, Y. Realtime Top-k Personalized PageRank over Large Graphs on GPUs. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 13(1):15-28, 2019.
  22. Wen, S., Liu, W., Yang, Y., Huang, T., Zeng, Z. Generating Realistic Videos from Key Frames with Concatenated GANs. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), 29(8): 2337-2348, 2019.
  23. Wen, S., Xiao, S., Yang, Y., Yan, Z., Zeng, Z., Huang, T. Adjusting Learning Rate of Memristor-Based Multilayer Neural Networks via Fuzzy Method. IEEE Transactions on Computed-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 38(6):1084-1094, 2019.
  24. Wen, S., Hu, R., Yang, Y., Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Song, Y. -D. Memristor-Based Echo State Network with Online Least Mean Square. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC), 49(9), 1787-1796, 2019.
  25. Luo, B., Yang, Y., Liu, D. Adaptive Q-Learning for Data-Based Optimal Output Regulation With Experience Replay. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 48(12): 3337-3348, 2018.
  26. Fu, T., Ding, J., Ma, R., Winslett, M., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z. DRS: Auto-Scaling for Real-Time Stream Analytics. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 25(6): 3338-3352, 2017.
  27. Wang, S., Tang, Y., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Li, Z. HubPPR: Effective Indexing for Approximate Personalized PageRank. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 10(3):205-216, 2016.
  28. Wang, S., Xiao, X, Yang, Y., Lin, W. Effective Indexing for Approximate Constrained Shortest Path Queries on Large Road Networks. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 10(2):61-72, 2016.
  29. Ding, J., Zhang, Z., Ma, R., Yang, Y. Auction-based Cloud Service Differentiation with Service Level Objectives. Elsevier Computer Networks, 94: 231-249, 2016.
  30. Cai, R., Hao, Z., Winslett, M., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhou. S. Deterministic Identification of Specific Individuals from GWAS Results. Bioinformatics, 31(11): 1701-1707, 2015. Supplementary online materials.
  31. Yuan, G., Zhang, Z., Winslett, M., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Hao, Z. Optimizing Batch Linear Queries under Exact and Approximate Differential Privacy. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 40(2), Article 11, 2015.
  32. Zhang, S., Yang, Y., Fan, W., Winslett, M. Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Interactive Analytics System for Large Spatio-Temporal Data. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 7(13): 1754-1759, 2014. Also: Demo at SIGMOD'14.
  33. Wang, H., Cai, Y., Yang, Y., Zhang, S., Mamoulis, N. Durable Queries over Historical Time Series. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 26(3): 595-607, 2014.
  34. Xu, J., Zhang, Z., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Yu, G., Winslett, M. Differentially Private Histogram Publication. Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDB J), 22(6): 792-822, 2013.
  35. Li, J., Yang, Y., Mamoulis, N.  Optimal Route Queries with Arbitrary Order Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(5): 1097-1100, 2013.
  36. Trimponias, G., Bartolini, I., Papadias, D., Yang, Y.  Skyline Processing on Distributed Vertical Decompositions. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(4): 850-862, 2013.
  37. Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Winslett, M. Functional Mechanism: Regression Analysis under Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 5(11):1364-1375, 2012.
  38. Yuan, G., Zhang, Z., Winslett, M., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Hao, Z.  Low-Rank Mechanism: Optimizing Batch Queries Under Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 5(11):1352-1363, 2012.
  39. Papadopoulos, S., Wang, L., Yang, Y., Papadias, D., Karras, P. Authenticated Multi-Step Nearest Search. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 23(5): 641-654, 2011.
  40. Papadopoulos, S., Yang, Y., Papadias, D. Continuous Authentication on Relational Streams. Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDB J), 19, 161-180, 2010.
  41. Markowetz, A., Yang, Y., Papadias, D. Keyword Search over Relational Tables and Streams. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 34(3), Article 17, 2009.
