Yizhou Sun

Publications

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Book

• Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks: Principles and Methodologies, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012.

Book Chapters

• Hongbo Deng, Yizhou Sun, Yi Chang, and Jiawei Han, "Probabilistic Models for Classification," in Charu C. Aggarwal (eds.), Data Classification: Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press, 2013, pp. 54-74.
• Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, "Ranking Methods for Networks," accepted by Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, June 2013.
• Yang Yang, Yizhou Sun, Saurav Pandit, Nitesh V. Chawla, and Jiawei Han, "Prospective on Measurement Metrics for Community Detection Algorithms," in Tansel Ozyer, Zeki Erdem, Jon Rokne and Suheil Khoury (eds.), Mining Social Networks and Security Informatics, Springer, 2013, pp. 227-242.
• Yizhou Sun, Hongbo Deng and Jiawei Han, "Probabilistic Models for Text Mining", in Charu C. Aggarwal and ChengXiang Zhai (eds.), Mining Text Data, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2012, pp. 257-294.

• Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, "Integrating Clustering and Ranking for Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis", in Philip S. Yu, Jiawei Han and Christos Faloutsos (eds.), Link Mining: Models, Algorithms and Applications, Springer, 2010, pp. 439-474.

Conferences/Journals

2016

• Ting Chen, Lu-An Tang, Yizhou Sun, Zhengzhang Chen, Kai Zhang, "Entity Embedding-based Anomaly Detection for Heterogeneous Categorical Events," Proc. 25th Int. Joint Conf. on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI'16), New York City, USA, Jul. 2016.
• Xiaozhong Liu, Tian Xia, Yingying Yu, Chun Guo, Yizhou Sun, "Cross Social Media Recommendation," Proc. of the 10th Int. AAAI Conf. on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'16), Cologne, Germany, May 2016.
• Gang Fu, Ying Ding, Abhik Seal, Bin Chen, Yizhou Sun, and Evan Bolton, " Predicting drug target interactions using meta-path-based semantic network analysis," BMC Bioinformatics 17:160, 2016.
• Alex D. Wade, Kuansan Wang, Yizhou Sun, and Antonio Gulli, "
  WSDM Cup 2016: Entity Ranking Challenge," Proc. 2016 ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'16), San Francisco, California, USA, Feb. 2016.
• Yupeng Gu, Bo Zhao, David Hardtke, Yizhou Sun, "Learning Global Term Weights for Content-based Recommender Systems", Proc. of the 25th Int. Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW'16), Montreal, Canada, Apr. 2016.
• Ting Chen, Lu-An Tang, Yizhou Sun, Zhengzhang Chen, Haifeng Chen, and Guofei Jiang, "Integrating Community and Role Detection in Information Networks," in Proc of 2016 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM'16), Miami, FL, May 2016.
• Chenguang Wang, Yizhou Sun, Yanglei Song, Jiawei Han, Yangqiu Song, Danli Wang, and Ming Zhang, "RelSim: Relation Similarity Search in Schema-Rich Heterogeneous Information Networks," in Proc of 2016 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM'16), Miami, FL, May 2016.

