By Professor Lina Yao

Conference Papers

Ruan W; Sheng QZ; Yao L; Tran NK; Yang YC, 2016, 'PreventDark: Automatically detecting and preventing problematic use of smartphones in darkness', in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016, IEEE, Sydney, NSW, Australia, presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 14 March 2016 - 18 March 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2016.7457071

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Ruan W; Li X; Wang S; Yang Z, 2016, 'Unobtrusive posture recognition via online learning of multi-dimensional RFID received signal strength', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems ICPADS, pp. 116 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPADS.2015.23

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Li X; Wang S; Gu T; Ruan W; Zou W, 2016, 'Freedom: Online activity recognition via dictionary-based sparse representation of RFID sensing data', in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Icdm, pp. 1087 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2015.102

Zhang WE; Sheng QZ; Taylor K; Qin Y; Yao L, 2016, 'Learning-based SPARQL query performance prediction', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 313 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48740-3_23

Wang S; Nie F; Chang X; Li X; Sheng QZ; Yao L, 2016, 'Uncovering locally discriminative structure for feature analysis', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 281 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46128-1_18

Wang X; Sheng QZ; Fang XS; Yao L; Xu X; Li X, 2015, 'An integrated Bayesian approach for effective multi-truth discovery', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 493 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2806416.2806443

Wang X; Sheng QZ; Fang XS; Li X; Xu X; Yao L, 2015, 'Approximate truth discovery via problem scale reduction', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Proceedings, pp. 503 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2806416.2806444

Yao L; Wang X; Sheng QZ; Ruan W; Zhang W, 2015, 'Service Recommendation for Mashup Composition with Implicit Correlation Regularization', in Proceedings 2015 IEEE International Conference on Web Services Icws 2015, pp. 217 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2015.38

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Qin Y; Wang X; Shemshadi A; He Q, 2015, 'Context-aware point-of-interest recommendation using Tensor Factorization with social regularization', in SIGIR 2015 Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1007 - 1010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2766462.2767794

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Ruan W; Gu T; Li X; Falkner N; Yang Z, 2015, 'RF-Care: Device-Free Posture Recognition for Elderly People Using A Passive RFID Tag Array', in Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, ACM, presented at 12th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, 22 July 2015 - 24 July 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260064

Yao L; Xie X; Zhang Q; Yang LT; Zomaya AY; Jin H, 2015, 'Advances in services computing: 9th Asia-Pacific services computing conference, APSCC 2015 Bangkok, Thailand, December 7-9, 2015 proceedings', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26979-5

Shemshadi A; Yao L; Qin Y; Sheng QZ; Zhang Y, 2015, 'ECS: A Framework for diversified and relevant search in the Internet of things', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 448 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26190-4_30

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Ruan W; Gu T; Li X; Falkner NJG; Yang Z, 2015, 'RF-care: Device-free posture recognition for elderly people using a passive RFID tag array', in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Computing Networking and Services Mobiquitous 2015, pp. 110 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2015.260064

Ruan W; Yao L; Sheng QZ; Falkner NJG; Li X; Gu T, 2015, 'TagFall: Towards Unobstructive Fine-Grained Fall Detection based on UHF Passive RFID Tags', in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Computing Networking and Services Mobiquitous 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.22-7-2015.2260072

Wang S; Nie F; Chang X; Yao L; Li X; Sheng QZ, 2015, 'Unsupervised feature analysis with class margin optimization', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 383 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23528-8_24

Yao L; Ruan W; Sheng QZ; Li X; Falkner NJG, 2014, 'Exploring tag-free RFID-based passive localization and tracking via learning-based probabilistic approaches', in Cikm 2014 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 1799 - 1802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2661829.2661873

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Ngu AHH; Gao B, 2014, 'Keeping you in the loop: Enabling web-based things management in the Internet of Things', in Cikm 2014 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 2027 - 2029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2661829.2661838

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Ngu AHH; Ashman H; Li X, 2014, 'Exploring recommendations in Internet of Things', in SIGIR 2014 Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 855 - 858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2609458

Ngu AHH; Ma J; Sheng QZ; Yao L; Julian S, 2014, 'ServiceXplorer: A similarity-based Web service search engine', in SIGIR 2014 Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1251 - 1252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2600428.2611179

Ruan W; Yao L; Sheng QZ; Falkner NJG; Li X, 2014, 'TagTrack: Device-free localization and tracking using passive RFID tags', in Mobiquitous 2014 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Computing Networking and Services, pp. 80 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258004

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Falkner NJG; Ngu AHH, 2014, 'ThingsNavi: Finding most-related things via multi-dimensional modeling of human-thing interactions', in Mobiquitous 2014 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Computing Networking and Services, pp. 20 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258007

