> Yifan Hu

Publications

  1. Xiaoqi Wang, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Han-Wei Shen, SmartGD: A GAN-Based Graph Drawing Framework for Diverse Aesthetic Goals, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol 30, pp 5666-5678, 2024.

  2. Fei Tan, Changwei Hu, Yifan Hu, Kevin Yen, Zhi Wei, Aasish Pappu, Serim Park, Keqian Li, MGEL: Multi-Grained Representation Analysis and Ensemble Learning for Text Moderation, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 34(10): 7014-7023, 2023.

  3. Jaegul Choo, Timo Ropinski, Yifan Hu, Editorial: Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on IEEE PacificVis 2023, IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 29(6): 2847-2848 (2023).

  4. Thai Le, Yiran Ye, Yifan Hu, Dongwon Lee: CrypText: Database and Interactive Toolkit of Human-Written Text Perturbations in the Wild, ICDE 2023 (39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering), 3639-3642, 2023.

  5. Thai Le, Jooyoung Lee, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Dongwon Lee, Perturbations in the Wild: Leveraging Human-Written Text Perturbations for Realistic Adversarial Attack and Defense, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pp 2953 - 2965

  6. Jiacheng Yu, Yifan Hu, Xiaoru Yuan, UNICON: A UNIform CONstraint Based Graph Layout Framework, IEEE PacificVis 2022: 61-70.

  7. Shaunak Mishra, Changwei Hu, Manisha Verma, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Maxim Sviridenko, TSI: an Ad Text Strength Indicator using Text-to-CTR and Semantic-Ad-Similarity, The 30th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021), Queensland, Australia, 2021.

  8. Fei Tan, Yifan Hu, Kevin Yen, Changwei Hu, BERT-beta: A Proactive Probabilistic Approach to Text Moderation, The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'21), 2021

  9. Xiaoqi Wang, Kevin Yen, Yifan Hu, Han-wei Shen, DeepGD: A Deep Learning Framework for Graph Drawing Using GNN, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol 41, pp. 32-44, 2021.

  10. Yifan Hu, Changwei Hu, Thanh Tran, Tejaswi Kasturi, Elizabeth Joseph, Matt Gillingham, What's in a Name? -- Gender Classification of Names with Character Based Machine Learning Models , Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 35(4), pp. 1737-1563, 2021. (In Journal track of Euro. Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2021)

  11. Fei Tan, Yifan Hu, Changwei Hu, Keqian Li, Kevin Yen, TNT: Text Normalization based Pre-training of Transformers for Content Moderation, The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), 2020

  12. Thanh Tran, Yifan Hu, Changwei Hu, Kevin Yen, Fei Tan, Kyumin Lee, Serim Park, HABERTOR: An Efficient and Effective Deep Hatespeech Detector, The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020), 2020

  13. Changwei Hu, Yifan Hu, Sungyong Seo. A Deep Structural Model for Analyzing Correlated Multivariate Time Series, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Boca Raton, Florida, US, 2019.

  14. Yao Zhang, Changwei Hu, Yifan Hu, Tejaswi Kasturi, Matt Gillingham, Shanmugam Ramasamy, Keith Yamamoto. Large-scale Gender/Age Prediction of Tumblr Users, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2019, Boca Raton, Florida, US.

  15. Yifan Hu, Lei Shi, Qingsong Liu A Coloring Algorithm for Disambiguating Graph and Map Drawings, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2018.

  16. Haochen Chen, Bryan Perozzi, Yifan Hu, Steven Skiena, HARP: Hierarchical Representation Learning for Networks, The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), pp. 2127-2134, 2018.

  17. Junting Ye, Shuchu Han, Yifan Hu, Baris Coskun, Meizhu Liu, Hong Qin, Steven Skiena, Nationality Classification Using Name Embeddings, The 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), Singapore, 2017.

  18. Shuchu Han, Yifan Hu, Steven Skiena, Baris Coskun, Meizhu Liu, Hong Qin, Jaime Perez, Generating Look-alike Names For Security Challenges, 10th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security with the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications (CCS), Dallas, TX, USA, 2017

  19. Yifan Hu, Martin Nöllenburg (eds), Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2016), Athens, Greece, September 19-21, 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9801, Springer 2016

  20. Marco Di Bartolomeo and Yifan Hu, There is More to Streamgraph than Movies: Better Aesthetics via Ordering and Lassoing, 18th EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2016), 6-10 June 2016, Groningen, the Netherlands, 2016. (best paper) demo

  21. Sungjin Lee and Yifan Hu, Joint Embedding of Query and Ad by Leveraging Implicit Feedback, Proceedings of EMNLP, 2015.

