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20152026
most citedConditional Network Embeddings

23 citations · 89 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

VIGIL: An Extensible System for Real-Time Detection and Mitigation of Cognitive Bias Triggers

Bo Kang, Sander Noels, Tijl De Bie

The rise of generative AI is posing increasing risks to online information integrity and civic discourse. Most concretely, such risks can materialise in the form of mis- and disinf…

cs.CL2026

Untangling Input Language from Reasoning Language: A Diagnostic Framework for Cross-Lingual Moral Alignment in LLMs

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

When LLMs judge moral dilemmas, do they reach different conclusions in different languages, and if so, why? Two factors could drive such differences: the language of the dilemma it…

cs.AI2025

Building Data-Driven Occupation Taxonomies: A Bottom-Up Multi-Stage Approach via Semantic Clustering and Multi-Agent Collaboration

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

Creating robust occupation taxonomies, vital for applications ranging from job recommendation to labor market intelligence, is challenging. Manual curation is slow, while existing…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Your Next State-of-the-Art Could Come from Another Domain: A Cross-Domain Analysis of Hierarchical Text Classification

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

Text classification with hierarchical labels is a prevalent and challenging task in natural language processing. Examples include assigning ICD codes to patient records, tagging pa…

cs.IR2024

Content-Agnostic Moderation for Stance-Neutral Recommendation

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

Personalized recommendation systems often drive users towards more extreme content, exacerbating opinion polarization. While (content-aware) moderation has been proposed to mitigat…

cs.IR2024

KamerRaad: Enhancing Information Retrieval in Belgian National Politics through Hierarchical Summarization and Conversational Interfaces

Alexander Rogiers, Maarten Buyl, Bo Kang +1

KamerRaad is an AI tool that leverages large language models to help citizens interactively engage with Belgian political information. The tool extracts and concisely summarizes ke…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

FEIR: Quantifying and Reducing Envy and Inferiority for Fair Recommendation of Limited Resources

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

In settings such as e-recruitment and online dating, recommendation involves distributing limited opportunities, calling for novel approaches to quantify and enforce fairness. We i…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

LLM4Jobs: Unsupervised occupation extraction and standardization leveraging Large Language Models

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

Automated occupation extraction and standardization from free-text job postings and resumes are crucial for applications like job recommendation and labor market policy formation.…

cs.IR2023

ReCon: Reducing Congestion in Job Recommendation using Optimal Transport

Yoosof Mashayekhi, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

Recommender systems may suffer from congestion, meaning that there is an unequal distribution of the items in how often they are recommended. Some items may be recommended much mor…

cs.CL2023★ 10 cited

SkillGPT: a RESTful API service for skill extraction and standardization using a Large Language Model

Nan Li, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie

We present SkillGPT, a tool for skill extraction and standardization (SES) from free-style job descriptions and user profiles with an open-source Large Language Model (LLM) as back…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Revised Conditional t-SNE: Looking Beyond the Nearest Neighbors

Edith Heiter, Bo Kang, Ruth Seurinck +1

Conditional t-SNE (ct-SNE) is a recent extension to t-SNE that allows removal of known cluster information from the embedding, to obtain a visualization revealing structure beyond…

cs.LG2023

Topologically Regularized Data Embeddings

Edith Heiter, Robin Vandaele, Tijl De Bie +2

Unsupervised representation learning methods are widely used for gaining insight into high-dimensional, unstructured, or structured data. In some cases, users may have prior topolo…

cs.IR2022★ 5 cited

A challenge-based survey of e-recruitment recommendation systems

Yoosof Mashayekhi, Nan Li, Bo Kang +2

E-recruitment recommendation systems recommend jobs to job seekers and job seekers to recruiters. The recommendations are generated based on the suitability of the job seekers for…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

SimHawNet: A Modified Hawkes Process for Temporal Network Simulation

Mathilde Perez, Raphaël Romero, Bo Kang +3

Temporal networks allow representing connections between objects while incorporating the temporal dimension. While static network models can capture unchanging topological regulari…

cs.LG2021

ExClus: Explainable Clustering on Low-dimensional Data Representations

Xander Vankwikelberge, Bo Kang, Edith Heiter +1

Dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques are frequently used to analyze complex data sets, but their results are often not easy to interpret. We consider how to support u…

cs.LG2021

The Curse Revisited: When are Distances Informative for the Ground Truth in Noisy High-Dimensional Data?

Robin Vandaele, Bo Kang, Tijl De Bie +1

Distances between data points are widely used in machine learning applications. Yet, when corrupted by noise, these distances -- and thus the models based upon them -- may lose the…

cs.SI2021

Adversarial Robustness of Probabilistic Network Embedding for Link Prediction

Xi Chen, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

In today's networked society, many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in networks, such as Facebook friendship suggestions, e-commerce recommendations, and t…

cs.LG2020

FONDUE: A Framework for Node Disambiguation Using Network Embeddings

Ahmad Mel, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

Real-world data often presents itself in the form of a network. Examples include social networks, citation networks, biological networks, and knowledge graphs. In their simplest fo…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

ALPINE: Active Link Prediction using Network Embedding

Xi Chen, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

Many real-world problems can be formalized as predicting links in a partially observed network. Examples include Facebook friendship suggestions, consumer-product recommendations,…

cs.SI2020

Explainable Subgraphs with Surprising Densities: A Subgroup Discovery Approach

Junning Deng, Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt +1

The connectivity structure of graphs is typically related to the attributes of the nodes. In social networks for example, the probability of a friendship between two people depends…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Conditional t-SNE: Complementary t-SNE embeddings through factoring out prior information

Bo Kang, Darío García García, Jefrey Lijffijt +2

Dimensionality reduction and manifold learning methods such as t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) are routinely used to map high-dimensional data into a 2-dimensio…

cs.LG2019★ 12 cited

ExplaiNE: An Approach for Explaining Network Embedding-based Link Predictions

Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tijl De Bie

Networks are powerful data structures, but are challenging to work with for conventional machine learning methods. Network Embedding (NE) methods attempt to resolve this by learnin…

stat.ML2018★ 23 cited

Conditional Network Embeddings

Bo Kang, Jefrey Lijffijt, Tijl De Bie

Network Embeddings (NEs) map the nodes of a given network into -dimensional Euclidean space . Ideally, this mapping is such that `similar' nodes are mapped onto ne…

stat.ML2017★ 10 cited

Interactive Visual Data Exploration with Subjective Feedback: An Information-Theoretic Approach

Kai Puolamäki, Emilia Oikarinen, Bo Kang +2

Visual exploration of high-dimensional real-valued datasets is a fundamental task in exploratory data analysis (EDA). Existing methods use predefined criteria to choose the represe…