2015

• Peng Xia, Benyuan Liu, Yizhou Sun, and Cindy X. Chen, "Reciprocal Recommendation System for Online Dating," Proc. of 2015 Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'15), Paris, France, Aug. 2015.
• Weiqing Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Ling Chen, Yizhou Sun, Shazia Wasim Sadiq, and Xiaofang Zhou, "Geo-SAGE: A Geographical Sparse Additive Generative Model for Spatial Item Recommendation,"  Proc. of 2015 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'15), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2015.
• Yang Yang, Yizhou Sun, Jie Tang, Bo Ma, Juan-Zi Li, "Entity Matching across Heterogeneous Sources,"  Proc. of 2015 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'15), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 2015. [slides]
• Boliang Zhang, Hongzhao Huang, Xiaoman Pan, Sujian Li, Chin-Yew Lin, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight, Zhen Wen, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, and Bulent Yener, "Context-aware Entity Morph Decoding," Proc. of 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'15), Beijing, China, Jul. 2015.
• Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, and Yizhou Sun, "Successful Data Mining Methods for NLP," Proc. of 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'15), Beijing, China, Jul. 2015. (Tutorial)
• Y. Chodpathumwan, A. Aleyasen, A. Termehchy, and Y. Sun, "Universal-DB: towards representation independent graph analytics," Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 8 (12), 2016-2019, 2015. (Demo)
• Susan Collins, Yizhou Sun, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, Natasha Markuzon, "Are You Satisfied with Life?: Predicting Satisfaction with Life from Facebook," Proc. of 2015 Int. Conf. on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, Prediction (SBP'15), Washington DC, Mar. 2015.
• Junxiang Chen, Wei Dai, Yizhou Sun, and Jennifer Dy, "Clustering and Ranking in Heterogeneous Information Networks via Gamma-Poisson Model," Proc. of the 2015 SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining (SDM'15), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Apr. 2015.
• Yang Yang, Jie Tang, Cane Wing-Ki Leung, Yizhou Sun, Qicong Chen, Juanzi Li, and Qiang Yang, "RAIN: Social Role-Aware Information Diffusion," Proc. of the 29th AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'15), Austin, Texas, USA, Jan 2015.

2014

• Huan Gui, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, and George Brova, "Modeling Topic Diffusion in Multi-Relational Bibliographic Information Networks", Proc. of 2014 ACM Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'14), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2014.
• Xiaozhong Liu, Yingying Yu, Chun Guo, and Yizhou Sun, “Meta-Path-Based Ranking with Pseudo Relevance Feedback on Heterogeneous Graph for Citation Recommendation,” Proc. of 2014 ACM Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’14), Shanghai, China, Nov. 2014.
• Xiaozhong Liu, Yingying Yu, Chun Guo, Yizhou Sun, and Liangcai Gao, “Full-Text based Context-Rich Heterogeneous Network Mining Approach for Citation Recommendation,” ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’14), London, 2014.
• Yupeng Gu, Yizhou Sun, Ning Jiang, Bingyu Wang, Ting Chen, "Topic-Factorized Ideal Point Estimation Model for Legislative Voting Network," Proc. of 2014 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’14), New York, NY, Aug. 2014. [slides] [demo][code and dataset]
• Xiaozhong Liu, Liangcai Gao, Noriko Hara, and Yizhou Sun. "Open educational resource based information understanding via pdf document interaction," (poster), Proc. of the 2014 ACM Conf. on Web Science (WebSci’14), pages 291–292, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 2014.
• Boliang Zhang, Hongzhao Huang, Xiaoman Pan, Heng Ji, Kevin Knight, Zhen Wen, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han and Bulent Yener, "Be Appropriate and Funny: Automatic Entity Morph Encoding", Proc. of 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'14), Baltimore, USA, June 2014.
• Y. Chodpathumwan, A. Termehchy, Yizhou Sun, A. Aleyasin, and J. Picado, "Toward Representation Independent Similarity Search Over Graphs," ACM Proceedings of Workshop on GRAph Data management Experiences and Systems (GRADES 2014), Snowbird, Utah, June 2014.
• Fangbo Tao, Jiawei Han, Heng Ji, George Brova,Chi Wang, Ahmed El-Kishky, Jialu Liu, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun, "NewsNetExplorer: Automatic Construction and Exploration of News Information Networks", (system demo), Proc. of 2014 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'14), Snowbird, UT, June 2014.
• Xiao Yu, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun, Quanquan Gu, Bradley Sturt, Urvashi Khandelwal, Brandon Norick, and Jiawei Han, "Personalized Entity Recommendation: A Heterogeneous Information Network Approach", Proc. 2014 ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'14), New York City, NY, Feb. 2014.