  22. Qingsong Liu, Yifan Hu, Lei Shi, Xinzhu Mu, Yutao Zhang and Jie Tang, EgoNetCloud: Event-based Dynamic Egocentric Network Visualization, Proceedings of IEEE VAST, 2015.

  23. Yifan Hu, Shi Lei, Visualizing Large Graphs, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, Volume 7, pages 115-136, 2015.

  24. Xiaotong Liu, Yifan Hu, Stephen North, and Han-Wei Shen. CorrelatedMultiples: Spatially Coherent Small Multiples with Constrained Multidimensional Scaling. Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), 2015

  25. Xiaotong Liu, Han-Wei Shen, Yifan Hu, Supporting multifaceted viewing of word clouds with focus+context display. Information Visualization, 14 (168-180), 2015.

  26. Xiaotong Liu, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Han-Wei Shen, Yifan Hu: GalaxyExplorer: Influence-Driven Visual Exploration of Context-Specific Social Media Interactions. WWW (Companion Volume) 2015: 215-218, 2014

  27. Yifan Hu, Stephen G. Kobourov, Sankar Veeramoni: Embedding, Clustering and Coloring for Dynamic Maps. J. Graph Algorithms Appl. 18, pp. 77-109, 2014

  28. Jennifer A. Scott, Yifan Hu, Level-based heuristics and hill climbing for the antibandwidth maximization problem. Numerical Lin. Alg. with Applic. 21, pp. 51-67, 2014.

  29. Radu Jianu, Adrian Rusu, Yifan Hu, Douglas Taggart, How to Display Group Information on Node-Link Diagrams: An Evaluation. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 20, pp. 1530-1541, 2014.

  30. Lei Shi, Qi Liao, Hanghang Tong, Yifan Hu, Yue Zhao, Chuang Lin, Hierarchical Focus+Context Heterogeneous Network Visualization. Proceedings of PacificVis 2014, pp. 89-96, 2014.

  31. Yifan Hu, Lei Shi, A Coloring Algorithm for Disambiguating Graph and Map Drawings, proceedings of Graph Drawing 2014: pp. 89-100, 2014. demo page

  32. Alon Efrat, Yifan Hu, Stephen G. Kobourov, Sergey Pupyrev, MapSets: Visualizing Embedded and Clustered Graphs. Proceedings of Graph Drawing 2014, pp. 452-463, 2014.

  33. Yifan Hu: Visualization of Large Networks. Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining 2014, eds. Editors: Reda Alhajj, Jon Rokne, Springer, pp. 2328-2336, 2014.

  34. Lei Shi, Qi Liao, Hanghang Tong, Yifan Hu, Yue Zhao, Chuang Lin, Hierarchical Focus+Context Heterogeneous Network Visualization, Pacificvis 2014, 89-96, 2014.

  35. Emden R. Gansner, Yifan Hu, and Stephen C. North, Interactive Visualization of Streaming Text Data with Dynamic Maps, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 17 (2013), pp. 515-540, 2013.

  36. Xiaotong Liu, Yifan Hu, Stephen North and Han-Wei Shen, CompactMap: A Mental Map Preserving Visual Interface for Streaming Text Data, The First Workshop on Big Data Visualization, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2013.

  37. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Shankar Krishnan, COAST: a convex optimization approach to stress-based embedding, Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'13), 2013. Arxiv version (with more details.)

  38. Xiaoru Yuan, Limei Che, Yifan Hu and Xin Zhang, Intelligent Graph Layout Using Many Users' Input, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18 (2699-2708), 2012.

  39. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Stephen North, Visualizing Streaming Text Data with Dynamic Graphs and Maps, Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 17 (515-540), 2013. Best paper at the 20th International Symposium on Graph Drawing. TwitterScope website.

  40. Marc Khoury, Yifan Hu, hankar Krishnan and Carlos Scheidegger, Drawing large graphs by low-rank stress majorization, Computer Graphics Forum, 31 (975-984), 2012.

  41. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Stephen North, A Maxent-Stress Model for Graph Layout, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19 (927-940), Supplemental materials.

