By Dr Liming Zhu

Conference Papers

Wang M; Wang J; Liu Q; Xu X; Xing Z; Zhu L; Bain M; Zhang W, 2026, 'Ensembling LLM-Induced Decision Trees for Explainable and Robust Error Detection', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 4963 - 4974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3770855.3817642

Yang S; Hu Z; Li X; Wang C; Yu T; Xu X; Zhu L; Yao L, 2026, 'DrunkAgent: Stealthy Memory Corruption in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 6853 - 6864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792688

Tan X; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Yuan X; Zhu L; Zhang W, 2026, 'MemoTime: Memory-Augmented Temporal Knowledge Graph Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning', in Www 2026 Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, pp. 4220 - 4231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792581

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J, 2026, 'Bi-level Personalization for Federated Foundation Models: ATask-vector Aggregation Approach', in Proceedings of the Aaai Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 27702 - 27710, http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i33.39991

Hu Z; Wang C; Shu Y; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2026, 'Concept based Ambiguity Resolution in LLMs', in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Chua J; Wang C; Zhu L; Yao L, 2026, 'Guardrail Guided Policy Optimisation: Learning Disentangled Safety Constraints', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 414 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4972-6_32

Zhu L, 2025, 'Designing for Meaningful Oversight: Human and Organisational Agency in Multimodal AI Systems', in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ACM, pp. 2 - 2, presented at ICMI '25: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3716553.3757097

Yuan M; Chen J; Xing Z; Quigley A; Luo Y; Luo T; Mohammadi G; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'DesignRepair: Dual-Stream Design Guideline-Aware Frontend Repair with Large Language Models', Canada, presented at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Canada, 27 April 2025

Xu X; Zhang D; Liu Q; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'Agentic RAG with Human-in-the-Retrieval', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa C 2025, pp. 498 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00074

Wang D; Moore K; Goel D; Kim M; Li G; Li Y; Doss R; Xue M; Li B; Camtepe S; Zhu L, 2025, 'CAMP in the Odyssey: Provably Robust Reinforcement Learning with Certified Radius Maximization', in Proceedings of the 34th Usenix Security Symposium, pp. 7213 - 7232

Xu X; Zhang D; Zhang W; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2025, 'Design Process for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa C 2025, pp. 482 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00072

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J; Zhang C, 2025, 'Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Foundation Models: A Survey', in Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10779 - 10787, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1196

Tan X; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Yuan X; Zhu L; Zhang W, 2025, 'HydraRAG: Structured Cross-Source Enhanced Large Language Model Reasoning', in Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 14431 - 14459, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.730

Hu Y; Wang X; Liu Q; Xu X; Fu Q; Zhang W; Zhu L, 2025, 'MMAPG: A Training-Free Framework for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering via Adaptive Planning Graphs', in Emnlp 2025 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 14184 - 14200, http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.717

Zhao D; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2025, 'SeeAction: Towards Reverse Engineering How-What-Where of HCI Actions from Screencasts for UI Automation', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 463 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00144

Shamsujjoha M; Lu Q; Zhao D; Zhu L, 2025, 'Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Multi-Layered Guardrails of Foundation Model Based Agents', in Proceedings 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa 2025, pp. 37 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA65012.2025.00014

Song W; Sui Y; Xing Z; Zhu L; Xue J, 2025, 'ViDToken: A Video-Transformer-Based Latent Token Defense for Adversarial Video Detection', in Proceedings 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks Intrusions and Defenses Raid 2025, pp. 566 - 582, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RAID67961.2025.00012

Yang S; Wang C; Xu X; Zhu L; Yao L, 2024, 'Attacking Visually-aware Recommender Systems with Transferable and Imperceptible Adversarial Styles', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 2900 - 2909, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679828

Xia B; Zhang D; Liu Y; Lu Q; Xing Z; Zhu L, 2024, 'Trust in Software Supply Chains: Blockchain-Enabled SBOM and the AIBOM Future', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems and 2024 IEEE ACM 2nd International Workshop on Software Vulnerability Encycris Svm 2024, pp. 12 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3643662.3643957

Hu Z; Wang C; Shu Y; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2024, 'Prompt Perturbation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation based Large Language Models', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 1119 - 1130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671932

Yang Y; Long G; Lu Q; Zhu L; Jiang J; Zhang C, 2024, 'Federated Low-Rank Adaptation for Foundation Models: A Survey', International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 10779 - 10787, presented at Proceedings of the Thirty-ThirdInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/1196

Dong L; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, 'A Pilot Study in Surveying Data Challenges of Automatic Software Engineering Tasks', in Sea4dq 2024 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber Physical Systems Internet of Things Co Located with Esec Fse 2024, pp. 6 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3663530.3665020

Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Xing Z, 2024, 'An AI System Evaluation Framework for Advancing AI Safety: Terminology, Taxonomy, Lifecycle Mapping', in Aiware 2024 Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on AI Powered Software Co Located with Esec Fse 2024, pp. 74 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3664646.3664766

Zhang Z; Xing Z; Zhao D; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2024, 'Hard to Read and Understand Pythonic Idioms? Deldiom and Explain Them in Non-Idiomatic Equivalent Code', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2808 - 2819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639101

Sun J; Chen J; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2024, 'Where is it? Tracing the Vulnerability-Relevant Files from Vulnerability Reports', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2469 - 2481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3597503.3639202

Lu Q; Zhu L; Xu X; Liu Y; Xing Z; Whittle J, 2024, 'A Taxonomy of foundation model based systems through the lens of software architecture', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644956

