6 papers
Navigating the Open-Source Model Ecosystem: An Empirical Study of Creator Practices in Artistic Image Generation
Yiluo Wei, Yupeng He, Qiming Ye +1
The open-sourcing of powerful image generation models has created a vibrant ecosystem where creators curate and combine a vast array of community-contributed models. This practice…
What Your Posts Reveal: A Benchmark and Agentic Framework for User-Level Privacy Leakage on Social Media
Zifan Peng, Yini Huang, Aiwen Lu +7
Public social media posts can reveal private information through weak cues scattered across text, images, or metadata. Such leakage is often cumulative and cross-post: cues that ap…
Behind EvoMap: Characterizing a Self-Evolving Agent-to-Agent Collaboration Network
Qiming Ye, Peixian Zhang, Peixain Zhang +3
Agent-to-Agent (A2A) networks enable autonomous AI agents to collaborate by sharing reusable problem-solving instructions. However, how these decentralized ecosystems operate in pr…
TxSum: User-Centered Ethereum Transaction Understanding with Micro-Level Semantic Grounding
Zifan Peng, Jingyi Zheng, Yule Liu +8
Understanding the economic intent of Ethereum transactions is critical for user safety, yet current tools expose only raw on-chain data or surface-level intent, leading to widespre…
Source Coverage and Citation Bias in LLM-based vs. Traditional Search Engines
Peixian Zhang, Qiming Ye, Zifan Peng +2
LLM-based Search Engines (LLM-SEs) introduces a new paradigm for information seeking. Unlike Traditional Search Engines (TSEs) (e.g., Google), these systems summarize results, ofte…
Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster's Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
Wen Yang, Qiming Ye, Onur Ascigil +4
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of how diverse token-based reward mechanisms impact platform dynamics and user behaviors. For this, we gather a unique, large-scale…