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most citedSemantic and Relational Spaces in Science of Science: Deep Learning Models for Article Vectorisation

29 citations · 56 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CY2026

Estimating Exam Item Difficulty with LLMs: A Benchmark on Brazil's ENEM Corpus

Thiago Brant, Julien Kühn, Jun Pang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed to generate educational content, a critical safety question arises: can these models reliably estimate the difficulty of t…

cs.CL2026

Malicious Repurposing of Open Science Artefacts by Using Large Language Models

Zahra Hashemi, Zhiqiang Zhong, Jun Pang +1

The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) has fuelled enthusiasm about their role in advancing scientific discovery, with studies exploring LLMs that autonomously generat…

cs.LG2026

NCSAM Noise-Compensated Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Noisy Label Learning

Jiayu Xu, Junbiao Pang

Learning from Noisy Labels (LNL) remains a fundamental challenge in deep learning because real-world datasets often contain corrupted annotations. Most existing methods rely on lab…

cs.AI2025

Evaluating Multi-Agent Defences Against Jailbreaking Attacks on Large Language Models

Maria Carolina Cornelia Wit, Jun Pang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about jailbreaking attacks, i.e., prompts that bypass safety mechanisms. This paper investigates the use of mul…

cs.CR2023

Ownership Protection of Generative Adversarial Networks

Hailong Hu, Jun Pang

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in image synthesis, making GAN models themselves commercially valuable to legitimate model owners. Therefore, i…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

PriSampler: Mitigating Property Inference of Diffusion Models

Hailong Hu, Jun Pang

Diffusion models have been remarkably successful in data synthesis. However, when these models are applied to sensitive datasets, such as banking and human face data, they might br…

cs.CR2023★ 8 cited

Membership Inference of Diffusion Models

Hailong Hu, Jun Pang

Recent years have witnessed the tremendous success of diffusion models in data synthesis. However, when diffusion models are applied to sensitive data, they also give rise to sever…

cs.SI2022★ 1 cited

"Double vaccinated, 5G boosted!": Learning Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccination from Social Media

Ninghan Chen, Xihui Chen, Zhiqiang Zhong +1

To address the vaccine hesitancy which impairs the efforts of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, it is imperative to understand public vaccination attitudes and timely grasp their…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Simplifying Node Classification on Heterophilous Graphs with Compatible Label Propagation

Zhiqiang Zhong, Sergey Ivanov, Jun Pang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been predominant for graph learning tasks; however, recent studies showed that a well-known graph algorithm, Label Propagation (LP), combined with…

cs.SI2022★ 3 cited

Unsupervised Network Embedding Beyond Homophily

Zhiqiang Zhong, Guadalupe Gonzalez, Daniele Grattarola +1

Network embedding (NE) approaches have emerged as a predominant technique to represent complex networks and have benefited numerous tasks. However, most NE approaches rely on a hom…

cs.SI2021

The Burden of Being a Bridge: Analysing Subjective Well-Being of Twitter Users during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ninghan Chen, Xihui Chen, Zhiqiang Zhong +1

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic triggers infodemic over online social media, which significantly impacts public health around the world, both physically and psychologically.…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

Model Extraction and Defenses on Generative Adversarial Networks

Hailong Hu, Jun Pang

Model extraction attacks aim to duplicate a machine learning model through query access to a target model. Early studies mainly focus on discriminative models. Despite the success,…

cs.SI2020

From #Jobsearch to #Mask: Improving COVID-19 Cascade Prediction with Spillover Effects

Ninghan Chen, Xihui Chen, Zhiqiang Zhong +1

An information outbreak occurs on social media along with the COVID-19 pandemic and leads to infodemic. Predicting the popularity of online content, known as cascade prediction, al…

cs.SI2020★ 29 cited

Semantic and Relational Spaces in Science of Science: Deep Learning Models for Article Vectorisation

Diego Kozlowski, Jennifer Dusdal, Jun Pang +1

Over the last century, we observe a steady and exponentially growth of scientific publications globally. The overwhelming amount of available literature makes a holistic analysis o…

cs.LG2020

Personalised Meta-path Generation for Heterogeneous GNNs

Zhiqiang Zhong, Cheng-Te Li, Jun Pang

Recently, increasing attention has been paid to heterogeneous graph representation learning (HGRL), which aims to embed rich structural and semantic information in heterogeneous in…

cs.AI2020★ 1 cited

Multi-grained Semantics-aware Graph Neural Networks

Zhiqiang Zhong, Cheng-Te Li, Jun Pang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful techniques in representation learning for graphs and have been increasingly deployed in a multitude of different applications that involve…

cs.LG2020★ 7 cited

Hierarchical Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks

Zhiqiang Zhong, Cheng-Te Li, Jun Pang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach to machine learning with graphs and have been increasingly applied in a multitude of domains. Nevertheless, since most…

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Information on Twitter in the Greater Region

Ninghan Chen, Zhiqiang Zhong, Jun Pang

The outbreak of the COVID-19 leads to a burst of information in major online social networks (OSNs). Facing this constantly changing situation, OSNs have become an essential platfo…