Research

Selected Publications

• "FALCON: Efficient Test Case Prioritization via Submodular Optimization." T. Mensah-Boateng, J. Yuan, H. Do, ICST 2026 (Distinguished Research Paper Award).

• "Nonlinear Group Influence Maximization Based on Prioritized Double Deep Q-Networks." Q. Ni, J. Wang, J. Yuan, Q. He, J. Guo, W. Wu, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2026.

• "STARVIS: A Multimodal Framework for Standards-Aligned Video Classification in Elementary Science Education." T. Mensah-Boateng, A. Roy, M. Mielicki, N. Alozie, R. Kaur, J. Yuan, CVPR CV4Edu 2026.

• "Learning to Optimize Job Shop Scheduling Under Structural Uncertainty." R. Zhang, J. Niu, X. Liu, S. Tang, J. Yuan, AAAI 2026.

• "Tackling Feature-Classifier Mismatch in Federated Learning via Prompt-Driven Feature Transformation." X. Wu, X. Liu, J. Niu, G. Zhu, M. Shi, S. Tang, J. Yuan, NeurIPS 2025.

• "Can Federated Learning Safeguard Private Data in LLM Training? Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Defense Evaluation." W. Guo, X. Liu, H. Wang, J. Niu, S. Tang, J. Yuan, EMNLP Findings 2025.

• "Learning Submodular Sequencing from Samples." J. Yuan, Q. Cai, X. Gao, S. Tang, ECML PKDD 2025.

• "The Power of Adaptation: Boosting In-Context Learning through Adaptive Prompting." S. Cai, T. Mensah-Boateng, X. Kuksov, J. Yuan, S. Tang, Canadian AI 2025.

• "Influencer Marketing Augmented Personalized Assortment Planning: A Two-stage Optimization Problem." J. Yuan, T. Mensah-Boateng, S. Tang, AAAI ICWSM 2024.

• "Non-monotone Sequential Submodular Maximization." S. Tang, J. Yuan, AAAI 2024.

• "Group Equality in Adaptive Submodular Maximization.'' S. Tang, J. Yuan, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2023.

• "Achieving Long-term Fairness in Submodular Maximization through Randomization." S. Tang, J. Yuan, T. Mensah-Boateng, The 19th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, CTW 2023.

• "Worst-Case Adaptive Submodular Cover." J. Yuan, S. Tang, The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023.

• "Assortment Optimization with Repeated Exposures and Product-dependent Patience Cost.'' S. Tang, J. Yuan, Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50(1), 8-15.

• "Optimal Sampling Gaps for Adaptive Submodular Maximization." S. Tang, J. Yuan, The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022.

• "Assortment Optimization with Repeated Exposures and Product-dependent Patience Cost." S. Tang, J. Yuan, Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50(1), 8-15.

• "Adaptive Cascade Submodular Maximization." S. Tang, J. Yuan, The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021.

• "Cascade Submodular Maximization: Question Selection and Sequencing in Online Personality Quiz." S. Tang, J. Yuan, Production and Operations Management, 2021, 30(7), 2143-2161.

• "Product Sequencing and Pricing under Cascade Browse Model.'' S. Tang, J. Yuan, Operations Research Letters, 2020, 48(6), 687-692.

• "Optimizing Ad Allocation in Mobile Advertising." S. Tang, J. Yuan, V. S. Mookerjee, The 21st ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2020.

• "Adaptive Robust Submodular Optimization and Beyond." S. Tang, J. Yuan, The 14th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2020.

• "Influence Maximization with Partial Feedback.'' S. Tang, J. Yuan, Operations Research Letters, 2020, 48(1), 24-28. (ORL Top Cited Article since 2019)

• "Marginal Gains to Maximize Content Spread in Social Networks." W. Yang, J. Ma, Y. Li, R. Yan, J. Yuan, W. Wu, D. Li, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019, 6(3), 479-490. 

• "Maximizing Activity Profit in Social Networks." W. Yang, J. Yuan, W. Wu, J. Ma, D. Du, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019, 6(1), 117-126.

• "Breach-free Sleep-Wakeup Scheduling for Barrier Coverage with Heterogeneous Wireless Sensors." Z. Zhang, W. Wu, J. Yuan, D. Du, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2018, 26(5), 2404-2413.

• "Social Influence Maximization in Hypergraph in Social Networks." J. Zhu, J. Zhu, S. Ghosh, W. Wu, J. Yuan,  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018, 6(4), 801-811.

• "Active Friending in Online Social Networks." J. Yuan, W. Wu, Y. Li, D. Du, The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2017.

• "No Time to Observe: Adaptive Influence Maximization with Partial Feedback." J. Yuan and S. Tang, The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017.

• "Adaptive Discount Allocation in Social Networks.” J. Yuan and S. Tang, The 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2017.

• "Networked Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits with Combinatorial Strategies." S. Tang, Y. Zhou, K. Han, Z. Zhang, J. Yuan, W. Wu, The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE ICDCS 2017.

• "On the Vertex Cover P3 Problem Parameterized by Treewidth." J. Tu, L. Wu, J. Yuan, L. Cui, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2017, 34(2), 414– 425.

• "Result Merging for Structured Queries on the Deep Web with Active Relevance Weight Estimation." J. Yuan, L. He, E. C. Dragut, W. Meng, C. Yu, Information Systems, 2017, 64, 93-103.

• "Optimizing Ad Allocation in Social Advertising." S. Tang, J. Yuan, The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM CIKM 2016.