2013

• Hyungsul Kim, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun, Chi Wang, and Jiawei Han, "Semantic Frame-Based Document Representation for Comparable Corpora", Proc. 2013 IEEE Int. Conf.on Data Mining (ICDM'13), Dallas, TX, Dec. 2013.
• Xiao Yu, Xiang Ren, Yizhou Sun, Bradley Sturt, Urvashi Khandelwal, Quanquan Gu, Brandon Norick, and Jiawei Han, "HeteRec: Entity Recommendation in Heterogeneous Information Networks with Implicit User Feedback", Proc. of 2013 ACM Int. Conf. Series on Recommendation Systems (RecSys'13), Hong Kong, Oct. 2013.
• Yizhou Sun, Brandon Norick, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, and Xiao Yu, "PathSelClus: Integrating Meta-Path Selection with User-Guided Object Clustering in Heterogeneous Information Networks," ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 7(3):11:1-11:23, Sep. 2013.
• Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, "Meta-path-based search and mining in heterogeneous information networks," IEEE Tsinghua Science and Technology, 18(4): 329-338, Aug. 2013.
• Yizhou Sun, Jie Tang, Jiawei Han, Cheng Chen, and Manish Gupta, "Co-Evolution of Multi-Typed Objects in Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks", accepted by IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), June 2013.
• Hongzhi Yin, Yizhou Sun, Bin Cui, Zhiting Hu, and Ling Chen, "LCARS: A Local-Content-Aware Recommender System," Proc. of 2013 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD’13), Chicago, IL, Aug. 2013.
• Hongzhao Huang, Zhen Wen, Dian Yu, Heng Ji, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han and He Li, "Resolving Entity Morphs in Censored Data", Proc. of 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'13), Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 2013.
• Xiao Yu, Xiang Ren, Quanquan Gu, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Collaborative Filtering with Entity Similarity Regularization in Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. of IJCAI-13 HINA workshop (IJCAI-HINA'13), Beijing, China, Aug. 2013.
• Fangbo Tao, Xiao Yu, Kin Hou Lei, George Brova, Xiao Cheng Jiawei Han, Rucha Kanade, Yizhou Sun, Chi Wang, Lidan Wang, Tim Weninger, "Research-Insight: Providing Insight on Research by Publication Network Analysis", (system demo), Proc. of 2013 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'13), New York, NY, June 2013.
• Jing Gao, Feng Liang, Wei Fan, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "A Graph-based Consensus Maximization Approach for Combining Multiple Supervised and Unsupervised Models", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(1):15-28, 2013.

2012

• Yizhou Sun and Jiawei Han, ``Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks: A Structural Analysis Approach", SIGKDD Explorations, 14(2):20-28, 2012.
• Hyungsul Kim, Yizhou Sun, Julia Hockenmaier, and Jiawei Han, "ETM: Entity Topic Models for Mining Documents Associated with Entities", Proc. of 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM'12), Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2012 (selected as one of the best papers for possible publication in the journal "Knowledge and Information Systems")

• Yang Yang, Nitesh Chawla, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Predicting Links in Multi-Relational and Heterogeneous Networks", Proc. of 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM'12), Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2012.

• Xiao Yu, Yizhou Sun, Brandon Norick, Tiancheng Mao, and Jiawei Han, "User Guided Entity Similarity Search Using Meta-Path Selection in Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. of 2012 Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), Maui, Hawaii, Oct. 2012.