Zhang D; Xia B; Liu Y; Xu X; Hoang T; Xing Z; Staples M; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2024, 'Privacy and copyright protection in generative ai: A lifecycle perspective', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 92 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644952

Xia B; Lu Q; Zhu L; Lee SU; Liu Y; Xing Z, 2024, 'Towards a responsible ai metrics catalogue: A collection of metrics for ai accountability', in Proceedings 2024 IEEE ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2024, pp. 100 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3644815.3644959

Shanmugarasa Y; Chamikara MAP; Paik HY; Kanhere SS; Zhu L, 2024, 'Local Differential Privacy for Smart Meter Data Sharing with Energy Disaggregation', in Proceedings 2024 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things Dcoss Iot 2024, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DCOSS-IoT61029.2024.00012

Lu Q; Zhu L; Xu X; Xing Z; Harrer S; Whittle J, 2024, 'Towards Responsible Generative AI: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model Based Agents', in Proceedings IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Architecture Companion Icsa C 2024, pp. 119 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C63560.2024.00028

Zhou G; Huang C; Chen X; Xu X; Wang C; Zhu L; Yao L, 2023, 'Contrastive Counterfactual Learning for Causality-aware Interpretable Recommender Systems', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 3564 - 3573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3614823

Sun J; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L, 2023, 'A Multi-faceted Vulnerability Searching Website Powered by Aspect-level Vulnerability Knowledge Graph', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 60 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00025

Zhang Z; Xing Z; Xu X; Zhu L, 2023, 'RIdiom: Automatically Refactoring Non-Idiomatic Python Code with Pythonic Idioms', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 102 - 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00034

Su Y; Han Z; Xing Z; Xu X; Zhu L; Lu Q, 2023, 'SoapOperaTG: A Tool for System Knowledge Graph Based Soap Opera Test Generation', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 51 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion58688.2023.00023

Xia B; Bi T; Xing Z; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2023, 'An Empirical Study on Software Bill of Materials: Where We Stand and the Road Ahead', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 2630 - 2642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00219

Zhang Z; Xing Z; Xia X; Xu X; Zhu L; Lu Q, 2023, 'Faster or Slower? Performance Mystery of Python Idioms Unveiled with Empirical Evidence', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 1495 - 1507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00130

Zhao D; Xing Z; Xia X; Ye D; Xu X; Zhu L, 2023, 'SeeHow: Workflow Extraction from Programming Screencasts through Action-Aware Video Analytics', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 1946 - 1957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00165

Sun J; Xing Z; Lu Q; Xu X; Zhu L; Hoang T; Zhao D, 2023, 'Silent Vulnerable Dependency Alert Prediction with Vulnerability Key Aspect Explanation', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 970 - 982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00089

Zhu L, 2023, 'Software Engineering as the Linchpin of Responsible AI', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 3 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE48619.2023.00012

Liu Y; Lu Q; Yu G; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2023, 'A Pattern-Oriented Reference Architecture for Governance-Driven Blockchain Systems', in Proceedings IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa 2023, pp. 23 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA56044.2023.00011

Chia SY; Xu X; Ding M; Smith D; Paik HY; Zhu L, 2023, 'A Selection Model of Privacy Patterns', in Proceedings IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Architecture Icsa 2023, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA56044.2023.00009

Liu Y; Lu Q; Paik HY; Yu G; Zhu L, 2023, 'Decision Models for Selecting Patterns in Governance-driven Blockchain Systems', in Proceedings 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Blockchain 2023, pp. 307 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/Blockchain60715.2023.00055

Zhou G; Yao L; Xu X; Wang C; Zhu L, 2023, 'Meta-learning for Estimating Multiple Treatment Effects with Imbalance', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 886 - 895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7254-8_69

Yang S; Yao L; Wang C; Xu X; Zhu L, 2023, 'Review-Incorporated Model-Agnostic Profile Injection Attacks on Recommender Systems', in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Icdm, pp. 1481 - 1486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDM58522.2023.00195

Xia B; Lu Q; Perera H; Zhu L; Xing Z; Liu Y; Whittle J, 2023, 'Towards Concrete and Connected AI Risk Assessment (C2AIRA): A Systematic Mapping Study', in Proceedings 2023 IEEE ACM 2nd International Conference on AI Engineering Software Engineering for AI Cain 2023, pp. 104 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CAIN58948.2023.00027

Zhang Z; Xing Z; Xia X; Xu X; Zhu L, 2022, 'Making Python code idiomatic by automatic refactoring non-idiomatic Python code with pythonic idioms', in Esec Fse 2022 Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 696 - 708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3549143

Xie M; Xing Z; Feng S; Xu X; Zhu L; Chen C, 2022, 'Psychologically-inspired, unsupervised inference of perceptual groups of GUI widgets from GUI images', in Esec Fse 2022 Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 332 - 343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3549138

Xu X; Wang C; Wang ZJ; Lu Q; Zhu L, 2022, 'Dependency Tracking for Risk Mitigation in Machine Learning (ML) Systems', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 145 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP55303.2022.9794111

Lu Q; Zhu L; Xu X; Whittle J; Douglas D; Sanderson C, 2022, 'Software engineering for Responsible AI: An empirical study and operationalised patterns', in Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 241 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIP55303.2022.9793864

Su Y; Han Z; Xing Z; Xia X; Xu X; Zhu L; Lu Q, 2022, 'Constructing a System Knowledge Graph of User Tasks and Failures from Bug Reports to Support Soap Opera Testing', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3556967

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