Publications

Tutorials

  1. Causal Inference with Latent Variables: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives [PDF] [Code] [Slides] [Website]
    Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Jing Ma, Mengxuan Hu, Sheng Li, Jundong Li
    ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024).

Preprint

  1. Safety in Graph Machine Learning: Threats and Safeguards [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Song Wang, Yushun Dong, Binchi Zhang, Zihan Chen, Xingbo Fu, Yinhan He, Cong Shen, Chuxu Zhang, Nitesh V. Chawla, Jundong Li
  2. Rank-GRPO: Training LLM-based Conversational Recommender Systems with Reinforcement Learning [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yaochen Zhu, Harald Steck, Dawen Liang, Yinhan He, Jundong Li, Nathan Kallus

Conference Publications

2025

  1. MolEdit: Knowledge Editing for Multimodal Molecule Language Models [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Zhenyu Lei, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Yushun Dong and Jundong Li (WSDM 2026)

  2. Hierarchical Demonstration Order Optimization for Many-shot In-Context Learning [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Song Wang, Zaiyi Zheng, Yushun Dong, Yaochen Zhu, Jundong Li (NeurIPS 2025)

  3. SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Yaochen Zhu, Zaiyi Zheng, Lin Su, Sriram Vasudevan, Qi Guo, Liangjie Hong, Jundong Li (NeurIPS 2025)

  4. Scaling Epidemic Inference on Contact Networks: Theory and Algorithms [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Guanghui Min, Yinhan He, Chen Chen (NeurIPS 2025)

  5. LM-based Conversational Recommendation Agents with Collaborative Verbalized Experience [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yaochen Zhu, Harald Steck, Dawen Liang, Yinhan He, Nathan Kallus, Jundong Li (EMNLP 2025)

  6. CoRAG: Enhancing Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation through a Cooperative Retriever Architecture [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Zaiyi Zheng, Song Wang, Zihan Chen, Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Liangjie Hong, Qi Guo, Jundong Li (EMNLP 2025)

  7. LM-based Conversational Recommendation Agents with Collaborative Verbalized Experience [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yaochen Zhu, Harald Steck, Dawen Liang, Yinhan He, Nathan Kallus, Jundong Li (GenAIRegP)

  8. Towards Global-level Mechanistic Interpretability: A Perspective of Modular Circuits of Large Language Models [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Yushun Dong, Yaochen Zhu, Chen Chen, Jundong Li (ICML 2025)

  9. Energy-Based Models for Predicting Mutational Effects on Proteins [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Patrick Soga, Zhenyu Lei, Yinhan He, Camille L. Bilodeau, Jundong Li (SIGKDD 2025)

  10. Global Graph Counterfactual Explanation: A Subgraph Mapping Approach [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng, Yaochen Zhu, Jing Ma, Saumitra Mishra, Natraj Raman, Ninghao Liu, Jundong Li (TMLR)

  11. Demystify Epidemic Containment in Directed Networks: Theory and Algorithms [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Chen Chen, Song Wang, Guanghui Min, Jundong Li
    ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2025).

  12. Virtual Nodes Can Help: Tackling Distribution Shifts in Federated Graph Learning [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Xingbo Fu, Zihan Chen, Yinhan He, Song Wang, Binchi Zhang, Chen Chen, Jundong Li
    Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025).

  13. Graph Neural Networks Are More Than Filters: Revisiting and Benchmarking from A Spectral Perspective [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yushun Dong, Patrick Soga, Yinhan He, Song Wang, Jundong Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

  14. Edge Prompt Tuning for Graph Neural Networks. [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Xingbo Fu, Yinhan He, Jundong Li
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).

2024

  1. Explaining Graph Neural Networks with Large Language Models: A Counterfactual Perspective on Molecule Graphs [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yinhan He, Zaiyi Zheng, Patrick Soga, Yaochen Zhu, Yushun Dong, Jundong Li
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024).

  2. Causal Inference with Latent Variables: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives [PDF] [Code] [Slides]
    Yaochen Zhu, Yinhan He, Jing Ma, Mengxuan Hu, Sheng Li, Jundong Li
    ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2024 Survey Track)