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张熙

张熙

Professor

Position

Vice Dean, School of Cyberspace Security; Deputy Director, Key Laboratory of Trusted Distributed Computing and Service (Ministry of Education)

Research interests

Cognitive Security, AI Security
Cognitive Security AI Security

About

I am a Professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University in 2012, and my B.S. from the School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology. From 2015 to 2016, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, under the supervision of Prof. Philip S. Yu. My research interests broadly span Data Mining, AI Security, and Computer Architecture. Email: zhangx@bupt.edu.cn Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6sRtx0cAAAAJ I am always looking for highly motivated collaborators, including prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and research interns. Interested candidates are welcome to contact me via email.

Contact

zhangx@bupt.edu.cn

Selected papers (last 5 years)

Towards the Explainability of Temporal Graph Networks via Memory Backtracking and Topological Attribution
Yazheng Liu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong
International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
X-EviProbe: Post-hoc Parameter-free Evidential Uncertainty Quantification for Frozen Graph Neural Networks
Chenghua Guo, Sihong Xie, Xi Zhang
International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
Beyond Surface-Level Detection: Towards Cognitive-Driven Defense Against Jailbreak Attacks via Meta-Operations Reasoning
Rui Pu, Chaozhuo Li, Rui Ha, Litian Zhang, Lirong Qiu, Xi Zhang
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026
Diffusion with a Linguistic Compass: Steering the Generation of Clinically Plausible Future sMRI Representations for Early MCI Conversion Prediction
Zhihao Tang, Chaozhuo Li, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
Loki's Dance of Illusions: A Comprehensive Survey of Hallucination in Large Language Models
Ming Lu, Chaozhuo Li, Pengbo Wang, Chenxu Wang, Litian Zhang, Zheng Liu, Qiwei Ye, Yi Hua, Yushan Cai, Yuanbo Xu, Hao Zhao, Feiran Huang, Xi Zhang, Philip S. Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2026
GCE-UQ: Quantifying and Decomposing Uncertainty in Graph Counterfactual Explanations
Chenghua Guo, Sihong Xie, Xi Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2026
Constrained Paraphrase Consistency for LLM Hallucination Detection
Shanshan Lin, Dongsheng Hong, Sibo Ju, Chao Chen, Xi Zhang, Xiangwen Liao
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2026
Hallucination Detection via Internal States and Structured Reasoning Consistency in Large Language Models
Yusheng Song, Lirong Qiu, Xi Zhang, Zhihao Tang
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2026
MirrorShield: Towards Dynamic Adaptive Defense Against Jailbreaks via Entropy-Guided Mirror Crafting
Rui Pu, Chaozhuo Li, Rui Ha, Litian Zhang, Lirong Qiu, Xi Zhang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), 2026
When Reasoning Leaks Membership: Membership Inference Attack on Black-box Large Reasoning Models
Ruihan Hu, Yu-Ming Shang, Wei Luo, Ye Tao, Xi Zhang*
The Web Conference (WWW), 2026
TruthfulRAG: Resolving Factual-level Conflicts in Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graphs
Shuyi Liu, Yuming Shang, Xi Zhang*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026
Discovering new intents via spatio-temporal pseudo-label denoising
Y Huang, YM Shang, W Huang, S Guo, J Chen, X Zhang, PS Yu
Information Processing & Management, 2026
Finefake: A knowledge-enriched dataset for fine-grained multi-domain fake news detection
Z Zhou, X Zhang, L Zhang, J Liu, E Cambria, C Li
Information Fusion, 2026
Fact in Fragments: Deconstructing Complex Claims via LLM-based Atomic Fact Extraction and Verification
L Zheng, C Li, Z Liu, F Huang, H Jia, Z Ye, X Zhang
Expert Systems with Applications, 2026
Beyond Text: Fine-Grained Multi-Modal Fact Verification with Hypergraph Transformers
Hui Pang, Chaozhuo Li*, Litian Zhang, Senzhang Wang, Xi Zhang
Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Automated Detection of Pre-training Text in Black-box LLMs
Ruihan Hu, Yu-Ming Shang, Jiankun Peng, Wei Luo, Yazhe Wang, Xi Zhang*