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Gao BJ; Ngu AHH; Li X, 2013, 'A model for discovering correlations of ubiquitous things', in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Icdm, pp. 1253 - 1258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDM.2013.87

Yao L; Sheng QZ, 2013, 'Correlation discovery in web of things', in Www 2013 Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 215 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2487898

Yao L; Mathew SS; Ruta M, 2013, 'Preface', in Procedia Computer Science, pp. 1129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.159

Yao L; Sheng QZ; Segev A; Yu J, 2013, 'Recommending web services via combining collaborative filtering with content-based features', in Proceedings IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services Icws 2013, pp. 42 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2013.16

Yao L; Sheng QZ, 2012, 'A tag-centric discriminative model for web objects classification', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 2247 - 2250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398612

Yao L; Sheng QZ, 2012, 'Exploiting latent relevance for relational learning of ubiquitous things', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 1547 - 1551, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2396761.2398470

Maamar Z; Faci N; Sheng QZ; Yao L, 2012, 'Towards a user-centric social approach to web services composition, execution, and monitoring', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 72 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_6

Yao L, 2012, 'A propagation model for integrating web of things and social networks', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 233 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31875-7_28

Wu Y; Sheng QZ; Ranasinghe D; Yao L, 2012, 'PeerTrack: A platform for tracking and tracing objects in large-scale traceability networks', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 586 - 589, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2247596.2247672

Zheng Z; Wang H; Yao L, 2012, 'An Artificial Bee Colony Optimization algorithm for multicast routing', in International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology Icact, pp. 168 - 172

Yao L; Sheng QZ, 2011, 'Particle filtering based availability prediction for web services', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 566 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25535-9_42

Pan S; Hu R; Long G; Jiang J; Yao L; Zhang C, 'Adversarially Regularized Graph Autoencoder for Graph Embedding', in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-18, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, pp. 2609 - 2615, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/362

Preprints

Yang L; Zhang WE; Sheng QZ; Yao L; Chen W; Shakeri A, 2025, MMiC: Mitigating Modality Incompleteness in Clustered Federated Learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2505.06911

Li X; Wang R; Gao E; Gong M; Yao L, 2025, Causality-aligned Prompt Learning via Diffusion-based Counterfactual Generation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.19882

Lou H; Paik H; Haghighi PD; Hu W; Yao L, 2024, LatentSpeech: Latent Diffusion for Text-To-Speech Generation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2412.08117

Lou H; Paik H; Hu W; Yao L, 2024, StyleSpeech: Parameter-efficient Fine Tuning for Pre-trained Controllable Text-to-Speech, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2408.14713

Liu Y; Sheng QZ; Yao L, 2024, Modeling Pedestrian Intrinsic Uncertainty for Multimodal Stochastic Trajectory Prediction via Energy Plan Denoising, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.07164

Liu Y; Wang R; Cao Y; Sheng QZ; Yao L, 2024, Multi-agent Traffic Prediction via Denoised Endpoint Distribution, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.07041

Wang H; Lu H; Yao L; Gong D, 2024, Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual Learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.18886

Huang H; Chang X; Hu W; Yao L, 2024, MatchNAS: Optimizing Edge AI in Sparse-Label Data Contexts via Automating Deep Neural Network Porting for Mobile Deployment, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2402.13525

He E; Hao Y; Zhang Y; Yin G; Yao L, 2024, SCALA: Sparsification-based Contrastive Learning for Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.01625

Chen X; Wang S; McAuley J; Jannach D; Yao L, 2023, On the Opportunities and Challenges of Offline Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2308.11336

Liu Y; Cui G; Luo J; Chang X; Yao L, 2023, Two-stream Multi-level Dynamic Point Transformer for Two-person Interaction Recognition, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2307.11973

Wang S; Chen X; Jannach D; Yao L, 2023, Causal Decision Transformer for Recommender Systems via Offline Reinforcement Learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.07920

Wang S; Chen X; Sheng QZ; Zhang Y; Yao L, 2023, Causal Disentangled Variational Auto-Encoder for Preference Understanding in Recommendation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.07922

Li Z; Chen Y; Wang X; Yao L; Xu G, 2023, Multi-view GCN for Loan Default Risk Prediction, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2754272/v1

Liu Y; Ye Z; Wang R; Li B; Sheng QZ; Yao L, 2023, Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction via Distributional Diffusion, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2303.08367

Cao Y; Yao L; Pan L; Sheng QZ; Chang X, 2023, Guided Image-to-Image Translation by Discriminator-Generator Communication, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2303.03598

Li C; Bai L; Yao L; Waller ST; Liu W, 2022, A Bibliometric Analysis and Review on Reinforcement Learning for Transportation Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2210.14524

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