  42. Yang, Y., Papadopoulos, S., Papadias, D., Kollios, G. Authenticated Indexing for Outsourced Spatial Databases. Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDB J), 18(3): 631-648, 2009.
  43. Zhang, Z., Yang, Y., Tung, A., Papadias, D. Continuous k-Means Monitoring over Moving Objects. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 20(9): 1205-1216, 2008.
  44. Yang, Y., Krämer, J., Papadias, D., Seeger, B. HybMig: A Hybrid Approach to Dynamic Plan Migration for Continuous Queries. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 19(3): 398-411, 2007.

Selected Conference Papers

  1. Wei, J., Bao, E., Xiao, X., Yang, Y.  DPIS: an Enhanced Mechanism for Differentially Private SGD with Importance Sampling. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 7-11, 2022.
  2. Ganesh, P., Chen, Y., Yang, Y., Chen, D., Winslett, M. YOLO-ReT: Towards High Accuracy Real-time Object Detection on Edge GPUs. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, January 4-8, 2022. Acceptance rate: 1/3.
  3. Yang, R., Shi, J., Yang, Y., Huang, K., Zhang, S., Xiao, X. Effective and Scalable Clustering on Massive Attributed Graphs. Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), 2021. Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  4. Sun, H., Xiao, X., Khalil, I., Yang, Y., Qin, Z., Wang, H., Yu, T. Analyzing Subgraph Statistics from Extended Local Views with Decentralized Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), London, UK, November 11-15, 2019. Acceptance rate: 1/6.​
  5. Yoosuf, S., Yang, Y. Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection with Fine-Tuned BERT. Winner of the fragment-level propaganda classification competition at the NLP4IF workshop, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Hong Kong, November 3-7, 2019.
  6. Ma, J., Wen, J., Zhong, M., Liu, L., Chen, W., Li, C., Yang, Y., Tu H., Li, X. DBRec: Dual-Bridging Recommendation via Discovering Latent Groups. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Beijing, China, November 3-7, 2019. Acceptance rate: 1/6.
  7. Wang, N., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Zhao, J., Hui, S. Shin, H., Shin, J., Yu, G. Collecting and Analyzing Multidimensional Data with Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Macau, April 8-12, 2019. Acceptance rate: 1/4 (arXiv version).
  8. Wang, N., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Hoang, T., Shin, H., Shin, J., Yu, G. PrivTrie: Effective Frequent Term Discovery under Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Paris, France, April 16-19, 2018. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  9. Qin, Z., Yu, T., Yang, Y., Khalil, I., Xiao, X., Ren, K. Generating Synthetic Decentralized Social Graphs with Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Dallas, TX, USA, October 30-November 3, 2017. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  10. Wang, S. Yang, R., Xiao, X., Wei, Z., Yang, Y. FORA: Simple and Effective Approximate Single-Source Personalized PageRank. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Halifax, Canada, August 13-17, 2017. Acceptance rate: 1/11 (full paper with oral presentation).
  11. Wang, N., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z., Gu, Y., Yu, G. PrivSuper: a Superset-First Approach to Frequent Itemset Mining under Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Diego, California, USA, April 29-22, 2017. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  12. Qin, Z., Yang, Y., Yu, T., Khalil, I., Xiao, X., Ren, K. Heavy Hitter Estimation over Set-Valued Data with Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Vienna, Austria, October 24-28, 2016. Acceptance rate: 1/6.
  13. Yuan, G., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z., Hao, Z. Convex Optimization for Linear Query Processing under Approximate Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Francisco, California, USA, August 13-17, 2016. Acceptance rate: 1/5 (full paper with poster presentation).
  14. Wang, L., Zhou, M., Zhang, Z., Yang, Y., Zhou, A. Elastic Pipelining in an In-Memory Database Cluster. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Francisco, California, USA. June 26-July 1, 2016. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  15. Fu, T., Ding, J., Ma, R., Winslett, M., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z. DRS: Dynamic Resource Scheduling for Real-Time Analytics over Fast Streams. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 29-July 2, 2015. Acceptance rate: 1/7 (full paper with oral presentation).
