Publications

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[13] Zhang, Mingtao, Haoyang Li, Yuming Xu, Yang Yang, Lan Nicole Hu, Chen Jason Zhang, Qing Li, and Lei Chen. 2026. "MERIT: Robust Model Selection for Graph Neural Networks via Knowledge-Guided Evidence Learning." Submitted to SIGKDD 2026 Research Track.

[12] Hu, Lan Nicole, Mingtao Zhang, Haoyang Li, Chen Jason Zhang, and Qing Li. 2026. "Unequal Trips, Unequal Places: Diagnosing and Mitigating Delay Inequity in Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Coordination." KDD 2027 AI4Sciences Track, Cycle 1 Submission.

[11] Xu, Zhanchao, Haoyang Li, Qingfa Xiao, Fei Teng, Mingtao Zhang, Zhuohan Ge, Lan Nicole Hu, Yuming Xu, and Chen Jason Zhang. 2026. "From Rigid to Dynamic: Entropy-Guided Adaptive Inference for Long-Context LLMs." ICPP 2026 Workshop on AI for Resource-Constrained Systems (AIRS) Submission.

[10] Hu, Lan Nicole, Zhanchao Xu, Xuejia Chen, Zhuohan Ge, Mingtao Zhang, Yuming Xu, Haoyang Li, Guoqiong Ivanka Huang, Chen Jason Zhang, and Qing Li. 2026. "Exposing Class Bias in LLM Emotional Support: Socioeconomic Cues Amplify and Redirect Unsupported User Inferences." ACL ARR 2026 August Submission.

[9] Zhang, Chen Jason*, Lan Nicole Hu, Darian Li, Guoqiong Ivanka Huang, and Menglong Xia. 2026. "SmartTutor: A Context-Aware Interpretive Guide for Tourist Attractions." Major revision at International Journal of Tourism Research.

[8] Xu, Yuming, Mingtao Zhang, Zhuohan Ge, Haoyang Li, Lan Nicole Hu, Yongqi Zhang, Zhiyuan Wen, Chen Jason Zhang, Qing Li, and Lei Chen. 2026. "A Survey of Secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation." In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026.

[7] Sun, Skylar Biyang, Jing Ning, Qing Shen, and Lan Nicole Hu†. 2026. "Are Healthier People More Likely to Engage in Political Activities? A Multinational Analysis of Health and Institutional Participation in Europe." Comparative European Politics. doi:10.1057/s41295-026-00489-0.

[6] Ge, Zhuohan, Haoyang Li, Yubo Wang, Lan Nicole Hu, Chen Jason Zhang, and Qing Li. 2026. "ClinicalAgents: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Clinical Decision Making with Dual-Memory." In The 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026). doi:10.1145/3770855.3818931.

[5] Zhang, Mingtao, Haoyang Li, Yuming Xu, Lan Nicole Hu, Peng Cheng, Chen Jason Zhang, Qing Li, and Lei Chen. 2026. "GraphKnow: An Efficient and Effective Graph Foundation Model for Diverse Graph Tasks." In The 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026, Demo Track).

[4] Ge, Zhuohan, Lan Nicole Hu, Darian Li, Yubo Wang, Shihao Qi, Yuming Xu, Han Shi, and Chen Jason Zhang. 2025. "A Survey of Large Language Models in Mental Health Disorder Detection on Social Media." In IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW 2025), 164–76. doi:10.1109/ICDEW67478.2025.00027.

[3] Li, Haoyang, Xuejia Chen, Zhanchao Xu, Darian Li, Lan Nicole Hu, Fei Teng, Yiming Li, Luyu Qiu, Chen Jason Zhang, Qing Li, and Lei Chen. 2025. "Exposing Numeracy Gaps: A Benchmark to Evaluate Fundamental Numerical Abilities in Large Language Models." In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, 20004–26. doi:10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.1026.

[2] Li, Haoyang, Yiming Li, Anxin Tian, Tianhao Tang, Zhanchao Xu, Xuejia Chen, Lan Nicole Hu, Wei Dong, Qing Li, and Lei Chen. 2025. "A Survey on Large Language Model Acceleration Based on KV Cache Management." Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

[1] Ho, Wing Chung, Paula Kwan, and Lan Nicole Hu. 2023. "A Longitudinal Study of Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Hong Kong across the 2010s: Social Investment, Homeownership and Mother's Education." International Social Work 66(3): 739–52. doi:10.1177/00208728211065741.