Award Winning Publications

(Innovative Application of AI Award) C. Liu, P. Hou, A. Zeng & H. Yu, "Transformer-empowered Multi-modal Item Embedding for Enhanced Image Search in E-Commerce," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), 2024.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) H. Sun, X. Tang, C. Yang, Z. Yu，X. Wang, Q. Ding, Z. Li & H. Yu, "HiFi-Gas: Hierarchical Federated Learning Incentive Mechanism Enhanced Gas Usage Estimation," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), 2024.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) Y. Shi, L. Cheng, C. Jiang, H. Zhang, G. Li, X. Tang, H. Yu, Z. Shen & C. Leung, "IBCA: An Intelligent Platform for Social Insurance Benefit Qualification Status Assessment," in Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24), 2024.

(Best Poster Runner-Up Award, KDDSG) X. Tang & H. Yu, "Competitive-Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Auction-based Federated Learning," in Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'23), 2023. 

(Best Poster Award, KDDSG) Y. Shi, Z. Liu, Z. Shi & H. Yu, "Fairness-Aware Client Selection for Federated Learning," in Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’23), pp. 324–329, 2023. 

(Innovative Application of AI Award) Y. Chen, Z. Chen, S. Guo, Y. Zhao, Z. Liu, P. Wu, C. Yang, Z. Li & H. Yu, "Efficient Training of Large-scale Industrial Fault Diagnostic Models through Federated Opportunistic Block Dropout," in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23), 2023.

(PREMIA Certificate of Commendation) Guo, X., Yu, H., Li, B., Wang, H., Xing, P., Feng, S., Nie, Z. & Miao, C. Federated learning for personalized humor recognition. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 13(4), 68:1–68:18, ACM (2022).

(Best Paper Award) Y. Guo, W. Liu, J. Nie, L. Lyu, Z. Xiong, J. Kang, H. Yu, and D. Niyato, "DADFNet: Dual Attention and Dual Frequency-Guided Dehazing Network for Video-Empowered Intelligent Transportation," AI for Transportation Workshop in Conjunction with AAAI, Virtual, 2022.

(Innovative Application of AI Award)  Z. Liu, Y. Chen, Y. Zhao, H. Yu, Y. Liu, R. Bao, J. Jiang, Z. Nie, Q. Xu & Q. Yang, "Contribution-Aware Federated Learning for Smart Healthcare," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), 2022.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) X. Guo, S. Wang, H. Zhao, S. Diao, J. Chen, Z. Ding, Z. He, Y. Xiao, B. Long, H. Yu & L. Wu, "Intelligent Online Selling Point Extraction for E-Commerce Recommendation," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), 2022

(Innovative Application of AI Award) X. Zhang, Y. Zou, H. Zhang, J. Zhou, S. Diao, J. Chen, Z. Ding, Z. He, X. He, Y. Xiao, B. Long, H. Yu & L. Wu, "Automatic Product Copywriting for E-Commerce," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), 2022.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) H.-Y. Li, Y. Ni, A. Zeng, H. Yu & C. Miao, "Prior-Guided Transfer Learning for Enhancing Item Representation in E-commerce," in Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), 2022. 

(Best Paper Award) P. S. Kyaw & H. Yu, "Personalised Federated Learning: A Combinational Approach," in Proceedings of the 1st International Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence (STCAI’21), 2021. 

(PREMIA Best Student Paper Runners Up Award) C. Liu, H. Yu, B. Li, Z. Shen, Z. Gao, P. Ren, X. Xie, L. Cui & C. Miao, "Noise-resistant Deep Metric Learning with Ranking-based Instance Selection," in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'21), pp. 6811–6820, 2021.

(PREMIA Best Presentation Award) X. Guo, B. Li, H. Yu & C. Miao, "Latent-Optimized Adversarial Neural Transfer for Sarcasm Detection," in Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT'21), pp. 5394–5407, 2021.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) A. Zeng, H. Yu, H. He, Y. Ni, Y. Li, J. Zhou & C. Miao, "Enhancing E-commerce Recommender System Adaptability with Online Deep Controllable Learning-To-Rank," in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21), pp. 15214–15222, 2021.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) A. Zeng, H. Yu, Q. Da, Y. Zhan & C. Miao, "Accelerating Ranking in E-Commerce Search Engines through Contextual Factor Selection," in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20), pp. 13212–13219, 2020. 