  42. Yifan Hu, Stephen Kobourov and Sankar Veeramoni, Embedding, Clustering and Coloring for Dynamic Maps, proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2012. An extended version in Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, to appear

  43. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu, Stephen North and Carlos Scheidegger, Multilevel Agglomerative Edge Bundling for Visualizing Large Graphs, proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2011. Supplemental materials.

  44. Daisuke Mashima, Stephen Kobourov and Yifan Hu, Visualizing Dynamic Data with Maps, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18 (1424-1437), 2012. Supplemental materials.

  45. Tim Davis and Yifan Hu, The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection, ACM Transaction on Mathematical Software, 38 (1-25), 2011.

  46. Yifan Hu, Stephen Kobourov and Sankar Veeramoni, On Maximum Differential Graph Coloring, 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'10), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010.

  47. Yifan Hu, Algorithms for Visualizing Large Networks, in Combinatorial Scientific Computing, eds. Uwe Naumann and Olaf Schenk, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science Series, CRC Press, pp 525-549

  48. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Stephen Kobourov, On Touching Triangle Graphs, 18th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'10), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010.

  49. Christian A. Duncan, Emden R. Gansner, Yifan Hu, Michael Kaufmann, Stephen G. Kobourov: Optimal Polygonal Representation of Planar Graphs. Algorithmica 63(3): 672-691 (2012)

  50. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu, Michael Kaufmann and Stephen Kobourov, Optimal Polygonal Representation of Planar Graphs, 9th Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium (LATIN), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6034/2010, pp. 417-432, 2010.

  51. Xin Luna Dong, Laure Berti-Equille, Yifan Hu and Divesh Srivastava. Solomon: Seeking the truth via copying detection. Demo in VLDB, 2010. See Demo site.

  52. Xin Luna Dong, Laure Berti-Equille, Yifan Hu and Divesh Srivastava. Global detection of complex copying relationships between sources. in VLDB, 2010.

  53. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Stephen Kobourov, Visualizing graphs and clusters as maps, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 30, No. 6, pp. 54-66, 2010.

  54. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu and Stephen Kobourov, GMap: drawing graphs and clusters as map, proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, pp. 201 - 208, 2010.

  55. Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu, Stephen Kobourov and Chris Volinsky, Putting Recommendations on the Map - Visualizing Clusters and Relations, proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, New York, New York, 2009.

  56. Yifan Hu and Yehuda Koren, Extending the Spring-Electrical Model to Overcome Warping Effects, proceeding of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, Beijing, China, 2009.

  57. Yifan Hu, Yohuda Koren, Chris Volinsky, Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), IEEE, 2008 . Winner of the 2017 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award

  58. Emden Gansner and Yifan Hu, Efficient node overlap removal using a proximity stress model, Journal of Graph Algorithms and APplications, 14 (53-74), 2010. Initial version appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, proceeding of GD 2008, I. G. Tollis and M. Patrignani eds., pp. 206-217, Vol. 5417, Springer, 2009.

  59. Yifan Hu (胡一凡), 最优结构图:从复杂关系中发现规律, 上海科学技术出版社, 2007

  60. Nick I. M. Gould, Jennifer A. Scott and Yifan Hu, A numerical evaluation of sparse direct solvers for the solution of large, sparse, symmetric linear systems of equations, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 33 (2), 2007.

  61. Jennifer A. Scott, Yifan Hu, Experiences of sparse direct symmetric solvers, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software , 33 (3), 2007.

  62. Jennifer A. Scott, Yifan Hu and Nick I.M. Gould, An evaluation of sparse direct symmetric solvers: an introduction and preliminary findings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 818-827, Vol. 3732, Springer, 2006.

  63. Yifan Hu, Efficient and high quality force-directed graph drawing. The Mathematica Journal, 10 (37-71), 2005. (high resolution version (30 MB))

  64. Yifan Hu and Jennifer A. Scott Ordering techniques for singly bordered block diagonal forms for unsymmetric parallel sparse direct solvers , Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 12 (877-894), 2005.

  65. Yifan Hu and Jennifer A. Scott, Multilevel algorithms for wavefront reduction, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 1352-1375, 2001

  66. Yifan Hu, Supercomputers and high performance computing (book chapter in Chinese), in The focus of Science and Technology by Chinese-English Scholars , ed. W. Z. Zou, Fu-Dan University Press, 1-42, Shanghai, 2001.