• Manish Gupta, Jing Gao, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Community Trend Outlier Detection Using Soft Temporal Pattern Mining", Proc. of 2012 European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD'12), Bristol, UK, Sept. 2012. [pdf]

• Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, and Philip S. Yu, "Mining Knowledge from Interconnected Data: A Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis Approach", Proc. 2012 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'12/PVLDB), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2012. (conference tutorial) [pdf]

• Xiao Yu, Yizhou Sun, Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han, "Query-Driven Discovery of Semantically Similar Substructures in Heterogeneous Networks", Proc. of 2012 ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), Beijing, China, Aug. 2012. (System Demo) [pdf]

• Yizhou Sun, Brandon Norick, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, and Xiao Yu, "Integrating Meta-Path Selection with User-Guided Object Clustering in Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. 2012 ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), Beijing, China, Aug. 2012. (Best Student Paper Award) [pdf][slides]

• Manish Gupta, Jing Gao, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Integrating Community Matching and Outlier Detection for Mining Evolutionary Community Outliers", Proc. 2012 ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'12), Beijing, China, Aug. 2012. [pdf]

• Yizhou Sun, Charu C. Aggarwal, and Jiawei Han, "Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes", PVLDB 5(5):394-405, 2012. (Also, Proc. 2012 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'12/PVLDB), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2012.) [pdf]

• Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun, Xifeng Yan, and Philip S. Yu, "Mining Knowledge from Data: An Information Network Analysis Approach", Proc. 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'12), Arlington, VA, Apr. 2012. (Conference tutorial, 5 pages) [pdf]
• Lu-An Tang, Xiao Yu, Sangkyum Kim, Jiawei Han, Wen-Chih Peng, Yizhou Sun, Alice Leung, and Thomas La Porta, "Multidimensional Sensor Data Analysi in Cyber-Physical System: An Atypical Approach," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 2012.
• Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Charu C. Aggarwal, and Nitesh V. Chawla, "When Will It Happen? --- Relationship Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. 2012 ACM Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'12), Seattle, WA, Feb. 2012. (Acceptance rate: 75/362 = 20.7%) [pdf]

• Lu-An Tang, Xiao Yu, Sangkyum Kim, Jiawei Han, Wen-Chih Peng, Yizhou Sun, Hector Gonzalez, and Sebastian Seith, "Multidimensional Analysis of Atypical Events in Cyber-Physical Data", Proc. 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'12), Arlington, VA, Apr. 2012. (Acceptance rate approx. 20%) [pdf]

2011

• Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, and Tianyi Wu, "PathSim: Meta Path-Based Top-K Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks", PVLDB 4(11): 992-1003, 2011. (Also, Proc. of 2011 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'11/PVLDB), Seattle, WA, Aug. 2011.) (Acceptance rate: 100/553 = 18.1%) [pdf] [slides][DBIS data]

• Yang Yang, Yizhou Sun, Saurav Pandit, Nitesh Chawla and Jiawei Han, "Is Objective Function the Silver Bullet? A Case Study of Community Detection Algorithms on Social Networks", Proc. of 2011 Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2011. (Short paper, acceptance rate: unknown) [pdf]

• Yizhou Sun, Rick Barber, Manish Gupta, Charu C. Aggarwal and Jiawei Han, "Co-Author Relationship Prediction in Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks", Proc. of 2011 Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2011. (Acceptance rate: 25%) [pdf] [slides][errata]

• Manish Gupta, Charu Aggarwal, Jiawei Han and Yizhou Sun, "Evolutionary Clustering and Analysis of Bibliographic Networks", Proc. of 2011 Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM'11), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 2011. (Best Paper Award, acceptance rate: 25%) [pdf]

• Tim Weninger, Marina Danilevsky, Fabio Fumarola, Joshua Hailpern, Jiawei Han, Ming Ji, Thomas J. Johnston, Surya Kallumadi, Hyungsul Kim, Zhijin Li, David McCloskey, Yizhou Sun, Nathan E. TeGrotenhuis, Chi Wang, and Xiao Yu, "WinaCS: Construction and Analysis of Web-Based Computer Science Information Networks", Proc. 2011 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'2011). (System demo paper, acceptance rate approx. 35%) [pdf]