(Innovative Application of AI Award) Y. Zheng, H. Yu, Y. Shi, K. Zhang, S. Zhen, L. Cui, C. Leung & C. Miao, "PIDS: An Intelligent Electric Power Management Platform," in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20), pp. 13220–13227, 2020.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) Y. Liu, A. Huang, Y. Luo, H. Huang, Y. Liu, Y. Chen, L. Feng, T. Chen, H. Yu & Q. Yang, "FedVision: An Online Visual Object Detection Platform powered by Federated Learning," in Proceedings of the 32nd AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20), pp. 13172–13179, 2020.

(Innovation Award) H. Yu, Y. Liu, X. Wei, C. Zheng, T. Chen, Q. Yang & X. Peng, "Fair and Explainable Dynamic Engagement of Crowd Workers," in Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’19), pp. 6575–6577, 2019. 

(Most Educational Video Award) Q. Li, H. Lin, X. Wei, Y. Liu, R. Lin, H. Yu, T. Chen & Q. Yang, "Learning Federated Learning," IJCAI Video Competition, 2019. 

(Most Societally Beneficial Video Award) C. Miao, Z. Zeng, X. Yu, H. Zhang, H. Yu, Q. Wu, A. H. Tan, D. Wang, B. T. H. Tan, D. W. Q. Ng, C. Leung, Q. Yang & Z. Shen, "Persuasive AI companions for active independent ageing," IJCAI Video Competition, 2018.

(Innovative Application of AI Award) Y. Zheng, H. Yu, L. Cui, C. Miao, C. Leung & Q. Yang, "SmartHS: An AI platform for improving government service provision," in Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-18), pp. 7704–7711, 2018.

(Best Poster Award) X. Min, Y. Shi, L. Cui, H. Yu & Y. Miao, "Efficient crowd-powered active learning for reliable review evaluation," in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE'17), pp. 136–143, 2017.

(Best Paper Award) J. Lin, H. Yu, Z. Pan, Z. Shen & L. Cui, "Towards data-driven software engineering skills assessment," in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering (ICCSE'16), 2016.

(Best Paper Award) H. Lin, H. Yu, C. Miao & L. Qiu, "Towards emotionally intelligent machines: Taking social contexts into account," in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media (SCSM'16), pp. 12–24, 2016.

(Best Student Poster Award) Z. Pan, H. Yu, C. Miao & C. Leung, "Efficient collaborative crowdsourcing," in Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), pp. 4248–4249, 2016.

(Best Video - People's Choice Award) Z. Pan, H. Yu, C. Miao, C. Leung, Q. Yang, Z. Shen, Y. Chen, L. Cui, B. Huang, Y. Zhang, D. W. Q. Ng & K. K. Ong, "Artificial intelligence for liveable cities," AAAI Video Competition, 2016.

(Best Demo Award) Z. Pan, C. Miao, B. T. H. Tan, H. Yu & C. Leung, "Agent augmented inter-generational crowdsourcing," in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'15), pp. 237–238, 2015.

(Best Application Video Award) A. Borjigin, C. Miao, Z. Shen, H. Yu, S. F. Lim, B. T. H. Tan, Z. Zeng, Y. Guo, S. Fauvel, Y. Qiu, K. H. Pang & J. Ji, "Goal oriented teachable agent in virtual learning environment," IJCAI Video Competition, 2015.

(Best Paper Award) H. Yu, S. Liu, A. Kot, C. Miao & C. Leung, "Dynamic witness selection for trustworthy distributed cooperative sensing in cognitive radio networks," in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT'11), pp. 1–6, 2011.

(Best Student Paper Award) H. Yu, Z. Shen & C. Leung, "Towards trust-aware health monitoring body area sensor networks," International Journal of Information Technology, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 1–20, 2010.