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
MRR-FV: Unlocking Complex Fact Verification with Multi-hop Retrieval and Reasoning
Liwen Zheng, Chaozhuo Li, Litian Zhang, Haoran Jia, Senzhang Wang, Zheng Liu, Xi Zhang*
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
Beyond entity alignment: Towards complete knowledge graph alignment via entity-relation synergy
X Fang, C Li, Y Zhao, Q Zang, L Zhang, J Peng, X Zhang, J Gong
Expert Systems with Applications, 2025
SCCD: A session-based dataset for Chinese cyberbullying detection
Q Yang, Y Chen, Z Xu, Y Shang, S Guo, X Zhang
International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025
Jailbench: A comprehensive chinese security assessment benchmark for large language models
S Liu, S Cui, H Bu, Y Shang, X Zhang
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
Navigating the Black Box: Leveraging LLMs for Effective Text-Level Graph Injection Attacks
Yuefei Lyu; Chaozhuo Li; Xi Zhang; Tianle Zhang
DSC, 2025
Harnessing Counterfactual Reasoning for Explainable Multi-Modal Fact Verification with Large Language Models
Chaozhuo Li; Hui Pang; Xi Zhang; Litian Zhang; Feiran Huang; Ming Lu
ICME, 2025
Edgebert: a Click-Graph Enhanced Approach for Search Ads Matching
Mai Zhang; Chaozhuo Li; Xi Zhang; Lirong Qiu; Jincui Yang
PCDS, 2025
Multi-Modal Relation Extraction Enhanced by Out-of-Text Visual Information
Yu-Ming Shang; Tao Wang; Xi Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2025
LapGLP: Approximating Infinite-Layer Graph Convolutions With Laplacian for Federated Recommendation
Zhi Li; Chaozhuo Li; Feiran Huang; Xi Zhang; Jian Weng; Philip S. Yu Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
IEEE TIFS, 2025
DSG-MCTS: A Dynamic Strategy-Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Diversified Reasoning in Large Language Models
Rui Ha, Chaozhuo Li, Rui Pu, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang, Sen Su
EMNLP, 2025
Advancing session-based recommendations with Atten-Mixer+: dynamic and adaptive multi-level intent mining
Peiyan Zhang, Jiayan Guo, Chaozhuo Li, Liying Kang, Jaeboum Kim, Jie Xu, Xi Zhang, Yan Zhang, Haohan Wang, Sunghun Kim
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2025
Curriculum hierarchical knowledge distillation for bias-free survival prediction
Chaozhuo Li, Zhihao Tang, Mingji Zhang, Zhiquan Liu, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang
IJCAI, 2025
Diffusion guided propagation augmentation for popularity prediction
Chaozhuo Li, Tianqi Yang, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang
IJCAI, 2025
One SPACE to Rule Them All: Jointly Mitigating Factuality and Faithfulness Hallucinations in LLMs
Pengbo Wang, Chaozhuo Li, Chenxu Wang, Liwen Zheng, Litian Zhang, Xi Zhang
NeurIPS, 2025
CogniBench: A Legal-inspired Framework and Dataset for Assessing Cognitive Faithfulness of Large Language Models
Xiaqiang Tang, Jian Li, Keyu Hu, Nan Du, Xiaolong Li, Xi Zhang, Weigao Sun, Sihong Xie
ACL, 2025
Ghidorah: Towards Robust Multi-Scale Information Diffusion Prediction via Test-Time Training
Wenting Zhu, Chaozhuo Li, Litian Zhang, Senzhang Wang, Xi Zhang
AAAI, 2025
Knowledge-aware multimodal pre-training for fake news detection
Litian Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Ziyi Zhou, Xi Zhang, Philip S Yu, Chaozhuo Li
Information Fusion, 2025
Mitigating Social Hazards: Early Detection of Fake News via Diffusion-Guided Propagation Path Generation
Litian Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Chaozhuo Li*, Ziyi Zhou, Jiacheng Liu, Feiran Huang, Xi Zhang
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024
Enhancing Robustness of Graph Neural Networks on Social Media with Explainable Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Yuefei Lyu, Chaozhuo Li*, Sihong Xie, Xi Zhang
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Spotlight), 2024
GPT4Rec: Graph Prompt Tuning for Streaming Recommendation
Peiyan Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Xi Zhang, Liying Kang, Chaozhuo Li*, Feiran Huang, Senzhang Wang, Sunghun Kim
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2024
Deeply Fusing Semantics and Interactions for Item Representation Learning via Topology-driven Pre-training
Shiqin Liu, Chaozhuo Li*, Xi Zhang, Minjun Zhao, Yuanbo Xu, Jiajun Bu
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024