  16. Zhang, J., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z. Winslett, M. PrivGene: Differentially Private Model Fitting Using Genetic Algorithms. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),  New York City, New York, USA, June 22-27, 2013. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  17. Zhang, Z., Ma, R., Ding, J., Yang, Y. ABACUS: An Auction-Based Approach to Cloud Service Differentiation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), San Francisco, CA, USA, March 25-27, 2013. Acceptance rate: 1/5. Best paper award (1/117).
  18. Zhang, Z., Shu, H., Chong, Z., Lu, H., Yang, Y. C-Cube: Elastic Continuous Clustering in the Cloud. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Brisbane, Australia, April 8-11, 2013. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  19. Peng, S., Yang, Y., Zhang, Z., Winslett, M., Yu, Y. Query Optimization for Differentially Private Data Management Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Brisbane, Australia, April 8-11, 2013. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  20. Xu, J., Zhang, Z., Xiao, X., Yang, Y., Yu, G. Differentially Private Histogram Publication. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Washington D.C., USA, April 1-5, 2012. Acceptance rate: 1/5.
  21. Peng, S., Yang,  Y., Zhang,  Z., Winslett,  M., Yu, Y. DP-Tree: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Data under Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),  Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 20-24, 2012 (poster).​
  22. Yang Y., Zhang, Z., Miklau, G., Winslett, M., Xiao, X. Differential Privacy in Data Publication and Analysis. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD),  Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 20-24, 2012 (tutorial). Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.
  23. Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Winslett, M., Yang, Y. Compressive Mechanism: Utilizing Sparse Representation in Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 17, 2011. Acceptance rate: 1/4.
  24. Wang, L., Yang, Y., Miao, X., Papadias, D., Liu, Y. Algorithms for Local Sensor Synchronization. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover, Germany, April 11-16, 2011. Acceptance rate: 1/6.
  25. Papadopoulos, S., Yang, Y., Bakiras, S., Papadias, D. Continuous Spatial Authentication. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009. Acceptance rate: 1/3.
  26. Yang, Y., Papadias, D., Papadopoulos, S., Kalnis, P. Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 29-July 2, 2009. Acceptance rate: 1/7.
  27. Zhang, Z., Yang, Y., Cai, R., Papadias, D., Tung, A. Kernel-Based Skyline Cardinality Estimation. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 29-July 2, 2009. Acceptance rate: 1/7.
  28. Yang, Y., Bansal, N., Dakka, W., Ipeirotis, P., Koudas, N., Papadias, D. Query by Document. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Barcelona, Spain, February 9-12, 2009. Acceptance rate: 1/6.
  29. Markowetz, A., Yang, Y., Papadias, D. Reachability Indexes for Relational Keyword Search. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, March 29-April 4, 2009. Acceptance rate: 1/4. (short paper).
  30. Yang, Y., Papadopoulos, S., Papadias, D., Kollios, G. Spatial Outsourcing for Location-based Services. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancún, México, April 7-12, 2008. Acceptance rate: 1/7.
  31. Yang, Y., Papadias, D. Just-In-Time Processing of Continuous Queries. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancún, México, April 7-12, 2008. Acceptance rate: 1/5. (full paper, short presentation)
  32. Papadopoulos, S., Yang, Y., Papadias, D. CADS: Continuous Authentication on Data Streams. Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB), Vienna, Austria, September 23-28, 2007. Acceptance rate: 1/7.
  33. Markowetz, A., Yang, Y., Papadias, D. Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Beijing, China, June 14-17, 2007. Acceptance rate: 1/7.
  34. Zhang, L., Yu, Y., Lin, C., Zhou, J., Yang, Y. An Enhanced Model for Searching in Semantic Portals. Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Chiba, Japan, 2005. Acceptance rate: 1/7.