  67. Yifan Hu, David R. Emerson, M. Ashworth, Kevin C. F. Maguire and Richard J. Blake, Parallelising FLITE3D - a multigrid finite element Euler solver, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 35 (809-827), 2001.

  68. Yifan Hu, Kevin C. F. Maguire and Richard J. Blake, A multilevel unsymmetric matrix ordering algorithm for parallel process simulation, Computers and Chemical Engineering 23 (1631-1647), 2000.

  69. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, Load Balancing for Unstructured Mesh Applications, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practice, 2 (1-27), 1999. Appeared as a chapter in Progress in Computer Research, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Commack, NY, 2001, pp. 117 - 148.

  70. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, An improved diffusion algorithm for dynamic load balancing, Parallel Computing 25 (1999) 417-444.

  71. Yifan Hu, K. C. M. Maguire and Richard J. Blake, Ordering Unsymmetric Matrices into Bordered Block Diagonal Form for Parallel Processing, in P. Amestoy, P. Berger, M. Daydé, I. Duff, V. Frayssé,L. Giraud and D. Ruiz, (eds), EuroPar'99 Parallel Processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No. 1685, Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 295-302.

  72. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, The optimal property of polynomial based diffusion-like algorithms in dynamic load balancing ,in: Computational Dynamics'98, K. D. Papailiou, D. Tsahalis, J. Périaux, D. Knörzer, eds.,John Wiley & Son, Chichester, 1998.

  73. Yifan Hu, Richard J. Blake and David R. Emerson, An optimal migration algorithm for dynamic load balancing, Concurrency: Practice and Experience 10 (1998) 467-483.

  74. Yifan Hu, K. C. F. Maguire, D. Cokljat and Richard J. Blake, Parallel controlled random search algorithms for shape optimization , in Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Recent Developments and Advances Using Parallel Computer, eds. David R. Emerson, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and P. Fox, Elsevier Science, 345-352, 1998.

  75. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, Algorithms for Scheduling with Applications to Parallel Computing, Advances in Engineering Software 28 563-572, 1997

  76. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, A parallel extrapolation algorithms for DAE's from process engineering, in Numerical Methods in Engineering '96, eds. J. -A. Désidéri et al., 587-591, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

  77. Yifan Hu, David R. Emerson and Richard J. Blake, The communication performance of the Cray T3D and its effect on iterative solvers, Parallel Computing 22 928-944, 1996.

  78. Yifan Hu, J. G. Carter and Richard J. Blake, The effect of the grid aspect ratio on the convergence of parallel CFD algorithms, in Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Implementations and Results Using Parallel Computers, ed. A. Ecer, Elsevier Science, 289-296, 1996.

  79. Yifan Hu, David R. Emerson and Richard J. Blake, Comparing the performance of multigrid and conjugate gradient algorithms on the Cray T3D, in Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Implementations and Results Using Parallel Computers, ed. A. Ecer, Elsevier Science, 609-616, 1996.

  80. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, Partitioning and scheduling algorithms and their implementation in FELISA-an unstructured grid Euler solver, in Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 93: New Trends and Advances,eds. A. Ecer et al., Elsevier Science Publishers, 225-232, 1995.

  81. David R. Emerson, Richard J. Blake, J. G. Carter and Yifan Hu, Turbulent Reactive and Combustive Flows on MPP Systems, in Parallel CFD 94, eds. A. Ecer et al., Elsevier Science,3-12, 1995.

  82. Yifan Hu and Richard J. Blake, Numerical experiences with partitioning of unstructured meshes, Parallel Computing, 20 815-829, 1994.

  83. Yifan Hu and Colin Storey, A family of optimally conditioned quasi-Newton updates for unconstrained optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 83 421-431, 1994.

  84. Yifan Hu and Colin Storey, Preconditioned low-order Newton methods, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , 79 311-331, 1993. tables for the paper .

  85. Yifan Hu and Colin Storey, Efficient generalized conjugate gradient algorithms, part II. Implementation, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 69 139-152, 1991

  86. Yifan Hu and Colin Storey, A global convergence result for conjugate gradient methods, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 71 399-405, 1991

  87. Yuda Hu and Yifan Hu, Cone quasi-convexity and connectedness of sets of efficient and weakly efficient solutions to multiobjective optimization problems in topological vector spaces, Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, 12 115-123, 1989.