Evidence retrieval is almost all you need for fact verification
L Zheng, C Li, X Zhang, YM Shang, F Huang, H Jia
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024
BaitAttack: Alleviating Intention Shift in Jailbreak Attacks via Adaptive Bait Crafting
Rui Pu, Chaozhuo Li, Rui Ha, Litian Zhang, Lirong Qiu, Xi Zhang
EMNLP 2024, 2024
Training for Stable Explanation for Free
Chao Chen, Chenghua Guo, Rufeng Chen, Guixiang Ma, Ming Zeng, Xiangwen Liao, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie
NIPS, 2024
Early detection of multimodal fake news via reinforced propagation path generation
Litian Zhang, Xiaoming Zhang, Ziyi Zhou, Xi Zhang, Senzhang Wang, Philip S Yu, Chaozhuo Li
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2024
A survey of text watermarking in the era of large language models
Aiwei Liu, Leyi Pan, Yijian Lu, Jingjing Li, Xuming Hu, Xi Zhang, Lijie Wen, Irwin King, Hui Xiong, Philip Yu
ACM Computing Surveys, 2024
TransGNN: Harnessing the Collaborative Power of Transformers and Graph Neural Networks for Recommender Systems
Peiyan Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Xi Zhang, Chaozhuo Li, Senzhang Wang, Feiran Huang, Sunghun Kim
Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval, 2024
Collaborative Metapath Enhanced Corporate Default Risk Assessment on Heterogeneous Graph
Zheng Zhang, Yingsheng Ji, Jiachen Shen, Yushu Chen, Xi Zhang, Guangwen Yang
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024
Predicting rumor veracity on social media with cross-channel interaction of multi-task
Yudong Liu, Xiaoyu Yang, Xi Zhang, Zhihao Tang, Zongyi Chen, Liwen Zheng
Neural Computing and Applications, 2024
Improving knowledge distillation for federated learning on non-IID Data
Zongyi Chen, Sanchuan Guo, Liyan Shen, Xi Zhang, Zhuonan Chang
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2023
Don’t Be Misled by Emotion! Disentangle Emotions and Semantics for Cross-Language and Cross-Domain Rumor Detection
Yu Shi, Xi Zhang, Yuming Shang, Ning Yu
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2023
Enhanced CGSN System for Machine Reading Comprehension
Liwen Zheng, Haoran Jia, Hongyan Xie, Xi Zhang, Yuming Shang
Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, 2023
Interpretable and Effective Reinforcement Learning for Attacking against Graph-based Rumor Detection
Yuefei Lyu, Xiaoyu Yang, Jiaxin Liu, Philip S Yu, Sihong Xie, Xi Zhang
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2023
Inconsistent Matters: A Knowledge-Guided Dual-Consistency Network for Multi-Modal Rumor Detection
Mengzhu Sun, Xi Zhang, Jianqiang Ma, Sihong Xie, Yazheng Liu, Philip S Yu
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023
Clean-label poisoning attack against fake news detection models
J Liang, X Zhang, Y Shang, S Guo, C Li
IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2023
FedValidate: A robust federated learning framework based on client-side validation
W Zhu, Z Liu, Z Chen, C Shi, X Zhang, S Guo
International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace, 2023
Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection
Wenshan Zhang, Xi Zhang
2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2022
Abusive Language Detection with Graph based Multi-task Learning
Chunyun Zhang, Xi Zhang, Quan Wang, Jiayi Liang, Ge Zhang, Sanchuan Guo, Wenyu Zang, Yongdong Zhang
2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2022
Predicting Rumor Veracity on Social Media with Graph Structured Multi-task Learning
Yudong Liu, Xiaoyu Yang, Xi Zhang, Zhihao Tang, Zongyi Chen, Zheng Liwen
International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2022
Multi-modal False Information Detection Based on Adversarial Learning
Tian Tian, Yudong Liu, Xi Zhang, Mengzhu Sun
IJCNN 2022, 2022
Explainable Survival Analysis with Convolution-involved Vision Transformer
Yifan Shen, Li Liu, Zhihao Tang, Zongyi Chen, Guixiang Ma, Jiyan Dong, Xi Zhang, Lin Yang, Qingfeng Zheng
AAAI, 2022
DDGCN: Dual Dynamic Graph Convolutional Networks for Rumor Detection on Social Media
Mengzhu Sun, Xi Zhang, Jiaqi Zheng, Guixiang Ma
AAAI, 2022
MFAN: Multi-modal feature-enhanced attention networks for rumor detection
J Zheng, X Zhang, S Guo, Q Wang, W Zang, Y Zhang
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022