• Hieu Khac Le, J. Pasternack, Hossein Ahmadi, Manish Gupta, Yizhou Sun, Tarek Abdelzaher, Jiawei Han, Dan Roth, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, S. Adali, "Apollo: Towards Factfinding in Participatory Sensing", Proc. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'11), Apr. 2011. (System demo paper, acceptance rate: unkown)

• Manish Gupta, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Trust Analysis with Clustering", Proc. of 2011 Int. WorldWide Web Conf. (WWW'11), Hyderabad, India, March 2011. (Poster paper, acceptance rate: 62/202 = 30.7%) [pdf]

2010

• Jianbin Huang, Heli Sun, Jiawei Han, Hongbo Deng, Yizhou Sun, Yaguang Liu, "SHRINK: A Structural Clustering Algorithm for Detecting Hierarchical Communities in Networks", Proc. 2010 ACM Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'10), Toronto, Canada, Oct. 2010, pp. 219-228. (Acceptance rate: 127/945 = 13.4%) [pdf]

• Ming Ji, Yizhou Sun, Marina Danilevsky, Jiawei Han, Jing Gao, "Graph Regularized Transductive Classification on Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. 2010 European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD'10), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2010. (Acceptance rate: 120/658 = 18.24%) [pdf]

• Jing Gao, Feng Liang, Wei Fan, Chi Wang, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, "On Community Outliers and Their Efficient Detection in Information Networks", Proc. 2010 ACM SIGKDD Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'10), Washington, D.C., July 2010. (Acceptance rate: 13.3%) [pdf]

• Yizhou Sun, Jie Tang, Jiawei Han, Manish Gupta, and Bo Zhao, "Community Evolution Detection in Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks", Proc. 2010 KDD Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG'10), Washington, D.C., July 2010. (Workshop paper) [pdf]

• Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun, Xifeng Yan, and Philip S. Yu, "Mining Knowledge from Databases: An Information Network Analysis Approach", Proc. 2010 ACM SIGMOD Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD'10), Indianapolis, IN, June 2010. (Conference tutorial) [pdf] [slides]

• Cuiping Li, Jiawei Han, Xin Jin, Yizhou Sun, Yintao Yu, and Tianyi Wu, "Fast Computation of SimRank for Static and Dynamic Information Networks", Proc. 2010 Int. Conf. on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'10), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2010. (Acceptance rate: 54/307 = 18%) [pdf]

• Tianyi Wu, Yizhou Sun, Cuiping Li, and Jiawei Han, "Region-based Online Promotion Analysis", Proc. 2010 Int. Conf. on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'10), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2010. (Acceptance rate:  54/307 = 18%) [pdf]

2009

• Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Jing Gao, and Yintao Yu, "iTopicModel: Information Network-Integrated Topic Modeling", Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM'09), Miami, FL, Dec. 2009. (Full paper, acceptance rate: 70/786 = 8.9%) [pdf] [slides] [DBLP_Data] [Cora_Data]

• Jing Gao, Feng Liang, Wei Fan, Yizhou Sun, and Jiawei Han, "Bipartite Graph-based Consensus Maximization among Supervised and Unsupervised Models", Proc. NIPS 2009 Neural Info. Processing Systems Conf. (NIPS'09), Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Dec. 2009. (Acceptance rate: 263/1105 = 23.8%) [pdf]

• Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun, "P-Rank: A Comprehensive Structural Similarity Measure over Information Networks", Proc. 2009 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2009. (Acceptance rate: 123/847 = 14.5%) [pdf]

• Yintao Yu, Cindy X. Lin, Yizhou Sun, Chen Chen, Jiawei Han, Binbin Liao, Tianyi Wu, ChengXiang Zhai, Duo Zhang, and Bo Zhao, "iNextCube: Information Network-Enhanced Text Cube", Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases  (VLDB'09), Lyon, France, Aug. 2009. (System demo paper, acceptance rate: 29/107 = 27.1%) [pdf]